Rise of Kurnak came out earlier this week and it definitely kept me busy. I love the expansion and the amount of content that’s been added, especially solo content, since I no longer have to be bored while looking for groups. The only grumble I have is that when you do actually do want to have someone to play with, they’re usually either too far ahead or behind in the quest lines, and thus either one will have to help the other catch up.

The technical issues that the Antonia Bayle server is constantly experiencing is rather irksome, but not to be unexpected. With 6 instances of Kylong Plains alone and at least a hundred in each of them, I doubt the server has had any more population at any one time than this. Zoning has to be biggest issue, with about half of the time resulting in either a 10 minute zone or me getting booted from the server.

The new legendary set pieces in RoK aren’t too appealing, and their set bonuses are feeble compared to what came along with the EoF pieces. Also, their stats seem kind of low compared to what I’ve seen on other random armor pieces. I’ve already broken my 6-piece EoF bonus from replacing a few slots with newly quested ones from Kunzar Jungle.

Questing in RoK is a great and new experience to me. For the first time, I actually have to attempt to figure out the quests as they go along, instead of just looking up EQ2i and inputting the waypoint into the game directly. Of course, this also means that for some quests, I get stuck at a certain point and look around for hours before finding the objective, or yell for someone that has done it to provide me with directions.

So whats one do when the EQ2 servers go down? Hop on another MMO of course! I volunteered to help my old guild with raiding Baium. I hate Baium, especially when you only have a small force for it; it takes ages. I either get the job of kiting around the angels for an hour, or stand in my nice little corner. This time, it was the latter.