You haven't played classic Everquest until...?

[mistersuits]

So here's my premise. I'm creating a checklist of things you have to experience to truly capture the essence of classic EQ.

Ideas:

- You haven't experienced classic EQ until you've died to some idiot's train in Crushbone.
- You haven't experienced classic EQ until your group decides to move in just a bit farther and then immediately wipes.
- You haven't experienced classic EQ until your corpse run involves boats.
- You haven't experienced classic EQ until you finally got Pyzgn to spawn... but she didn't drop the GBS.

I played live EQ hardcore from '99 to '03. I've dabbled around on P99 fairly extensively but now that real life dictates more than when I was just a kid, I'm can't really go back. But if I play the game in a certain way, a way that makes crafting your own banded armor really special then it can be fun again even in small doses.

So I'm rolling up a Wood-elf Warrior, Stellvia, to level up with the following ruleset:

- Cannot use any gear that I didn't loot, craft, or ninja (ninja'ing is classic!)
- Cannot beg for buffs, drive-by buffs are OK.
- Cannot buy items from other players.

The goal is to "win" the game by meeting some cool friends (classic Everquest = community building downtime) and to "win" by looting/crafting silly items that should be casually farmable. Basically anything that invokes nostalgia turns into a win.

If you're interested in watching, I'll be streaming my play on twitch (twitch.tv/mistersuits) or just message me in game on my warrior, Stellvia.

Also, please add the things that truly make the classic EQ experience to this thread so I can add them to my list and check them off.

See you in game.