did you even show up to the warrens juice? i thought you were in crushbone the whole time i was there (i was there for about 3 and a half hours)...had a good time...look forward to the next meeting
Yeah, Combine is a low population server. If you're not interested in doing the weekly meeting thing with the Fugitives, then another server would probably be better for you.
The Fugitives have been really good about grouping. There's usually someone on catching up or leveling an alt.
I'd like to play with a regular group of you guys, but it seems a bit slow-paced for me. Honestly, half of the reason I got back into EQ was to see all the Kunark/Velious content I missed the first time around.
Unfortunately it seems that 90% of that content is now utterly unused.
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I'd like to play with a regular group of you guys, but it seems a bit slow-paced for me. Honestly, half of the reason I got back into EQ was to see all the Kunark/Velious content I missed the first time around.
Unfortunately it seems that 90% of that content is now utterly unused.
So far I've only run into Beast! in the game, and Tal once but he's busy with work for awhile.
I'd love to get a solid PA group going, either within the Fugitives thing or separate from it. Seems like a lot of people are interested but reluctant to get back into it, which is understandable.
WHERE IS BURNED WOODS? Possibly the greatest chat log in EQ history.
My favorite story was from the beta. Some guy had a gnome named Zben and he kept a diary of his adventures. The part I remember most is his description of crossing OOT; something about the bard playing music to protect the passengers from the sirens. Of course, it doesn't work that way, but since I wasn't in beta I didn't know he was just writing in character. That's probably what made me pick a bard when I started. Sadly, Zben's Diary seems to have vanished from the internets. It was still around just a year or two ago.
Another great/horrible story was about someone who let a woman from his guild crash at his place. She was fucking crazy, made up stories about a non-existant son to get sympathy and money out of people, and literally shit all over the place.
You mentioned Page 8, so hilarious.
There was a story from EQ2, so sort of related, about a paladin who was a cybersex fiend and got busted in a sort of sting operation.
Where is Burned Woods this week? Check the patch message for the zone connection map!
So there I was.....minding my own business in The Overthere, when all of a sudden I see the message: "d00d sow plz".
Of course, my natural instinct was not to answer, since I thought the clueless newb (hereafter referred to politely as "the petitioner") must have been poorly informed at best.
Boy was I ever wrong.
I switch out of 1st person into an external camera, and what did my wandering eyes behold? Only myself and the petitioner.
So I says to myself...."Self? You need to edumacate this fella!"
(Keep in mind what the overall setting looked like: There I was, in skeleton form, carrying a scythe, FLOATING IN MIDAIR IN A MEDITATING POSITION, with a LARGE dark-brown skeleton named "Gibober" standing behind me. Ummm....No, skippy, I'm not a druid or a shaman.)
I say "Wish I could, bro, but I don't have SoW. I'm a Necromancer."
The Petitioner says, "$#*&@#$ dick, sow me already! it's for a cr"
Feeling as if my feathers had been ruffled a bit, I do a "/who all dumbass" (um..pardon..I meant "/who all petitioner")
This is where I discovered the "/who all" bug. Certainly it must have been a bug, right? There's NO WAY IN CREATION the dumbas...err...petitioner could have been a level 31 Dark Elf Wizard, right???? RIGHT????? /em begins to cry like a little girl.
Well, needless to say, I couldn't have been any more shocked than if my pet began dancing an Irish Jig. I quickly begin the arduous task of maintaining my composure, while deciding how best to deal with this tricky situation.
I say, "Necromancer's can't cast SoW".
Petitioner says, "Bull@#$%! you cast a spell while you were running and you sped up! i couldn't catch you until you sat down! if you're not going to sow me just say so you dont have to be a dick about it a$$hole"
Yes I know....he didn't use any punctuation in that last sentence.
I say, "I have JBoots."
He says, "what are they"
Before I have a chance to pick my chin up off the floor....
Petitioner asks, "can you buff my hps my hp sux"
I say, "I can't buff you, dude. I'm a necromancer. I only have one buff that you would probably want."
He says, "yeah the one you won't give me dick"
Ok. Time to have fun with the hopelessly clueless.
I say, "Why do you need a sow?"
He says, "i need to get to burned woods to hunt. sumbody said its perfect for my level"
Yep. That's what he said......"burned woods".
I say, "man are you ever in the wrong place."
He says, "?"
Apparently he found the "question mark" key conveniently located nearby other various and sundry communication facilitators.
I didn't answer him.
He repeats, "??"
Found it twice...good for him.
He repeats, "???"
Having an IQ greater than plantlife, I sensed a pattern forming.
I say, "You are NO WHERE near Burned Woods."
He says, "my friend told me it was in kunark"
I say, "Yeah, the operative word there is 'WAS'. There was a major patch a couple of months ago after a bunch of complaints were filed about 'static content'."
So I hit 22 on the Progression server just now and I'm a bit frustrated with the people playing.
10 people server-wide between 20 and 25, and none of them will even respond to requests to make a group.
yeah, as was said, progression is pretty empty.....the rathe is where the rest of my characters are, and i'm willing to play there with you but i dont know if i'll have the time since you seem to want to play a LOT...hmmm...at any rate, i'll be on tonight when i get home from work...Tarem on the progression server until I'm somewhere near lvl 16 then i dunno who i'd be playing on the rathe...probably Mindaar i'm guessing
What's kinda funny is that the progression server started out as TWO servers, and they were packed. That's why you see people running around with "of the Sleeper" as their title. Apparently interest dropped off pretty fast.
The problem with the progression servers, from what I hear, is that they weren't really progression servers. From the opening they left in several newer zones, many newer items, dumbed-down leveling, etc.
So they trivialized their own idea instantly. Plus they should have stuck to a hard release schedule, not one based on the very first hardcore raiders beating the top-level content. If they had kept a month or two minimum between each release, they could have stretched it out for over a year and probably kept a lot more people in longer.
I was at the Guk meeting, until my internet crapped out. It was going great up to that point. Had 3 groups going. Somehow I wound up in a group with two enchanters, but we worked it out.
I heard you guys got the Shin Lord down. That's fucking awesome. Too bad he didn't drop any phat pally loot.
Einar is sitting at 16 right now. I think I may take him in to Kurn's for a bit tonight and try to get a couple levels.
I tried going into Befallen yesterday with the twink gear to see if I could get a bronze drop or two, but that lasted as long as it took to find the first lesser mummy. I hate rabies.
I still need to catch up to 19 at some point. I wasted some time at 16/17 looking for hunting grounds. Oasis caiman were super safe but boring as hell. Upper Guk was too many 3+ pulls - although I did ding 17 in the heart spider rooms. And Highpass Orcs kicked my ass because they chain rooted me.
I'll probably try running over to Kurn's and grab a couple more levels. Although I kind of want to camp gnolls in Highpass for the PGT / CDS combo.
If you have access to the Depths of Darkhollow expansion, monster missions are a good source of EXP. I got about 50% of a level for one mission last night.
wow...well i dont have the expansion but i was thinking i may buy all them, it's 30 bucks for all the expansions but only 10 bucks more for the new expansion AND all the others...so i may do that...hmmmm
if you'll be around tonight like you said, i'm going to try to download the expansion tonight the second i get home, i hope it's all done downloading by the time you come around at 6pst....haha..we'll see if it works
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The next session's level cap will be 16, but I haven't heard yet when or what zone it will be in.
edit: Thursday 7pm Eastern, the Warrens again.
I started leveling a druid for situations like that. I probably won't be able to make the thursday meeting though. Maybe just the tail end of it.
I was always fond of The Quon and Sk8er Gnome
10 people server-wide between 20 and 25, and none of them will even respond to requests to make a group.
You talk clean and bomb hospitals, so I speak with the foulest mouth possible
The Fugitives have been really good about grouping. There's usually someone on catching up or leveling an alt.
Unfortunately it seems that 90% of that content is now utterly unused.
You talk clean and bomb hospitals, so I speak with the foulest mouth possible
anyone have any links or old text files or anything by chance?
So far I've only run into Beast! in the game, and Tal once but he's busy with work for awhile.
I'd love to get a solid PA group going, either within the Fugitives thing or separate from it. Seems like a lot of people are interested but reluctant to get back into it, which is understandable.
I caught your tell just as I was typing /exit tonight. Sorry man. And if that's no one here, then nevermind! :P
I found most of The Quon and someplace on my old HD is Page 8 if anyone wants them for some old nostalgia
Sk8er Gnome and The Quon on the classes part three are still missing though =(
also, does anyone remember the moving burning woods?
woot!
I found Sk8er Gnome
http://www.theinsanity.net/everquest/humor/index.html#skater
My favorite story was from the beta. Some guy had a gnome named Zben and he kept a diary of his adventures. The part I remember most is his description of crossing OOT; something about the bard playing music to protect the passengers from the sirens. Of course, it doesn't work that way, but since I wasn't in beta I didn't know he was just writing in character. That's probably what made me pick a bard when I started. Sadly, Zben's Diary seems to have vanished from the internets. It was still around just a year or two ago.
Another great/horrible story was about someone who let a woman from his guild crash at his place. She was fucking crazy, made up stories about a non-existant son to get sympathy and money out of people, and literally shit all over the place.
You mentioned Page 8, so hilarious.
There was a story from EQ2, so sort of related, about a paladin who was a cybersex fiend and got busted in a sort of sting operation.
that guy was a Paladin on my old server (zebuxoruk) named Dethen
oh goodness some of the threads that came of him were awesome
do you have a link to the burned woods?
I'm trying to save all this stuff before it is lost to the ages.
So they trivialized their own idea instantly. Plus they should have stuck to a hard release schedule, not one based on the very first hardcore raiders beating the top-level content. If they had kept a month or two minimum between each release, they could have stretched it out for over a year and probably kept a lot more people in longer.
Very poorly executed all around.
Einar is sitting at 16 right now. I think I may take him in to Kurn's for a bit tonight and try to get a couple levels.
I tried going into Befallen yesterday with the twink gear to see if I could get a bronze drop or two, but that lasted as long as it took to find the first lesser mummy. I hate rabies.
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Be sure to insert disk 2 after disk 1 finishes. :P
i missed the saturday meeting because i'm an idiot and actually completely forgot about it
I've been clean for nearly three years now.
I'll probably try running over to Kurn's and grab a couple more levels. Although I kind of want to camp gnolls in Highpass for the PGT / CDS combo.
near the windmill you can pull pretty safely.
If you have access to the Depths of Darkhollow expansion, monster missions are a good source of EXP. I got about 50% of a level for one mission last night.
I may have Sunday off though, some catching up then would be cool - whenever we can work around football.