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re: Any old Everquest players on here? Do you miss it?
Posted on 3/17/15 at 11:25 pm to Roaad
Posted on 3/17/15 at 11:25 pm to Roaad
I miss old eq but I don't think I could get back into it with the way its aged. I don't think I will ever get the amount of enjoyment I got out of EQ ever again though.
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Posted on 3/18/15 at 2:46 am to bankdawg
Play on Tunare Server 2 toons Monk named Darelin Bloodyfist and Shaman Humlean Snowstar.. Best MMORPG ever if you ask me.. Nothing will ever beat Old School Classic EQ..
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Posted on 3/18/15 at 7:17 am to Cwally
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The thing with EQ that you will never get in any new MMO was it was so damn hard. It was terrifying to die, and it was terrifying to go get your body if you did. That made everything you did feel so much more rewarding.
Plus the answers to everything hadn't made it all over the Internet yet so there was a real sense of adventure and having to rely on the community.
All of this.
And you remember how large the world felt, and how meaningful travel was?
Even something as simple as catching a boat to another continent was inconvienant.
Posted on 3/18/15 at 7:43 am to bankdawg
Started on Quellious, hit 50 (Human Druid) then started on Sullon Zek when it was created It was the no rules pvp server. Best time I have ever had playing a MMO.
Posted on 3/18/15 at 7:46 am to lud0
I was in Arch Overseers on Bristlebane. Was able to take part in world first Quarm and Sleeper kills, among a plethora of other world firsts. Those were the two that stand out though. Sleeper was intended to be unkillable at the time.
I miss it dearly. I tried playing against a few months ago but it just didn't click like it did before. I would love to have that back.
I miss it dearly. I tried playing against a few months ago but it just didn't click like it did before. I would love to have that back.
Posted on 3/18/15 at 8:02 am to Volvagia
EQ wasn't really that hard. You just had to approach it differently. It had a much slower pace and going anywhere without a cleric was bad. If you happened to die in a zone where you couldn't retrieve your corpse, pay a necro for a summon.
Combat-wise the game was a lot easier. No constant button spam unless you're a bard and most battles were tank and spank fighting one or two enemies at a time.
Combat-wise the game was a lot easier. No constant button spam unless you're a bard and most battles were tank and spank fighting one or two enemies at a time.
This post was edited on 3/18/15 at 8:04 am
Posted on 3/18/15 at 8:52 am to bankdawg
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Any old Everquest players on here? Do you miss it?
One of the best Gaming experiences ever. Loved EQ and the level of difficulty it provided. I played at release as well. Early Bard and Magician. I think base EQ+Kunark was EQ at its absolute best.
And yeah I miss it, I chased a bunch of MMOS after it started to get go wild and the only ones that really came close were Dark Age of Camelot, City of Heroes and LOTRO, but all for completely different reasons. I don't think we'll ever see an EQ again, which is super sad.
Posted on 3/18/15 at 9:02 am to Freauxzen
I played it with a friend not long ago who started MMOs with WoW. He didn't even make it past lvl 5. Watching him trying to figure how to talk to npcs, give items, and even move around the tutorial was hilarious. Granted I also think the Gloomingdeep tutorial is horrible and doesn't represent real EQ that well.
I played a bard and kept getting killed by roaming city guards caught in my aoe.
I played a bard and kept getting killed by roaming city guards caught in my aoe.
Posted on 3/18/15 at 9:11 am to BulldogXero
1st death, falling in the water and not know how to look up to swim up. 2nd death, guild master smacked me down while trying to hand in my starter note and hitting T (I think) for Talk but was initially bound to Attack. The first time I tried to log out I couldn't figure out how so I had to kill the program, I almost didn't give it another shot after all that, but I did and it turned into the best gaming experience of my life. Rocking the sandals I fished up out of the pond by Surfall.
Posted on 3/18/15 at 10:08 am to DoUrden
My very first character was a dark elf. I thought all the NPCs in Neriak were players.
Posted on 3/18/15 at 10:11 am to BulldogXero
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I played a bard and kept getting killed by roaming city guards caught in my aoe.
Hah! I remember doing that too! When the game first came out there were no tutorials nor info on spells/songs you could buy (at least not hard numbers) so you had to just start them up to see what they did. The level 2 song was an AE and the merchant taught me I shouldn't play it around polite company
Once I got my water-breathing song I would park myself at in the river in East Karana and swim at the zone wall with auto-run on to skill up overnight.
Because EQ was the first big US MMO it taught future devs about how players could exploit games. From the wizard on Veeshan who would take advantage of a pathing glitch to solo Hate to bards (like myself) who constantly got themselves into places they were never supposed to be (Karnors, the back door to Vox's chamber, etc), to making the Priest of Discord fight city guards and merchants to giving mobs gear (a favorite story is when a thief in Fires of Heaven snuck into Fear and armed Cazic with a haste sword and a sword that negated buffs just before some of their rivals zoned in for their regular Fear raid
), the player bas pushed the boundaries of the game well beyond what the developers ever intended. This gave future devs insights on what to do and not do when designing future games.This post was edited on 3/18/15 at 10:16 am
Posted on 3/18/15 at 10:55 am to Bard
Some fantastic summaries.
The one thing I see missing here is that MAX LEVEL wasn't the goal. It was the journey, which most never finished, that made it so fun.
P1999 is worth any old school EQ players time.
The one thing I see missing here is that MAX LEVEL wasn't the goal. It was the journey, which most never finished, that made it so fun.
P1999 is worth any old school EQ players time.
Posted on 3/18/15 at 12:15 pm to Bard
I miss griefing people with my enchanter. Starting faction wars, charming folks and running them off a cliff... good times indeed.
Posted on 3/18/15 at 12:25 pm to lud0
There was a lot of passive role play in this game too. A lot of D&D and MUD players played this game in the beginning. Not talking to the extent that people only communicated in character, but I had some guildies that wouldn't attend raids that killed their chosen diety.
Had a nice Wiz/Cleric duo that saw me fishing outside of Surfall in my first couple of weeks playing, and the cleric buffed me up and gave me a Coterie Cloak and Centi sword, I felt like a god and went to to Blackburrow and made it deep in and got killed. There was no way I was getting to my body as I wasn't really sure where it was since that was my first venture in to BB. I messaged them and apologized for losing the gifts they had given me and that I would have to start over. The came to me and lead me into BB slaughtering everything (loot bonanza for me) and they got me to my body and out of BB. These are the kinds of memories you can't get from MMO's today.
Had a nice Wiz/Cleric duo that saw me fishing outside of Surfall in my first couple of weeks playing, and the cleric buffed me up and gave me a Coterie Cloak and Centi sword, I felt like a god and went to to Blackburrow and made it deep in and got killed. There was no way I was getting to my body as I wasn't really sure where it was since that was my first venture in to BB. I messaged them and apologized for losing the gifts they had given me and that I would have to start over. The came to me and lead me into BB slaughtering everything (loot bonanza for me) and they got me to my body and out of BB. These are the kinds of memories you can't get from MMO's today.
Posted on 3/18/15 at 3:23 pm to DoUrden
I was on Tallon Zek and had just created a Troll Warrior. Some high level enchanter shouted that he would pay for tiny daggers. I found him, he gave me some money and off I went to fricking Neriak (with no real clue where I was going). Somehow survived said trip and got the man his tiny daggers. He gave me a Serpentine Bracer as payment which I promptly went and sold. And then got PKed in East Commons while trying to take that money and re-roll a human monk. I begged and begged the dude chasing me down to let me live because I was going to re-roll as a human. 
Posted on 3/18/15 at 5:24 pm to lud0
SK's and monks were the fricking worst about dropping trains on people. 
I remember a guildie talking shite to me in guild chat. He was Dorf warrior I think (or maybe a paly). We were at the bridge in East Karana and I finally got tired of his yapping and challenged him to a duel. I charmed him then sic'd him on the bridge guards. He had to flee and he never trash-talked bards again.
Another guy dueled me, I charmed him then sent him to the bottom of the river and kept him charmed (thanks Fishbone Earring!) until he drowned
I remember a guildie talking shite to me in guild chat. He was Dorf warrior I think (or maybe a paly). We were at the bridge in East Karana and I finally got tired of his yapping and challenged him to a duel. I charmed him then sic'd him on the bridge guards. He had to flee and he never trash-talked bards again.
Another guy dueled me, I charmed him then sent him to the bottom of the river and kept him charmed (thanks Fishbone Earring!) until he drowned
Posted on 3/18/15 at 5:25 pm to Bard
Posted on 3/18/15 at 5:51 pm to bankdawg
I played EQ pretty hard core from 2000-2007 on Innorukk/Nameless. I loved that game and I've never been able to find one to replace the way it was in that time frame. I've logged in several times and even played it again for like 3 months in 2012 but it's just not the same. Also, anyone who played knows the chore it us to catch back up in that game. It isn't like wow, or it used to not be anyway. I have no idea what it's like now.
Posted on 3/18/15 at 8:59 pm to koLSU86
Let's start a TD guild
Posted on 3/18/15 at 9:38 pm to HailToTheChiz
One of my favorite things was getting temperance on an alt and being around 40% health for basically hours.
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