I started playing when I was 12, in Summer/Fall 1999, way before Kunark. My best friend (at the time) was playing EQ and I often went over to his house to watch him play and/or create my own character and end up lost in Qeynos Hills soon to be killed by a bear of sorts. Eventually, I bought my own account and created a halfling druid named Neddun. My friend helped me out with gear and would often use me as a mule for the items he was trading (Lore items and such). I loved the graphics in the game, especially the spell graphics and how they change as you level up.
Eventually, I got tired of quad kiting dorfs in BB and found that a hybrid healer/caster was not really my style. So I created my soon to be twinked-to-hell monk after Kunark came out. Cethin Whistlingfists (lame, I know, I was 13 alright?!) I sold everything that I could off of my 53 druid and even sacrificed my soul to a necromancer for a decent amount of platinum all the way down to level 49 (Have to save starfire and SoN right?). Then I bought my monk everything a typical kunark-geared monk would have...only he was level 1. KDs, Trance sticks, fungi tunic, FBSS, the works. I loved tearing through mobs by myself and I leveled up rather quickly.
What really kept me into the game was the whole concept of FD pulling and how powerful monks were at running groups. I loved the challenge of it, I loved the thrill of it, I loved planning ahead and making sure that it was safe to bring back mobs and that all my threat was wiped from them (damn wandering mobs). Pulling for raids was especially fun, even though I did not have much experience with that at the time. I hope to level a monk on P99 after I level my enchanter which is a class I've always desired to play.
I just love the challenge of this game. It is very unforgiving, you need to know what you're doing and people will know if you're good or not. I love the community of EQ. Instead of throwing yourself into a LFG queue in which you're paired up with people across servers you don't even know (coughWoWcough) and never to see them again. In EQ, you handpick your groups. You want to do something, you already know who to bring. I love it. EQ is great. P99 is the best. I love you guys. *tear*
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