Feldon EQ2Players has undergone a revamp and the results went live this morning. Actually, it’s more than just a revamp. All trace of EQ2Players has been wiped away! This is now the main EverQuest2 website.
Searching
The first thing we noticed is that to Search for Characters, Guilds, or Items, you must either be on the Home page, or click the Search link in the upper right corner. It used to be possible to search from anywhere on the site. We also noticed that simply typing a character name and pressing Enter no longer works. You must now specify Character, Guild, Item, or Forum.
Performance
We’ve also noticed that the site renders noticeably slower. Perhaps with some tweaks to the Javascript code (which is now used throughout the site) can speed up performance.
Guild Searches
- When browsing a Guild Roster, now only 5 members of that guild are displayed at a time and the viewer must page through roster.
- It is no longer possible to click on a member of a guild to view their profile page. One must backtrack to the Search page and type in a character name and perform a new search.
- There is no header table in the Guild Roster, so it is unclear what some of the numbers represent.
- The graphics indicating tradeskill and adventure class are gone, replaced with text only (Dirge, Weaponsmith, etc.).
Character Searches
- When you do a search for a Character, it shows a list of characters matching that name. However the Guild link next to each character brings you to an error page. You must click on a Character to bring up their Character Profile and then you can click the link to their Guild.
Character Profiles
- It appears all of the Paper Doll graphics have been reset, so everyone’s Character Profile image is blank. If a characters wants an image of their character on their Profile, they will need to upload a new image.
- While it’s more a design decision than a bug, we’re sad to see that the Alternate Advancements page when viewing a Character now has just about the minimum information possible. Information about each AA is not available. No graphics are used. And it is impossible to tell at-a-glance, how many AAs are used in each tree. Hopefully this is just a placeholder until the expansion when AAs are getting tweaked and new lines.
Right now, the EQ2Players site, or I guess I should start calling it the EQ2 site, is a step backwards for usability. But hopefully with some tweaks, these nagging issues can be resolved.
I expect that the missing data will be available for a few dollars each month…. Or some station cash…
Wow the new site is terrible. I didn’t use the old one much but this is just more reason to ignore it.
So, the player with #1WW HP is a guardian with 72k hp, and he’s wearing all legendary gear… What is his secret??? 😛
Looks nice, but that just says everything.
Keeps loading forever and totally broken in Chrome browser.
For a long time i used firefox with a addon called adblock plus. I never had to use it for this site till now. My recommendations is to use it for the flash header. That will drastically increase load time and having it gone doesn’t uglify the site at all. 😀
Performance is woeful 🙁
I’m using a resolution of 1280 x 1024 and I have a horizontal scroll bar. All the information fits neatly in my browser window, there’s just an additional strip of backdrop over on the right.
– Roldy