Lake of Ill Omen was super freaking classic lol.

[Wakanda]

Originally Posted by Gustoo [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It was good times. I remember everyone telling me it was the place to go even tho exp was better for me wandering around the karanas as a ranger. I noticed the exp was trash but it was the new world and fun to see. And everyone was there.

I always played classes who really couldn't solo [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] so from my perspective LOIO was the best exp. In hindsight maybe it really was just because I could easily find groups, but I still think the ZEMs are way off [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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Originally Posted by shovelquest [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I remember trying pretty hard to get a pair of sarnak earing and having to wait until project 1999 before I'd get any.

The drop rate on P99 has to be significantly higher because I always hear people talk about how easy they get the earrings. As a high schooler, I spent an entire summer break on my monk killing all the Sarnaks near Chancellor's room, all throughout the hallways, literally months, and never saw an earring drop. When I came to P99 I was like I bet those things weren't real and it was all a conspiracy theory that no sane person has ever heard of because I never saw one drop (even though I leveled a ton of alts in Sarnak Fort - possibly thousands of hours). But then I find out everyone on P99 has commonly seen them and I'm just like???

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Originally Posted by kaluppo [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Such good memories. My friend at work got me into Everquest in the fall of 2000. We were on the Tribunal server. I made a wood elf Druid but my buddy was a dark elf Shadow Knight. He had me take a boat to Freeport while I was still level one and we did a duo/grouping in EC to SRo to Oasis to LoiO.

We started at the windmill but soon moved to the sarnak fort where I leveled from 20-29 in a relatively short period of time. That place was so cool. From there we went to giant forts in FM then OT and then the Dreadlands for what seemed an eternity before I finally was high enough for KC groups. I was able to ding 60 in KC hands groups so it was my final stop back in those early days.

I tried to replicate that here on blur back in like 2015 but the sarnak fort was a ghost town. Turned out Unrest was the hot spot to get groups in the 20's. That was awesome too because I got to see zones the second time around that I never explored before.

Makes me want to log back in to P99 since I been away a few years. I lost interest after green and teal combined due to lack of population. Grouping became way harder.

You just described the classic pipeline [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] makes me feel more sane because I think a lot of people on P99 have played on P99 so long they don't remember what true classic EQ was like, lol.