I damned near crapped my pants when it started to rain in West Freeport the first time :D And when night time arrived, I was amazed. It had weather and changing periods of night and day :eek:

I thought the trees in Fironia Vie on the way to Lake of Ill Omen were gorgeous.

For some reason Velious is my favorite expansion, perhaps because I live in the Great White North :) But the zones are amazing, particularly Tower of Frozen Shadow, Crystal Caverns, Kael, Dragon Necropolis. Man, many many hours spent there! I never got high enough to do the high end stuff but I spent most of my time in Velious once it came out...

The run from the dock to Eastern Wastes was awe inspriing, particularly the first time you saw the dragon skull gates to the bridge from Iceclad to EW :) Ruined by spires one expansion later alas :(

Regards,
Gird

wow you guys have made my day with this post... see this is my first time playing EQ so everythign is enw and i just lvoe the fuckign game... i cannot wait for the expansions now and im quite happily leveling knowing ill still have a solid month or more of classic endgame to look forward to before i get some juiciness :]

I started a few days after Kunark's release, but I didn't make it there till a couple months later at least. The Overthere was where I spent most of my time, and eventually made it into Frontier Mountains. Soloing those giants with my monk was the first time I felt really powerful.

When Velious came out, it quite honestly scared the crap out of me. I remember riding the boat there and arriving during a blizzard. I started wandering around and was already freaked out by snow wolves and whatever else was roaming around, since you couldn't see more than 10 feet in front of you. Then suddenly a frickin' GIANT emerges from the fog and starts destroying me. Luckily I had a SoW, but I had no clue where I was or where to zone at. Luckily somebody shouted the /loc to me and I ran in panic for like 10 minutes before finding it.

After that incident I was always very timid when venturing into Velious territory. There was always something there that felt unknown to me, even if I had visited many times already.

What is cool about Kunark: Blood Point
What is cool about Velious: Dark Elf Enchanters in full chainmail

I can't wait for Sebilis.

Kunark came out about 4 months after I started playing, so I got to do a considerable amount of leveling there. LOIO, Frontier Mts, CoM, Chardok, Howling Stones.. there really aren't many zones in Kunark that AREN'T awesome.

You often hear Kunark called the best expansion in EQ- I call it the best expansion in ANY game, period.

speeking of how gorgeous things were, I know of atleast 3 EQ weddings that took place near the druid rings in Dreadlands. Oh the tree coloring was AWESOME!

Running through Swamp of No hope and finding that waterfall behind the big pines was breath taking too for me. (also a secret entrance to trakanon through the water way)

chardok
 

Chardok was my home away from Oggok.In the beginning I raided there with my guild till it was on farm status.Then I undertook the insanely long process of reversing my faction till I was max faction with Chardok and able to guide other up and coming guilds through their raids easier by scouting ahead untouched...fun time...and the merchant in there had the longest lasting food and drink in the game for years I would buy for friends so they could save stat foods for raids.My real shaman is parked at the bank in Chardok as his final resting place 3yrs ago

There was nothing else to play.

Hehe Chardok - I both loved & hated that zone due to a number of reasons.

1. A wipe down there due to a overwhelming huge mega sarnak train at the royals could usually be a raid-ender involving summon-corpses, or drag to a spot where we could recover - Either way huge setback.

2. The sheer frustration of raids who couldnt handle the DPS necessary to take down Queen for my warrior epic blade (last piece!) - Eventually got enough manaburn wizzies and enc CC to do it! You really needed to parse your raids dps if you could handle her or risk ending the raid and chance at king/prince drops.

I also got maxed faction with Chardok after finishing my warrior epic - That grind took quite some time, but it was worth it for the foods!!! I thought I got some kind of item from a quest for doing it too, was it the dragon bone sinew shoulder item? I cant remember, but I also remember camping this goblin in Droga that would never spawn and was on a 3-4 day cycle -

Doing the math to figure out his next spawn time and setting my alarm before school to check in the AM hours just to complete that damn quest!!