Cupcake

Remember how uber Ebon was.
Remember how long it tool to actually harvest one.
Remember trying to get the starter for Screaming Mace.
Remember then having to get the updates for Screaming Mace.
But them remembering how totally uber it was.
Remember casting breeze.
Remember when you couldn't jump off Griffons.
Remember when epics were red.

... and you said "Wtf is Gnoll!?"

P.S. Chloro wash was a good one.

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Cupcake

Oh, oh, I forgot this one for all the day one veterens...

Remember "Where's Ardent Needle?"

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Sangre

Anarchy as a Zerker was a bad ass spell, and our 1k hp buff... Being on the death squad during the Zalek fight... My first full set of ebon when it was the shit... The 2 hour crawl all the way down to naggy, then going right back again after speaking to the sage... Getting all the way down in the basement of Nek Castle and having someone click all the crates and the heroic mice raping our grp...

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Oh My Sweet Dick, It's Magic!!!

Theorv

Aye... the first couple years of EQ1.

I remember being a level 5 wizard and wondering what the huge white spires in Greater Faydark were for. Even more amazing was that fact that if you asked about them in OOC... NOBODY knew what they were for!

I had traveled from Qeynos to Kelethin, a monstrous undertaking for a level 5 wizard in 1999, at the request of some friends who had created all their characters in Gfay. I set off with a level 5 ranger and a level 6 bard from North Qeynos and it took us about 18 hours of insane adventuring and brutal deaths to finally arrive at the first lift in Kelethin. We literally cried tears of joy. (We were middle-aged adults too.)

Memorable to the trip were:

The first time I watched a barbarian shaman fighting a huge spider in West Karana.

The first Hill Giant I saw far off in the distance crossing North Karana. That made my jaw drop.

Crossing into East Karana across the wooden bridge at night and promptly getting charmed by an evil eye. That was a truly heart stopping encounter... I had NO idea what was happening and I actually hard-rebooted my PC in an attempt to get away as the eye slowly filled my screen, blocking out everything else, and the sound of a heartbeat gradually began to drown out the voices of my traveling companions on BattleCom. (VON software of that time)

Falling to my death in the darkness off the ramp leading up to Highhold Pass from East Karana.

The horrid deaths in Highhold attempting to get through, and finally being helped through the zone by some other friends that came to rescue us with the help of some higher levels that were camping orcs locally.

After that things went far better, and the irony about my wondering what those Gfay Spires were for is that eventually I became a wizard capable of teleporting a host of others to that point, saving them the agony of that very same trip.

But I tell you what, I would do the trip again in a heartbeat. Looking back, I didn't save those later travelers from horrors, I caused them to miss out on a wonderful adventure.


Too bad.


Happy Gaming,
--Orv


Oh, and if you wonder how someone so naive at the time about EverQuest could have so many friends at level 5... I was part of an active clan playing Unreal and Unreal Tournament that decided to migrate over into the world of EQ at the nudging of a couple savvy clannies. I think about 12 of us joined EQ. I still have a couple today playing on my current server.

Crazedmutha

- Remember when you had to use the bell at the far end of Enchanted Lands to reach Lavastorm?

- Remember when you had to make raid groups on paper, then disband the raid and instruct the whole guild on who invites who because you couldn't swap people between groups using the Raid UI?

- Remember that quest in Vermin's Snye "Entering the Sepulcher of Jahnda" that awarded about 70% adventure XP at level 17?

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Theorv

Piranha swimming down the paths in Nek Forest about a foot above the ground.

Hehe,
--Orv

hennyo

remember when devastation was a single target nuke

When you could avoid aoe's by getting below the hieght in which they were cast, (Cazic thule shard drakota)

Sildroni

I remember first meeting up with my friends in Stormhold. We'd all been kinda working on our class quests and hadn't gotten together until then (Ogre Pally meant he had been killing lots and lots of gnolls - waiting on the named was a bitch, and all before lvl 17 too)

Id just finished a quest that netted me some +1 wis leather cap - I was stoked!! [go go cleric powah] I walk in and our Pally says - 'man that cap looks dumb, you should take it off' - so I did... Didn't realize til a week or 2 later that /showhelm (or whatever) would have done the same thing. EQ1 had me hardcoded that only uber helms had no graphic, and usually people without them were either lvl 1 and naked or had some swanky gear. I had just assumed the mechanic would be the same. [and yeah, I cracked into that no helm graphic club in EQ1 [yeah yeah, Nightshade Wreath could give you that, but as a cleric I wanted Plate, not cloth], that was almost as sweet as dinging 35 and not having to stare at a spell book while meditating !!]

Speaking of meditating, I learned that it wasn't necessary in EQ2 on that Stormhold run, and that food and drink made a difference on regen. I still get a kick seeing someone new to the game sitting down between pulls when Im on an alt.

Remember when they took out physical drops for quest updates and made them just dinks on the screen? Remember when they put them back in for RoK ?

Remember when someone figured out that you needed to save up all of your L&L parts until you got all of the non physical updates? That way you could dump the quest and re-read the tome to 'reset' a fubar'd counter if it got stuck on 'a gnoll spirit' or whatever.

good stuffs

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Kelenvor

Remember the subclass quest in Qeynos for the Rogue (I think that it was the Rogue), you had to run way the shit out into Antonica at level 10. All the creatures were red con and death meant another run back to get your shard. I was sweating the whole time.

When DoF/LU13 came out and fucked up every old world raid.

Splitpaw first came out and those fucking Gnolls grabbed your way to a group. I was like wtf?!? How did I get here?

Doing Bloodlines at a the low level range and getting your ass kicked by vampires.

Getting a rare and being excited enough to post it in chat.

The dread of the group wiping and falling apart before you got your shard back.

Putting whole guilds on your friends list so you can monitor where most of the guild was located. You'd know if a contested was up if they all starting to gather at one location.

Wearing leather armor as a rogue from lvl 1 to 19 and chain as a Warrior from 1 to 19.

When I wanted to make a full set of armor for my Paladin, I sat down at work and wrote out the exact number of subcombines needed.

/poke Mob

Being able to view bank contents from anywhere

..and the list goes on...

Otis

Remember making Wyrmsteel weapons at the forge in SE?

I know LFG does