Yes omg the indignity of being a noob i shall take my 7 everquest accounts and the 8 lvl 80 toons and fade away into the sunset. Just like the other 3/4 of everquest players who have quit. Thanks for the insitful responce i realy like the quote blocks that were not what i wrote. but hey who needs the truth. truth is EQ is dead.Good luck and best wishes to another internet tuff guy., S.M.Davis usmc ret.

I miss the glory days when you worked for your stuff and buffs where hard to get. I miss the fun and how to make friends instead of box toons and eqbay jerks. Will be awesome to relive the glory of EQ days once again and work for stuff. I rember haveing a warrior before kunark and getting my 1st piece of bronze armor and finally doing the lansaxe quest for the frist of many magic weapons. I hope they don't have pok or the bazaar maybe that will keep the bad players out and we can make alot better then the other servers. I will get a chance to finally go to all the fun zones and have people there that want to group unlike now where 90% of Antonica is a ghost town. Be nice for no Tutorial either and we can work together to kill mobs like the old days. Hope they have beastlords I love that class the most. But if not I can always be barbarian warrior again or maybe a dwarf pally. Thank you so much EQ for this. Best thing you did in years!

This progressive server sounds great. I hope, hope, hope, hope it turns out great and things are the way they used to be.
Except for several problems of which SOE won't fix due to greed. The will take the money from anyone who will subscribe....including multiple times. They dont care if people 8 box, 9 box. They have shown over the years they don't care if poeple KS or train. They don't care if people use all kinds of cheats and macros. They catch them and do nothng because the bottom line is they are paying and want them to keep paying and playing. Then you have the problem with 24/7 uber guilds(who have already made it known)that will come in-mass to this server and take control like they have done on the regular servers. Control the camps, zones and the economy.

Someone was talking about kunark being low level etc... Well when EQ started the max level was lvl 50 if I do remember and I there wont be any lvl 70s running around killing everything in sight. So yeah I think it's geared towards the old players (I started 1999 before kunark or any expansions) but im sure some of the new players will have fun with it as well. Because now they have a level playing field as well and can start as a lvl 1 player and progress as everyone else instead of starting a lvl 1 player and there being 5 to 10,000 lvl 70 players on the servers etc.
The only thing thats bad about this is that everyone knowing how the game works now .. you will see lvl 50 players within the first week of playing and that kinda sucks for the players that are casual players.
Unlocking the zones will most likely be ruined by people just trying to rush through playing the game and see who is the "GUILD" that can unlock them. It would be nice if people took it slow and let everyone enjoy themselfs on it but Im sure it will be a rush to get to the end expansion....

Best wishes!

Will the boats be restored? Or will this new progression server utilize the translocator gnomes?

I really miss the boats. I'd love to play old school everquest again, but it would really have to be old school. Yes, this means that druids can make plat again being taxi cabs. :)

-- Scruetayp Vivisectivore, 65 Iksar Necromancer, Quellious server

Edited, Sat May 13 09:18:49 2006

I have to admit I feel the addiction calling me back.

I began playing EQ shortly before Veliuos launched and was immediately hooked. The game was brutally difficult at that time, with corpse runs from lvl 1, no maps, - save for what you could find at EQAtlas (remember those guys?)- experience came at a snails pace, no soulbinders, no Scions to port to Luclin (those sucked anyways) or PoK books to circumnavigate the world...and many other things that made the game a real challenge to play - add to that the fact that I started my EQ career on Rallos Zek.

Yet, with all that was so difficult with the original game, it was so much more enjoyable than the game was when I left. GoD was the last expansion I played and I don't think I explored more than a few zones in that one.

I currently am bored to tears with WoW and the chance to play EQ again as it was "back in the day" is very enticing.

Judging from the feedback on this thread, I think alot of people have been waiting for this to come about.

Edited, Fri May 12 20:43:34 2006

Started when Kunark came out and by then, there were already psuedo-uber guilds around.....multiboxing was the exception and not the rule........still, that first year of EQ for me was......pure magic. And it's been downhill ever since......
I, for one, am really looking forward to the "glory days" when tradeskilling actually meant something.....although I'm guessing that since there won't be a *bazaar* for a while, EC tunnels will become SPAM/ LAG city once again....I don't mind, it was way cooler that way to hear peeps hawking their wares.....********* prices and making a deal RT as opposed to the apathetical AFK "mules" that line the walls of bazaar now.
I expect there will be a ton a people on the server just because, for all the new content, alot of players seem to miss the interactive cameraderie that used to exist in EQ.....see above posts for proof......
I'm NOT looking forward to the KSing in newbie zones and contested spawns ( I expect at least early on there will be a line to get into the TR in CB)and I'm sure someone will multibox themselves into a state and level of pure uberness and I'll navigate those instances the same way I did the first time, with patience and perseverence.....but I think this server may actually benefit the more casual player; someone who has limits to thier playing time......then again, maybe in 6 months it will be unpopulated.....I wonder how many folks remember how truly challenging this game was to get started in, basically naked with 5 food and water and having to CR after level 5.....I remember, and I can't wait to do it again.....
Something else to think about.....I'm sure others have......before KEI, before Temp, before any high end MGB....you actualy had to know how to conserve mana and learn quickly the value of a good bind point, not to mention faction.....the learning curve in the original EQ was harsh.....it's going to be a serious reality check for those folks that joined anytime after Luclin....
dayam, I'm getting all nostalgic thinking about the first time I ventured my druid into CB....I think I was trained there.....and met another, bigger, meaner train coming the other way.....let the bodies hit the floor.....
One last thing.....when MS server launched and it was strictly newbie for like the first 30 days or something like that.....the first day there were 30 peeps in GFay.....I'll never forget this, this was just about after KEI was making people in-game millionaires and Temp was "THE" tank buff of choice......of 30 peeps in zone......15 were enchanters, 14 were clerics and 1 (me) was a druid.....I remember thinking....cool beans, well, when we get completely wiped we'll be able to rezz the entire zone and have the mana to do it.....of course, we can take turns getting aggro and dying ALOT, but hey we'll all be rich selling crack and buffs to each other.......I'm really hoping people get into their character on this and develope them the way they did originally.....druids and clerics and rangers and shammy's and SK's and Pally's and warriors and necro's.....all bringing their unique blend of personal and class specific talents together to achieve great things.....
I can't wait.......

i cant wait. but i hear people saying that it will become like a old server soon.... i think not


Gearing guilds to take down naggy, vox, cazic, and innoruck (spelling) will be a difficult task... and u aint gonna see Kunark till this happens. so about 1-2 months id say.



Kunark was never that hard, but epics... well getting ur guild FULL epics could take a bit and then clear out veeshan im guessing is gonna be place needed for progression to Velious. expect 2-4 months again... even with hardcore players.

Velious was never that hard if ur guild knew what it was doing. clearing North temple of veeshen or sleepers tomb is gonna be ur way of progressing the server im guessing on this one and those are not that hard, if geared which could take a bit. 1-2 months maybe 3 to clear here for a hardcore guild.


ahh yes the shadows of luclin was next... good luck getting threw this expansion in 6 months... thats gonna be at the least.... Im just guessing but im betting Vexthal will unlock Planes of power. Vexthal takes ages to just unlock let alone gear for. the tactics wont be hard because people have done them and no how to do them, but getting every member of a raid all 15 peices for the vexthal key could take a LONG time....

well the other expansions will be just as hard like planes but im not gonna post about them...


even just to get Plane of Knowledge and Planes of power unlocked could very well take over a year. and expect Shadows of luclan and Planes of power to be the Longest.


I will be playing here and probally botting 3 chars. lol a bard, shaman and paladin. so hope to see lots of people there ;)



Edited, Wed May 10 17:57:42 2006

It sounds great. Definatly a revitalization for all those disinterested vets. However, Fronglo hit it right on the head-as usual, the 24/7 gamers will turn it into a normal server.

Im bitter towards uber guilds, i'll openly admit it. Here are these people, who will be sitting with 50 of their friends, ready to log in the second it opens up, ready to blast through. They commit endless hours online, seeming to almost be online 24/7. This reminds me MUCH of an EQ event they had-I joined EQ2 with high hopes that it would be something like this new server- not spending hours upon hours LFG, or trying to get those awesome pieces of gear without having to find an uber guild. But the power players...got the cap, explored almost all of it, and sorta ruined the fun for many of us. It was a little less than 4 months if I remember. A real shame.

For the somewhat casual player (I play weekends only), that I wouldnt be surprised if Kunark was unlocked within a month or two after release. After farming Kunark gear (Um, hello Fungi, 1.0's, and class specific), Velious would be a breeze up until the high lvl dragon dungeons. Fronglo stated it plain and clear. I plan on checking it out....but unless they totally change some things (umm, for example, Phinny's spawn time? 12 hours, and being a 1.0 mob for roughly 5 epics, he's a huge bottleneck. /insert camp fights, and 4+ boxing. I came back to EQ1 right after DoD...and would you believe, that Phinny was STILL being camped? After like, 6 months, I just found someone to MQ it, because the camps were insane.

gdi, how did this get turned on? /rant off

However, Good Luck with those who DO try it. I wish you the best of luck! Tunare's early trademark trading area was Kelethin Bank-BRING IT BACK! Bring back the 40+ player Crushbone! The 80+ Gfay!

At first I thought, now way.. I've spent 7 years (started May 8, 1999) progressing, but then read some of the posts. Yep, I will "Go back to the Future" again. Geez, I remember the fun of the first 20-30 levels. Yeah, I've had 8 chars on my server for a long time (Veeshan/Luclin). Hope to meet some old friends there again.

Great....finally SOE is doing something us old time players wanted, a server of our own to travel and explore without POK, POP, bazaar, guild halls, twinks, and twits. No uber power guilds, no 2 hour time frame to find a group. you can actually have fun again. I say bring back the boats, open up trading in the EC tunnel, just hand me my rusty sword and a shield and off we go. So you wait in a new zone for 3 RL days trying to get a bind, its all great fun, but a long run if you die. Gotta love "loading please wait".
I heard about this progressive server being launched, and this coming after SOE basically told us to take a hike when we asked for it before. I immediately came back to EQ, closed my D&D Stormreach account, and will close my WOW account the day the progressive server opens.
I played EQ for more than 6 years, thru 10 expansions, 2 accounts with multiple level 55-65 characters. I left EQ because it was a mess, hours to find a group, you couldn't get in a group without just the right gear, the right number of AA points, and the right flags. Mobs required 60 man raids to take down, and took hours to setup and complete, more if your raid got wiped. Thats not most peoples idea of fun.
So you peeps that like massive guild raids, the finest equipment you can buy in bazaar, stay on the regular EQ servers, those of us that play for fun will migrate to the progressive server and have fun again.

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cleric

1. Let's not rag on the dyslexic and the poor spellers. (Leave my grammar alone, its been a long day.)

2. New EQ server sounds cool.

3. If you don't like it or it doesn't interest you, don't frigging go there.

4. I like my toons on CT, and will not be playing on the new server. (But I do miss the boats.)

5. I would encourage the people who missed out on "the old days" (I'm only playing since 2001) to give the Combine server a shot. It took me six months to get my first character to level ten. All I did was run around, take boats, and run, run, run, run. Ah, the fond memories.

Good luck!!