A friend of mine made me play EQ after he already did for a few days. So I made my first char, Arthemis DE wiz on Vallon Zek. I knew from my friend that there is PvP and all non dark races are our enemies. Best spot to do your first levels was the newbie log in Nektulos Forest. I was always looking out for humans, elves or shorties... as a possible threat.
Little that I knew about EQ I ran from every Enchanter pet as I thought they were invisible humans trying to find an easy victim at the newbie log.
Years later (Velious expansion) my friend and I made new chars (barb war Marina and barb shm Stear) to join Ancient Orden, a raid guild some of our friends were in. When we hit lev57 we were allowed to join the raids but we didn't get a guild invite yet. It was one of those let's try King Tranix days...
When King Tranix was pretty low the MT and the 2nd MT died. As Tranix was so low and I was the only warrior left the raid leader shouted "Heal Marina!". So I put my SoD in mainhand, got some lucky procs, got aggro and poped my disci immediately - otherwise it would have been a matter of second(s). As I never tanked a raid mob before I had no chat filters in place. I just saw lines of text flying by with Tranix hitting me and everyone casting on me. This made my EQ client lag and finally freeze.
When my client recovered King Tranix was dead, we got a guild invite and it was the server first^^
Being a meat shield is so easy! =P
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