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08-17-2010, 06:31 PM
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As for the threads question. I started out on Rallos because PvP was always my favorite thing to do in games, whether it was on bond 007 or like I previously mentioned above The Realm.
I made a gnome starting out and things were tough, I couldn't even buy spells at first. I got a few cloth pieces and got pked near the kobolds and lost one. I remember this making me very mad. After this happened I decided to hide up in the mountains near the kobold tents and wait for a victim of my own. After getting my first kill I was hooked... it was then my mission to level up and become as powerful as quickly as I could so I could kill stronger players.. and survive other players. Later I found out the entire server turns on people who attack players and don't really let them play end game... which I really never understood since it was a PvP server.. but it was fun until then. | ||
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#22
08-17-2010, 06:59 PM
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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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08-17-2010, 07:14 PM
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My brother talked me into playing. I was big on RPGs and knew I would get sucked in if I played and I didn't want it interfering with college. Well one day he gets me on, he powerlevels me a little bit with his ranger after I get my first few levels and he shows me Lesser Fay. I was hooked the second he yelled 'run!' and I saw some little brownie bastard with his hands lighting up in fire, killing me seconds later. The real sense of urgency made the game special, knowing such dangers could lurk around any corner was pretty cool.
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08-17-2010, 07:14 PM
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08-18-2010, 03:56 PM
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Played UO which had lag so bad it was literally unplayable. No progress. Waited til UO Second Age came out. Prior to giving UO another go; I decided to check gamecenter.com for its reviews. Everyone was raving about EQ. I remember looking at the EQ box months earlier. This time I decided to buy it. 100x more playable than UO; no lag; first person perspective....freaking awesome. Hooked solid for a year.
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08-18-2010, 04:07 PM
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08-18-2010, 04:42 PM
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When I found out just how long it would take to run from Qeynos to Freeport.
Coming from UO where you could run from Yew to Trinsic in a fairly short amount of time, the prospect of taking an hour or two to make it from Q to FP was exciting to me. My first character was a human wizard and the only person I knew playing the game played a dwarf warrior. At this stage in the game's release level 15s were uber so, at level 8, I decided to try and make the trek from Q to FP to meet up with my friend; no SoW, no port, just hoofin it. After a brief (lost) stop at the WK barb village (I had no idea the zones were giant rectangles so the concept of following the zone wall had no impact on me) I decided to keep heading onward and just follow the river. I zone into NK and eventually see a huge white bridge and tower...I run in there and am told I must be lost by an 18 shaman. He SoWd me after I explained where I was going and he gave me advice on how to get there. Off I went, keeping the river on my right until, there in the distance, a giant-chained bridge loomed. It was getting dark and my human eyesight just wasn't doing the job but I pressed on to EK. Yea, lioness matriarch + lvl 8 wizard = loading, please wait... Never did get that corpse back but Verant/Sony got my money for a number of years thereafter. | ||
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08-18-2010, 05:06 PM
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Whenever my ex and I were at the store, we noticed the EQ box in the electronics department and thought it looked cool. Finally after about a month he bought a copy and started playing. He was hooked and I was pissed lol. About a month later he made me sit down and make a character. I think what made me like it first was that I could personalize my character. I made a human mage out of Qeynos. All I ever did was run her back and forth from Qeynos to Surefall Glade, killing small snakes and gnolls. Mostly I just pretended I was going on fishing trips and fished off the docks in SFG.
Eventually I did make a wood elf druid. I had no idea what the stats meant so I loaded her up with STR instead of WIS because I thought it meant I could hit harder. The moment I spawned up in the trees I thought it was so pretty. I found my way down (fell a few times) to a grassy area, approached a wasp and went into battle! The excitement of almost dying to a large wasp was awesome lol. I went on to play that druid for 52 levels before making a bard. Does anyone remember how scary it was at the time to kill a kobald, watch it die then gasp when its arm flew up again for one last strike? lol | ||
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