History VideoGame / EverQuestII

* ForcedLevelGrinding: Leveling up is easy compared to [=EQ1=]. The Agnostic dungeons were added into the game to intentionally help low level players level up to 96 faster than going through other dungeons. Now go get your 350 AA's.

-->'''Arachnomechanicon:''' Do what now?

* VillainExitStageLeft: God ''dammit'', Maalus Shadowfyre...
** Tert Turganpuncher does the same damned thing!
** Maalus came BackForTheDead with the Drunder update. Hopefully we'll get another shot at Tert as well.
* WeaponOfXSlaying: Weapons with the "Bane" effect do extra damage to a particular species of monsters.
** Some of the weapons of a x4 boss in a contested zone also have a damage proc that only damages "those born of zek".

** The quest "The Number One Threat In the Butcherblock" requires you to kill {{bears|AreBadNews}}. Given to you by Scout [[Series/TheColbertReport Colbear]].

** At Gnomeland Security HQ in Steamfont, a Gnome named Adam Cogbuster and a Halfling named Jamie Spocketbreaker are developing complex and dangerous new weaponry. They look a ''lot'' like [[Series/MythBusters Mythbusters Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman]].

{{Valkyrie}}: They exist as monsters, mainly live in [[SlippySlideyIceWorld Everfrost]], and usually worship [[AnIcePerson E'ci, the goddess of winter.]] Despite looking like [[AngelicBeauty angelic beauties]] they are far from friendly, and start out hostile to all of the player races, although one can make them more amicable by raising one's factions standing with them.
* TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon: There aren't any anymore, but there were back in the days when Raid Progression was a thing that existed. From ''Kingdom of Sky'' through ''The Shadow Odyssey'', the game usually had a raid dungeon that you couldn't even enter if you hadn't beaten all the other raid dungeons.

* {{Retcon}}: The game was originally meant to take place in the same continuity as the first game, just [[TimeSkip 500 years later.]] It was eventually changed to an AlternateUniverse due to all the potential continuity problems that started to crop up, with certain major events from the first game, such as the Discord invasion, or Mayong Mistmoore becoming a god, never existing in this timeline.

* RetCanon: In [=EQ1=], an expansion called the Gates of Discord introduced the continent of Taelosia. The expansion itself was poorly received, as it was overly difficult, and the developers admitted it was originally designed for a level increase and they didn't have time to balance it. That continent was introduced to EQ's continuity after the events of the Plane of Time that caused [=EQ2=]'s AlternateTimeline, rendering it non-canon in this game. With the Visions of Vetruvia expansion, elements of the continent of Taelosia, such as the Broken Shores, Natimbi, and Qinimi are being preserved but repurposed with a different direction for the continent of Vetruvia. Because Taelosia was introduced after the time split, the developers don't ''have'' to properly replicate and acknowledge it.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: The message of the day on 10/11/21 invokes it.

** Subverted with Anash'ti Sul as well. Undead!Anash'ti wears the same outfit as Banished!Anash'ti. Only, she's undead, her skin is all red and her face is melty.

** Back in the early days of [=EQ1=], Spirit of Wolf was the single most important spell in the entire game - it was a run speed buff, and without it, aggroing a monster too strong for you was essentially a death sentence. The spell exists in EQ2, but because combat in [=EQ2=] is so different from EQ1, it was never more than a mild convenience. And then once the game made 150% movement speed mounts easily available, [=SoW=] became useless.

* NatureEqualsPlants: Tunare, the Goddess of Growth and Nature, best represents her influence through the plants and other forms of growth that she can produce. Her influence is best felt in Lesser Faydark through the massively overgrown mushrooms, vines, and roots, thanks to a piece of of the Plane of Growth itself located nearby.

* OurElvesAreDifferent: The haughty High Elves and the evil Dark Elves don't play well with others. Wood Elves are more easier going than other elven races.

* NamesTheSame: In-universe. In the early days before SOE had an expansive name filter, one of the easiest ways for them to prevent a player from having a particular name was to make sure an NPC had that same name. So there are merchants in Qeynos named Aeris and Celes, and there used to be an NPC in Freeport named Beren.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [=EQ2=] did this in The Shadow Odyssey expansion. In their attempts to fight off the invading forces of the Void and prevent them from [[CessationOfExistence destroying Norrath]], the players eventually had to fight against the former God of Health from Norrath's Pantheon, Anashti Sul. She had been banished to the Void for unleashing the Undead upon Norrath, and now she wanted revenge. When the players finally defeated her, they ended up breaking the proverbial leash that kept her bound in the Void, and was allowed to reform herself on Norrath. Even she could not have predicted such an outcome when she died, but was pleased nonetheless. She now exists on Norrath as the God of Eternal Life. She's still evil and bitter about what the gods did to her though.

* InterfaceScrew: Alcohol blurs the screen and gives you double vision, and if you get drunk enough quadruple vision. Various spells cause similar blurring effects.

* TheArchmage: Bellengere the Three, the master of the Qeynos Mage's Guild and a member of the Circle of Ten (Qeynos' governing body opposite the Queen). He's so named because he is said to have mastered all three of the Mage Classes available to Good aligned individuals - that is, Wizard, Illusionist, and Conjuror. However, having mastered those three disciplines, he's becoming very interested in the dark side of conjuration - Necromancy. [[spoiler:He's part of the Qeynosian faction that tries to overthrow Antonia Bayle in the events of [=LU64=], and he's the only one of them that manages get away with it.[[/spoiler]]

** Throughout the entire game-- in fact from the very beginning of ''VideoGame/EverQuest'' itself-- there has existed the Shissar Calendar. A large stone slab with unknown runes that have recorded every major event in Norrath's history, up to and including Kerafyrm's awakening and eventual sealing away inside of Luclin. Emperor Ssraeshza of the Shissar Empire is a powerful necromancer and a sooth-sayer who can see into the future and has mastered forms of bringing himself back to life. He knew that Luclin was going to be destroyed, so he ordered the construction of his temple on Luclin upside down so it would land right-side up in the Phantom Sea. He knew he himself was going to be killed at the hands of adventurers, but would be brought back to life when Luclin was restored with chronomancy. As of the Blood of Luclin expansion, he knew that us adventurers would decipher a section of Shissar Calendar that would explain that he knew that we would decipher a part of the Shissar Calendar in our efforts to put a stop to his plans of stealing the goddess Luclin's powers and using it to invade Norrath with his undead armies. The Duality is very aware that he has to calculate our next moves carefully, both through action and inaction to overcome this threat that knows we're trying to stop him.

%%* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Most raid bosses.

* BigCreepyCrawlies: During one of the revamps, all the frogs and slugs and bugs in the newbie zone The Peat Bog were enlarged massively. Now the frogs are as wide across as a male barbarian, and the more dangerous slugs in the back of the zone are 4 times bigger than a human.

* StoneWall: The Guardian is the most classic example (excellent defense, comparatively low damage output)