If you compare it to EQ, it's The Overthere + Skyfire rolled into one. They did that with several Kunark zones. Worker Sledgemallet sends you here just like EQ1 as well.
Emerald Jungle and Trakanons Teeth are now Kunzar Jungle. This is where Sebilis is. Field of Bone and Lake of Ill Omen are called Fens of Nathsar.
Kunark, while not their newest expansion, sure was pretty awesome. Honestly the game amazing untill 20, slightly shitty till 30, then pure shit until 60, a large quantity of shit until 70, and fucking amazing from then on out. Having a dedicated dungeon group to run with alleviates a good 90% of the shit however. I am really wondering when they are going to play the Velious card. This whole void/shadow shit really kind of sucks in comparison. And Odus doesn't give me the slightest boner. Nobody went then in EQ1 other than The Hole, fuck most Erudites I know didn't even stay there to level. Somehow they are going to pull 12 more dungeons out of their ass from overthere.
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Any class can go from 1 to 80, soon to be 90. Some just do it better. Common answer really. Leveling is actually pretty fast, even more so if you follow the Solo Timeline on the EQ2Wiki page. You also gain AA experience as you quest. Content from 1 to 50ish was designed pre AA's so it's very weak in comparison to later expansions. Also, the loot is pretty piss poor pre 50 as well. The gear you get in the newer 1 to 20 starting zones will last you a long long time.
The only slow as fuck classes that are worth mentioning would be Mystics and Defilers. They are PAINFUL to solo, not because it's hard, because it is mind numbingly slow. I tired it and got to about 30 before I wanted to burn my eyes out. It was so bad, I would forget often to pre cast my ward spells which are the way you heal as that class. Mind numbing. Flavor of the month is still Shadowknight. Jesus Christ they are a monster. People call the last expansion The Shadowknight Odyssey because the class got buffed to near godlike status.
If you were to start fresh, you could play and enjoy yourself 1 to 80. If you play on Antonyous Bayle, the population there is pretty bumping and people say it's pretty easy to find groups. The upper levels are filled with people, but you really want to have a group at this point if you plan on maxing out a character at cap. You can grind it out solo, but it will be slow in comparison to running instances and whatnot.
The social view is also skewed here. Like WoW, you run dungeons to collect shards. You trade these shards for armor. You can then further upgrade that tier of armor into new and better stuff by trading it in with more shards. Nowadays, since the expansion has aged people almost REQUIRE you to have the 2nd Tier of armor. This is the problem that my group and I are having. Nobody will touch us since we don't have that 2nd tier of armor for groups. And since all the Conquest guys flaked pretty much we are left with an incomplete group.
All this of course is workable with time and a good guild. There are tons of pro casual guilds that welcome new players and help them with epics and offer people to group with. This is the plan we're going with.
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