View Full Version : Played EQ a long, long time ago.
OuterChimp
11-14-2019, 10:33 AM
I'm going to give it a try again. I played back in early 2000. Played for a few years on Xev and retired shortly after the guild I was in killed that big PoT end mob.
Gave it up after that. Thought I'd pop on to see if that old magic was still there.
mgriff02
11-14-2019, 09:35 PM
Welcome back! Hope you love p99 as much as we all do.
Vormotus
11-14-2019, 11:19 PM
Gave it up after that. Thought I'd pop on to see if that old magic was still there.
The Old Magic is definitely here OP!
Green is the best server for that classic feeling and if you want something a bit less crowded try Teal.
I have been having a blast the past days being on Green, reminiscing the good old days of EQ.
Having the Classic races/classes in such a compact land is actually quite fun.
I am even trying classes I have never tried before, so yeah, hope you recapture the old magic friend! :)
vossiewulf
11-17-2019, 07:32 AM
I'm going to give it a try again. I played back in early 2000. Played for a few years on Xev and retired shortly after the guild I was in killed that big PoT end mob.
Gave it up after that. Thought I'd pop on to see if that old magic was still there.
Oh, you'll love it. We're very recently back also when we heard the Green/Teal news, but 7-8 years ago we played characters up to 50ish on the Blue server, and it was great. Good old fashioned hard core EQ populated by people who like it that way.
This evening on Green there were 60-80 players all evening in GFay, that's not much less than it was at its worst in 1999 on Bristlebane in the first weeks of live.
And the noobs are like us, not really noobs, but old-time experienced players who just need to remember the commands and switchology and get their UIs set up correctly, no one is clueless. So there's no such thing as the useless group members we all remember on live- when playing on Blue I don't recall grouping with anyone who didn't know how to perform their role at least reasonably well.
And hell if you go to Youtube and search Everquest P99, there are dozens of walkthroughs of zones and leveling guides and raid guides and everything else, stuff we all would have killed for 20 years ago. Between that and the wiki docs and the massive collective experience of the players, you'll never be wondering what to do next and how to do it.
YendorLootmonkey
11-17-2019, 11:24 AM
Welcome back to Norrath! :)
OuterChimp
11-17-2019, 05:15 PM
So I've dinged level 3. Hah. This reminds me of way back. EC tunnel...hah! trying to get the hang of things again. Thanks for the words of encouragement.
Naonak
11-18-2019, 02:42 AM
Welcome back to Norrath. Played on Tarew Marr myself
Lyrica
11-18-2019, 11:46 AM
The nostalgia of it really makes the game. I kept running into things and saying I REMEMBER THIS!!!
OuterChimp
11-18-2019, 11:57 AM
The nostalgia of it really makes the game. I kept running into things and saying I REMEMBER THIS!!!
Indeed. We even started an account for my son who wasn't even around back in the old days when I played.
My favorite line so far....Dad, I need to make a new character because I died and spawned somewhere and lost all of my stuff.
I just thought to myself....welcome to EQ my son...welcome to EQ.
Hah!
Lyrica
11-18-2019, 11:59 AM
awwww are you guys on Teal? If so you tell your son to message me and I will come locate his corpse lol (Tawnnee)
OuterChimp
11-25-2019, 03:37 PM
awwww are you guys on Teal? If so you tell your son to message me and I will come locate his corpse lol (Tawnnee)
Thanks Taynee. He ended up deleting the char because he "lost his corpse" and made a couple others.
I do appreciate it though.
Ekl_Mortain
11-30-2019, 12:42 AM
Welcome to the Old magic. I played back in 1999-2001. Lovely the feel of it. Can't wait to open my bakery hahaha.
acopolis
11-30-2019, 03:47 PM
Hey really trying to play this game but having a really hard time finding ppl to play with.
Ekl_Mortain
12-01-2019, 02:02 AM
What server are you on? And how social are you being about finding people to play with?
GF, Grobb, Qeynos and Freeport are all quite busy from what i see.
OuterChimp
01-02-2020, 03:49 PM
Been plugging away and I have to say it has brought back good memories of the old days. I've met a few folks that have helped out and I've tried to help a few folks out along the way as well. Good to be back.
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