What crazy things did EQ make you do back in the day?

[Holey]

i just remember when i was younger, this has helped me in like what 5th grade made me type faster. i played a ranger then.... ya what a class right?
shared accounts with my uncle then.... he was so addicted he made like 8 diff chars and i had the 9th slot... man i remmeber the days waiting for him to sleep so i could log on in the middle of the night.....

i guess you can say he was watching me play when he was "sleeping" but then again, i was having too much fun in the virtual world. my grades went up because i always typed everything...

eq taught me how to type faster, so i used that excuse to type my homework but alt tab to shoot arrows in groups haha..

[georgie]

I definitely learned how to type fast and grammar boosted a bit. I remember playing a live progression server and some guildie was trying to call me out for being 11 yrs old because of typing mistakes which I was roughly, and I would stage being older w a family lmao.

[Sodors Finest Poster]

I remember my uncle from the mainland arriving on Sodor with a birthday gift for me. After opening it I noticed on the box it mentioned a subscription being required.

I figured what the hell, its not like there's anything to do on Sodor other than go to the cinema which provides less monthly entertainment for more money.

Fast forward several years and here I am.

[Trelaboon]

I remember my buddy being an upper 40's Wizard right after Kunark launched and I pretty much thought he was gods gift to Norrath (which is funny because he was a fat nerdy kid two years younger than me in real life). I was in my early 20's at the time as a Druid and I wanted his GEBs so so bad. He eventually invited me over to stay the night and said he'd spend the whole night in an Efreeti group trying to get me a pair. I remember sitting there leaning over his shoulder, watching him camp Efreeti for like 12 hours and we never got a pair. We saw like 6 rings which he kept saying was amazing because they were the rate drop and I just took his word for it. Everyone in the group got a ring but we never saw boots. He did eventually get me some GEBs though, I was so proud.

[John Stark]

I don't know if it qualifies as a "crazy thing EQ made me do back in the day," but here goes.

My first and main character until PoP was a wizard (when I switched to an SK and my wife switched to Shammy). I wanted Jboots some something fierce so I could kite more effectively (was still too low level for quad kiting), and had camped the ancient cyclops numerous times, and no luck after weeks and weeks of trying.

One night I got the ancient cyclops camp to myself, but it was hairy because I was at knife's edge of being able to kill him solo due to my level and gear. A guild mate had nothing better to do and offered to camp it with me, and we got to chatting.

We stayed up all night (both of us being on Eastern time) talking about this and that under the sun, but still no drop for the boot quest. I was probably camped there for 20 hours at that point.

We had decided that we were going to call it a night, but then changed our minds and waited for one last ancient cyclops kill. Sure enough, he dropped the ring and I was the proud owner of jboots to go with my clicky pull stick (Staff of Temperate Flux).

Not the longest camp I'm sure in EQ history, but it was rewarding as hell back in the day!

[Nobile03]

camped stormfeather for 20 hours straight.

stole my dads credit card info so i could have an eq account

i was in hs so i would wait till my dad would go to sleep and play all night...never got much sleep.

fell asleep in front of the computer a few times on tov raids

[Qtip]

Take everything off my character and ground transfer. Then delete the character. Call up verant and tell them I deleted the wrong character. I would have to call a couple times to get the right person to do it.
Log in and my character would be fully geared. Sell that shit and put gear back on. I had to do this 4-5 times easy.

[Pope Hat]

During the first double experience eq ever had I camped pofire for 60 consecutive hours with my guild. It was amazing I think I got 400 aa's.