I have my own stories too. I remember my first character as i always kept him on my list of 8 characters uamn -erudite wizard. I actually remember putting stuff into like strengh for him wow were his stats awful. This game was amazing. I remember first logging in, i am a fairly old player. about 1 month after release i did not stop playing this thing. ANyways, i played on the innoruuk server with my friends in clan impact. I remade my character to be a barbarian warrior-- i rememeber when crafted was something special (blueberries)... and lol my warrior didn't have to do it but medding with the book in front of you!
Haha that was so annoying with the book, but yet its like a memory that i love and cherish. The graphics at the time were mind boggling, the content amazing. I went to felwith for the first time from halas -long run and hahaha remember boat rides? I think this game was amazing. I then became a bard lover and could twist 4 songs if i was lucky. That bastard dvinn. the last thing i did before my last night in Everquest 1 was kill dvinn and try to find someone who wasn't a twink to give about my 10k in platinum. The game is littered with memories that will last forever, and i actually dont think i could play a new MMO i have tried to many and i am giving the new LOTR a try. I have played lineage 2, WoW, eq2, vanguard, and RYL. I just can't get that same classic feeling. Speaking of trains haha remember when you could Ressurect people as a cleric and there was no YES or NO option hahaha. Then you could train them immediatly... wow the good ol' days were they annoying or fun? I don't know but i just think there was something so magical about the game. I was 50 by the end of kunark and i remember going to the bank in North Freeport and newbs begging from me hahahah. Wow those days make me laugh so much.
I remember when it was considered just badass to have a rubi bp! REGEN!!! haha The game progressed well, i played until Gates of Discord then later i came back to the progression servers. Those were fun, but for some reason people rushed to get to the point it is at now. I don't understand that. I just like everquest because it was far from linear. You didn't even have to do quests to get good things, it was more about being social, chilling in the EC tunnels, finding people that drop their backpacks on the ground when they try and trade but missed the character. hahaha, or dealing with a classic LGUK train. I would like to tip my hat to the original eq players and would like to thank you for all the great memories that i will never ever forget.
thank you so much for this thread!!! it fills me with great nostalgia and joy. playing everquest from 2001-2005 was an amazing part of my life. i raise my glass to what was once everquest, and all the amazing friends i had in norrath.
This is quite possibly the greatest thread on any game forum anywhere, of all time. Of All Time!
I have tons of these same memories as I've been reading here. It's amazing, so many of us experienced the same things and got the same joy from Everquest, back in the old days. I think it's still fun, even if it's changed a lot. I think we should all start new characters for the 7th Anniversary, play without twinking, go at it like we did back then, from scratch, no help.
I sure appreciate this OP, and all the great stories and memories written by everyone else here. I was playing EQ just a half hour ago, and now I want to go back and play again!
Kalmenicus the EQer (and EQ2er, and LotROer, and... can't tell you that one. NDA, ya know)
Wow, this thread choked me up... *sniffle* Some great memories, all around.
But I just wanted to say that it isn't all over for good. There are quite a number of us who have returned to EQ. Gone to sow our wild oats in other MMORPG's that are flashier or more sophisticated or easier... but now we are the prodigal children of EverQuest. Is it the same? No. I still have not gotten used to wandering through Qeynos and literally being the only person there, or sitting in the Nexus all by myself. But it's just that things have shifted, and people are in different places now.
I am happy to report that there are still kind strangers, appearing out of nowhere to reunite you, unasked, with your lifeless body. There is excitement and adventure. And there is still roleplay, for those of us who know what the "RP" in MMORPG happens to stand for. But then, I would never dream of playing on any server other than Firiona Vie.
If you miss EQ, come back. They are about to issue a special Anniversary Edition -- the entire game including ALL expansions -- even the brand new one, The Buried Sea -- for all of $20. Come meet me in Fish's Ale and have a good time again. Ale's on me. *smiles*
May we now and forever cherish the experience of wonderment and adventure.
PS
I once camped jboots, without success, for forty straight hours (not kidding!). I began to lose my sanity, logged off, recamped it for about four hours after I petitioned, and then I got the AC Ring. Wooot!
I should be forward as well and say that I also played progression server for a year, even formed a raiding guild which achieved moderate success until we merged into a large guild, and it overall turned out to be a mistake for ME. Nevertheless, when my friends and family would group and hunt aviaks and things in the first classic EQ and places such as Sol B, we had a total and complete blast. However, overall it turned out to be a waste; they opened the expansions with lightening speed and chilled if not killed that EQ feel.
i remember the older days, the hours camping pgt in highpass, the goblin groups in hk, the runs through kithicor, the splitpaw groups, slaughtering the undead in lake rathe
i remember the drunken guild fights in the freeport arena, the fear wipes, i remember getting stomped by naggy and vox, i remember my first run across velious from the boat to thurgadin
i remember my first loio experience, hunting sarnaks and goblins, i remember fighting for mobs in gfay, getting owned on orc hill, and murdering CB, and getting murdered by CB (lol)...
i remember the time i rolled a troll and ran him to the fear portal when people were getting rdy for a raid just to get a laugh, i remember getting drunk and running through kelethin with speed song... i remember the tizmak camp in gd, my first kael arena raid
i remember my first encounter with the brownies in lfay ( those sneaky punks), i remember the 36 hour play sessions for the fabled gear during the 5th anniversary, i remember my first death touch ( nothing like 32k dmg from half a mile away! lol) i remember all of the PoP raids, the Ldon groups, the epic quests, falling into the hole in paineel...ahh EQ you were good to me...
i rolled a troll on Tunare named Kakapoop. He was the first troll on the server that killed enough orcs and turned in enough pads and belts to actually be able to go up the lift...although the banker ALWAYS hated me.
when a guide came and told me i had to change my name (at level 16) cause someone petitioned it as offensive, i quickly came up with Dingle. he warned me not to choose Berry as my surname or he would come back.
he finally showed up YEARS later, when the troll was in his 50's and killed off my surname (Berry of course). i quit the game that day. Planes of Power ruined EQ anyway so everything after that was just shiat. but the early days were a friggin BLAST.
he finally showed up YEARS later, when the troll was in his 50's and killed off my surname (Berry of course). i quit the game that day. Planes of Power ruined EQ anyway so everything after that was just shiat. but the early days were a friggin BLAST.
Absolutely. I believe a server that stopped at Luclin would be truly great, and I would love to play it.
I am considering writing a letter to the CEO of SOE and possibly even obtaining signatures.
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I have my own stories too. I remember my first character as i always kept him on my list of 8 characters uamn -erudite wizard. I actually remember putting stuff into like strengh for him wow were his stats awful. This game was amazing. I remember first logging in, i am a fairly old player. about 1 month after release i did not stop playing this thing. ANyways, i played on the innoruuk server with my friends in clan impact. I remade my character to be a barbarian warrior-- i rememeber when crafted was something special (blueberries)... and lol my warrior didn't have to do it but medding with the book in front of you!
Haha that was so annoying with the book, but yet its like a memory that i love and cherish. The graphics at the time were mind boggling, the content amazing. I went to felwith for the first time from halas -long run and hahaha remember boat rides? I think this game was amazing. I then became a bard lover and could twist 4 songs if i was lucky. That bastard dvinn. the last thing i did before my last night in Everquest 1 was kill dvinn and try to find someone who wasn't a twink to give about my 10k in platinum. The game is littered with memories that will last forever, and i actually dont think i could play a new MMO i have tried to many and i am giving the new LOTR a try. I have played lineage 2, WoW, eq2, vanguard, and RYL. I just can't get that same classic feeling. Speaking of trains haha remember when you could Ressurect people as a cleric and there was no YES or NO option hahaha. Then you could train them immediatly... wow the good ol' days were they annoying or fun? I don't know but i just think there was something so magical about the game. I was 50 by the end of kunark and i remember going to the bank in North Freeport and newbs begging from me hahahah. Wow those days make me laugh so much.
I remember when it was considered just badass to have a rubi bp! REGEN!!! haha The game progressed well, i played until Gates of Discord then later i came back to the progression servers. Those were fun, but for some reason people rushed to get to the point it is at now. I don't understand that. I just like everquest because it was far from linear. You didn't even have to do quests to get good things, it was more about being social, chilling in the EC tunnels, finding people that drop their backpacks on the ground when they try and trade but missed the character. hahaha, or dealing with a classic LGUK train. I would like to tip my hat to the original eq players and would like to thank you for all the great memories that i will never ever forget.
This is quite possibly the greatest thread on any game forum anywhere, of all time. Of All Time!
I have tons of these same memories as I've been reading here. It's amazing, so many of us experienced the same things and got the same joy from Everquest, back in the old days. I think it's still fun, even if it's changed a lot. I think we should all start new characters for the 7th Anniversary, play without twinking, go at it like we did back then, from scratch, no help.
I sure appreciate this OP, and all the great stories and memories written by everyone else here. I was playing EQ just a half hour ago, and now I want to go back and play again!
Kalmenicus the EQer (and EQ2er, and LotROer, and... can't tell you that one. NDA, ya know)
Wow, this thread choked me up... *sniffle* Some great memories, all around.
But I just wanted to say that it isn't all over for good. There are quite a number of us who have returned to EQ. Gone to sow our wild oats in other MMORPG's that are flashier or more sophisticated or easier... but now we are the prodigal children of EverQuest. Is it the same? No. I still have not gotten used to wandering through Qeynos and literally being the only person there, or sitting in the Nexus all by myself. But it's just that things have shifted, and people are in different places now.
I am happy to report that there are still kind strangers, appearing out of nowhere to reunite you, unasked, with your lifeless body. There is excitement and adventure. And there is still roleplay, for those of us who know what the "RP" in MMORPG happens to stand for. But then, I would never dream of playing on any server other than Firiona Vie.
If you miss EQ, come back. They are about to issue a special Anniversary Edition -- the entire game including ALL expansions -- even the brand new one, The Buried Sea -- for all of $20. Come meet me in Fish's Ale and have a good time again. Ale's on me. *smiles*
~Faelian Fairwind~
May we now and forever cherish the experience of wonderment and adventure.
PS
I once camped jboots, without success, for forty straight hours (not kidding!). I began to lose my sanity, logged off, recamped it for about four hours after I petitioned, and then I got the AC Ring. Wooot!
I should be forward as well and say that I also played progression server for a year, even formed a raiding guild which achieved moderate success until we merged into a large guild, and it overall turned out to be a mistake for ME. Nevertheless, when my friends and family would group and hunt aviaks and things in the first classic EQ and places such as Sol B, we had a total and complete blast. However, overall it turned out to be a waste; they opened the expansions with lightening speed and chilled if not killed that EQ feel.
i remember the older days, the hours camping pgt in highpass, the goblin groups in hk, the runs through kithicor, the splitpaw groups, slaughtering the undead in lake rathe
i remember the drunken guild fights in the freeport arena, the fear wipes, i remember getting stomped by naggy and vox, i remember my first run across velious from the boat to thurgadin
i remember my first loio experience, hunting sarnaks and goblins, i remember fighting for mobs in gfay, getting owned on orc hill, and murdering CB, and getting murdered by CB (lol)...
i remember the time i rolled a troll and ran him to the fear portal when people were getting rdy for a raid just to get a laugh, i remember getting drunk and running through kelethin with speed song... i remember the tizmak camp in gd, my first kael arena raid
i remember my first encounter with the brownies in lfay ( those sneaky punks), i remember the 36 hour play sessions for the fabled gear during the 5th anniversary, i remember my first death touch ( nothing like 32k dmg from half a mile away! lol) i remember all of the PoP raids, the Ldon groups, the epic quests, falling into the hole in paineel...ahh EQ you were good to me...
Tindarya Furysong, 65th Maestro, Dragons Alliance, Lanys T`Vyl
i rolled a troll on Tunare named Kakapoop. He was the first troll on the server that killed enough orcs and turned in enough pads and belts to actually be able to go up the lift...although the banker ALWAYS hated me.
when a guide came and told me i had to change my name (at level 16) cause someone petitioned it as offensive, i quickly came up with Dingle. he warned me not to choose Berry as my surname or he would come back.
he finally showed up YEARS later, when the troll was in his 50's and killed off my surname (Berry of course). i quit the game that day. Planes of Power ruined EQ anyway so everything after that was just shiat. but the early days were a friggin BLAST.
Absolutely. I believe a server that stopped at Luclin would be truly great, and I would love to play it.
I am considering writing a letter to the CEO of SOE and possibly even obtaining signatures.
I just want to have fun. LOL.