Green Class Distribution

[Zuranthium]

Originally Posted by DMN [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Everfrost was and still is absolute hairyass. Back then people were much more focused on how their characters looked and it heavily influenced not just race selection but class selection. A lot of people full intended to RP their characters from day one and derp captain cave maaaan! didn't exactly appeal to them. And night blindness was a big, big thing back then, especially in everfrost and especially for a newb with limited game knowledge.

Barbarians weren't "derp derp cave men", where you are pulling this bullshit from? That was not their lore and they had a very strong, outdoorsy look that appealed to plenty of people; Viking-esque or Game of Thrones-esque. It was quite an alpha male look, and female Barbarian characters were definitely admired (to say the least) for their very Hooters-esque features.

Everfrost was an amazing starting area, one of the best RPG experiences I've ever had, and same for most other people who got hooked on the game starting out there, when the zone was fully alive. Everything felt like a real adventure, it was so damn immersive and filled with suspense, and the Barbarian community banded together tightly and were spread throughout the zone. That right there was pretty much the height of the entire MMORPG genre to date. The difficulty of that starting area was just a good lesson for what was to come in EQ anyway. Other people who played Elves or whatnot missed out on some pretty crucial experiences, about how to survive in the game world, and were often worse players once they did move out of their safer spot.

Yeah, the night blindness was extremely difficult, but it was also galvanizing and added memorable scenarios and depth to the gameplay. Your argument that most people didn't play Barbarian because of night blindness does not hold water. Humans were by far the most popular race in the game and suffered from the same thing. I don't recall corpses decaying faster at lower levels either (and I'm quite sure that after no more than 4-5 months into the game's lifespan, all corpses were lasting for a week)? Most of the time I got my corpse within a day anyway, but I remember one time I lost it for longer than that in some Everfrost passageway I wasn't familiar with, and I was SO overjoyed when I eventually found it after thinking it would just be lost. Learning the lay of the land through these kinds of experiences was a pivotal part of what made Everquest such a powerful game.