Why did you start EQ?Follow

I started playing right before Kunark. I saw the box in the window of the store and checked it out, had to try it and been playing from then on

The network guy where I worked is to blame. I'd catch him of all places here on AllaK and we started talking about EQ. This led into stories of his character and guild and all the stuff they were doing. Of course the stories were filled with words and acronyms I did not understand which opened up the black hole even further as he explained.

I purchased the trilogy package shortly after PoP was released. It was a big advantage having a RL person to guide me in the early days. Of course I took the scenic view down from Kelethin a time or two. After numerous character starts I settled on a cleric and leveled him into the mid 50's before leaving the game.

I have left twice and come back each time, not deleting my characters the second time. I now have a 57 Druid working on Epic 1.0 and a low 30's Monk when I feel the need to smack things around. After many less than stellar experiences in Guilds I have found a fun guild.

This game is no where near perfect and can be frustrating at times but I have yet to find anything that comes close in depth, scope or playability. I have no idea what my /play times are, but I am on for 3 or so hours 2 or 3 nights a week and get in 10 - 12 hours over most weekends. Too much the wife says, but H*** I used to go out drinking that much or more. /shrug

I also built a new computer about a year ago which greatly reduced lag and zoning times but is way overpowered for EQ.

I started playing when a friend of mine urged me too. I looked into the game before playing and cited every excuse why I shouldnt. But, she called me chicken and dared me to try it for the first free 30 days. If I didnt like it, she'd buy my account and well....( lets just say what she offered was very sweet and would be impolite to say here, lol)

So I bought EQ, hooked it up and played. She hooked me up with some basic gear, and some plat and PL'd me for a few levles til I got the hang of it. I immeadiately liked the game and was sucked into it. But, wanting her to come up with what she offered, hehe, I tried to act like I didnt like the game and was just going through the ropes.

Anyway, she knew I liked it, and to celebrate, she fulfilled the agreement anyway...WooHoo!

But the game was a great thing though, I met my current g/f on EQ and have made alot of really good friends over the years, so I think its time well spent.

I stay playing EQ because its fun. It allows mw an escape from the real world and break the monotonous drone of my life. Besides, I was always a fan of the who warrior/wizard/druid thing anyways...

I didnt want to start EQ at all, as I had been playing single player RPGS since Ultima 3. I was pretty wary of the whole new MMORPG thing, I just thought it wasnt possible to add enough content and I suspected the graphics would suck due to the internet bandwith restrictions of the day. So I waited a year before I tried EQ and I was pretty much hooked from the get-go, although Ive quit many times. Im back now, at least until Vanguard comes out.

Ignoring the fact that it was poorly written and just plain wrong, you posted a completely non-relevant post on someone else's topic.

Stop complaining.

Why'd you start playing EQ? My husband let me loot a bat's corpse...appealed to my morbid side.

Did a friend ask you to, were you just into MMORPG's, do you have some stake in it, did it just look neat..? Hubby...kinda helped me not to be an EQ widow

And, hey, why are you still playing it? Because I like the game and some of my good freinds play, as well as a couple of my soldiers.

What do you enjoy about it, and what are your objectives on it? Easy to keep in touch with folks I know in RL, OBJ is to have fun.

Before starting anything else, what's your main's /played look like? (Just to give prospective to those before reading your post.) Main is a red headed (overly) bold ranger who does not die nearly as much as some wizzies.

I met a guy in a little computer store on Vancouver Island , one of those guys who would go off into a tiny, dirty, smoke filled, little room and hibernate while he played Ultima Online for hours and hours. One of those guys who would take a bucket to pee in, rather than leave the keyboard. In the end he lost his wife and the store.

Well, I asked him about the game and compared it to EQ which was only about 6 months old. EQ just BLEW Ultima out of the picture , it was SO much better.

Been playing ever since except for one year when I went cold turkey and stopped playing ( Screwed up my Vet rewards , lol )

Bappont on Tribunal

I played NWN too, and had Guildmates who stayed in touch and moved from one game to the next looking for the next game that would have the same strong community that we had in NWN. I can remember crying because I wasn't able to get online the day AOL pulled the plug on server.

We all tried to stay in touch online over the years, but there where months that I couldn't afford an isp. After coming back online in 1999, I mention on the guild boards that I was going to ask the kids if we could get EQ for Christmas. It would have ment no other presentes under the tree that year, but I miss getting in game with my guildmates.

One of the member of my guild, asked if he could play Santa for us, as he had an extra copy of eq. As soon as I got ingame with Primrose, I was surrounded by guildmates who had my woodelf druid trinked in seconds. My second toon Ellyn, was created so I could have a non trinked, so to learn the game. She was deleted to make room for a Halfing Ranger, who I did allow guildmates to give old gear they didn't need.

Sadly Wunderful died a couple of years later. My daughters and I will always remember him as Wuner Claus. He also made a few bro's beautiful bows.

I've played eq on and off since then, but never seem to get far with any of my toons, since rest of guild was always at least 20 levels above me and I often would find myself in too much pain to try pick up groups. When most of the guild went to WoW, I try to play on Cazic Thule, but game wasn't the same with out the guild to chat with.

Primrose, a member of The Brotherhood of Pathfinders, since 1994.
ElneClare member of The Protectorate since 1996

Now Primrosex of Aude Sapere as SOE added the 'x' when I had her moved to Povar and no one has reported her yet.