The Race to Kunark

Looking forward to the new EQ2 expansion pack?  Want to level a bit more before it hits?  Well, things just got easier as announced by SOE over on the official site:

The Race to Kunark has begun! To help you prepare we’re offering “Bonus Experience Sundays” on November 4th and November 11th, 2007! From midnight to midnight pacific time, experience gain will increase by 50% for adventurers and tradeskillers alike. Get your friends together and plan your attack, Rise of Kunark is coming…

Wow…a 50% xp increase for essentially 48 hours?  Nice!  I know this will bode well for me and my buddies who recently started playing again.  My only worry is now we may outlevel quests and content even faster!  Just in the last two days I think I’ve gained 5 levels, and that’s from playing maybe a combined 6 hours doing quests and killing mobs as part of those.  Things seems to be flying by pretty quickly already, and that’s hard because I’m a “completist”.  I like to do every quest and check them all off the list, and I know that’s impossible in EQ2 for the most part.

 On another note, I’m usually not a crafter in MMOs, but with this kind of xp gain, I wonder if I shouldn’t research tradeskils quickly and maybe spend some time getting one of those up in levels while the xp gain is boosted.  Hrm…decisions, decisions.

Also – for anyone playing EQ2 who is close to the level cap, be sure to take a look at Clockwork Gamer’s most recent article on vitality and the expansion.  Solid advice on parking your character right before 70 in order to take advantage of the vitality mechanic for RoK.