EverQuest, anyone?

[The Blue Knight]

Anyone play EverQuest here? If so what server and what race/class you guys play?

Me, I'm on Drinal. Got a 61 Troll SK. :-P

[tibbiit]

1. I have loved everquest

I played on xegony.
All my characters are in their 50's. I havent played in 2.5 years to save my marriage lol, but I havent been able to kill my accounts so I pay so my toons still live in their glade where last I parked them.

I would love to go back but really... i cant. I had the ablility to stay in there for days and its not a good thing:)

How is it playing since EQ 2 came along? Are there still lots of people? I heard the servers have been consolidated... is there a xegony anymore? (I also played on Sullon.
tib

[Systematic Chaos]

2. I've been into it since the "Scars of Velious" expansion.

I first started playing on a rent-to-own computer from Rent-A-Center. $50 A WEEK for a Celeron 500 with 64MB of memory and an onboard graphics chip. Even with the old interface where the action was in a tiny window and buttons and stats took up 60% of the screen, my lag was so bad that when I tried to take the lifts up into the treetops in Kelethin as a newb, I would die from falling THROUGH the lift before it got to the top, more than half the time. :rofl:

I started looking around on Ebay, and ended up buying a PCI graphics card and 256 MB of memory for about $150 because there was still no way I could afford a decent system of my own. That did the trick and carried me through until I started building my own computers, although several times I was out of the game for weeks or even months due to hardware failures.

I have a 67 bard on Bristlebane and my wife has a 50-something beastlord. We have our accounts open still, but we are now much more happy with EQ2. I have a 47 ranger/39 woodworker on the Lavastorm server with a name that pokes massive fun at *, but luckily nobody's complained and had the GM's change it. My wife has a 39 conjurer/50 provisioner (makes food and drinks). The first full expansion is coming out in September!

You (in the generic sense for whoever reads this thread) had any thoughts of switching to EQ2? It's everything that EQ is but much more balanced in terms of solo or group play, and more information is streamlined so that you can always remember what quests you have and stuff. I highly recommend it.

Edited for clarity, or something. :P

[tibbiit]

3. I would like to play EQ2

My old guild went there in mass. I quit reading our website because Im so bummed I cant play the game anymore. Last I read they liked EQ2 for same reasons you site. I cant remember which server they went to. Guild name is Order of Pi.
tib

[Systematic Chaos]

4. Having a spouse who doesn't "get" the game is not good

But then, having one who now plays far more than you do isn't so good either. :rofl:

Since there's only one computer, I let her on most of the time, plus I'm dealing with some medical issues that make sitting in one place for too long uncomfortable and that screws with your concentration. Honestly? You're probably living a fuller life staying away from the game, as long as you and the wife aren't just watching TV all the time instead. :)

[malmapus]

5. Test Server here

Been on Test since release, yet I haven't made 70 yet lol. My main is a 66 Gnome necromancer.

Just got my finacee into playing recently and she's rolled up a 48 lvl gnome mage.

[Wildewolfe]

6. Been playing a long time...

... mostly I 6 box these days on the Rathe

Have 70 war, cle, cle, wiz, enc, mag, bard. (yes... that's 7... either have wizard in or 2nd cleric depending on what I'm doing.

It's been a fun several years playing them.

[Meldread]

7. ...kinda outdated thread, but I'll post.

I used to play EverQuest a few years ago. I officially quit right after the Luclin Expansion, and played shortly after EverQuest first went live - before the first expansion Ruins of Kunark.

I played mostly on Tallon Zek in a all Short (Gnomes, Halflings and Dwarves) PK Guild.

I tried playing EverQuest several months ago when Sony reactivated my accounts for a free month to try and entice me to come back. I managed to level up a Dark Elven Cleric on Zek to level 20 in about two days of casual playing. Insane! I quit after the third day.

The game ain't what it used to be... it's so empty now and it seems to have lost much of the "spirit" it used to have. At least for me.

All I have are memories now of a bunch of small little midgets chanting, "Up with the small, Down with the TALL!", "The taller they are, the harder they fall!"... and all sorts of other fun little phrases.

Oh, and explaining why you killed a tall person to them in tells.

Soandso tells you, "Why did you kill me?!"
You tell Soandso, "Because you were looking down your nose at me! Us short folks are sick it!"

Ahhh... good times. So much fun. RIP the Liberation of the Underfoot.

[Spirochete]

8. I haven't played for about a year

I was always pretty much a casual player. My biggest characters were a level 56 woodelf druid and a level 44 Iksar shadowknight on the Cazik Thule server. But I'm about $150 worth of expansions behind now, and everyone is playing those expansions I don't have.

[Wildewolfe]

9. Check out EQ: Titanium

It's coming out this month and includes ALL the expansions for a nice flat $20 bucks.

[tibbiit]

10. thanks for that info

any more EQ?
tib