When was your first experience with Everquest?

[omegadot]

I started slightly before Kunark and really never got the chance to play consistently past the 20s due to funds/internet problems as I was 14 or 15 at the time when I started. This is a great chance to have that chance again.

[sadawe]

Started in Beta, rolled out a blind erudite magician then tried to get him to Qeynos via boat
now that was impossibility at the time since boats were broken, you actually had to run with the boat to the zone line or you would be fish food.

aahh those were the good old days..

[Zalora]

My first experience with EQ is with this server. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who hasn't been playing for decades.

When I don't know something about something in the game sometimes people get frustrated that I don't know about it or even think I'm trolling.

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

my memory is, summer of 99, fiddlinjg around with the char creation, finally deciding on a dark elf, and spending my first day -- as in, probably 3-4 hours -- lost in Neriak, wondering what I was supposed to even do in this game. I was pure newb. I loved it. Being an old D&D player, I knew the gist, but I loved the fact I couldn't even find my way out of my home city. I was hailing guards, merchants, you name it. I never looked at any online sites for like 5-6 months. It was pure trial and error. Lots and lots of error.

And I loved it.

[Thaeryn]

I started on Tunare summer of 2000 just after RoK was released. I made a necro named Uaelin and a druid named Thaeryn. I was 20 at the time and until 2002 I spent the majority of my time in Norrath. I still don't know how I managed to finish school.

So many memories. Some great. Some not-so-great. I'm excited to get started again, and I'm hoping to reconnect with some old friends. Thank you to the devs for putting this all together.

[Grampy]

Started out sharing an account with a buddy who picked up the game shortly after it came out. We played on the Tunare server. I was an ogre shaman. When whispers of PvP servers started echoing through the playerbase I decided it was time to snag my own copy of the game. I started playing on the Tallon Zek server the day it went live and remained there until Sullon Zek launched. I waffled back and forth between the Tallon and Sullon until I quit playing around 2003 or so.

[Vaildez]

My Friend and his GF bought me EQ for my birthday back in 1999 and I had the game shelved for like 6 months since I was in High School with no income to pay the monthly till I took my parents CC eventually and started playing [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]. I started my first character a warrior named "Gafgoron" on Erollisi Marr and died in the pool in Halas within my first few min of playing.

[ripwind]

Bought Everquest classic for myself as a coping gift back in February 2000. I broke up with my then-high school sweetheart, and the game sucked me right in. I had a few friends who had been playing since beta/launch and I made a wood elf druid (Innere Nacht) on Fennin Ro. Soon after, I think Fennin and Solusek merged into Druzzil Ro. I remember struggling just to get leather armor back then, and what a pain it was to get (or make) a bow and arrows.

I played off and on, splitting my time between EQ and Dark Age of Camelot before WoW came out. Had a 70 Necromancer, 65 Druid, and countless 50's and 40's by the time I quit. I still think classic, Kunark, and Velious were my favorite eras.

[Korisek]

My first was post-SOL, pre-POP, but I wasn't allowed to get any expansions, so I played Classic, Kunark, and Velious content exclusively for several years.

...Funnily enough I think my interest started waning about the time I started buying expansions.

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

My Friend and his GF bought me EQ for my birthday back in 1999 and I had the game shelved for like 6 months since I was in High School with no income to pay the monthly till I took my parents CC eventually and started playing [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]. I started my first character a warrior named "Gafgoron" on Erollisi Marr and died in the pool in Halas within my first few min of playing.

Ha! My very first death came from my warrior using the beg skill on a random merchant, and then me wondering why everyone in the city suddenly wanted to murder me.

[sacman08]

I started playing in June of 1999. I had just got back from traveling for work, and I had met someone at the meetings that was already playing EQ. He told me some facts about it, that it had thousands of players all playing together and how big it was, so after I got home I bought it and was hooked. I don't blame Verant for cashing out to Sony but I wish they had continued with developing the game. I think we would have ended up with a very different EQ that what the game became after Sony intervention.