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EQ2 was this for me never got into EQ.

I like that you feel like your class right out of the gate and then they classify and limit what spells / abilities you can use to force you to specify your loadout to each situation. What you call a bug is totally a feature and I love it.

Love your vids! i was wondering if you could explain how to use the maps on the zeal addon?

Hey there, I was wondering what ui your using on quarm?

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I think one thing you missed with the social channels is that free to play characters/accounts on Live only have access to the Newplayers Channel, which is global like you mentioned, but you don't have access to Class, subcontinent, or most importantly, the General Global chat. And there are drastically fewer veterans who log in to the Newplayers channel to help answer questions compared to General chat. I think for Lazarus it is pretty important to mention that MQ2 is not free. You need to pay a monthly subscription to the owners of the software to be able to use it.

The game is fantastic. It's very early still but it shows enormous potential and is already super fun. I'm having a blast with it.

I honestly would have preferred everquest type graphics than what we have now. It looks bad and terribly generic.

Pantheon Alpha Graphics better than EverQuest Graphics better than Pantheon EA Graphics.

Im also enjoying the game. Its good to see someone being positive towards the game in its current state.

this game is damn hard and takes 4 ever to lvl anything omg omg

I played back when it first came out and also enjoy this server. I see it as getting to build your own party. It's very tinker'y for players who like complexity and also love EQ. Certainly no shame in enjoying it.

Recently came back to EQ after playing the original through OoW. I find this old game design to be really well done, but I find I am in the minority. Even the server I am on has almost 3k concurrent users, it is nothing compared to modern MMO's. I am not sure there is a market for games like this and Pantheon.

I just bought this game and $40 is too much. I played eq1 for hundreds of hours. This feels like they're being nostalgic just for nostalgia's sake. So many qol things missing.

The boxing on retail is out of hand that really hurts the social parts of it.Hope your hand is ok, don't play too hard if you are in pain!

The map thing is one of my favorite things about classic EQ, you have to learn your surroundings at all times and even looking up maps on the wiki is an authentic experience as it still requires you to have some heading to landmarks as though you were actually looking at a map in game

You had me at EverQuest. Installing as I type this.

Im enjoying my cleric, get groups fairly easily

Delays in input? I don't see that. I get the FPS being 60, that's kinda sus, given that a WoW would indeed run higher FPS. But delay isn't a problem.

The game doesn't have that many haters. There is one guy who spends all his time hating on Pantheon with 10+ accounts. It seems controversial because of a loud minority trying to talk the game down and talk up the other EQ like MMOs in development.

As someone that just upgraded from a 2070s last year, it is a work of art bro. It is!

I like in group shows where everyone is with the arrows that's neat!

I don't understand why not just put levels on the enemies, instead they have this ambiguous difficulty, and "con" the mob to determine if it is okay to attack, challenging, or deathly. Also I will say I value gameplay over graphics 100% of the time, but there is a difference between talking about a game made over 25 years ago and its graphics, and then a game made today in 2025 with arguably same or worse graphics - that's not a callback, that's just a failing. There is a big difference between a "retro feel" and just being very dated and bland. Sadly this game just looks and feels very dated and bland. I love the idea of this. However, there are a number of other really good quality MMOs that you could play instead of this, for more old school feel, tab targeting or group play and immersiveness.

It has been confirmed that there will be a map, just no gps or minimap.

I tried it, and man I just couldn’t get past the horrible UI and overall bleak and unpolished gameplay. I had high hopes and wanted to like it. Just because they want to have a more hardcore game doesn’t mean it needs to be so dated and empty.

It’s terrible, reminds me of everything I hated in FFXI. You will never feel strong, you will never solo anything

You definitely need more bags

Will they keep working on this though? Or will it end up being an abandoned MMORPG like so many others in development hell? I’ve thought about buying into this,never played EQ and I’m curious how the PvP is.

Love Quarm it has raids instanced so none of the open world drama p99 did really,which means that small/casual guilds get to raid.

I wouldn't say its a bad game, it just a game that should not be played until launch especially since it requires so much time investment in your character. class buffs/nerfs, profession changes, xp changes, resource generation, etc etc could change your whole experience dramatically! it really just needs some QoL and it has some conflicting design elements that don't scream "successor to EQ" to me, more like EQ with a different coat of paint and there is one major design flaw that does not instill confidence in me that they can actually deliver their vision and or produce the launch version in a reasonable time. right now this is a ashes of creation situation who knows how long it will be in alpha. reason being - since Successor to EQ to me means EQ with some modern QOL while still maintaining that core gameplay loop, i.e mob camping, heavy emphasis on community etc etc. i wouldn't recommend it to anyone on the fence since they decided to not have an in-game map which is incredibly tone death and they are completely out of touch with modern gamers and their core audience. when you have multiple threads on /r, official forums asking for in game map, map addons, or where can they go to find a map, video guides on youtube showing how to get to places, hell you even got people in game linking a 3rd party website for a virtual map. you KNOW you have a major core design problem and are out of touch with reality. even THE #1 most popular add on for EQ are MAP PACKS! so not even OG EQ players like the "map" system EQ had lol. right now a huge portion of their success is based solely on Nostalgia. Their Core Audience are grown adults 30+ who grew up on EQ, Ultima, etc and have been itching for that old experience but they will soon dip out since, they are 30+ they don't have the time they used to have as a teenager to grind out 12+ hours a day for 5% xp(higher levels ofc and im being hyperbolic but u get the point) and as the grind and annoyances continue, how many of these people are going to change their mind and go actually nvm, i can't do this anymore. or yep i got my fix, that was fun. ima wait till launch LOL. Also they don't even have the race identies fully fleshed out yet, no racial passives, and there are only two starting zones where each race is suppose to have their own zone. and right now its a massive p.i.a if you don't start in thronefast since wild's end doesn't even seem finished, still WIP. so right now racial identity is not a thing and that is a big part of the game given the heavy emphasis they placed on the world lore and their planned starting cities knowing that depending on your race and how fleshed out the zone is you might even see other races, or you might only see X races who are natually near your starting zone and won't see others for a very long time. which is another contradiction. you know in the original EQ- you could NOT understand other races in chat unless you learned their language via tomes which made cross race parties incredibly difficult. They decided to add some QOL and let other races talk to each other and even team up with each other since iirc some races could not team up - or maybe that just applied to towns. anyways. so they add that QOL in- but not only did they keep EQ map system but made it worse by just removing all maps . HUH?? at least in EQ they gave you maps of the starting zones. also to wrap up. I would also wait till launch to play since they might buff the xp rates and or do some class balances. Right now imagine spending 300+ hours maiming a class to have it nerfed to the ground or changed in a way that you don't like. you could make an argument that they put these xp rates so low on purpose to extend playtime and when it launches they will go and "tweak" things to ease new players into it so all these OG alpha players just all that extra time for nothing.

Ive been enjoying the game quite abit. The pace has been decent last year in terms of development. Hopefully they can earn enough now to hire more people to the team. There are a couple new ones from 2 weeks earlier.

Do you think this game is going to last, or will it die out in a year or two? Genuine question.

I love it, but they need to use the money to hire more people to speed up the process and give me confidence they will continue with it.

I just found Quarm after rolling a barb shaman on p1999 a few weeks ago. After seeing a few vids like yours, I decided to move over to Quarm with another barb shaman 😂. Thanks for putting this out there!

i feel like the abilites and combat is super responsive. not even just coping. maybe its your settings or something? Mine feel just like wow spell casts. and without the pushback when being attacked is nice

lol... not understanding the hotbar or why are they limited....

its bad and good

combat looks so slow they sould just make it turnbased hmm turnbased mmorpg (4 the solo part only ofc) there's an idea

I am really interested in joining up with this game. My only real concern is, i don 't like crafting in MMOs at all. I really enjoy gathering, as you described it in the video, where I can collect items and sell raw materials/ingredients to other players. Would this be a viable way to make money and fund myself throughout a fresh playthrough of the game? Thanks for such a detailed review of the game so far

Why do we need a half-baked version of EverQuest when we still have the real EverQuest. I never stopped playing EverQuest, it would take a BETTER version of EverQuest to get me to leave. This is not it.

Just change the Keybinds to the keys you want them to be, instead of moving the skills to one bar just rebind the keys to the skills you want one 1-0 of quick access keys

Well said! Excellent video, enjoyed your commentary a lot

I will definitely buy it on release, just don't want to play it and have my character get deleted when 1.0 comes out.

I've been following this game for about 10 years. I purchased it and played for a couple hours. The lack of a map is hard for me to get past. I need a map to know where things are.

Alot of your gripes are things that will be ironed out as development goes on, things like the smooth responsiveness of abilities and whatnot is just something that takes time. Also a tip for your groups, if you have a groupmate that won't loot, the group leader can skip them by typing I believe /skiploot

Only reason I havent started this yet is because some friends an I started on EQ live again in sept so i dont wanna drop that just yet. At least the longer o wait the better it will be

I've made a few characters, can't seem to make it to level 2 before losing interest. Idk why it's just not grabbing my attention which totally sucks because I've waited years to play it.

paladin is the most fleshed out class in the game so far, they clearly have spent a lot of time on this class, and it is not bad. the other classes currently are not that great, some are a full copy/paste from EQ like the Ranger, the summoner is an absolute bore with a pet and only 2 same spells you spam over and over if you go past the first zone you are going to find tons of empty space and invisible walls everywhere, the game is maybe 25% finished and that it is a generous estimation my two cents: play a pally human or dwarf, stay in thronefast, do all the quests, craft your weapons and armor and wait for the patches to come and add more content game has 3 to 4 years of more development ahead, minimum and i doubt that the funds brought by early access will be enough to finance it

This game exceeded my expectations. I am an old school 1999-2004 EQ player, and this feels like home to me. This game likely will not do well with most people who started MMOs after WoW, but who knows. Can't wait to see what they add over the next 2 years.

I want this game to succeed but after some hours i became disillusioned by the "similarities" it has to EQ. Its not awful but its far too snappy in its current state. All the character models look the same and in my opinion the running animations are terrible. Makes me wonder what they've been working on for so many years.