Have you ever had a panic attack in EQ?

[fuji]

Has anyone else ever freaked out while playing the game?

Back in the day I was playing my wiz and I handed in some epic quest items without the proper faction needed. I remember staring at the screen for at least an hour trying to figure out what went wrong, while at the same time sweating like a madman and almost passing out. Probably my worst EQ moment.

[Harmonicdeth]

I can remember bruising my hand really bad from pounding my desk because...someone stole our raid kill in Kael one time.

Other than that I have been pretty easy going.

[Rael]

I'm sure at some point in time some poor wis caster *must* have handed in their Testament of Vanear to the Erudin Cleric's Guild hoping for an even more awesome quest reward... only to get some random cleric spell scroll and faction in return.

[PhelanKA]

My worst EQ moment was my last. My first toon was a Troll Warrior I created in the first week of Everquest. He had a Mask of the Deceiver, had the first piece of Indicolite ever looted on the server (Rallos Zek), and the second or third full set.

Anyways, I died somewhere deep in Sebilis one night and group decided to call it a night and try CR the next day. Sure. Fine. Except my apartment building burned to the ground while I was at work the next day! I lost that corpse on account of not having access to another computer in the ensuing week. I was devastated and couldn't bring myself to ever log back in.

Oh yeah... I also lost my favorite lucky tshirt in the fire as well. That hurt almost as much as losing my computer and my EQ stuff.

[soup]

My worst EQ moment was my last. My first toon was a Troll Warrior I created in the first week of Everquest. He had a Mask of the Deceiver, had the first piece of Indicolite ever looted on the server (Rallos Zek), and the second or third full set.

Anyways, I died somewhere deep in Sebilis one night and group decided to call it a night and try CR the next day. Sure. Fine. Except my apartment building burned to the ground while I was at work the next day! I lost that corpse on account of not having access to another computer in the ensuing week. I was devastated and couldn't bring myself to ever log back in.

Oh yeah... I also lost my favorite lucky tshirt in the fire as well. That hurt almost as much as losing my computer and my EQ stuff.
Man, that's gotta say something about how addictive EQ is. Your apartment burns down, and you're sweating the EQ character haha

[fuji]

Man, that's gotta say something about how addictive EQ is. Your apartment burns down, and you're sweating the EQ character haha

It is serious stuff. We know that it isnt real, but it is the time and effort spent that is lost.

[PhelanKA]

Man, that's gotta say something about how addictive EQ is. Your apartment burns down, and you're sweating the EQ character haha

I didn't have much beyond my computer, an old TV, and my clothes. I found out the fire was started in the crackhouse below me, so I really don't care if any of them died tbh. My apt and the one where the fire started were the only two that really burned down.

[Merrik]

I remember doing my rogue epic, had just got a bunch of people together to kill the guy in Steamfont. I was standing there hailing the guy to be killed getting, I handed him my items and clicked give. Sadly I didn't check the name belonging to the trade window, and ended up handing in the piece to Jabober, some dipshit mage's air pet that I couldn't see. I lost it pretty good at that point, knowing I was going to have to take another solo trip into Hate and sneak up to the second floor to get the piece I need.

[fuji]

I remember doing my rogue epic, had just got a bunch of people together to kill the guy in Steamfont. I was standing there hailing the guy to be killed getting, I handed him my items and clicked give. Sadly I didn't check the name belonging to the trade window, and ended up handing in the piece to Jabober, some dipshit mage's air pet that I couldn't see. I lost it pretty good at that point, knowing I was going to have to take another solo trip into Hate and sneak up to the second floor to get the piece I need.

Good thing Rogue Epic was the easiest to get.

[Kistoff]

One of my friends was a Necro soloing near the Plane of Fear using my cleric to heal his pet and loot the drops from the mobs. He accidentally clicked the portal and killed my cleric inside Fear. He asked another Bard friend of mine to try to get the corpse. The Bard goes in using AE Fear and a Thurg potion to try to get the corpse to a spot for a rezz, but wasn't able to. He ended up getting his guild to do a Raid on Fear to get the corpse of my cleric.

I found out a day or so later as I walked into the Lan room we had setup and he is like well who is going to tell him what happened. They said they were all thinking about how to tell me and how much plat they could get together to buy my cleric new gear because they thought for sure I was going to flip out. I didn't get upset about it at the time, I actually thought it was hilarious!

-Kistoff

[YendorLootmonkey]

When that wood elf chick I was cybering turned out to be a dude. And then the next night when that dark elf chick I was cybering turned out to be a dude. And then the following night when that high elf chick....

[Nedala]

I can remember bruising my hand really bad from pounding my desk because...someone stole our raid kill in Kael one time.

Other than that I have been pretty easy going.

Haha one good friend did this on p99 not long ago.

And i heard of like 5 others :D

[frefaln]

Panic attack? Not really. A couple broken mouses from post-death temper tantrums? Absolutely.

[Loretta]

The most thats ever happened I think was my heart lept up into my throat a few times during my turn at my epic mob and being unsure if we could finish off Queen in Chardok due to an enchanter going down or a wizard.

Lol first off, if you had a panic attack, you would know how horrible and scary they are. Ive only had like two panic attacks in RL ever and didn't even know I was capable of feeling such stress, but those were due to RL things, like boyfriends. It's the worst feeling ever, and I dont think it could ever happen to me in game because if I messed up a quest you could always petition it or fix it in some way - Cant petition a GM to fix RL issues that come up though!

[frefaln]

Cant petition a GM to fix RL issues that come up though!

Well, you could... just don't be surprised if they try to slowly push that boyfriend out of the picture.

[Mournblade]

Does it count if, at about 2am with all the lights off, during an intense raid in Kael, a giant tree roach runs across your hands and keyboard and vanishes into the shadows? Thats about the closest i've ever come to wetting myself.

[mmiles8]

I'm sure at some point in time some poor wis caster *must* have handed in their Testament of Vanear to the Erudin Cleric's Guild hoping for an even more awesome quest reward... only to get some random cleric spell scroll and faction in return.

Yeah, me, two weeks ago. On a side note, I got my brewing up pretty high doing the camp twice. There were 2000 posts about dyllin's spawn time, and jack about the quest, so I made my way to erudin 20 seconds at a time, kept dozing off from that stupid camp, thought that was the end of the quest. WRONG. Languid Pace, whoopty doo.

[VincentVolaju]

Does it count if, at about 2am with all the lights off, during an intense raid in Kael, a giant tree roach runs across your hands and keyboard and vanishes into the shadows? Thats about the closest i've ever come to wetting myself.

Roflmaoooo, def. just spit my dr pepper out all over my keyboard =(.

Oh, and 2 weeks ago handing a Manastone over to a friend so he can transfer it to my other character, then when logging on my other character my friend says "What? You never gave it to me dude, I been waiting this whole time"........FML.

[Feather]

My Wizard was in Lava and passed a Mage standing around. All of a sudden the Mage's pet attacks me. I am totally shocked and run like a baby. The pet kills me. I have absolutely no idea where my corpse is. I am shaking. I am confused. I am shocked. What the hell happened? The laws of my universe flip flopped. I am on a blue server, this is not right.

I petition a GM (they were around then). The GM has no idea how it could happen but helped me find my body. I never found out what happened and was scared to play for ages.

[frefaln]

^ you're positive it was a player Mage? Because there was a camp of NPCs in Lava (some of them vendors IIRC) and one of them was a potentially-aggro caster.

[liveitup1216]

My Wizard was in Lava and passed a Mage standing around. All of a sudden the Mage's pet attacks me. I am totally shocked and run like a baby. The pet kills me. I have absolutely no idea where my corpse is. I am shaking. I am confused. I am shocked. What the hell happened? The laws of my universe flip flopped. I am on a blue server, this is not right.

I petition a GM (they were around then). The GM has no idea how it could happen but helped me find my body. I never found out what happened and was scared to play for ages.

if this was on live back in the day, when a mage dc'd while pet was fighting a mob, if your pet won the fight, he'd go rogue, retaining his level but being KoS to anything in sight.

rare, but i've had it happen back then, dc, log in, beat to death by my own root happy earth pet.

[azeth]

NIZZMUND ninja looting a Cloak of Flames off Nag in 2000 on Rodcet Nife

panic attack? no.

heart attack? close.