The Glade 4.0

When I was level 7, someone gave me a barbed whip from Najena. I think it was 7/28 and I destroyed everything. I kept it until my mid-20's at least.

Ahhhh, nostalgia derail.

From the tentacle terrors... I remember those whips.

You mean Demon Claws ;-p

Heh, yeah. Reminds me of the time at 9-12th level Llyric, Kwos and another caster friend of Kwos decided we should go to Unrest and see what it was like. One of them heard it was a great place for our level range.

We zoned in, got organized and decided to kill a ghoul that was near us... much to our chagrin as Llyric and I were both using non-magical weapons.

That was the day I bought the Halberd.

wolfform and unrest = joy ;-p

Here's my contribution to the "nostalgic EverQuest thread".

The thing that, in retrospect, I liked about EQ was the world actually felt like a world. It took time to get places, there was danger on the way, and once you were there, you didn't want to leave for awhile due to the perils of travel. I'm not going to get into an argument about the merits of EQ-style vs. WoW style, where everything is much, much more accesible, as each have their pros and cons. Anyways, I'm sure like many I spent a lot of time buying, selling, and trading in the EComm tunnel. I was doing some research on what I could camp to sell for some profit around some new gear. I settled on camping the Runed Bone Fork outta Guk, as it still fetched a decent price among higher lvls for the resistances. I spent a couple days finally getting one, and then made the trip back to the tunnel to do with it what I could. Anyways, I don't remember exactly how things transpired seeing as how this is like 10 years ago, but I turned that RBF into a Large Dragonbone Shard which was a 13/26 1HS. It was godly! I was so excited about it, couldn't stop talking about it the next day at school with my friend who also played. Totally nerdy but so awesome.

The runed bone fork was my go-to camp for making money after level 20. At the time it sold for like 1kpp.

Imagine my heartbreak when I equipped it in my range slot one day and accidentally threw it at a mob.

Hah!

The same thing happened to me.

The heartbreak wasn't when it happened the first time, however.... but the second time!

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Darksiege: You are not a god damned vulcan homie.

I had a Dragoon Dirk in my ranged slot for a while, but fortunately I thought to ask someone what would happen if I threw it. When I found out, I quickly did something with my ranged attack hotkey so it wouldn't happen by accident.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

I spent all of my hard earned 7pp I had in the world to buy a mino axe from a travelling merchant at level 7 (?) while I was camping the skeletons in the ring outside BB in Qeynos Hills. Apparently he'd brought it across all the world.

First thing I did? Put it in my range slot and throw it. I spent hours searching the grass for my lovely axe....

Woot, found some old screens that were still hosted on EQPlayers.com.


I was constantly in shrunken skeleton form.

Everyone that's done that fight will sympathize.

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Holy shitsnacks!

My guild made me snare-split the entire council.

This is how I see it as well. I have many fond memories of EQ, but I can't imagine myself going through some of the things the game did that made camaraderie so important. I don't have that kind of time.

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"...the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Not sure you can ever go home again. Logged in last night for the first time in two years...

Envirnomentally, I like the style of the graphics better than WoW. The controls are weirdish after being used to WoW's control scheme, but they came back pretty quickly. The character model's animation is a little stiff, and the animation of the mounts is *dreadful*. I had forgotten that I held my swords in front of me all the time. But that's as it is.

I had let someone else play my account for a bit after I quit so I logged in in the Guild Lobby, buffed with stuff. I had lightning crackling all over me, flames coming off of me, and like an icy mist around my feet... and I couldn't figure out how to turn it off So I turned into a wolf and it went away. /shrug

Went to the bank. I have 160k. Is that a lot? Dunno how bad inflation is... but 160k sounds like a lot of plat. Ah well. Lets see if I can beat stuff up. To the guild hall! Let's see here, teleporter... hmm... Oh! Hate! I like Hate. Let's go there.

Yep, still looks the same as I remember. Let's buff up and pewpew something to death. I remember being good at that. God this UI is awful. I miss my quartz. Ah well. Roots up and Pew.... Oh... um, how do I autofire? Er. Crap! How do I macro! Hang on Mr. Mob, googling how best to kill you. Ok, macro set, autofire away! Pew. Pew. Funny, I remember this going faster... Hm. Maybe I should throw in some nukes. Go Giant Ancient Snowball of doomy doom! /giggle Yeah, that's still cool. Hm. Lets see if I can melee something to death here and not die. Well, that was much faster. Hm. Guess the bowing isn't as cool anymore. Well, let's go somewhere else.

Um.

Oh. How do I gate. Oh ****. I don't gate. Hate has no exit portal. /facepalm. Ok, think. Isn't there a gatey AA? That... I don't have. Ok, how did I get around? Oh! Gate potions! Yes! And... um... do I... YES! Chug a lug baby.

Alright, now where? Hm, let's go somewhere I remember. PoE! I can see if I can fight the entrance mobs. Guild lobby to PoK to PoT... wow, this is a long way.... Like, seriously long. One thing I don't miss is the travel time. (Ok, it probably wasn't *that* long really.) Ok, Po.... Vegarlson, the Earthen Badlands? Ooook... sure. Whatever.

You know, I am really still impressed with the weapon design. My Epic 2.0 is gorgeous. Perfect, swordy, rangery. The Notched Blade of Bloodletting is also pretty cool. They feel right as weapons, they're not nearly as ridiculous as some of the Blizzard oeuvre. In fact, if I could have these weapons on my rogue in WoW, I would never want to use anything else. But I digress. There's a giant crocodile here to beat up. And beat it up I do! Alright, let's try that tree thing. 2 for 2! Although, having to target myself for a heal is bad. Ah well, there's probably an option somewhere I'm missing. And an earth elemental! 3 for... oops add. Stupid dillos! Beat one down, then the other... Ahh! Another minidillo! Ok, nuke the hell out of it, I'm almost oom. And, back to ZI. Hm.

Its getting late, maybe I should just camp here for now. Maybe I can start a rogue or something this weekend. I have a shitton of plat

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Holy shitsnacks!

Like hell, you can't! All of your complaints are just from being gone a while :p Oh, and PoE has always been called Vegarlson. PoEb was Ragrax, Stronghold of the Twelve?

Well, aside from the interface issues, and the animations, Its the community I miss. and all of my friends from EQ have moved on. It might be an interesting diversion, but I don't think its worth the $15 a month anymore. Its not aged particularly well.

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Holy shitsnacks!

I tried to go back a couple years ago. All of my friends had moved on and the two I did recognize, weren't the original owners.

Perhaps a fresh start but in the new EQ re-visioned type game could be cool.

When I've gone back it hasn't been a problem of not aging well. It's been a community problem.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

This.

I'm trying to convince my old friends to play again with me, or find a group of new ones to play with.

Playing with a regular group is fun. Soloing or random pickups.... Not so much. Not because the game isn't interesting, but because I've been there and done that, so many times.

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Darksiege: You are not a god damned vulcan homie.

Aha!

Found some high-res screenshots and a trailer for the new Velious EQ2 expansion -- Here (some concept art as well)

The art direction/design definitely looks intriguing. I could only really recognize Velks, tho, not sure what the other zones were in that video.