When was your first experience with Everquest?

[teganyavo]

I went to a buddy's house when I was ~12, and he made me a dark elf rogue, and bet me $1 I couldn't find the way to the forest before he got out of the shower. I lost $1 that day.

[Magonian]

Yup ole timer did the 98 beta,,,

[LordAlpha]

I had my EQ cherry popped on august 12th (ish) of 2009. A friend I met online gaming in a different venue told me about EQ and this free server, and convinced me to join. My first was a paly not a win. My second was a mage and I have 8 alts from that point.

[Slaine]

I played it like a week after release on my bros account for about 3 hours then went out and bought it the next day.. was and still is my favorite MMO

[Dyrkoon]

Started On Vallon 2 weeks after kunark was released
The next 6 years was all a blur ~

[Vespur]

Been watching my step dad play since EQ classic... started playing around 2002 maybe earlier? ever since then been playing eq till today.. now looking to play the basics agian with my spare time in college since my computer cant hold EQ+expansions for live =p

Started with a druid on Sullon Zek, switched to Rallos Zek, then eventually all the pvp servers got merged to just Zek.. Pretty much all my family used to play, my mom, stepdad, bro, both step sisters, and step brother.. now its just me, my mom, and step dad...Mom is the leader of one of the top guilds on the pvp sever... i have many characters though.. 85 druid/85 warrior/85 shadowknight/70 wizard/70 necro/78 necro/67 rogue/ 65 beserker.. and thats just on Zek.. heh

Lookin forward to playing classic eq

http://eqplayers.station.sony.com/ch...d=631360238790

[Darkforge]

I remember when I first started EQ it was Aug. 1999. My friend called me over to his house and said to me "check this game out" I played it for about 15 min and i was hooked. I was lets see....15 years old and spent my money i saved up to get it. Also i was on AOL (ubor dialup) LOL. I made my Human Paladin. In Qenyos.

I will have to say, i had some of the best times i think i have ever had while playing EQ. I know it sounds nurdy but im sure there are some people that agree. . .

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[Alelo]

I was 14 years old, it was November of 1999. I had read about Everquest on its main site, god I loved the original site with the music playing and everything. I had decided on what race and class to play, so that when I finally saved up enough money to buy it and convinced my parents to let me use their credit card, I got it. I was the youngest of three, so I generally got to play new games last, but this time, I said "I picked the game, I paid for it, and I'm going to be paying the $10 a month to my parents, I'm going first."

I created Alelo, the Wood Elf Druid who promptly died of a fatal fall. Oh Kelethin (I was a little disappointed when I started here next to the PoD, but loving it so far!). So my hour of play time had finished and it was my brother's turn to play. He created a Dark Elf Shadowknight. He had finally found his way out of the maze city Neriak when I let him know his hour was up, he glared at me as if though I was a demon out to steal his soul. I let him play for a little more (turns out our oldest brother wasn't interested). Since he was going to be off to school a couple of hours away and my oldest brother not playing, I had the game all to myself.

I eventually remade my druid and named the new incarnation Aleloh. I remember how I moved items from the original to the new one, finding a safe spot away from people and dropping everything on the ground [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]. I had joined a guild by then in 2000, Azure Guard on Veeshan, the only guild I had ever been a part of in EQ and I stayed in it until I quit for good in 2004. In fact, if I were to log into EQLive with either my druid or beastlord, they'll still have that tag on their head. Thinking about my history in EQ made me realize, I never actually got to the level cap with my druid, despite playing it for the better part of two years (I got to 50 or late 40s, don't remember). In December, 2001 when Shadow of Luclin came out, I switched mains to a Vah Shir Beastlord. I LOVED the Beastlord, absolutely loved it. I was a fan of LDoN and its dungeons, but my interested had started waning. By the release of GoD, I had pretty much stopped enjoying the game. Shortly after OoW and not playing for weeks at a time, I cancelled my account for good.

I remember little tidbits of my time in EQ way back when. I was in South Karana and seeing it filled with people, then RoK was released and it was empty. I remember losing *two* levels on a spectacularly bad day in LoIO. The first time I stepped on the snow covered continent of Velious and seeing the gigantic bridge in Iceclad Ocean. My brother coming home from college with a binder full of Casters' Realm printouts and EQAtlas printouts.

[Danyelle]

Started EQ as a shitty ranger in 1999 at 10 or so years old. Couldn't focus on anything at that age. Spent the entire Classic-Kunark-Velious expansions basically just killing greens in Blackburrow because it was fun and I had some sort of fascination with Gnolls (Still love em).

Didn't really start playing (AKA it didn't take over my life) until I saw a mage with a gnoll pet (Monster Summoning) running around South Karana. Camped and rerolled a mage. Been one ever since. This was within the first week or two of Luclin.

So I suppose for me, technically since Classic, legitimately since Luclin.

[zaraax]

Sorry Batkiller but paying for the game doesn't entitle you to high end zones.... that requires effort. I played maybe March 1999 through till I retred when they put hosuing in the game with House of Thule in 2010. I made a b-line straight for p1999. First character was my high elf cleric (why did i do that?) who eneded up being my main and kept him as an active raider for many years. i raided pretty much everything to PoP. Yes, the high end raid guilds controlled it, but let's be honest..we worked our keisters off flagging, so imho we earned the right. He ended up continuing to raid till 80 then it got silly with guild politics so i retired him and rolled a rog who continued on till 86 till i retired him. Why did I choose to roll a cleric again? because im insane I guess...