-Back before shared banking, running into houses in South Qeynos and dropping items in a corner hidden from sight, logging out and logging into another character to pick it up. Praying you don’t ha e connection issues and disconnect and lose said items
-I started right before Luclin cane out. Didn’t get the expansion right away so was stuck in original, Kunark, and Velious. Had a druid, think that was my fondest memories. Root/dot killing hill giants for plat. Quad kiting in Eastern Wastes. The game seemed so huge then.
Fast forward to GoD era, my guild was attempting to break into elementals, but we had skipped VT. This of course was very difficult to pull off. RZtW was our thorn. When we finally beat it people were yelling and cheering. Had same experience when we finally beat Coirnav. Had about 120 people in zone, and I was on dial up. I crashed at some point but interestingly the chat channels didn’t lag, so I could see people saying we beat it, meanwhile I was still fighting mobs and had died at some point. Regularly I would die but only know because someone would say it in chat, while on my screen I was 5 minutes behind, then disconnect.
As far as a specific event, I remember my first time in Crushbone. Another druid in the group, probably realizing my newbie ways, cast invis on the entire group except for me. I ran around looking for everyone and was very confused. They laughed and told me about invisibility. I had no idea that was a thing.
-I think the first time I saw a giant around the plains of Karana - Froon or Choon? I forget which but I'm pretty sure I died. I have a lot of fond memories from EQ back then. That is one of the reasons I am back on the forums as I am now toying with the idea of creating an account again. I might just read the forums and live through you guys though
-I remember my first toon being a Human Bard, outside Freeport, with absolutely no clue, in the very early days of Everquest. I started playing at 7:29 PM, and when I looked up, it was 2:30 AM, and I had to be at work by 9. Fortunately, I was the lead tech in a computer store, and they understood, when I told them I may be "less than optimum today". I went to bed at level 11. I got addicted to the <DING> sound!
-Barely an hour old, my first ever mmorpg, no idea what I was doing, my baby bard zooted into...East Commonlands? Hey, no one told me the difference between pc and npc...I hailed Dragoon Zytl. Not quite a one-shot but close.
-One of my favorite memories was when I was working on the eyepatch of plunder quest waiting for Lodizal to pop. Been after him for quite some time and id just hang out on the beach fishing. Some of my guildees came and hung out for the heck of it. Couple days of this and one night Lodi actually pops. Me being SK and leader o this mess i grab aggro and tanked away. We killed it and they all grats'd me, then they all started ribbing me cuz I was tanking the turtle with my fishing pole in hand the whole time.
-I think my best memory was from when Kunark came along and it was so much harder than classic so it became very serious to do dungeons like Sebilis when you were still wearing group gear from classic. Some of the battles I had in there were amazing because my class was amazing, and I got into a group that had great people and we pushed it to see how much we could do. Nearly wiping is fun when you can turn it around at the last second.
My other favorite memories are of classic at release in 1999. I remember exploring in G Fay and not knowing much about anything. I saw a beautiful blonde Elf lady chilling on a hill and I walked up to her and asked, "Are you a real person?" It took me a while to figure out what was a mob, what was an NPC, and what was a player.
I also made some friends and went on an adventure for a Mino Axe and we did some exploring of various other zones that was terrifying and funny. I also remember when duel messages were broadcast on the entire server and after a particularly bad few days of server crashing and whatnot, there were a lot of: Commonsense has defeated Verantsupport in a duel to the death!
Also my other favorite memory was playing on one of the PVP servers. I think it was a FFA server and I had some great moments on there. I didn't play it for that long because I was already burned out with the game but it was really fun.
-Running from Rivervale to East Commons at night as a wee halfling.........Alwasy scared me to death and usually how it ended with the zone line in sight.
-during beta someone playing a bard had tree stuck a group of sand giants in oasis and that caused them to release summoning from mobs giving it to Cazel to stop that sort of easy experiencing and money gain
the first time fear didnt work on my necro while trying to quad fear kite with my necro fun time nerfs
giving away over 100 druid 1.0s when you could give loot to mobs and watching level 1 druids and toons in misty freak out over it
Here's one for you...
ReplyDeleteI played an Iksar Monk. I earned my 1.0 legitimately. Yes, I did the Raster camp. In addition, I did faction grinding in BB to actually do the quests rather than just kill one of the running Masters for the robe. Earning it was an achievement, even though I was a PoP elemental geared monk at the time and didn't particularly need it for stat gear anymore (although the clickie was good for soloing when you didn't have a pet Chantie... just bind your fist slot click hotkey and your flying kick hotkey to the same physical key so that by pressing one button, you hit two hotkeys).
Hey man, I just stumbled on your YouTube channel while at work. I have always found EQ to be the stepping stone to what would be the modern MMO. I am glad to see someone trying to capture the culture of EQ as it was very different then what MMOs are today.
ReplyDeleteI played from Kunark to PoP before moving onto other games like FFVI, Eve and RF-Online. But EQ was more of a community where reputation was kind of put ahead of skill. For me, it was also a time of experimentation within gaming. I remember going to Kunark and being a part of a party that was 5 monks and a single cleric. It was probably the most efficient party I have ever been in. No Crowd control, no tank, just pure DPS and a back up cleric in case things went wrong.
I also remember how it got me interested the wider world. I was up well past my bed time (I was in middle school at the time) and all of the European members would come on starting at about 0200 in the morning CST. I got invited on to a Dutch TS server (I think) and got to ask a lot of questions about what it was like over there. I actually tried to immigrate to the UK with this being one of the drives. I am back stateside now, but I am looking at going over again to try and teach.
In hindsight, I would rather keep it nostalgic. I have a lot of good memories, but the weird thing is, I also remember the comfortable numb that took over as I became OK with only having contact through online means. I do not feel like time was wasted, but I never connected with anyone while I was engorged on the game. It was a weird sensation with me, as I could disconnect with my classmates and find some sort of engagement online, but the emotion of sitting in a dark room, talking to people who I would consider on an acquaintance level if I knew them in RL left me quite hollow inside. But, even now, the though of me being up at midnight or later in a pitch black room only being illuminated by a PC monitor seems frightfully satisfying to me.
I have a few memories I could share if you want. I would have trouble dredging them up as I was a teenager at the time.
Its good to see someone try to preserve the culture of this game. EQ was such a phenomenon that Sociologist have studied it in depth. Perhaps this could become a bigger project then you intended it to be when you started out.
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ReplyDeletemen and women think. Also, thanks for permitting me to comment!