So it was May 2012 the last time I logged in the majority of my EQ characters, July the last time I posted/participated in a "weekend update". I've lurked on Zam here and there and am happy to see some old names back. Felicite we never met/crossed path on the forums before... but your name came up over and over in helpful necro-related posts here from years ago. I'm taking this opportunity to say thanks for all the help (necro main for about 3 years). Glad your back!
Saw Jophiel had at least peeked in. Bijou is still around :). Vinney is still making houses. Yther is still knowledge.... Not sure if Jonwin is playing much? The list goes on, what is your update folks? (alla always felt more alive to me when people did the update).. anyways:
-Gave up on my little run in WoW (I know...), I lasted much longer than my brother thought before the linear push to level cap bored me (made it to level 87 out of 90). They've done some things well in that game... the main one is stealing good ideas from every competitor (i.e., their achievement system is sort of a combo rip-off of EQII and Warhammer).
-Decided to login to EQ which took a bit of a patch. Got annoyed with the upgrade from silver reminders so I paid for a month of gold. This also let me make new characters with non Crescent reach home cities. Decided to give Sony $5 to up my station cash enough to move my abandoned ranger from Zek. She's a Mayong refugee that I barely played (hadn't even assigned the AA), after much thought and logging through all my old characters I decided ranger with a head start (mostly on skills... levels and 50 is nothing really) might hold my interest. Took her to Burning woods hotzone and Chardok and plinked around a bit.
-I want to play an SK from scratch and do greenmist, but I keep telling myself I want to do it on the Mac server (is it still up?) haven't stumbled into a cheap mac yet lol.
-I'm also interested in whether there is going to be a new prog server, I'd like another shot at starting fresh that way. I'm amazed Fippy and Vulak are still separate and still unmerged to regular rules (but then trakanon server is still up...).
-I'm hoping EQnext announcement at Soe Live makes me want to play that... maybe this time SOE will release a game that runs on a reasonable computer (EQII didn't run on most of my guild at the time computers, but WoW did). Some of the talk from sony people has got me optimistic such as the word "sandbox". If not, there is some hope that "Revival" might be the spiritual follow-up to what I have always liked best about EQ.