I often have to leave game due to RL obligations. but no matter how long im gone. when i come back i feel like im home. my fondest memory is just hearing the loading music. i have the level up sound as my text message alert and the merchant music as my alarm and the ring tone is the combat music.

I love how this game is always changing.

So glad to be back, first started in 2000, played for 4 years straight, then on and off again for a year or so at a time,

Can't even think of another game with the longevity of Everquest, hope it lasts forever.

I like "Ring Dongs", and PIE.

Anyway - I think it is great that "Day Break" and "Zams" are working together on these kinds of things. Promotions, I think that is what they are called <Smile>.

I will continue to play EQ until the final server is shut down.

Thanks for all that you do to make the game more fun, provide info, guidance, and memories!

* Benny

I started playing 03/2000 and by the time I got high enough level the guild i was in was raiding the Plane of Hate. Of course back then only the break in group got xp(which i thought sucked ***** those planes back then were insane. I also loved raiding in PoF when it would rain blood and I would just have to blast Slayer "raining blood" when in that zone. It also was the inspiration behind my SK's surname which is Reigninblood. I have so many memories those first few years I really enjoyed all of them. I re sub from time to time but just cant get into anymore maybe a free month would kick start it again :)

The highest ever recorded level of adrenaline in a human was me, the first time I went to Plane of Fear as a 50 enchanter. Took 7 hours, died dozens of times, great fun.

I got into EverQuest because of my cousin who was 10 years older than I am. He and several of his friends were in the IT industry and had all been hearing about this new game coming out called EverQuest. Being long time D & D players and computer gaming enthusiasts they all planned to play and I lucked into being included in their group of friends who got to start on March 16,1999.

We lived all over the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex so EQ was a great way for us to get together to socialize while having a ton of fun exploring and adventuring in this crazy new MMO world. Most of us had played Ultima Online at least a little so we had some prior experience with an MMO but we weren't expecting EQ to be as great as it was.

We started off on Bristlebane and made our way into Norrath from there. I have many fond memories of my early days in game such as killing the dwarves and sisters on Sister Isle in Ocean of Tears with my gnome necromancer and then moving on to Undead Isle to kill skeletons and specters. I made a lot of plat from the specter eyes and tons of xp as well before moving on to Butcherblock to kill an NPC that dropped 96pp per kill and was a decent bit of experience at 30-35. Over time I made my way to Highpass Hold and Highhold Keep, then on to the Karanas with the hill giants, griffins and the named cyclops in East Karana and the aviaks and gnolls in South Karana, then on to Lake Rathe and the joys of underwater fighting /sarcasm.

So over time I explored more and branched out into the world but by 2000 most of my circle of real life friends had moved on to other games. I stuck it out until mid 2002 and then had to take a break due to some issues with our telephone lines getting damaged and since we were out on the country Southwestern Bell was in no hurry to fix it so dial up was unstable and I couldn't play.

I ended up coming back in 2006 and since all my friends were gone I decided to try a new server and wound up on Prexus. I met many new people there, some of which I am still friends with to this day and went through numerous guilds both as a member and as an officer/leader. Eventually I took another break in late 2011 and came back in 2012. I decided to move to the Test server and have been there ever since along with playing on Firiona Vie during the same time frame.

I still play on a daily basis and try to be a positive member of the community on Test which is generally a great community that is very friendly and helpful and I intend to continue playing until they shut the servers down, hopefully many years in the future. Sadly my cousin who got me into computers, taught me how to work on them and gave me my first computer in the late 90s for graduation and who got me into EQ passed away last April from the complications of cancer. I had been trying to lure him back into the game but alas he wound up dealing with the side effects of cancer treatment for 4.5 years before succumbing to the disease. I miss him but at least I can always look back on all the fond memories that we shared both in EverQuest and in other games and in all our other real life adventures together.

That is my EverQuest story.

Edited, Mar 21st 2015 9:19am by Memnoch9299

Oh Vishimtar
Now that you've fallen, how many
Times did we wipe at 0.

Did we run once upon a time,
Across the Dreadlands to Karnor's
And Evac to the precious gem of DI
Why am I hearing the clompf of
Dragon's feet?

So I did hear the dragon's feet as I awoke,
Amid the chaos of battle;
And there was a dragon gnawing
At me ever so briefly as I sang
A resist song while I had camped
Out days ago.

Najena!! Spent so much time in this zone ages ago staring at a spawn point for my jboots... uggghhh

Made a lot of friends who have been there for me over the 9 years ive played Eq and became reclose to some of them while confined to a wheel chair due to foot injuries. Wouldn't quit playing for nothing now! Thank you Eq~

Playing since the Kunark expansion. Little did I know I would still be playing after 14 years. My fondest memories was of my first guild (Concordiant Discord) on the Torv server. Still a few of use around. But back to favorite memory was of our weekly guild meeting on the docks in Freeport discussing the game and other things.

My family and I played EQ since Kunark. I started as a Ranger in the Rangers Glade. I took me forever to get out of the tunnel into Qeynos Hills. I spent what seemed a lifetime in Qeynos Hills. Tracking Pyzjin for her Glowing Black Stone. Getting my first GBS and selling it at the Eastern Common Tunnels for what seemed like a ton of stuff. I was able to get my Ranger 2 short swords of the Ykesha, a complete set of Totemic armor for my Shaman friend and a few things for my wife's enchanter. However, my fondest memory was completing the ranger lightning swords Swiftwind and Earthcaller. All things that I have seen, looted etc. Those swords is what I miss the most. EQ will always hold a special place in my heart because this is where I started playing MMO's. Spending hours camping X mob for that drop, pulling Hill Giants for hours on end with my best friend and his wife. EQ is the KING, and will always be the KING :)

Cyane Stormwalker