First EQ Memory

[Susvain2]

Made a wood elf ranger, got it to lvl 7. Took alot of time. I put alot of time in, i use to beg high level players for plat at the orc lift. A wood elf druid gave me 10pp. And i also managed to get a full set of banded armor. I was 11 or 12years old at the time u can imagine my excitement. I looked so cool. One day at the entrance to crushbone a guy offered to trade me a green jade broad sword for my full set of banded. I agreed because that weapon looked so cool. So i put all of my items in trade and he put like a rusty 2hander in window and i didnt check. Trade went through and im stuck wit no gear. I was devastated. Quit and rerolled my dorf war and that became my main

[NegaStoat]

The game had been out for about 2 months when friends of mine that I table top gamed with screamed at me "buy it! it's AD&D Online! mostly!"

I worked at a mall then and I had my computer with me to screw around with when no one was looking, so I bought a copy from the Gamestop. I installed it, but had no access to internet (couldn't block the company phone line). I played through the tutorial twice and thought it was amazing.

Got home, my friends told me they rolled dwarves / wood & high elves, so I rolled a high elf magician (because I choose you, Goner!). Tons of people screaming about being broke and not able to afford spells, and I was packing 4 slot mage bags x5 and 3 backpacks for rusties, cloth armor, and CB belt loot while I was bound at something called Orc Lift.

I felt so badass and rich.

[Ikonoclastia]

Getting lost in Neriak trying to find my spells. Then realising once I got them you got points for casting them (abjuration etc). Before I went to bed I got one of those little electric motors, taped it to my desk with a flexible plastic stick attached and had it hitting my mouse casting spells all night... didn't realise it was capped at (5) at level 1.

On PvP Tallon I think, it was some nice person giving me a robe from befallen and thinking yeah baby! about 2 seconds later being burned down by a wizard... running back to body and my robe was gone....!

[Bill Tetley]

not being able to see a damn thing on my monitor while the sun was glaring on the crt screen while playing a human. cranked the gamma and created a whole system of card board boxes to block out the sun so I could at least see a little bit...

[HawkMasterson1999]

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

not being able to see a damn thing on my monitor while the sun was glaring on the crt screen while playing a human. cranked the gamma and created a whole system of card board boxes to block out the sun so I could at least see a little bit...

LMAO, I did the same thing. Almost forgot about that cardboard tunnel around my monitor to block out the early morning sun.

[Millburn]

My first memory was back in phase 2 of beta. A real life friend of mine was in beta with me and we both started in Qeynos. We were running around in Qeynos Hills when we spotted a Wisp. Well...not sure if you guys are familiar with wisps in UO or not but we had about a 5 minute long debate on if we should try and kill it or not (nevermind con's as this point). Fun times arguing while trying to keep pace with it and not get ourselves killed by wandering bears and gnolls.

In the end we attacked it and found out the importance of magic weapons early on in EQ.

[Invoke]

I remember making a human warrior named Copen because I was chewing Copenhagen back then. After finally finding the newbie yard I started "helping" people kill their mobs. Didn't understand you had to be grouped and I remember one female human that got super pissed off and started shouting in zone how I was a KSing asshole. Somebody told her to shut up because I was just a newb and helped explain the game to me. They even sharpened my rusty sword and gave me some leather which I would later lose on a corpse in EC lol.

[Shamalam]

Roll barb rogue. Get lost in Halas for an hour. See lake with a raft coming towards me! Freedom! Somehow miss the raft and fall in water. No idea how to swim. Drown. LOADING PLEASE WAIT...

[Millburn]

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

Roll barb rogue. Get lost in Halas for an hour. See lake with a raft coming towards me! Freedom! Somehow miss the raft and fall in water. No idea how to swim. Drown. LOADING PLEASE WAIT...

I had a buddy have a similar experience happen to him in Neriak. He got lost in there for HOURS, I mean pure frustration lost. He would take little breaks to log off and call me on the phone. He eventually got out and as soon as he did he ran to the left coming out and fell into the river. Died to a piranha or something while he was in the process of drowning. He immediately logged off and never played again. Poor guy really missed out haha

[Jimjam]

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

I had a buddy have a similar experience happen to him in Neriak. He got lost in there for HOURS, I mean pure frustration lost. He would take little breaks to log off and call me on the phone. He eventually got out and as soon as he did he ran to the left coming out and fell into the river. Died to a piranha or something while he was in the process of drowning. He immediately logged off and never played again. Poor guy really missed out haha

EQ really does try its best to make you quit from day 1.

Maybe we should just take the hint? lol