It's the journey that you speak of that I enjoy more than anything. With the same guild. That is the fun part to me. I was in a guild that started about the time PoP came out. We started raiding Luclin because we were not prepared for PoP raiding. We all worked on our keys together, spent endless amounts of time helping each other. We are talking 4 and 5 hours on a weekend eve just to get one person a key piece. Eventually we started rising up the ranks in the raiding scene and were probably about the 3rd best raiding guild on the same server as Afterlife. There was occasionally one or two in between us.
And the relationships built through hours and hours of gaming together is what is most valuable. The people that are with you helping you nab those ever so important and elusive pixels. I stayed with that guild for 8 years. A lot of people came and a lot of people went over those years. But the new people that came in made it their home just as others before them did.
You don't get that with today's MMO's. They are built and designed for fast results and minimal grouping. That's part of the reason people think I'm crazy because I like to grind. Most people thought AA's were the downfall of EQ. To me it made it that much better. It gave me a reason to group on nights we did not have raids and spend more time with guild mates. There was essentially no reason to group and kill stuff if you were max level before that. Unless you wanted more phat lewts I suppose.
I guess if I had to put a certain stamp on when I felt I had grown all up from my EQ days it was the day I finally looted a book on a stick from VT. It was way cooler than the silly books we run around with today.
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