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SOE has announced that Rise of Kunark has become the best selling expansion pack to EverQuest II.

Rise of Kunark, the fourth and largest expansion pack for the critically acclaimed online role playing game EverQuest® II, officially becomes the best selling expansion pack to date, surpassing all previous expansions in number of units sold.

Key facts about Rise of Kunark:

• RoK was the largest expansion released for EverQuest II to date, and featured a new playable race and new stating area.
• RoK is the first all-in-one-pack to contain all previously released expansion packs and adventure packs.
• RoK received the highest amount of participation for an EverQuest II expansion pre-order program.
• Multiple game updates have provided new and interesting content consisting of various live events, the introduction to new raid zones and the addition of new Epic weapons.

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Well i wont lie ROK had me hooked till i reached level 46 or so then every quest was just impossible for me to do without grinding a couple levels to start the next teir of quests.

Good to hear....great expansion to an already great game.

I have to admit that I really miss playing EQ2.  It was the first MMORPG that I played, and I will always have a soft-spot for it.  I think that it is a much under-estimated game.  It has been out for the same length of time as WoW, but unlike Blizzard's game, EQ2 still manages to hold its own in the graphic stakes.  I also love how the NPC's talk.  Not just the important ones, with the odd statement, but every npc actually speaks.  When you are offered a quest, the character actually tells you the information. 

There is a lot to this game, and yet I hardly ever see it mentioned in the forums.  Perhaps it's time to check it out?  I especially am thinking of returning, and the new expansion pack will give me that oppertunity, to start afresh.

I'd be interested in hearing anyone's experience of the new exapansion.

I am a little upset with eq2 atm, i have been playing other games for about a year, I know they put out rok, but damn cant they add stuff to the rest of the existing game, or do you have to pay for an expansion to get new content, i was very disapointed to see nothing new was added to eq2 unlwess you have the expansion, oh aside from the stinking card game, if you played eq2 and did most of the stuff to lvl 70 and have been gone for a long period of time and want to come back thinking there may be some new stuff to do, theres not, unless you buy rok, cmon devs, use some of that monthly fee for adding stuff to the existing game and quite making expansions and adventure packs for awhile so we can enjoy the game for 15 bux a month w/o haveing to throw out an extra 40 bux if we want something new in eq2.

boognish, they add stuff all the time, they just haven't recently. I've been playing the game since it opened. What are you smoking? Heck, EoF added nothing but content for already existing levels, plus new areas to explore, new quests, etc. It wasn't released that long ago.

Kunark was a fun expansion, but I still feel the game lacks a soul. The game does keep getting better, so maybe one day it can live up to its name.

Originally posted by Majestico

I have to admit that I really miss playing EQ2.  It was the first MMORPG that I played, and I will always have a soft-spot for it.  I think that it is a much under-estimated game.  It has been out for the same length of time as WoW, but unlike Blizzard's game, EQ2 still manages to hold its own in the graphic stakes.  I also love how the NPC's talk.  Not just the important ones, with the odd statement, but every npc actually speaks.  When you are offered a quest, the character actually tells you the information. 

There is a lot to this game, and yet I hardly ever see it mentioned in the forums.  Perhaps it's time to check it out?  I especially am thinking of returning, and the new expansion pack will give me that oppertunity, to start afresh.

I'd be interested in hearing anyone's experience of the new exapansion.

They not only talk - but this is the ONLY game out there where their dialogues are lip-synched perfectly!!

I dont have the expansion yet - how is it unique from previous ones?

Originally posted by boognish75

I am a little upset with eq2 atm, i have been playing other games for about a year, I know they put out rok, but damn cant they add stuff to the rest of the existing game, or do you have to pay for an expansion to get new content, i was very disapointed to see nothing new was added to eq2 unlwess you have the expansion, oh aside from the stinking card game, if you played eq2 and did most of the stuff to lvl 70 and have been gone for a long period of time and want to come back thinking there may be some new stuff to do, theres not, unless you buy rok, cmon devs, use some of that monthly fee for adding stuff to the existing game and quite making expansions and adventure packs for awhile so we can enjoy the game for 15 bux a month w/o haveing to throw out an extra 40 bux if we want something new in eq2.

If I'm not mistaken, they gave you a playable race in an update patch, for free, after EoF was released.