As far as solo’ing in EQ2. It can be done, even on raid mobs. Dont believe me? There is a thread on this server about a guy solo’ing the Scion of Darkness in Stormhold on his own. With pictures too.
Personally, I find I can solo anything up to green ^^. If its marked as a group mob that is. If its a solo mob i can take it up to yellow. To be able to solo in EQ2 you need to use your smarts, in WOW the solo mobs are handed to you on a plate and your’re allowed to get on with it. In EQ2 you need to search for the little blighters. Here are some of the places i solo’d so far:
Firstly you can solo in ALL THE NEWBIE ZONES and solo ALL the newbie quests.
Antonica. There are many solo mobs here. Bears and wolves up by the windstalkers, undead by caltoris, lizards by the oracle tower, gnolls on the islands and around the gnoll hero. Solo gnolls also walk north of the entrance to FMG, around the archers woods, inside the southern gnoll cave. Moreoever, you can solo crabs on the north east beach, the undead outside SH and as many bears and wolves as you can eat.
BB inside the front entrance there are gnoll pups and if you pull the right side first you can start to solo the courtyard. Once you are high enough you should be able to take out the gnolls patrolling the treasure rooms. From the other entrance there are many easy to get gnolls.
Vermines Snye. Here you can take the snakes, bats and eventually the cubes. The bats drop a lot of loot and some very nice pages (that sell for good silver). There are also many many clickable quests for people all over this zone. Some giving very nice items.
Stormhold. After 20 the zone line trash greys out and you can start to solo at the chessboard, then the scorched and finaly work up to the lancers and tunel undead leading to the stairs. Downstairs you can solo the mists, the wanderers (crusaders and caviliers) - (when you get high enough).
Thundering Steppes. I have solo’d grifawns for ages here as well as deer, eagles, the undead by T1, the wolves by the Chanters and the lower undead by the docks. Not to mention the crabs and sea creatures.
ANYONE WHO SAYS HE CANT FIND SOLO MOBS ISNT TRYING HARD ENOUGH!
Now, the game invites you to group by the fact that most of the quests and quest mobs require a group to get to (TOV for example requires 3 people to zone in). If this game is at all solo unfriendly it was this aspect. SOE have tried to counter it by adding none group NPC quests (the Watcher of the fields in TS or Sir Vallyiee in SH are two i have done) but there is still a way to go.
Stop your [expletive ninja'd by Faarbot]ing and go and find out. This isnt a “simple” game like WOW, it certainly isnt AD&D. If you really want to know what this games inspiration is think “Morrowind” with other people.
As for grouping in general. Yes, sometimes it can be hard and you have to ditch a badly led group. But sometimes…I’m telling you guys i have really really kicked some [expletive ninja'd by Faarbot] in a group and we have taken mobs and slaughtered things i would never even EXPECT to be taken by our levels. Add to that, that the higher HO’s rule.
When it comes down to it
Grouping Adds Life.
You dont have to sit at the zone line waiting to group you know!? If you want to find things to do - trawl the forums (there are tonnes of ideas), read some EQ2 blogs (shamless plug), or even take on a big solo quest (parts of Goulbane are solo and they take ages! and i personally made over 9 gold on the dusty blue stone quest - SOLO!)
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