I still recall the toughest fight I ever survived, at a mere level 6 (I think.)
Horsing around in East Freeport led me to the small area with that surly female Dark Elf, and in the water, a shark.
Having never encountered such a beast, and knowing very little about EQ I waded in and began to fight. I was a rogue, so it, (as any) was a very difficult fight, but I was sure I had the upper hand until I saw the dreaded message "YOU are drowning!"
I had done very little swimming and wasn't at all familiar with how to angle myself upward, so by the time I had I was almost dead. I broke the surface and filled my lungs with air, only to be immediately chomped into unconsciousness, and began to slowly sink back into the deep.
By a stroke of fortune, the shark missed my prone body again and again until I regained my wits and managed to finish it off and swam to shore as fast as I could with, 3 hit points remaining.
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