Many years ago, before the Velious expansion, I remember being a beginner noob to both EQ and online gaming in general. I fell in love with EQ from within the 1st 5 minutes of playing. What made it so memorable for me though was the music. The themes of Freeport and Qeynos, not to mention the melodies playing as I wandered around in new and (for me) uncharted territory, I still remember to this day. I loved them so much that when faced with a 1 week trip out of state, I searched through my game files and downloaded them all to play when I was gone, which made me yearn to get back home all the more. I truly became an EQ addict!

I started in 2002 when my youngest son went to First Grade. He's now a Senior in college and I'm still here.


Lee of Povar

Back in the days where I scored the cloak of shadows, then camped in Mistmoore Castle for the Hooded Black Cloak dropped by the Cloaked Damphyre. And I could sell it with /auction 12k for Hooded Black Cloak pst. In the the common lands and we met by Shady... (A Shady Swashbuckler). Or doing the suicide mission for the Divine Might Spell in Kedge Keep to get the bone fragment ground spawn in Phinigel Autropos' lair. Then buying a coffin and hiring a necro to summon my corpse for me. Countless deaths through 50 in Crushbone Orcs, Mistemoor gargoyles, Solusek A, Minotaur Caves in Steamfront Mountains, North Ro orcs, All of Karana, Killing West Freeport Milita and having to take the tunnels to get to the Paladin safe side. Then on and on through Kunark, Velious, POP, Legacy of Ykesha, and Lost Dungeons of Norrath, ...Only played a couple times when the Gates of Discord was release. Took a 10 year break to come back and I still love it. I just hope my wife doesn't divorce me.

Getting a phone call at 2am from a call roster. Notification that Rallos Zek was up and to log in were getting there first to kill him. I truly miss the PoP raid days and the fun that was had.

EQ .... the one and only game that made me nearly divorce with my wife.. the game that keep me playing for 4 yrs.. Remembering the old days. That was 16 years ago. First mmorpg game that i started playing. Started playing with friends from work. Did not know which class and char to choose initially and thus started a monk. And that was the start of everything.
Monk was fun and stuff, and i can still remember how poor i was. hard to solo Hard to loot due to stupid weight issue. and low lev was all about copper copper and copper... damm! A run across a zone could take u up to 15min without SOW! LEving and grouping was fun and more interaction between players. I had to stay up late as i am from asia thus all the raids with the guild happen during the wee hours of my time zone. all the trading of items where u will see spams of WTB, WTS, OOC in Greater Faydark... up in the tree houese...
Even during working hours, my friends and i will print out maps and list of items that are God like to us and we will start planning on how to get them or raid it. Next come the most dreaded part..... CAMPING of EPICS.... bah. ut when you have completed it, it a feeling of satisfaction beyond words.

Though i have played other MMORPG over the years , but EQ is still the one in my mind. Recently just got back to the game again. Many things have change. Many things to learn. One day when i was booting up EQ, The music of the classic EQ came on too loud.... My wife walked in and said ..... NOT THIS AGAIN!!....

Cheers all
Happy sweet 16

Siaopang

First I recall in 2000. My brother had talked me into getting EQ. I loaded it up and created a barbarian warrior named Kodjak. I spent some time killing Spiders in everfrost, yelling at my screen to just "hit it one more time! cmon! hit it!!". When finally this high lvl guy (lvl 7) came and told me to leave these spiders alone and follow him to Blackburrow. I was lvl 4 at the time and full of wonder as I was like a tourist looking at everything as we ran to BB. I had never ventured very far from the pathway to the guards so this was an adventure. Eventually we make it there, when the high lvl starts telling me the Do's and Don'ts of BB. #1, dont fall down the pit, #2, dont die. He pulled a gnoll that was Red to me and we killed it.. thrilling to say the least. Then he suggested that I should pull one to get my feet wet. I look around and there were a few small groups killing in the main zone in area by the pit. I look down in the pit and see this gnoll down on the bridge. I figured, hey, hes alone....perfect pull. I flung an arrow and backed up to give him room to climb up the wall..... My new friend asks me if I pulled anything to which I reply, "yep, I shot him with an arrown and then he ran away." This confused my new friend a bit as there wasn't any gnolls around. All the sudden OOC erupts, "Traiiiiiiiiiiiin". the little wooden door bursts open and ALL of blackburrow is coming for ME! I did the only thing I could think of and ran. I didnt know where the zone line was as I was turned around and backed up, falling down the pit. Splash! I'm alive!!! I started swimming, (swimming 1)... now the gnolls are running into the water, and I go splat. My new friend disbanded and I never retrieved that corpse.

Second thing, first time looking at a merchant I saw an emerald ring... I didnt have any rings and I figured this must hold some magical power that I cant see unless I wear it. I spent 2 precious plats buying that ring from a vendor. I told my brother, Fargginsneeky, of the cool new ring I bought. He looked at it and started laughing. My first experience at what the meaning of vendor trash was. Good times then, Good times now


Edited, Mar 19th 2015 7:02pm by Methusalah

I began my rampage through Norrath in the Era of Power (Planes of). I quickly grew from a young Warrior to an experienced Overlord after joining the ranks of URoN, the United Raiders of Norrath, in the Quellious dimension of our galaxy. URoN was my first taste of real raiding, and our crew was comprised of folks from many different guilds. Everyone's guild would take priority over their participation in URoN, but if their guilds didn't have raids that night or didn't raid at all, those folks could join the URoN raiding force and wreak havoc on the foes of Norrath and reap the rewards.

We were making great progress through the planes, slaying the avatars of the Gods themselves one after the other. The time came where the Zek family needed to be dismembered, literally. We relentlessly attacked Vallon and Tallon Zek, until their heads were rolling down the large hallways. It was time to dethrone Rallos Zek himself. As we frantically and excitedly scurried our raiding force down to The Pit in preparation for Rallos, the zone began to lag much harder than it already was for my poor, outdated computer...

There were 136 players in the zone.

Clearly we were in the midst of rivals, as we ourselves only had about 60... It was <Cold Fury>, one of the few guilds who were already flagged for the elemental zones... What could they be doing here? Backflagging, perhaps? It was of little concern to us, as we had spawned Rallos Zek and we were preparing our forces for engagement, only minutes away. It was then that Cold Fury's presence revealed their intention... Rallos Zek was suddenly beheading our raid force!!! WHAT!! Where did he come fr-- *CHOP*... It was a total loss...

As our clerics reunited our souls with our avatars, the truth began to unfold... The order came down from the Cold Fury guild leader himself to sabotage our Rallos Zek attempt, to BLOCK us from entry into the elemental planes, which would be more competition for raid targets for Cold Fury. Needless to say, this Coldly Infuriated us... They may have won the battle, but not the war... We would retreat for the night and clean our wounds...

We returned the very next day, more determined than ever. We even placed young scouts at checkpoints leading to the Plane of Tactics to watch for Cold Fury members making their way to us for more sabotage. We were poised not to let this turn into the Plane of Antics once more... We moved with blinding speed, shattering our own clearing records and removing the Zek brothers without breaking a sweat. We immediately descended into The Pit and wasting no time we attacked the mighty warlord himself. Raiders were dying left and right, but a strong core of us remained, doing our duties and controlling the war master. We pulled out all the stops until Rallos and his mighty axe crashed to the ground... A cold, bloody silence fell throughout the pit... The silence erupted into a massive war cry from us, the United Raiders of Norrath, with nary a Cold Fury member in sight.

The Zek family laid to rest, Cold Fury laid silent, and the doors to the Elemental Planes now open to our might.. We would then embark further on our journey, continuing to bury God after God until we have conquered them all, even Quarm itself!

I will never forget the journey of growing from a young teenage warrior to a hardened overlord man through the thick and the thin on the way to fabled glory. I will never forget......

~ Mykro (now Gorehammer, 105 SK, Povar)

Edited, Mar 19th 2015 2:34pm by MykroMachein

I remember playing EQ when it first started and I used to love having to travel through zones and cross oceans to get to where you want to go. (before the nexus and POK stones) Then they changed everything and traveling was a lot easier. I just remember making a gnome and having to run across faydwer to BB Mountains and waiting for the Boat to travel across the OOT, and get to the EC tunnels to auction off gear and buy new stuff. Those were the days. The boat rides were one of my favorite parts of the game. Its a shame they changed that to a translocater. (or however you spell it)

I first learned about EQ when I was 12 (2002) while visiting a new friend's house. When I walked in to his living room, his 40+-year-old mom was sitting at the computer playing a game. Her character was in the desert just sitting around with a few other people. I was amazed to learn that they were REAL people running around her.

My friend told me all kinds of stories about how how fantastic the game was. He said you could fight dragons, and it took 60+ people at a time, and you had to wait a LONG time before you could fight it again. He told me how he was learning to kite on his ranger, and about all the cool armor he got. He told me about some of the adventures he was going on and about all friends he was making in the game.

I was soon begging my mom to get it for me. I went to the library at school during lunch to look it up online and read about all the different races and classes. I spent a good 2 weeks to a month obsessing over WHO I wanted to be in Everquest when I finally got it. What race was I going to be? What class?

I decided I wanted to be a valiant knight born from a human and an elf who was raised in the human city Freeport. I drew a picture of him and finally named him Claxin Milactium.

After about 2 months, I finally got EQ. It took me 2 weeks to figure how to download it as the patch for it was going to take 24 HOURS to download over my connection, and my mom was not going to let me hog up the phone line for that long. I was forced to copy the files from my friend's computer to my own.

I was bursting with excitement when I finally reached the character creation screen and zoned in to Freeport. I messaged one of my RL friends and he came and lead me outside the city to start killing mobs. Ching, chang, ching!!!! I was downing mobs one after another with such enthusiasm. I ran to the guards plenty of times to save my weak hind.

Some time on my first day, I encountered a very generous person who bought me a full set of bronze. I messaged my friend yelling "I just got TWINKED!!", using the word he had taught me to mean UBER (another word he taught me) at a low level. He laughed though, and said that full bronze plate is not twinked. Oh well, I was shiny as hell.

My friend and I spent the whole summer playing EQ. We talked and argued about EQ the whole time. EQ was so huge even back then that there were myths all over about the game. The one I was most skeptical about was about how there was a dragon in everquest that had to be awoken by killing four warders, that once fought, it would never respawn again. It also couldn't be defeated. I thought this went against all logic. We argued about that all night.

Going it alone as an under-geared, under-educated tank who thought he was a healer and DPS was tough, but fun. Exploring this world's harsh lands was the funnest part for me. I loved dungeon-diving. I spent hours in Befallen, ridding the world of its evil scourge.

It also spent an insane amount of time running to and literally LOOTING my corpse. Over my 56k connection, it took me 30 seconds to loot one piece of armor from my corpse.

I also was part of a few GM events, which were amazing. The most memorable was an orc raid on the east commons. Out of nowhere it seemed hundreds of orcs spawned and stormed the EC tunnel. I was dead in the first few minutes.

I spent hours exploring the world around me in EQ. Eventually, my friends and I all made girlfriends on EQ. I soon went from daily dungeon diving, to picnics and fishing trips with my "lady". We pledged our love to each other with engagement rings and spent hours planning where we were going to have our wedding. Of course, she found out I kissed a girl at school. So that was done pretty quickly! x)

EQ is the standard by which I judge other games. None have ever captured that sense of adventure and wonder I experienced playing in Norrath.

Edited, Mar 19th 2015 11:24am by Ikkysar

Edited, Mar 19th 2015 11:24am by Ikkysar

My favorite part/memory of everquest is the 100% true fact that most MMOs would not exist if EQ hadn't paved the way to make the genre so popular for others to like those games!!! if EQ wasn't here neither would the others be

My favourite memories was playing with a druid friend of mine. We would do everything together. He helped get my lowbie druid a set of that elysian armor.

musta fell off Woodelf city 15 times my 1st day of playing back in 2000