When Did You Join the World of EverQuest?Follow

As a person who played quite a few games in my day... mostly RPGs like Baldur's Gate, Diablo II, Black&White, etc. I have of course heard of EverQuest. Back then, before I actually started playing it my mindset was like: "oh HELL no, there is no way I will waste my money, time, and energy on 'EverCrack'. I have better things to do with my time". But... I am a very open minded person, so gave it a shot. I have been playing ever since and have bought quite a few people 'into the fold' as it were, and they themselves have been pleased.

So for all those who naysay EQ... give it a try... you just may be pleased at what you find. I myself think its a worthwhile experience. Of course, I have some issues with it, but that is a part of life, and we deal with it as we come to it.

I wish you well.

Wulf

I started right after PoP came out, but I didn't own it. What is that book thingy for?? LOL. Have left the game a couple times due to frustrations in game and lack of playing time but always seem to find my way back. If I didn't delete my toons each time I left I might even have one higher than mid 50's!

I began in beta phase 2. Still have all the cd-roms they sent, too. Ah, nostalgia... :)

Remember when there was only one eye in Beholder's Maze, and it was bugged. You could *usually* just run by it, unless it got stuck on the rock in the path, in which case you were in trouble. We ran through there alla time at like level 8 or so.

High Hold was empty of NPCs. The Karanas were pretty empty too. One thing they had lots of was giants. Hill giants, Sand Giants, wherever you were there were giants. Sometimes they looked like the default human model, too. Heh.

I haven't played much for over a year, but I'll never forget my first year.

Originally started in Nov? of 99. Made a Human War and Human Enc on Emarr (and a few others, but frustration with dying inside the home cities...remember, we used to start there...made me delete them). Only played for about a month and gave it up (read: roomate didn't renew).

This incarnation started in August of 2001 on Luclin with some RL D&D friends. Amerak was my first warrior, thne I created Cafeen (who soon became my main).

Left in Late March of 05 for WoW (yeah, I was going to do both, that didn't work ><) with Cafeen at 65 and Stubby (Gnome war made at the end of 2003) at 67.

Recently came back (since I'm at a plateau on WoW, I can split time more effectively) and levelled stubby up to 70 with a bit more AA (94ish now?).

Over the years, I've had 3 bards (highest was 51), 2 druids, 3 rangers, 4 months, a couple clerics, a zerker (right after GoD release of course :)) and a slew of other twinks. (Now sitting on a Gnome SK, Halfling Ranger, Halfilng Druid, and Human Monk)

look at the numbers

high in 1999-2000 and then small at fist but eventually large decrease

Edited, Mon Jan 2 20:47:18 2006 by Deodhlais

I've had a long interesting run in EQ history. I thought id share it with you all, anyone from Innorruuk will probably recognize one of my plethora of characters.

I started about 2 months after Everquest came out, and I was in 7th grade in middle school. The game came reccomended by some older friends who allowed me to use their accounts from time to time. I was an instant addict.

I still remember most of the vivid details of my EQ career. My very first character was an Ogre Warrior. The Feerott was quite possibly the most confusing thing ever made. My first achievements was acquiring a tarnished scythe and patchwork armor. I lost my corpse shortly after due to getting blinded by some lizardmen shaman. At this time I ran Everquest on a Cyrix x486 Class CPU @ 120mhz, 49mb EDO Ram, and a Voodoo3 3000 16mb.

I then abandoned this character and made a human warrior so I could play with my friends surroundings. His notable achievements was attaining the Gnoll Hide Lariat. His corpse rotted after I fell in the water in blackburrow and died.

I then made a dwarf warrior. My first character to make past 10. At this time I learned the basics of marketing. I realized you could get HQ bear pelts and sell them for 30pp. I soon had a full suit of bronze armor and made it past level 10 for the first time. This character was possibly the most unique character in Everquest because his name was simply "Go". I used dialup internet back then, and went LD during character creation and somehow my character was named Go. My life after that was perma spam, every player in the East Commons wanted to know how I got my name. About a month after that the GM's changed it to some generic name starting with an X, like Xabarer. I soon decided the warrior lifestyle wasnt for me, and I wanted to cast spells. I sold everything on me @ T1 in EC and created a paladin.

This paladin's name was Laraica. A female dwarf paladin. I transferred the bronze over and was at this point very jealous of certain items. Mithril Twohanded sword, Executioners axe, crafted armor, FBSS, and fine plate armor to be exact. Man, I wanted that stuff more then anything, all those awesome level 50's would show off in the newbie zones. By level 20 I had acquired an amazing ability to buy and sell items in EC.

I made some awesome friends along the way. RIP good friends:
Trojanian
Fafer
Leir
Remos
Burlow
Spencer
Caspian
Spahz
and anyone else I forgot.

I soon abandoned my paladin for a monk, who had a full suit of deepwater and wurmslayer/clay guardian shield by the time I abandoned her. The monk's name was Xheng Xh`Eliar. I became fascinated with the damage capabilities of a monk. This is also the first time I quit EQ. I got scammed. I spent every dime I had on a Peacebringer and FBSS and let someone borrow them, and watched them camp with my gear. I quit for 6 months, but my friends playing my character brought my back.

Then, making money was my ultimate ability.

Since this tactic no longer works, I will share with you the ultimate secret of money making on EQ.

It started with the bear pelts. Once I made 100pp, id buy SSB (skull shaped barbute) for 100p and sell it for 200. Id then buy SSoY (Short sword of the ykesha) for 700pp and sell it for 1100. Kunark came out, the market widened. Id buy a deepwater bracer for 2k and sell it for 3k. Wurmslayers, Wu sticks, Essence of Dol, dw, ss, donals, anything imaginable. Soon i was buying FBSS for 7k to sell it for 11k. Sash of the dragonborn for 15k to sell it for 20k. CoF for 50k to sell it for 80k. At some point I believe I was the richest person on Innoruuk.

My monk became sapped with power. Fungi Tunic, CoF, all the best tradable equipment. I solod all the way to 60 on my monk. This is where it went downhill. I was only in 8th or 9th grade, and depending on dialup. Everquest started becoming too indepth, I couldnt join a good guild because I couldnt raid, my parents were always cutting me off using the phone, I died at least 100 times because my parents were sick of asking me to get off the internet so theyd mash on the talk button on the telephone until it kicked me off. I was made of money though, so I was still carefree. I purchased a monk epic MQ for 140,000 platinum + CoF. Trojanian (A bard) and I duod all the time. My parents got divorced and my mom starting working the night shift, so I played for 12 hours each night and went to school, slept from 4pm-8pm, and did it again. I did this for 3 entire years through school. I never slept for more then 15 hours a week. I was a zombie at school. The area around my eyes turned black and is still that color to this day. I abandoned my monk to play my pally again. Fulldeepwater including BP. Velious was out. I got massive dragonclawshard which was pretty decent. I played her until 49 and abandoned her for my monk again.

I apped to 4 or 5 guilds. Never was accepted, I could never make the attendance. I always ended up a step behind all the uber people. Legions of Darkness, Ashen Vendetta, The Defiant, X'ile, I couldnt hack it. People were always better then be by a step. I didnt have Primal, I didnt have NToV gear, I just didnt have it. I had tranquil staff, and anything else I could afford, but nothing REALLY cool. I was also the duel master. 15 times a day you could see my name soar accross EC as the winner of a duel. Of course I was picky, I knew when I could win or lose. So, naturally, I often won.

My computer was a piece of ****, so I upgraded to a AMD K6-2 333mhz with 96mb of ram and used my Voodoo3. Ran like a charm.

Luclin came out. What a **** expansion. Everything was definitely downhill from there. The balance of the universe was thrown into question with unreal drops from ME like that 20ac belt or that Strength of Grodan. Awesome gear. Like every other expansion I had to sit backseat. Never got to see Sleepers or NToV, never got to see SSRA or VT. What a sad life. I was always close. I guested on a few raids. It wasnt until Luclin I got to raid Trakanon. I did HoT quite a lot. Most guilds were calibered on whether or not they could do HoT or not. It was fun. I was decked out in Skyshrine armor, so I thought I was cool. The bazaar opened up and ruined me. AFK people stole my business. How could this be? After all this nonsense PoP came out. PoP destroyed me in a few ways. Tradable weapons which the likes youve never seen. I spent 100,000 on Waning light katar, 100k on that, and this. Soon, I was just plain out of money. A couple months into the expansions all that gear deflated to 15-20k. How embarrasing. Where I solod to 60 I found I was nowhere to go. I solod through 61, and got a couple AA's, but I couldnt get anymore good xp. I tried to group in PoN, ect, but couldnt hack it. I deleveld this character to 51 and made 40k in essence emeralds.

I made a cleric, I figured everyone wanted clerics. By this time my friends had a well seasoned druid so I PLd and twinked her to 40 and xp'd her to 54. Again, I couldnt stand to group, and I abandoned this character.
At this point I had twinked a bard, shadowknight, ranger, and other classes with 100k of gear and to level 40ish, but to no avail.

Finally, I decided to make a necromancer. His name, was Derazor.

I was back in business, Nancy.

I could solo like the wind. I level to 65 instantly soloing PoD (goos and lc's), pos (frogs) pov (razors), and hoh (ent mobs). I was the king. Soon I mastered a new event which made me rich again, the stampede in the plane of tactics, Tacticians bulwark, War marshalls, spec parches, I had money out my ears. All solo baby.

I finally joined a good guild, Unyielding. This next year was spent doing everything from SSRA to PoTime. We started with rusty swords and totally equipped ourselves. It was totally magnificent. Just before this I got highschool sweetheart, who is now my wife. We met in December of 03'. It was in the Spring of 04's that she made me make a choice. It was her or EQ.

I picked her.

I gave the character to a guildmate and swore off Everquest.

In December I got a new roomate, who happened to have Time+ pally on Morell Thule. WHAT ARE THE CHANCES??! I mean, of all the people to meet randomly at college. Well, EQ2 came out and my girlfriend actually BOUGHT that for me and said as long as I dont get obsessed its ok :). Well, got to level 25 on EQ2 and found it sucked total nuts. They were going to do server merges I heard and wanted to play with my roomate (Dawgrin). So, a friend of mine had a 65 shammy (Mckenzie) that he didnt play anymore, so I recruited him. I got him to 70 with a bunch of aa and a suit of OoW tier 1 armor. Never really ended up playing with my roomate since he was progressing to anguish all the time.

I quit again. My fiance and I got married July this year. In late october she decided shed like to play eq with me for fun. She is now a 56 epic BST (Xantharra), and im a 57 epic cleric (Denlen) on Erollsi Marr/MT.

Its been a fun ride guys, it really has. Ive seen everything. BotB competitions, level 1 arena brawls, Ive seen guilds die to sleeper, I saw RZ server kill sleeper.

EQ was an escape from my life as an adolescent.

Now, as I finish reflecting, It almost brings a tear to my eye. The friends ive made and lost, the people Ive pissed off and hated, the guilds I envied and scolded, the money ive made and spent.

EQ has had an extremely negative impact on my life, cumulatively. I dont know if it was because I was still developing psycholigically/cognitively or what, but it serious f*cked me up. For about a year I had nightmares of dying or mobs warping to me and not being able to escape. I became a total insomniac.

I gained 120 pounds during my EQ career, topping me at 320, and I also got diabetes, probably from consuming endless amounts of mountain dew.

I also am extremely apathetic towards real life. I find myself not giving two ***** about things that are much more important then some fictional nonsense.

Well, kudos too anyone who has read all of this. I hope youve enjoyed my EQ life.

If anyone has had a similar experience, please send me an email at tfpriest86@hotmail.com . It would be fun to hear some feedback.

I'm amazed at the number of people responding to this poll and what it shows.

I'm suprised there are so many that have been around so long and only 36 starting last year. I wonder how representative Alla's is of the general EQ population??

Elinda was born in December of 2003.

I believe my first day of EQ was Jan 1, 2001. I made it my New Year's resolution to play EQ after watching a friend of mine play it several times.
I grew up on Adventure for Atari, Zelda on Nintendo, and Final Fantasy on Playstation. This was the next step up for me.

My first character that lived with out drowning made it to 28 in which then I deleted out of boredum and that I made another character my main.

Been playin ever since.

Started EQ around late 2000, early 2001. My first character was a female paladin named Saeryana who started in Felwithe. Greater Faydark was like a dream, giant wasps flying around and the occasional (uber) orc pawn to challenge you. I remember shaking from the excitement of this new game that let you play real-time with other people. Poor Saeryana perished at level 8 when i accidentally zoned into Lesser Faydark, running up the trail and was attacked by a brownie, may have been the corrupt one, happened so fast.....who really knows. Along came my bard, how awesome. He was known as Stradi, and he joined a guild late 2001...the first guild ive been in, and am currently in with my toons (though Guild Leaders have come and gone). At level 20 Stradi Various was born. I look back on him fondly, as I remember taking him to LOIO and perishing MANY times. It was always the run from FV that scared the crap outta me, with all the drachnids you had to run through to get to the zone. Stradi was deleted later on after making my SK Pitch Black, DE...still around level 55. Also Krastus-Cleric 63, and Strommare-Mage 58. God knows how many have come before them, and how many may come after.

1999 I made Keela who was on fennin ro then i had to quit after i had my baby then moved to upstate ny and well I came back....
first guild was Kings of Brotherhood (any of u out there???) contact me at keeylarocleec@comcast.net
Kee
-ONE by ONE the penguins are steeling my sanity

EQ is the best game I have played on PC so far to date. I have played the game since end of 2000. Hope it is around for another 7 years...at least. :)

Glad to know I am not alone. My first was a DE Necro that couldn't get out of the dark either. I deleted him and created Jadish (1) in 2001. I played her for about a month and got tired of my RL friends that where higher pushing me to lvl fast and play with them so I quit and moved servers.

In 2005 I recreated Jadish on the merged server EMarr and have slowly leveled her again.

I have 5 characters on 3 servers and they are all enchanters. I have tried others but I only seem to keep enchanters. Jadish is still my highest at just 49.

Bellam was created in late 2004.
(EQ was an early Christmas gift from a friend who has since left the game.)

He was my first, and is still my favorite toon.

Unfortunately, most of my family style guild has moved on, and playing a paladin without friends isn't much fun. Unfortunately, having been spoiled by playing in a family style guild, with good friends, good players, and no time commitments, has kind of soured me to pick-up groups. I've considered quiting because of it, but truth is, I do really like the game.

Oh well. Rolled a beastie on Povar. I'll check out the climate over there. Maybe a change of venue will liven things up a bit for me.