I started eq at the beginning of phase 2 beta. My friends were in alpha and I was one of their referrals.
I played through beta with a paladin (gnar) that got absolutely nowhere, and then switched to a troll shaman and finally a human rogue which I made some progress with (skinner).
I was wrong-headed about the game, and shunned all of my friends' attempts at getting me involved in raiding and group activities all throughout beta.
In final, we all went to mithmarr. My buddies were in successful raid guilds, and I was dicking around roleplaying and whatnot. Later, most of the folks I knew migrated to test where I recreated my rogue (skinner) and was moderately successful and focused.
Finally when kunark was released I created an iks warrior and really had my first truly gratifying experience with EQ. I levelled up, formed groups and made friends, and found people to team up with and became accepted as one of the better up and coming tanks.
I hit a serious slump after kunark and before velious because of a lack of available armor for iksar which hurt my contention for tanking in planes raids. Fortunately I was able to tag along and pick up some Legionnaire scale which bumped me close to par with other pre-pog/pre-kael armor MTs.
Probably the most fun I had in eq was the velious beta, which is my favorite expansion by far and of course was the expansion where verant removed the 'seperate loot for iks' which meant that I could participate in raids with an equal footing on dkp/drop rotation.
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