EQ achievement 2006Follow

Yes, just another "Weekend Update" thread... but this time for the whole year 2006

I made 15 levels (from 40 to 55) and 14 AA's on my main, which doesn't sound much but is a huge achievement for me as I'm a casual player and this is the highest character I ever played.

I have seen lots of zones for the first time (most of them Kunark and Velious zones, but also PoI, WoS or Torgiran Mines for example).

I finally learned how to solo my Bst without dying every single time.

I participated in every scavenger hunt and special event provided (EQ anniversary, Halloween, Frostfell...) although I didn't finish most of them.

And last but not least: I met some new people in EQ who are not only playfellows, but may become good friends - and this is the main reason I still play EQ. Thanks to all of you!


Edit: Make that 16 lvls and 15 AA's, had a great evening yesterday!

Edited, Dec 22nd 2006 4:14am by bbot

Took the cleric from 63 to 65 and got him about a dozen AAs.

Got the Necro to 66 from 63 or so. Add about 50 AAs.

Both characters got lots of gear upgrades, so the cleric at least is mostly out of his Velious armor set. I had got GoD this past year (after OoW and DoN) which made a big difference.

Well, I had hit 70 on my warrior just before the new year but I've racked up about 100 AA's this year. I also got my 1.5 and I buff to 13k 2100 AC which had been a goal and while far from uber I'm happy as a very casual player. I leveled my wizard from 12 to 54. Did most of 12 to 45 in LDoNs with my family. It was a LOT of fun. I also helped my wife, son, and daughter hit 70 on their mains.

Rehogan

The most important achievement for 2006 was that I finally found a guild that I could call home again. That hasn't happened since December, 2004 when the majority of my first guild left for WoW.

I love the guild, and am very impressed with the quality and friendliness of my new friends.

Second to that, I gained several levels, a few hundred AAs, etc, etc. I only really spent much time in two PoR zones, Relic and Arcstone, but I loved the quests that came out of those two zones, and spent many enjoyable hours in both spots. TSS has been fairly laggy for me, so I haven't spent much time there.

I finally found an alt that I enjoy playing regularly. My beastlord went from about 14 to 47 this last year. Most of it was through soloing since groups are hard to find at those levels. Of course it helped that the majority of the time was also spent using my Lesson of the Devoted (2x xp) AA and Steadfast Servant (my healing sidekick). I find the BL to be a great change of pace from the druid, and look forward to leveling him enough to play with my regular group.

My regular nightly crew has now been together for almost 5 years, and we continue to enjoy discovering together all that EQ has to offer.

This year the wife and I did many things, among them making 70 then 75. We got a few hundred AAs and a few thousand HP upgrades. I now buff to 14k with 2700 AC, at the start of the year I would buff to 10k on a very good day. I wouldn't say I'm casual, but I'm not a raider. We started a cleric, a ranger and a mage (mage started november 8th). And we've completed almost every single DoDH mission at least twice some upwards of 100 times. 4 out of 6 now have the DoDH clicky mask that comes from spending way too much time in that expansion and doing a lot of missions that are far too long or difficult for crap rewards with 100ish hp on them. We went through 3 guilds due to crap drama and finally settled into a very small guild mainly to suspend buffs in the hall. We made 2 sets of 2 friends that multibox with their loved ones also. I still haven't found an expansion I like better than DoDH, I would love to see another expansion that is mostly instanced missions instead of mindless farming of super rare, camp contested names. Looking back it was a good year, and I hate the naligor pits!

QFT. DoDH instances are the best. Get your friends together and no one can steal it or grief you.

Envy your masks.. I was a few weeks away from mine.

guild made it into Anguish :)!

<Catalysts> Povar

2006 for me brought a ban of 1 account, and the start of a new one in the end of september. My new account has been active for almost 4 months now, and my beastlord is now 65 as of yesterday :-D And I hit 19 aa's tonight. I'm stoked about 2006 and ready to see how far i can go in 2007

2006 bought me about 10 levels, 2 AAs and a hellva lot of fun. It also bought me a new wife :)

Beginning of the year i joined a good raiding guild as my fathers alt.
Month later, dinged 70... Started to hatch out some aa's.
Dinged my Bot ranger 70
Dinged my Bot Necromancer 70.
Dinged my Bot Druid 66.
Got a good enough force to start hydraing in the nest, aa's flowed in
May'ish, i applied as a main to that guild. Since then i've gotten quite a bit of good loot :-D
Dinged 75 for my Ranger, My main, My dad's chanter, and helped a friends Shadowknight get it as well.]
Next step in my journey is to farm my ranger all the TSS molds and get all the powersources for him so he can atleast take a little hit.

It brought too many expansions too quickly. The developers now cater to the uber guilds and leave the rest of us out - not too surprising most of my friends have left EQ. There is no way to keep up therefore I will not be buying any more expansions for a very long time.

For me, I used to only be able to play in the summers, then in august I was finally able to play all year, this year I got my own account also, so had to start from scratch-got from 1-55 from june-december, got my first and only aa on my account, my old main on my step-bro's account was deleted by him-more room for him- he was a lv 70 froglok clr(yes i know i have this obsession with frogloks-if you want proof look at my signature). got my account full with toons, no trolls or drakkins-not that i could, don't have TSS only expansion i don't have-my toons are from lvs 14-25-a 14 bard,21 rouge,22 necro,23 wizzy,25 monk&mage, and then my 55 shammy. I got a friend hooked on the game also now-he started his account in september/october, he has a 9 monk, 25 shammy,35 war, me and step-bro have helped him along by giving him gear and where to lv up at and of course cash. Btw my friend has the same additude towards frogloks, trolls and drakkins as I do. I came up with the motto thing down at my signature, me and my friend drakkins cause we were totally diapointed with them graphic wise-if i didn't em i would have made a drakkin monk for breath item.

For all of you lazy ppl who will not look down at the bottom here is the motto----
"Frogloks rule, Trolls drool, Drakkins suck!"-the word of frogking, thanks be to cougar(inside joke)

P.S.-COugar is my friends cat, she is 16 and looks very wise in her face, she is awsome though!

It brought me the great Necro Nerf of 06. In short, for my class, it sucked.