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Worth it Simply For the Achievement Points

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 30, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is a good deal...simply for the fact that it packages the original game from Nov 2004 with the Kingdom of Sky Expansion added into the package. If you are a current player of EQ2, one who normally passes on many expansions (DoF was somehwat of a rip-off), this one is worth it simply for the achievement points (affectionately referred to as AAs in a salute to the old EQ1 game) that you start to get when your character is over level 20. The AAs are very useful for their resective classes!

Amazing!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

After my brief trail of the basic EQ2 game system I have to say that this Kingdom of Sky expansion pack is only surpased by the newest expansion of Echos of Fadwar. The new areas, new items and overall game play is amazing. I would recomend this to any RPG player!

Good Expansion Pack

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

We played EQ2 for around a month, the first two weeks were without this expansion pack. In retrospect we should have bought this expansion (which includes the original EQ2) from the get go. It has a lot of features that enhance the game for any level. When ever someone mentions upgrading from Trial of Isle or starting EQ2 I tell them to buy this expansion instead of the original EQ, it's like getting an expansion for free.

bla bla blah

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Played EQ2 and all it's expansions til a few months ago. Was getting bored to tears with it. I don't consider raiding to be fun, and once you get so far, that's all there is to do other than run around and see how pretty things look. Which gets boring after the first couple months of playing.

Moved onto LOTRO, and am glad to be off the SOE teat. SOE does not care for the games they make/buy/aquire, or for the customer. With an expansion coming out every 6 months, the dumbass adventure packs, the nickel and diming for every little thing, they rope you into investing a ton of money repeatadly, that you find it hard to quit the game because you've spent so much on it.

If you like it, it's fun. After almost 2 years in it, I had to get away to something else.

Great game lots of quests

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 23, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The game is fun I stopped playing because of other players who had master skills and spent time in lower levels killing me and others while trying to complete quest sucked the fun right out of it

I am enjoying

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I am having fun with this game. I am playing on the pvp server that have made and having a good time. Lots of quests to do and plenty of content. It is hard to begin as a new player though on the pvp server since you get ganked a lot hehe. But once you reach around level 25 you are ok to run around.

Nice

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Now since EOF (Echoes Of Faydwer) came out, I would buy it instead of KOS because EOF has all the expacsion packs and costs only double of KOS. But I enjoy playing in KOS island...It's a lot of fun to see and explore new zones.

Great game, Great offer.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: July 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

EverQuest is a well known title, u play if u like Questing a lot, and it got better with EQII, better GFX, new world ... etc, the expansion adds a lot of enhancements to the game and for the first time a worth playing PvP system, if u get both the game and expansion from Sony Store it will cost u 30$ (50$ if this offer expires), for 5$ less price AND the chance of having free and fast shipping from Prime u get it from Amazon, both ways it's a great value, and it deserves that price, and of course u get 1 month free play and a chance to try out the Premium features.

IMO, this game is one of the best out there right now, unless u want to wait till late 2007 for Vanguard or Warhammer or Huxley ;)

note: this bundle comes with 9 CDs, not a DVD, and with Prime i got it in 12 hours to New York for free (shipping only ;)).

Does SOE stand for Slipshod Online Entertainment?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 22
Date: February 27, 2006
Author: Amazon User

SOE's second expansion is pretty to look at, but there's one problem: you're lucky to be able to enjoy it for more than 30 minutes at a time before your zone and/or server crashes. And if by some miracle you don't experience a crash, you'll be enjoying it in slow motion due to lag. This is one of many problems that Sony's latest expansion (and recent server mergers) brings - such as a breakdown in the broker system, class-breaking bugs, etc. On top of this, SOE has once again made sweeping changes to game mechanics, leaving one to wonder exactly what market SOE is trying to target and whether they even know that themselves. One understands that change is inherent in MMO's, but this is reaching the point of lunacy. I must strongly recommend against buying, at least until SOE figures what kind of game thery're trying to make.

Gorgeous content... though high level

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

What this expansion DOES NOT INCLUDE, here, that others seem to mention: all the tradeskill changes *ARE* *NOT* part of this expansion... they are part of LU24 (Live Update 24), which was mid-June 2006. You don't need this expansion to experience the decrease in the sub-combines for any level 10 + (or really more-so level 20+) crafted items. Overall, while it dumbs down crafting to a single combination of mostly harvested items (two combines for the advanced recipes, often of "rare" nodes), it was a much needed improvement to the prior system and overall it lessens "the grind" to which any old level 20+ crafter can testify.

What you will get, however, is the alternate advancement system (useable by any 20+ character) and the Kingdom of Sky zones. The alternate advancement (Aka AA points) are secondary forms of experience you get for discovery and exploration experience, completing quests, killing named mobs and other "blue" mobs or above, and by obtaining certain types of loot (largely the same ones the various city factions are based on, as well). It is important to note that you will ONLY receive this experience once you obtain level 20 (so some folks will hold off on doing certain things in-game until after level 20). With this alternate experience, you earn points that can then be placed in to alternate abilities or skills that is catered to your race/class line.

As far as the Kingdom of Sky zones go, they're largely for 50+ characters and contain some of the most gorgeous content the game has seen to-date. Though most of the mobs are 56+, there are still plenty of repeatable collection quests and other soloable kill-X-mobs style quests that are do-able to the solo player (and the rewards are good enough that it's actually *worth* repeating them time and time again). What this expansion also gives us is more of a dynamic quest... even though you share a quest with another player, it often differs at least slightly from their's if not only by number of items/mobs required, but often by the actual final requirements.

Overall, this expansion is worth having, if only for the achievement experience early-on... however, I'd recommend it more towards the player that was interested in getting to and exploring more of "the end game" than the casual player than just wants to spend a hour or two every few weekends.

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