I read about EQ in magazine print somewhere in 1998, and I saw something to the effect of "the game is so detailed a fireball from across the bay (in freeport?) will light up the sky for onlookers on the other shore" and "each rain drop individually exists when it falls from the sky" (this is what got my interest). Those aren't exact quotes, just what I seem to remember.
Then the moment I was hooked on EQ uberness was the last day of Beta testing in 1998. I thought I was badass, 12th barbarian warrior, a BRONZE two handed sword, and full tattered/rawhide and all the shitty gear from blackburrow. Everyone else was < lvl 12. Then in comes like a 20+ something ranger and has two mino battle axes and chain graphics armor, we were all just like oh my god wtf how did you get that!
Not many people I played with in beta seemed to understand the concept of grouping, i remember killing, sitting, and regening.
The last day of beta was the best, I got a SoW from someone and hit an ice giant with an arrow and said, "amass at the guards, if we all fight together we can kill a giant"... I must have gotten 50-60 sub level 10s slaughtered... again and again. Then I sold all my gear and got alcohol tolerance really high!
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