Meeting awesome people in Highpass Hold and Highpass Keep. It was a great place to be as a newb pre-Kunark and Velious, because ringmail and a decent magic weapon dropped in that place plus it was close enough to the likes of Qeynos, Rivervale, Neriak and Freeport for new teensters to hop on over for a group. Groups on live were way more fluid, with people constantly coming and going, so you'd often meet a whole bunch of new people every session. Kunark and Velious sort off undid these xp spots, forcing people to ye obvious Oasis, but back then people cared way less about optimization and min-maxin like the P99 crowd does. It's a shame that as the EverQuest world grew larger, the xp options grew smaller for non-solo'ers.
Oddly enough, EverQuest's music never really got to me. It felt too erratic (to teenage me) and truth be told, pales in comparison to the tracks of other games from its time. Sure, I love the opening/loading track, and the Kelethin track deserves a special mention, but other than that? The combat music made me turn the ingame music off real fast.
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