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[EQ Classic] - FoH Group, Sat. Nov 17th @ 12 noon Est in PoK - level 30
Tal
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Well, we've had a few of us drop off due to changes in work schedule, myself included. It's unfortunate, but what can you do, right? I may give our group another shot later when I come off overtime (late November), but until then I'm going to suggest we merge in with the Fires of Heaven crew. Their rule set is a bit stricter than ours, but it's not causing us to have any less fun. We may level a bit slower, but that just means we're enjoying more of the old world content.
Read their original post here.
The next meeting for them is this coming Saturday, Nov. 17th at 12 noon est in PoK on the Combine server. We'll meet in PoK, group, and disperse from there. You should be level 29 or 30. Solo / twink however you need to catch up, but once at the current level cap, please equip appropriate level gear. Most of the melee are in smithed banded I believe.
If you want to do this, and are unable to make one of their sessions, you can level up solo in the meantime. While you do this you can get there any way possible. For example, since I'm probably not going to be able to make many sessions for a month or so, I'm working on the newbie armor quests to give me a solo set of gear that'll make it easier for me to keep up. When I do play though, I'll go back to my set of rusty gnoll chain and the bronze 2 hander I have.
Also, don't make a mage. Their damage is horribly overpowered in the early stages of the game. Based on the first night, these were the classes that were lacking in presence - monk, rogue, enchanter, beastlord, paladin, shadowknight, ranger, wizard and druid
Here's a list of the PA members we've got there.
PA name - character name
Tal - Einar
BEAST! - Tarem
juice for jesus - Jusforj
Darmak - Darmak
Pardzh - Ratrril
If this sounds like fun, either PM me or reply to this thread with something like "I'm in!" and I'll add you to the group. Also race / class preference and any other thoughts you have.
Edit - if we end up filling this group and you're still interested, let us know. No reason we can't try to get a second together and potentially create a very casual guild.
Original post
Read their original post here.
The next meeting for them is this coming Saturday, Nov. 17th at 12 noon est in PoK on the Combine server. We'll meet in PoK, group, and disperse from there. You should be level 29 or 30. Solo / twink however you need to catch up, but once at the current level cap, please equip appropriate level gear. Most of the melee are in smithed banded I believe.
If you want to do this, and are unable to make one of their sessions, you can level up solo in the meantime. While you do this you can get there any way possible. For example, since I'm probably not going to be able to make many sessions for a month or so, I'm working on the newbie armor quests to give me a solo set of gear that'll make it easier for me to keep up. When I do play though, I'll go back to my set of rusty gnoll chain and the bronze 2 hander I have.
Also, don't make a mage. Their damage is horribly overpowered in the early stages of the game. Based on the first night, these were the classes that were lacking in presence - monk, rogue, enchanter, beastlord, paladin, shadowknight, ranger, wizard and druid
Here's a list of the PA members we've got there.
PA name - character name
Tal - Einar
BEAST! - Tarem
juice for jesus - Jusforj
Darmak - Darmak
Pardzh - Ratrril
update
More people are showing some interest than I was expecting, so let's do it like this. We'll still meet up tomorrow at the freeport stone in PoK. If you can, at least run the tutorial to get to level 8 or so (should take maybe 3 hours, not too bad) and if you can, start your newbie quests to get some armor and possibly a kickass weapon.
We will start promptly, so if you show up late for whatever reason shoot me a tell (either Elyse or Joerk) and I'll tell you where we're at.
We'll take whoever shows up and break into even groups and hit up the dungeon of choice.
Because of the limited schedule, you need to show up prepared. Buy your spells, buy arrows, banadages, food, whatever you need so that you're prepared. We don't want to wait for you to run to the guildmaster to buy spells in the middle of a group. Do it before you show up tomorrow.
I'll update the post with a level cap after each session. DO NOT LEVEL PAST THIS CAP. If you miss a session you can solo up to the cap to be ready to go next time. I don't want you twinked for the group, but when you're catching up I don't care how you're geared to do it. Just unequip that tranq staff before we start playing again.
Dungeon options this time are Befallen, Upper Guk, Najena, The Warrens, Unrest, and Kurn's Tower. Vote in the thread or don't complain about where I pick. :P
The plan
Server: The Rathe (Karana)
Playtime: Monday and/or Tuesday night. 7pm pst / 10pm est (tenative) for an hour or two or three
We'll solo through the tutorial dungeon and try to do as many of the newbie armor quests as possible. Ideally when we meet up for the first time (Tuesday September 25th at 10pm est in the Plane of Knowledge @ Freeport stone) we'll be newbie armored and between levels 8 and 10. From there we'll meet up and begin working various zones. For the time being we're sticking to Classic EQ and Kunark.
Classes right now are pretty open. Play whatever you like.
Races aren't restricted.
Guidelines:
This is meant as a group play through - in other words, we play together and thus level together. If you're going to play this character outside of the scheduled time, stick to tradeskills, item camps, or questing that doesn't result in much exp gain.
No twinking.
Bazaar shopping is allowed as there is no longer an EC "auction house". Purchases are up for debate, whether we stick with old world items (assuming they're still sold) or we allow whatever you're able to save plat for.
More people are showing some interest than I was expecting, so let's do it like this. We'll still meet up tomorrow at the freeport stone in PoK. If you can, at least run the tutorial to get to level 8 or so (should take maybe 3 hours, not too bad) and if you can, start your newbie quests to get some armor and possibly a kickass weapon.
We will start promptly, so if you show up late for whatever reason shoot me a tell (either Elyse or Joerk) and I'll tell you where we're at.
We'll take whoever shows up and break into even groups and hit up the dungeon of choice.
Because of the limited schedule, you need to show up prepared. Buy your spells, buy arrows, banadages, food, whatever you need so that you're prepared. We don't want to wait for you to run to the guildmaster to buy spells in the middle of a group. Do it before you show up tomorrow.
I'll update the post with a level cap after each session. DO NOT LEVEL PAST THIS CAP. If you miss a session you can solo up to the cap to be ready to go next time. I don't want you twinked for the group, but when you're catching up I don't care how you're geared to do it. Just unequip that tranq staff before we start playing again.
Dungeon options this time are Befallen, Upper Guk, Najena, The Warrens, Unrest, and Kurn's Tower. Vote in the thread or don't complain about where I pick. :P
The plan
Server: The Rathe (Karana)
Playtime: Monday and/or Tuesday night. 7pm pst / 10pm est (tenative) for an hour or two or three
We'll solo through the tutorial dungeon and try to do as many of the newbie armor quests as possible. Ideally when we meet up for the first time (Tuesday September 25th at 10pm est in the Plane of Knowledge @ Freeport stone) we'll be newbie armored and between levels 8 and 10. From there we'll meet up and begin working various zones. For the time being we're sticking to Classic EQ and Kunark.
Classes right now are pretty open. Play whatever you like.
Races aren't restricted.
Guidelines:
This is meant as a group play through - in other words, we play together and thus level together. If you're going to play this character outside of the scheduled time, stick to tradeskills, item camps, or questing that doesn't result in much exp gain.
No twinking.
Bazaar shopping is allowed as there is no longer an EC "auction house". Purchases are up for debate, whether we stick with old world items (assuming they're still sold) or we allow whatever you're able to save plat for.
The Players
PA Name - Character Name - Class
1.) Tal - Elyse - Cleric
2.) BEAST! - ? - Warrior
3.) Grundlestiltskin - ? - dps
4.) Shadowfire - Kanneth - Ranger
5.) juice for jesus - ? - Bard
6.) skorch - ? - Shaman
PA Name - Character Name - Class
1.) Tal - Elyse - Cleric
2.) BEAST! - ? - Warrior
3.) Grundlestiltskin - ? - dps
4.) Shadowfire - Kanneth - Ranger
5.) juice for jesus - ? - Bard
6.) skorch - ? - Shaman
If this sounds like fun, either PM me or reply to this thread with something like "I'm in!" and I'll add you to the group. Also race / class preference and any other thoughts you have.
Edit - if we end up filling this group and you're still interested, let us know. No reason we can't try to get a second together and potentially create a very casual guild.
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Old School EverCrack
Inspired by this thread (tl;dr people toss around ideas of original / kunark / velious everquest. Discussion of official servers, but implementation probably not likely), I've been thinking a lot recently about playing vanilla Everquest. You remember vanilla Everquest, right?
Dervish camps? And saving money to buy a combine long sword so you can hit those willowisps?
How many times did you kill this guy? For me it was second only to the number of deaths I dealt to Travis Two Tone.
I felt like such a badass when I could finally kill Spectres.
Remember when good Warriors were defined as having their Langsaxe? And all of the armor quests around level 30? Crafted, Darkforge, Armor of Ro....
So I've been thinking. MMOs no longer work for me because I don't have the time to devote to them like I used to. They become a second job of sorts. Always feeling pressure to level up so you can attack the next target, and yet always falling behind everyone else's leveling speed. Then the feel of the grind sets in. This was a problem because then I could never find a consistent party, and I ended up soloing much of WoW as a result. Everquest isn't nearly as solo friendly which is probably why my last attempt at reclaiming some of this nostalgia ended in frustration.
This is where I've decided playing with a group of other people consistently, much like a tabletop campaign, might make this fun and viable.
The plan would be that 6 of us would roll a well balanced group. Since it'd be classic, I imagine the holy trinity would be alive and well. Throw in a Druid for ports, Monk for pulling, *maybe* end up with something like Warrior, Cleric, Enchanter, Rogue, Monk, Druid. We'd meet up once or maybe twice a week for a few hours in the evening, work a zone over, enjoy some good chatter, and basically just have a relaxing good time. While I can't confirm this, I would imagine that due to what, 10 or so expansions(?) we'd have many of these old world zones to ourselves. We could crawl through Befallen, Guk, Mistmoore, or just go nuts at the dervish camps in North Ro, or pulling Aviaks in South Karana.
It would be slow going that's for certain. Between the pre-expansion weapons (holy shit, bronze longsword!! Awesome!!) and the limited play time it wouldn't be a quick journey by any means, but that's kind of the point. The last time I seriously played, I was leveling a ranger during the PoP era. I spent minimal plat in the bazaar and bought weapons that allowed me to solo in Mistmoore with barely any downtime. Sure, the power was exciting, but there was no grouping whatsoever. It's the people and community that make these games fun (or take away the fun in some cases).
I've got ideas as far as what the "charter" might be like, but that's kind of pointless unless I can find 5 others willing to give it a shot. At this point I can't really decide if this would be a fun way to spend a Tuesday night instead of sitting on the couch, or if it's purely nostalgia speaking highly of my first MMO.
Anyone interested in giving it a shot?
Inspired by this thread (tl;dr people toss around ideas of original / kunark / velious everquest. Discussion of official servers, but implementation probably not likely), I've been thinking a lot recently about playing vanilla Everquest. You remember vanilla Everquest, right?
Dervish camps? And saving money to buy a combine long sword so you can hit those willowisps?
How many times did you kill this guy? For me it was second only to the number of deaths I dealt to Travis Two Tone.
I felt like such a badass when I could finally kill Spectres.
Remember when good Warriors were defined as having their Langsaxe? And all of the armor quests around level 30? Crafted, Darkforge, Armor of Ro....
So I've been thinking. MMOs no longer work for me because I don't have the time to devote to them like I used to. They become a second job of sorts. Always feeling pressure to level up so you can attack the next target, and yet always falling behind everyone else's leveling speed. Then the feel of the grind sets in. This was a problem because then I could never find a consistent party, and I ended up soloing much of WoW as a result. Everquest isn't nearly as solo friendly which is probably why my last attempt at reclaiming some of this nostalgia ended in frustration.
This is where I've decided playing with a group of other people consistently, much like a tabletop campaign, might make this fun and viable.
The plan would be that 6 of us would roll a well balanced group. Since it'd be classic, I imagine the holy trinity would be alive and well. Throw in a Druid for ports, Monk for pulling, *maybe* end up with something like Warrior, Cleric, Enchanter, Rogue, Monk, Druid. We'd meet up once or maybe twice a week for a few hours in the evening, work a zone over, enjoy some good chatter, and basically just have a relaxing good time. While I can't confirm this, I would imagine that due to what, 10 or so expansions(?) we'd have many of these old world zones to ourselves. We could crawl through Befallen, Guk, Mistmoore, or just go nuts at the dervish camps in North Ro, or pulling Aviaks in South Karana.
It would be slow going that's for certain. Between the pre-expansion weapons (holy shit, bronze longsword!! Awesome!!) and the limited play time it wouldn't be a quick journey by any means, but that's kind of the point. The last time I seriously played, I was leveling a ranger during the PoP era. I spent minimal plat in the bazaar and bought weapons that allowed me to solo in Mistmoore with barely any downtime. Sure, the power was exciting, but there was no grouping whatsoever. It's the people and community that make these games fun (or take away the fun in some cases).
I've got ideas as far as what the "charter" might be like, but that's kind of pointless unless I can find 5 others willing to give it a shot. At this point I can't really decide if this would be a fun way to spend a Tuesday night instead of sitting on the couch, or if it's purely nostalgia speaking highly of my first MMO.
Anyone interested in giving it a shot?
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Vhalen Nostrolo holds the record for being the named NPC with most deaths by my hand. Ah, the joy of killing bards. I bottomed out every faction that he gave reputation hits for solely by killing him.
Keep in mind that I was an Iksar, so my standing with all of them were shitty to start with ;-)
I killed him so many times... couldn't step foot in town with sneak/hide
To hell with the spectres. They weren't bad on The Tribunal, however I have seen "SG to docks" enough times to make me scream.
Similarly annoying are people who didn't listen every time they were told which side of the KC entrance that you were supposed to lead a train to (right side). Speaking of KC trains, I remember one odd occurance where a monk went LD as a train went by and proceeded to solo the whole damned thing. I have no idea how he managed to regenerate that much HP, but the whole thing was disgusting.
While my memories of the game are fond, there was a certain point where I just realized "Whoah. Whoah, this game is bad. What the hell am I doing."
Then I went and played other stuff. Due to my absolute hatred for shoddy AI I don't think I could stomach a second pass at this..
It is so painful now. Same thing with th non-RvR parts of DAoC.
I do like the idea of a weekly get together tabletop style thingy in an MMO. I like it so much that I did a loose version of it for City of Heroes. BTW CoH is a super friendly MMO for people who don't have a lot of time to devote to it, that and the PA super group are the two main reasons I've stayed subscribed for over three years now. The sidekick system takes a lot of the "leveling pressure" out of it, too. You can almost always team up with anyone else in the game, very few zones are lvl restricted. If you want to give it a go I can get you a free trial.
For at least a year somewhere around '98 and '99.
chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
i came back one time recently and was having a good time but then had issues outside to where i couldn't play so i had to stop.....i've been thinking of coming back though
get ahold of me if you can get more people interested
Doing Crushbone for the first time, and having the ambassidor come out and stomp everyone flat.
Doing unrest for the first time, seeing the hag train pour out and stomp everyone flat.
Doing Mistmoore and seeing the castle get trained back to the entrance and stomping everyone flat.
On my second time around , this was when Velious was new, I had a DE rogue that hide/sneaked through ummm some dungeon Sun something.. made it to where everyone else was fighting these massive gelatinous cubes that were level 60 and flurried for 400 a hit. I got in the group and plinked away , didnt die once scored a nifty dagger called Lath Drinor and I was level 25. That was the coolest day.
How long ago? They've done a lot of revamps to the game in the past 6-12 months that have drastically changed downtime, soloing and leveling in general from 1-70, as well as gaining AA's at the lower levels from everything I've heard. A few friends started up characters on Firiona Vie and play very casually and are sitting around 65 right now.
If there's a decent pool of people to start up somewhere, I may be interested, and will most certainly be in if they re-activate all the old accounts like they did last year.
Oh, and I played on Cazic for 6 years, myself. Many a good times were had, and I still talk to probably 20 people from back then.
Maybe start up with EQII so it's a bit more user friendly. I played it off and on a bit with the free trial they sent me after canceling Vanguard and it seemed like it was pretty good. I didn't group at all though while going through it. But I was mostly just messing around with a couple characters up to 10 or so.
Mentioning original EQ first really is about the memories though. Something about crawling through the old dungeons again with a good group of people that draws me in. We used to have great times farming the froglok king for his crown back when my guild was gearing up to tag along with our raiding parent guild. And the one time I convinced a few people to gather prickly pears in permafrost with me for the shadowknight lifetap spell quest. Oops, I forgot I could accidentally eat it...we need one more. Good times.
Just like thinking about an ex, I'm forgetting about the bad times, aren't I?
I wouldn't mind trying the weekly gathering thing though. EQ2 anyone?
Man, that's exactly what I'm talking about. The first time I ran through there and didn't realize what the danger was I got smoked by some skeleton that hung around through dawn. I was only level 8 or 9, but I was freaking out about it and ended up getting one of the first friends I made in the game to run in and drag me out. Even after learning about the spawn change at night it still freaked me out to run through the zone along the wall during the day.
And I missed a lot of replies while I was typing the previous one out. I hope it didn't sound like I was shutting the door on the idea right away, but with it taking a little while to spark any interest I was wondering if I did have a selective memory of things. Just throwing out other ideas. Would EQ2 be a better choice though?
It was probably 7 months ago. The actual PvE combat just didn't strike me as being fun anymore. I might have to give it another go, though, as I did love DAoC so very much. Hell if they dropped the subscription price to $10 I'd probably get a new account to play every once in awhile.
My friend and cousin had a great leveling place for probably about lvl 45 to 50.
Kaladim. We'd clean all the guards out, and make a shit load of money with my Gnome rogue main/alt (shaman became my main, after I got the rogue to about 45-50 somewhere in there) to sell all their shields and axes.
Yah I had good times, and lots of great memories with that game. I'd say it was more "epic" than WoW, for me at least. But maybe that's just cause it was my first MMO. I'll never forget my first corpse recovery, from my first character. I died to the bandits in a barn out in Karana, just after Qeynos hills. No matter what I tried I couldn't get it back, then a 30 paladin happens to zone in, and I beg his help, he went in and slaughtered the entire camp, BY HIMSELF!!! it was awesome.
I can't believe how much time I dedicated to that game. Although the funnest part was taking your crackbox enchanter, and shaman or druid, charming, and buffing the absolute fuck out of Hill Giants, give them weapons and such, then let them go and watch as the hill giant farmers get all pissed off cause this thing is insanely fast/resist/etc. Yeah sometimes I was a dick in that game. But I think I made up with all my dickish moments buffing random mobs and such, but spending countless hours in the oasis and Lake of Ill omen helping out nubs when I was bored.
I had a dream about classic eq last night and i woke up way too happy
He was talking about EQ.
DAoC hasn't changed much in the last year. They're pouring energy into Warhammer now.
Man, I had no creativity when I played.
Best I had was "Smythe the Smith now taking orders for banded armor!"
edit: but i am playing a human Bertoxxulous worshiping shadow knight. It must be so...
Edit: Damn.
The mac version is on its own server and its the server that time forgot. They split the updates for the game around 2004. The mac server does not get updates anymore. The farthest the expansions go on that server is PoP stuff. I played on there for awhile since I had station access. Its funny that a group of die hard people are still pushing at the end game content. Because there are so few of them they are still working at it.
My only real positive memory of EQ was running around with my little wood elf rogue with my trusty Rusty Spear and encountering some big named Ogre in the Butcherblock Mountains. I forget his name, but I remember that his head was some sort of quest item...you'd bring it to the Dwarf city for some reward.
Anyway, Mr. Ogre starts bashing on me, and I run away. Several people run up to attack him and he decides that they're more important, so I'm safe. I decide that I should get some compensation for my troubles, so I Pickpocket him.
And steal his head.
Apparently the Ogre didn't notice that he's now headless, he continues fighting, as I hightail it to the zone border. Just before I zone out, I start seeing the angry chat messages when the other realize that they aren't getting the quest reward.
IOS Game Center ID: Isotope-X
Did they change it so you can't pickpocket lore item or something? Or was there a different flag on gear to prevent stealing like that?
Personally, I loved corpse runs, but I was a shadowknight so that was generally my time to shine. :P
I'll send out PMs to those that expressed interest. We should set up a chatroom or something in the near future to discuss group build / play time / server / etc.
Edit - PMs sent. If you didn't get one and were interested, speak up!
I could do a human cleric or an ogre warrior too.
as for the when I'd prefer Sunday or an evening during the week, but not Friday. I'vE GOT A TELESCOPE AND I (will eventually) KNOW HOW TO USE IT!
Not too worried about the server
now i just need to figure out how to find the patcher since i don't know where my disks went...they're here somewhere but since i gotta patch every file anyway it doesnt make sense to install from original discs
I tried installing from the original disks, they are pointed at the wrong update server and you end up having to re download everything anyway.
Human SK though, I'd go all stam, and if there's anything left probably int.
For me, Mondays and / or Tuesdays after work would be best. Trick is, that's 7pm pacific time (maybe 6:30 unless there are hangups at work or in traffic).
How does that work with your schedules? Or when would you suggest?