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EverQuest: 16th Anniversary 30-Day All-Access Membership Giveaway!
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There truly were so many great memories. I will share one probably many can relate to.
I picked a human Druid my first time around. Started out in Quenos. there always seemed to be some npc looking for assistance. A friend and I stumbled onto Blackburrow. When we first zoned in it didn't look all that big. We cleaned out a few gnolls and I saw this tree with a notch at the base big enough to fit in. As I went to explore this I fell through a secret hollow floor all the way down into this vast dungeon and was very quickly killed by higher level gnolls. We grouped up with some higher levels and spent several days in there exploring and having fun. Trains in there happened often and could be quite messy!
EQ zones and dungeons to this day have no equal in my opinion. You could tell people spent a lot of time to get it right.
Standing idly in the Plane of Knowledge and hearing some people ask for help on a corpse run to the bottom of Blackburrow. Joining up with them and helping them for the rest of the evening, chatting and laughing the whole time. I ended up forming a guild with these guys which lasted several years, and even long after I stopped playing EQ, built on the principles of helping one another and friendship.
The same group with whom I went to Blackburrow are still my friends some 12 years later and we still play games together.
Grinding beetles in North Karana at the guardhouse just above the gypsy camp on my main back in the day. I was a level 16 Barbarian Shaman and there was another Barbarian Shaman there as well. I would head out, kill a few beetles and come back to med while the guards kept the Griffons at bay and she would do the same. After a while we got to talking about the game and what not.
We had our 14 year wedding anniversary in January.
WTS/WTB SOW at ECT1 (East Commonlands Tunnel Torch 1) 1pp!
TRAIN to <Insert Dungeon Entrance>!
"My Fantasy is having two men at once...
One Cooking and One Cleaning!"
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"A good man can make you feel sexy,
strong and able to take on the whole world...
oh sorry...that's wine...wine does that..."
Tough question... maybe the uninstall?
Seriously, I played every SOE (ok, ok, Daybreak) games, for the longest maybe DCUO and Vanguard. Every one of them, except those with E and Q. True, I'm in Landmark since the beginning, but it was a relief when they scratched off EQ from its title... lol, I think I even posted about it here.
BUT, since it's for an All-Access pass, it's definitely worths a shot and a post
(since it's good for DCUO too, and on the side for PS2, Landmark, DP and soon for H1Z1, all of which I used to play still).
So, yay, huzzah, happy birthday, and everything else EQ, can I haz ur All-Access please?
EQ1 was my first graphic MMO. Came out of MUSH/MUD with a computer without a lot of memory. Somehow I muddled by. The first "OMG cool" thing was walking my newborn Dark elf out of the city and into the forest.... and seeing a rainstorm at night...with lightning flashes!
...Then I got trained by 10 skeletons
Torrential: DAOC (Pendragon)
Awned: World of Warcraft (Lothar)
Torren: Warhammer Online (Praag)
In 1999 my wife and I started playing EQ. I rolled up a half- elf bard and we played for 6 years.
One of the most memorable events happened when I was about level 7. I was playing in West Karana when I met up with a couple of barbarians that were on a quest to find a body. Being a bard I had Selo's Accelerando (or something like that). Essentially it is a movement enhancer.
The body was in High Hold and we spent a perilous 2 hours getting to High Hold. Once we got there we could not find the body (bards have a corpse location song as well). It turns out that the body had decayed - the 1 week timer runs even when people are off-line.
By the time we realize this it is now dark and we are at the top of a winding path at the zone in to High Hold. I'm playing the speed enhancer and flashy particle effects are displaying. The barbarian rogue is night blind and walks right off the edge - SPLAT. He then promptly respawns in Halas (about 4 or 5 zones away). We get permission to loot his body because there is no way he can find his way back naked.
The remaining barbarian and I spend another hour running for safety before we log out. I met two very good friends that day and it is one of many fond memories I have of EQ.
I can't bring it down to just one. Several memories I have are,
Dying all of my armor orange because nobody else ever wanted too when they asked what color to choose.
Crashing PoK due to several MGB going off at once.
The music at the login/character select screen. That stuff gets stuck in your head fast.
Having my screen go black and thinking my computer just crashed only to realize it was the mob I'm fighting that would blind you.
I do not even know where to begin! Some many great memories from playing EQ shortly after launch.
Was it running my level 1 DE Warrior from Neriak to Qeynos so I could group with friends only to be killed just outside the gate? What a great introduction to the faction system.
Was it falling down the hollow tree in Blackborrow and instantly being killed then making a great friend who helped retrieve my corpse with all its lvl 7 gear?
Was it my first raid in the Plane of Hate and winning the roll on the rib cage looking shield?
No. It was the first time I tried crossing the bridge from East Karana to North Karana while being chased by a metric ton of nasty spiders. My graphic card at the time was just below the minimum specs but had held up well until just then. Game crashes, log back in to find myself naked. Go back to my corpse... game crash. Repeat this a few time when it dawns on me. I immediately jump in my car, hell bent for Best Buy and a better video card.
Nothing will every replace the feelings I had in EQ, the good, the bad and the down right you have to be kidding me. EQ forever spoiled me, so much to the point that MMOs now just do not interest me.
I went home installed it and created my first toon. I was up all night playing a Wood Elf Ranger. At 9am Saturday morning, I was standing outside Frys waiting for it to open to get my own copy.
That night my friend said that I needed to level up in a different area and he would take me there. I didn't know anything about this game but I followed my friend through Butcherblock. It was night, raining heavily with thunder and lightening flashing. With each flash I could barely make out the dense jungle that surrounded me.
We came to an outcropping of rocks that I thought looked like Stonehenge. The only way I could make out what I was seeing were in the short flashes of lightening. I thought it odd but there were a bunch of people in weird robes hanging around chatting. He told me to get into this group with him and suddenly everything changed. I was in a new land. It was sunny, flat and desolate. That was my first port and the one I'll never forget. I was in complete awe of the game.
But the best times I had were while playing my Enchanter. That is one class that has never been recreated in any MMO. The thrill of charming pets knowing that the charm could break at any moment and all I was wearing for armor was a paper bag.
The 3am call telling me to get on because an epic dragon had spawned and we had 30 minutes to start the fight or it would be open for any guild to take. Our guild needed that "clicky rez" so we were all online right away.
I don't think any game will ever recreate that feeling we all had while playing EQ.
The game that took my D&D sessions from board to digital. I can remember being so scared to die because i might lose my equipment. I remember my never endless hours in EC buying and selling because I could! I remember forming relationships with a couple girls (yeah yeah go ahead and make fun of it
). I remember internet going down in the middle of a Cazik run.. Talk about a life crisis hah..
But i think one of the most memorable experience i can remember is getting trained in Blackburrow constantly and then i found out that I could actually get revenge on the other players by logging into a higher level character and handing the gnolls some two handed swords and a dark reaver. Talk about surprises when they got smacked for double and even tripple damage. They couldnt go a few feet before they were dead and worse off, everytime they came back to recover their corpse the mobs are still hovering over their body.
Talk about being able to really having an experience that allowed me to live out my imagination.
Hi There,
When I was beta testing Everquest back in closed beta phase 4 in Jan. / Feb. 1999. I was playing a halfling named Dobbin on the "Fenin Ro" server. One afternoon lo and behold Mr. Brad Mcquaid" shows up in his Paladin classic Green Armor outfit. Fielding questions from us newbies regarding the beta at the time. This was within the halfling city walls of Rivervale in the newbie hunting grounds before the mine shaft into the town proper.
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The Older Gamers
My greatest EQ experience is right now, posting in this glorious thread.
Please, for the love of god let me win.
its a GoOd dAy to diE !!