I keep refreshing my sidebar to see if Bhagpuss has already made this post (or one like it) – and I think if I type fast enough that I might just beat him to the punch this time. That is probably because he is away somewhere (is my guess).
Still, Everquest 2 is giving away (yet another) free level 100 Heroic Character.
This is exciting for me as I had recently spent a lot of time levelling several characters from one to as high as fifty – across both live and public test servers. My highest, the Warden, was indeed the most fun to play and as such the Public Test Realm is now my EQ2 “home”. This offer is limited until the first week of June and last time there was a free level 100 I did not log in in time to get the benefit – so now I am feeling the pressure to make a decision and do it quickly before life gets me busy and I forget once again. While always a tough decision I have been thinking out loud about what to do. I basically have three choices, with the third counting as 20+
The first, obvious choice is the Warden. I could zoom by 50 levels on what is (so far) my favourite character. I could then join the “end game” of EQ2 (which for me is solo questing, really. Or whatever solo players do in “end game”). In that case, am I just cheating myself? I have really enjoyed playing him thus far. So it is a conundrum – do I take away the levelling fun to myself or do I just accelerate it because I would then be doing “relevant” content? Is the Warden I see myself as my “main” in EQ2?
The second choice is the Coercer. I love Enchanters from EQ2 and funny enough I had decided to “main” the Coercer in EQ2 at launch – and boosting this character would be boosting the first character I made at launch in EQ2. Oh, the delicious irony of that. I have had fun messing around with this character more than playing it directly in a way that enchanters often do. Can I solo this instance if I can land a charm on that way to powerful for me NPC? Let’s try! The gifts of magic give you fun options in MMOs and to be fair I have never mained a caster class in any of my games. I usually revert to healer / tank to take advantage of being “needed”. (Which is also why i loved enchanting in EQ1 – was a very sought after class). Charming things and pushing limits is a fun playstyle.
The third, of course, is to take a brand new shot at any of the other 20+ something classes and start fresh. This could very much be a waste if I don’t enjoy the character.
At this early stage of thought, I am leaning to the Coercer because I know I enjoy the Warden – which means I won’t mind levelling him up the “old fashioned way”.
Any ideas? Have you used a character boost in EQ2 and how did you decide? Did you regret the choice?
Otherwise – even if you don’t play EQ2 regularly – go install and take advantage of this offer because it is limited – and regardless you get to keep the character. You never know if you ever want to jump into EQ2 you might enjoy it. I definitely have.
If you want to read the posts on my return to EQ2 this year they are here.
Heh! You did beat me to it but not because I was away. I am at home and I spent the morning making a couple of free Heroic characters and writing a post about it. I was just adding captions to the pictures when my internet connection died!. I fiddled around with that for a while but it was obviously something outside the house so I decided to wait for it to sort itself out (not that I had any choice).
By the time the connection was restored I was already sorting out stuff for our holiday and I carried on doing that for another hour or so. Then I came back and checked Feedly and read your post. I’ll be putting mine up when I finish this comment.
I can solve your dilemma over which character to boost to 100 though – none of them! You can’t. There’s no option to boost an existing character. The offer is to make a brand new one only. I had to buy a new character slot to do mine!
Well, now I am even more perplexed. I mean, I would actually have to KILL one of my characters to be born again. Suddenly the third option is starting to make sense….