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Originally Posted by Danth
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...And some of that bunch are millennials who were little kids when EQ came out (hence bad at games) and forget that some of us were grown adults who were very much more capable. It's amusing watching the issues change but the claims stay the same. We had basically these same threads with things like melee combat bind, invis pulling, chardok AE, you name it. Heck, when P99 first opened and charm was lasting full duration every time (remember that?) of course you had the Enchanters swearing up and down that was totally normal. Broken whirl was entirely legit too, ench's only didn't use it back then because they were too stupid obviously, etc etc. What can you say?
That being said after 11+ years here I can't motivate much "care" anymore. I ain't going to disappear tomorrow, but I've definitely been watching my own activity gradually wind down the past few years. Even if they fix it now, probably too late to do ME much good anymore. That ship's more or less sailed. I think of P99 as its own game, not so much as an emulation of anything, anymore.
Danth
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Yeah, and it's great, and I still miss classic, vanilla EQ. Because I want to live those memories real time, do it differently now. And I know my memories will never match reality, and so this place is more like a memory of that game, it's great to revisit!
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Originally Posted by RecondoJoe
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I was one of the few who was fortunate enough to get to play it....
I had been wanting to play Ultimate Online since I first saw it in a Rollings Stone magazine... it sounded amazing.. there was one kid at school who played it... the rest of us couldn’t convince their parents to let them...
Well one day my best friend was excited because EverQuest was supposed to come in the mail.. he pre ordered it from the mall... I was confused because I never heard of it. When he explained it was like Ultima... I was like IDK it sounds dumb...
Well, once he got it he just stopped playing Starcraft altogether... which annoyed me. I spent the night with him, and watched him play this game and I thought it was the dumbest game I had ever seen in my entire life. He was running around a swamp killing tadpoles over and over again and I didn’t get it... it felt like a really shitty “multiplayer” game...
I just played Starcraft all night while he played EQ, then he finally passed out so I decided to try EQ... I was immediately fascinated by the different races, classes, religions etc. I didn’t understand what a Cleric was but it sounded super boring. I thought Monks were Catholic monks too.. and wondered why anyone would play either of these stupid classes.
I ultimately made a rogue because I didn’t know what abilities like dodge and pick pocket and backstab would do... I thought I could actually backstab my friends or pick pocket their loot or press dodge to dodge spells.... ended up staying up all night making new characters...
One thing I think people forget is that EQ graphics at the time were groundbreaking.. it felt like real life compared to other games of that time period, especially with thunder and night time...
My parents still wouldn’t let me get the game until my dad was watching his stock channel and one of the analysts on there mentioned the game on the show, and he rushed out and got me the game got really into watching me play and would get me the latest expacs and buy me new computers over time as new expacs launched and I needed better hardware.
I wasn’t high level in 1999 though. I had a level 36 rogue before Kunark came out and I don’t even remember what zones I leveled in to get that high in retro..
But I spent many hours playing the game at a much higher level from 2000-2004 and always remember charm being that ability that when it worked was amazing, but never being reliable. Everyone knew Enchanters used charisma though, that’s why they always had a crude stein and ishva robe lol...
I also remember as a rogue/monk player getting destroyed by my own dual wield frequently... I’ve never experienced or witnessed this on p99 or TLP ... can remember being a bitter rogue getting out DPSd by warriors who had wurmslayers while my hip got deleted as I did less damage but swung 5-6x as often
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Yeah hahaha, wurmies were the raaaage when they came out my friend who was hardcore into farming on his necro immediately made a warrior twink. They were the coolest.
Objectively froglock tads are way cooler than regular moss snakes. Looking forward to charming some snakes in blackburrow though!
I think I spent as much time on casters realm and reading about the game as playing it, was a bit older, but not by much.