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#1 Oct 21 2005 at 2:46 PM Rating: Decent
I'm back. I;ve been playing World of Warcraft...but it doesnt cut it.

I missed EQ...and now I'm back. Jsut updaitng and then I'm on.

Good to be back.
#2 Oct 22 2005 at 1:35 AM Rating: Decent
just left WoW myself - boy have they got alot to learn.
spending my game time back in EQ after a near 4 year hiatus.
also patching, but like you said - good to be back!
#3 Oct 22 2005 at 1:46 AM Rating: Decent
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same here with me...
the "You have been disconnected" message made me feel at home =)
*cries tears of happyness*
#4 Oct 22 2005 at 9:47 AM Rating: Decent
I came back to EQ after playing WoW for 8 months and I'm having more fun now I've had in a long time. There is so much to do, so much to look forward to. All I can say is since playing WoW I have a new appreciation for EQ.

#5 Oct 22 2005 at 9:53 AM Rating: Decent
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Same here....your first mmorpg is allways your reference for any other..and the new lightway mmorpg generation are just a quick explore...never would I play this games 5 years like i did EQ..

Well I'm Back!
#6 Oct 23 2005 at 2:58 AM Rating: Decent
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Just about to log in for the first time since my break. (As soon as the patcher is done anyway) I am looking forward to checking out the whole play as a monster thing. I am kind of worried about the changes that have been made to my dru though. That is one of the reasons I left in the first place.
#7 Oct 23 2005 at 10:54 PM Rating: Decent
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Welcome back.

The last couple of EQ expansions have added alot to the game (in my opinion). The addition of tasks and missions is kind of WoWish, but the old 'quests' and new ones as well are still around and some are lots of fun.

People seem to be coming back in droves.

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#8 Oct 23 2005 at 11:49 PM Rating: Decent
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Welcome back to all who are returning. It's like going home. Things are differant, but somehow just feels right to be back.
#9 Oct 24 2005 at 12:34 PM Rating: Decent
Started back to EQ last week after 11 months of WoW. Should of come back here after 3 months of WoW, lol. For the record, Necromancer > warlock
#10 Oct 24 2005 at 1:41 PM Rating: Decent
Also returning after a long absence. Quit in 03 and tried several others...meh, just not the same. My original toon rotted so am starting fresh on FV, a Druid name of Granvell. Looking forward to the new content as well as revisiting the old... :)
#11 Oct 24 2005 at 1:52 PM Rating: Decent
Heh, seem to be seeing a lot of these threads pop up over various eq message boards. I myself just came back about a 2 weeks ago and started afresh on Maelin Starpyre. Having much more fun than when I quit, but kinda feel left out not having DoD since everyone seems to be doing MM's.
#12 Oct 26 2005 at 2:15 PM Rating: Decent
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You aren't really missing that much in DoD i think that one was more useless then ykesha. The planes are stil a nice place to be. Killing time doing nothing is what I love the most about EQ. So welcome back to the dark side!
#13 Oct 28 2005 at 8:27 PM Rating: Decent
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Thats weird because I started with DAOC, but when I made the switch to EQ< I never even thought about DAOC Again. EQ is WAY better!!
#14 Nov 21 2005 at 6:09 AM Rating: Decent
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I'm thinking about going back to EQ1 too, after having a love/hate thing with it for 5 years.

Its odd, but it seems that all the things I hated it for are finally being improved. It looks like they want to limit downtime more, making soloing even more viable and they added a potion belt thingie???????????

My highest character in EQ1 is a 57 wood elf druid, then I have a 46 troll sk and 46 dark elf cleric. I have through lost dungeons of norrath on the two accounts, the cleric and troll two boxed through about april of 2004.

Then I was invited to the beta of COH, played that for retail a bit.. goodbye to EQ1 cause I was bored. Then I was invited to the beta of WoW in july of that year, good bye to COh because I was bored of that. WoW kept me entertained retail for about a year. Now I'm bored out of my skull in wow with two level 60's.

In WoW you level WAAAAAYYYY too fast. Then you have nothing to do at 60 but pvp battlegrounds, which are horrible and slow to get honor in (plus the gear from it sucks.) OR 40 person raid in two instances. Basically you stagnate in wow, an mmorpg made for 2005 - 2006!@@, exactly the same way you did in early EQ1 if you got to 50 when all there was to do was plane of hate and fear. I switched servers in EQ1 though, at a point, so my druid was only 47 when kunark came out; I never experienced sitting at a cap stagnating in EQ1.

WoW I've been stagnating for some time, on two characters. I no longer have time to 40 person raid and its so unrewarding anyway. It is like they took that WORST aspect of EQ1, for me, then made it the endgame of wow. WHAT THE HECK? The crazy thing is that 1-59, and just after 60, WoW is the best mmorpg out there with more cool worthwhile quests to do than any mmorpg. For a long time I was saying "everquest is a misnomer, World of warcraft is the first real "everquest!" Then I got to 60 on two characters. Then I stagnated, having done all worth while quests. Then I stagnate more. Then I read burning crusade, which gives level 70 but STILL NO ALTERNATE ADVANCE, won't be out until july 2006@!!!

So even if I'm only back until July.. it looks like EQ1 is the only real playable mmorpg still, in 2005.... ahah that is so sad.I went back to EQ1 after Daoc, after anarchy online, after FFXI and now after COH and WoW. No one can beat it since they all just try to MEET it; Blizzard pretty much made the same mistake with WoW, "hey, EQ1's problem is that you level really slow and there are not always cool quests. So lets make a REAL everquest where you level really fast and have tons of cool quests, up to 60." They forgot the important stuff, though, like alternate advancement. They forgot tradeskills that actually made okay stuff. They forgot giving people more to do at 60 than basically raid "fear and hate." Its like they made an mmorpg, developing it for years and years, to only beat EQ1 for the six months to a year average that was about the best they could hope to "hook" someone.

Its just so weird that blizzard took the genre so far, came so very close, but then just totally missed in the end. I truely think that mmorpgs are meant to be played 2-6 years after their launch. The problem with me is, I always try the "new" one when they basically suck. Then I'm jaded by the time they are "fixed." Maybe I should wait two years to go back to wow.
#15 Nov 21 2005 at 1:41 PM Rating: Decent
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Just wait for Vanguard.

Edited, Mon Nov 21 13:41:22 2005 by Thoryndar
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we have been waiting...for years
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