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Qeynos, Bard (of course), The Rathe.

Every few years I log back in. The guild is long-disbanded and the newbie zones are pretty vacant. I miss the grand old days of being in fear of the Blackburrow trains, but the exp being so good that the chance was worth it. PoFear raids taking hours, the hole in the world under the world just inside the waterline in West Karana that dropped you at the QHills zone, the hermit's hut in SK, camping for a FBSS, fear kiting hill giants for big plat, etc.

I was gifted gear that made me feal like a god, die in the bottom of BB, lol. The ones that gave me the gear luckily helped me recover it. I exacted my revenge on that place many times.

The Rathe was one of the last ROT servers when the rest went FFA. ROT schedules, beat them to the punch if you want in..

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Puking in UO was the best but EQ will always hold the best MMO of all time in my rankings. I can’t even remember what my main was anymore as I played whatever my guild needed for whichever raid we were doing

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A part of me wishes I could re-live peak EQ days, but then I remember what an absolute time sink it was

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I played mid to late 90s. Peak EQ was not for the faint of heart. It was relatively brutal. Naked corpse runs alone would immediately kill any new MMO from mainstream success and that was a hallmark of EQ. Solo play was legitimately difficult for most classes. The game REALLY enforced the "multiplayer" part of MMO that a lot of people nowadays don't want.

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I played mid to late 90s. Peak EQ was not for the faint of heart. It was relatively brutal. Naked corpse runs alone would immediately kill any new MMO from mainstream success and that was a hallmark of EQ. Solo play was legitimately difficult for most classes. The game REALLY enforced the "multiplayer" part of MMO that a lot of people nowadays don't want.

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You had to be careful. Don't go too far off the beaten path without a cleric. If you died somewhere difficult to reach, you could get a Necromancer to summon your corpse.

Most classes couldn't really solo, but then again, the classes weren't designed with solo play in mind.

I wouldn't say that people these days don't want enforced multiplayer, but in EQ, that was pretty much the ONLY way you could play. You'd have days where you'd spend hours accomplishing essentially nothing because you couldn't find a group.

The best MMORPGs these days offer a mixture of both meaningful single player and multiplayer content.

What I do miss is the concept of "Camps" and the slow pace of combat. Every class in a tab target MMORPG feels like playing a Bard in EverQuest where you are constantly pressing buttons. There's no downtime to chat with your party members. My fondest memories are chilling at a camp and just having conversations with my group mates while we kill mobs or break to regenerate mana.

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What I do miss is the concept of "Camps" and the slow pace of combat. Every class in a tab target MMORPG feels like playing a Bard in EverQuest where you are constantly pressing buttons. There's no downtime to chat with your party members. My fondest memories are chilling at a camp and just having conversations with my group mates while we kill mobs or break to regenerate mana.

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100% agree. I can't tell you the last time, if ever, in wow I called a camp spot and just grinded mobs for 6 hours. I did that a TON in EQ.

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I played mid to late 90s.

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Game didn't release until March 99, I think the last phase of closed Beta was January or February. Maybe you're thinking of Meridian 59?

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It was relatively brutal. Naked corpse runs alone would immediately kill any new MMO from mainstream success and that was a hallmark of EQ.

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I remember being nervous as shite making my way from Qeynos to Freeport to rebind where more of my guild was hanging out. No one was high enough to rez nor even teleport to wizzie or druid spots. At least Kithicor hadn't gone bloody yet.

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The Rathe was one of the last ROT servers when the rest went FFA. ROT schedules, beat them to the punch if you want in..

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You knew you had made it when your guild got on the RTA (Rathe Travel Agency) calendar. I can remember a few times when a guild might try to take it on their own and other guilds would come in and kill it out from under their feet. Ohhhh the drama!

Sand giants always make me think of Fansy.