I played the original EQ with my older brother back in the day. He was a 50 necromancer and I was a 36 druid. I didn't get to play as much as my brother since he was four years older than me and being the sucker that I was, conned me out of most of my time on the computer..or he would just booted me off if my parents weren't home.
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(That isn't the reason I didn't reach 50 though, for whatever reason at the time, I wanted to be ally or have the highest standing faction with almost everything plus I enjoyed doing most quests, so most of the time I was doing some long or short repeatable quest, & I admit..still have this problem hah)
Despite our disagreement with the computer time, my brother and I would work together when we played. For one, he would help me finish quests that I couldn't do alone but also I always wanted to kill NPC's you just aren't suppose to kill just because I was curious what they dropped. Most of the time they were high level NPC's in a town or I had done quests for or frequently saw - I always thought (keep in mind I was like 11 or 12 years old) if they're so powerful they have to have something amazing, right?!
My brother was skeptical about them dropping loot but since he was already evil, he didn't care much about his standings so he'd try and whack 'em for me. I remember the first NPC I convinced him to kill was the Priest of Discord. It took him 3 or 4 attempts and it was a grueling battle because sometimes the PoD would get off a complete heal and it would be like the entire fight starting over again! After an hour or so of straight combat, my brother finally finished him off and he dropped a robe (Robe of Discord) with identical stats to a Flowing Black Robe and his Staff of Discord. Unfortunately, his staff was no rent and I
really wanted to keep it. :| He let me loot it though so I could have it for a day.
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After that, I got him to kill all sorts of things. We killed Kane Bayle in North Qeynos (according to the quests I was doing, he was a really important evil character) but he just dropped standard loot. We also killed a few of the guildmasters in different areas. I remember the Monk GMs dropped sashes or headbands and some of the varies rogue GMs dropped "Mithril daggers".
My brother was good at soloing apparently. He eventually was interviewed by a gaming magizine and they put a picture of him in RL in their magazine and he had a section of him giving tips on soloing and kiting strategies that he had used. They gave us a few free copies to keep which are still laying around somewhere. I don't know if our mischief is what caught their attention but my brother was also very polite to(other :P) people and mature for his age..sorta. I think that also played a factor in getting the interview maybe.
The reason I post is partly because I probably won't make it to 50 before Kunark(I wish it stayed classic forever!! DOWN WITH KUNARK!) since I don't have that much time to play and I just recently stumbled upon the server. I fear classic will be deserted once Kunark comes out and I would really like to finish some of the old quests while it feels like they still matter..I'm only level 20 right now but I'm having fun anyway. (Druid, of course!) Also though, it would just feel nice to have access to a necromancer like my brother's again. Thanks.