He visited the zone's main city, Teren's Grasp and got his Sokokar mount, a big moment back in the day when we didn't all have flying mounts of our own. Some he happily cleared others he began, then left hanging. These opened quest hubs elsewhere in the zone.

He scooped up all the quests at the dock - there are many - and finished them all. EQ2 never quite matched that astonishing production rate but between September 2005 and November 2007 the game received four boxed expansions, any of which was easily large enough by modern standards to merit release as a standalone MMORPG.įor a while my Bruiser diligently followed the solo path the RoK designers intended. I often refer to the glory days, when EverQuest routinely released two full, boxed expansions per calendar year. That too, almost unbelievably, also launched in 2006. In doing so, he skipped an expansion entirely, Echoes of Faydwer. From there he moved on to Kylong Plains, the opening zone of 2007's Rise of Kunark. At around level 60 he started in Tenebrous Tangle, the beginner zone from 2006's Kingdom of Sky expansion.

Leveling up my Bruiser in EverQuest II these past couple of weeks has been a journey. This is the post I planned to write yesterday, until my plans went awry and I ended up posting about how I don't plan ahead.

Eq2 the means to an end