I didn't mind that they wanted a couple dollars of mine for their time and service. It isn't like it is recurring, it is one time per character. Hardly gonna break me in half.
Also, they do a lot of work to keep their website up to date, current, and accurate. It is an excellent site to see who is doing what, how, and with what. They try their best to keep people from making a junk toon just to talk trash or be stupid. They continue to improve their site with effort, and that should be rewarded.
You can look up other toons your lvl and class, and see what they are up to. You can see what guilds are progressing, moving up on the big mobs, and head that way if you would like. EQrankings is kind of like the scorebox on a recent football game. You can look at the stats, you may not know the whole game story of each play, but you get the big picture.
I find the biggest advantage to this site is not so much as bragging rights, but you can see some gear you may not know about, then log onto Alla and find out where it came from. It gives me some gear goals that no other site does. I can essentially inspect peeps toons, see what they have, see where they got it, and plan my next move to get one myself. Invaluable.
I use the site a lot, and therefore I expect to at least offer some meager semblence of compensation for the guys who made it possible.
EQRankings Announcement
Ventrix from EQRankings has this message to the EverQuest community. Where do you stand on your server?
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Greetings Fellow Norrathians!
Have you ever wanted to see where you stand amongst the other thousands of EverQuest players out there? Have you ever wondered exactly how many other people on your server have a Manastone? Now you can know the answers to all of this and more!
Please allow us to introduce you to our website, EQRankings.com. EQRankings.com allows you to search through players with Magelo profiles that have been submited to our database. You can search for specific classes, races and virtually any other character statistic you can think of. You can sort through our player database by order of statistics such as HP & Mana or find a class specific Master Tradeskiller with ease. You can also search for users with a specific item, with the ability to filter the results by server & much more.
We also offer several utilities for guilds; You can easily register your guild on EQRankings free of charge so your members can show off their guild tags. We also offer a premium guild service which allows you to use EQRankings as your official guild roster, publicly display your guilds progression and display your current recruitment needs.
We have recently reorganized our website and have added many new features, We currently have approximately 70,000 profiles submitted into our database. That's 70,000 charaacters that you can search through!
So please, stop on by and submit your profiles today to find out where you rank! (and much more!)
Thank you for your time and have a great day!
-The EQRankings Team
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* EQRankings can be found at http://www.eqrankings.com.