Free grand in plat for a newcomer

[AxerJ]

Xathinos, 24 (as of today) wizard. Adding to all the other newbs in their appreciation, thanks very much! Will make leveling this character and my 11 Shadow Knight much more fun. Thanks again!

Edit: I'm logging on right now. I'll also be on the lookout for Nastinate - Trusted or Fabumbus in game, I believe..?

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

Greeeaater Faaaydaarrk! I can't help but prefer High Elves as a main, and I've never gotten past level 23 - so I've spent a lot of my played time in GFay. I have two especially memorable newb experiences.

One cool newbie memory comes from my experience playing my wizard, who is my main, level 23, and who I plan to continue to the far reaches this game has to offer, when he was level 3. I thought I should really try to turn in black wolf skins and bat wings to the caster GMs in Felwithe for phat xp, but they were both dropping really rarely. Of course, I found out later that those quests give next to no xp even at level 3, but I was still determined to hand in stacks and xp efficiently (noob mind there - and I only realized that turning in bone chips actually WAS awesome xp in Felwithe a lot later). So I was Shock of Frosting and daggering these individual bats and wolves, and getting very few quest drops. Pretty slow, and even though I was 3 it seemed the xp was moving SO SLOWLY.

By then, though, I had bought just one other spell - Numbing Cold, which, though I didn't know it at the time, is a radiating aoe for level 1 wizards. I didn't know what it did, and tried it out. Ok, an azure blue particle-y cylinder rising upward from the enemy, looks pretty awesome! I'm a badass wizard, summoning this blue magic upward at the enemy! But then I realized - this spell icon is a different color. This is a freaking area effect spell. At level 3 I was able to take a bunch of hits from bats, wasps, and wolves without too much issue. So I decided to try something awesome, not knowing if I could survive it - I hit a bat, ran to another, hit it, ran to a wasp, hit it, hit a wolf, ran past any wasps I could see because I found out they have a hive mind and aggro you if one of their drones is already on you, and hit another bat. I had like 7 mobs hitting me. Moment of truth comes - I try casting Numbing Cold to take em all out.
..interrupted. Of course, they're hitting me all the time. But I was able to regain my concentration better than I would've thought, and I was able to smoke down a bunch at once! Holy shit, that was cool! AND, it was a lot more fun than going from single to single. AND, I was able to collect way more loot at once.
This seems like a no-brainer, but to my newb-addled mind it was a breakthrough and kind of a triumph. I was able to run around, loving aggroing the wasps so easily, and level through to 4 in no time. I think I kept doing it and got to 5 that way, and was able to turn in a bunch of bat wings and wolf skins for the pitiful xp they awarded. So that was just a really fun level, felt awesome and was fun using ae wizard power on all the Felwithe-garden mobs in GFay. Of course, that was like the last time I used any area effect spells - I hope to again someday...


Another memory comes from when I played in the year 2000, and involves GFay - but I was actually trying to run from Felwithe to Freeport. I was a newb High Elven mage, let's say level 8.

I had found something on the ground, I think - I don't remember what it was. Maybe a mob dropped it, but I can't think what it'd be. Everyone was using the auction channel in GFay back then, and I wanted to be cool and do it too - this thing I had found wasn't like anything else I had seen, I remember that much. So I auctioned it, trying to be cool. PST. After a little while, I was kind of shocked to see someone actually DID send me a tell, and THEY SAID THEY WANTED TO BUY THE THING FOR LIKE 50 PLAT. Or something like that. I was really, really excited. Also, I was 10 years old. So that was something really exciting for a kid who had somehow managed to get to level 8, had no real idea how to play this game seriously, and had never walked out of GFay. And there came the tricky part. The buyer wanted to buy it in Freeport, for some reason - it doesn't make sense now, considering he must've been in GFay to hear the auction (unless auctions weren't restricted to just that zone back then?), but that's what it was. He wanted me to meet him in Freeport and sell it to him for HUGE OMG PLAT, as far as my young mind was concerned.

I had never been to Freeport or even outside of GFay, as I said. But, I had watched as my older brother ran from Felwithe to Butcherblock, past Kaladim, stood at the docks, and spent a pretty cool amount of time on the boat before reaching Freeport. I had seen him do it. He wasn't around, but I could do it. It was the only chance I had to make like 50 plat, and that seemed like a huge amount. So I set off. I remembered where my brother had run, and I followed the GFay trail until it let me to a new zone. OK! I zoned in. It was another forest. OK... I didn't really remember the details of how Butcherblock looked, but I was going to make it to the docks, damnit! I continued on the trail. It'd lead me there. Which way to turn at the dwarven outpost somewhere in the middle of the zone, I thought to myself? I think turn right? I continued along, feeling nervous as I continued, because something seemed different - quieter, not as open, not as sunny as the impression I had of the route... kind of tense and scary. I kept going. Then HIT!
HIT! A brownie hits you for 43 damage!
A brownie slaps you for 58 damage!
WTF?!
A brownie slaps you for 870 damage!
That's what it seemed like.
You have died!

...NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! - went my thoughts, my hopes, my dream of running to Freeport and making 50 shiny platinum to buy all the spells I needed and maybe a staff, and still have plenty!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
I still remember the horrible feeling of loss, death, knowing I'd never be able to get my corpse without dying again, not knowing where I went wrong, thinking I had just permanently lost my character and the rare chance to make 50 PLATINUM. PLATINUM. I was distraught. I may have cried a little. It was like trying to do something, thinking you could though you weren't totally sure how to do it, going the wrong way, and dying. I never talked to the person I was supposed to meet in Freeport. I don't think I ever even played that character again. That High Elven mage, my very first character in EQ EVER, died that day. The brownies scoured his bones and ate his flesh, and they had victory. Oh also, I thought at the time that if we died on a corpse run, our original corpse would be overriden by our naked corpse - so I felt that if we died on the cr, our original items would be permanently deleted. Aaand I still thought that until about level 10 or so on my current character, now. Haha! That was quite a relief finding out that mechanic, made corpse runs MUCH less scary.

So those are my two memorable newb GFay experiences, one recent, one 15 years old. I really like the zone in general - it's green, mysterious, misty, roaming orc-y, waspy, tree-city-y with great music, has awesome wizard spires that seemed massive and impenetrable when I was 10 years old, is such a friendly, safe, comforting place to level up to 8 or so before heading in to Crushbone, and used to be auction central, or so it seemed. Also, shouting "ding!" was thing that seemed totally normal. I'll always like this zone a lot - it seems like home, as far as any zone in Everquest can seem like that.


I typed a lot, that may have been tedious to read, especially the first story! But those are two memorable newb experiences I've had in what is likely the best starter zone in the game.

[ronasch]

People writing essays for 1k plat lol what whores!

[haaschnp]

What's the first thing you think of when you think High Elf? Snooty, better than thou attitude veiling a true desire to see good prevail.
What's the first thing you think of when you think Paladin? Snooty, better than thou attitude veiling a true desire to see good prevail.
Why not both?

Having never gotten to truly play Everquest back when it first came out, it was a joy to see P99 start up. Live doesn't cut it for me; Shards of Dalaya was nice....kind of but there was something missing.

Finally I found the free time to get everything set up for P99. I stuck with my plan for a High Elf Paladin, though the world would surely ridicule me. And if I could make it to the top all the more reason to be snooty - though I don't much RP actually happens here.

Still started the character up. Greater Faydark. Faeries zipping past getting their faerie dust in my eyes. Bats flying around randomly. Skeletons ambling through trees. It was glorious. I managed to survive to level two with no deaths. Great!

I found a quest from the druid guild to bring back rusty weapons. Silly elves....not carrying the weapons I needed.....silly skeletons not carrying the weapons i needed...guess I'll take a boat.

On the boat to freeport. Things are going good. get to freeport, pick up said weapons and back on boat.

Crap. Need to log out. Life intervened with the sweet addiction. There was just one problem. I didn't realize that logging off on a boat was a bad idea.

Logged back in and I'm in the Ocean, praying a shark don't eat my skinny elf bottom.
After several questions asked and answered via /ooc and a repeated use of /loc I managed to swim myself to an island. My swimming is up to 24 by the way. Yah.....that felt like a wasted evening. No XP. No sights. No nothing but swimming...when I got to the island I had to wait for the boat which never seem to come at the few brief times I could log on. So to keep fro getting board I got a fishing pole. And some bait. My fishing skill is up to 8. Well, I've got that going for me, which is nice.

And I loved it. Looking back it was wonderful and ridiculous, yah several nights that could have been spent leveling were spent swimming or standing on a dock waving at the NPC's but it was fun because I could laugh at myself and the snooty-tooty grin that is creeping across this bound and determined High Elves bony face.

Yah....I may suck at this game, but I'm having a blast. So here's to you Ocean of Tears. The time spent there was great. I loved. I cried. I spilled some coke on my desk. Ocean of Tears, you are aptly named.

p.s. I eventually logged on in time to nab a boat and am happily back in Gfay and at level three. It's pathetic after two weeks, but it's glorious.

High Elf Paladin, Fiyerro. Look out. He's coming like a snail through molasses to bring down Tunare's justice on all that bad asses.

[surf3001x]

I originally tried P99 years ago and quit lol, but I came back recently and started leveling again. Anyhow here's my awkward noob story :P


My first and only female character in any MMORPG.

Like 99% of the online player base, I am a male.

My first MMO being EQ1, I made a human female monk, as my buddy at the time said it was the best because "You can look at their butts while you run" (mind you I'm 12 or 13?).

I level up slowly in EFP and then Nro and at lv8 or 9 got a group doing dervs. It went fine until two players joined the group and it got...weird.

I'm trying to remember exactly but I know the aggressor was a dwarf and his lackey was a high elf I think? Anyways ole Dwarfy decides I'm an attractive female (blonde human model) and gives me a derv ring saying "here you go gorgeous". I was like "Oh yeah I like watching the females butts when they run too" thinking he meant that? Nope, this guy harrasses me for the next 45 mins or so hardcore RPing for my love.

His lackey is sending me tells about how much the dwarf likes me and we make a great couple?

Eventually the dwarf RP proposes to me, and being incredibly uncomfortable I quickly /q and didn't play for weeks.

I eventually came back to EQ and rolled a MALE dwarf cleric. I haven't to this day played a female character in any game since.

Oh and my buddy told me later he played dumb and enjoyed the benefits of getting free items etc from dudes in-game while playing a female character. I know he wasn't the only guy who "RP'd".

[Hogmunch]

cool o fu to do this

[kingchad911]

Greenloaf here, short story . i intend to write a better one when i have more time.

The loaf appeared inside of oggok, the ogre homelands fortress city. Loafman always feeling the calling of the shaman sought out the guildmaster and delivered his notice of fealty. The master welcomed the loaf with a weary eye, and open arms. Sensing great powers hidden deep inside this student,he presented greenloaf with a mud stained tunic so that all may know his allegiance. From that day forth Loaf strived to be the best shaman there was, late nights researching and learning from the great shamans past. his own Ancestors contacted him from the beyond and bestowed upon him the great lost knowledge of the Shaman. teaching him secrets known only to the most trusted of all the Heyokah. The True Spirit grew stronger in him everyday. The places Loaf visted most are the feerot and the deserts of ro.

"Breaks into song."

The oasis is where he spent most of his days ,
chilling out maxxing relaxing all cool, try'n kill the croc'a'dials in the tidal pool.
Got in one little duel and my guild got scared, said your hunting in Lake of ill omen from now on in s t e ad..
So I headed to the Docks like i Don't care,
The boat was just arriving to take me to the overthere,
Once aboard, Sigh of relief , no wait at all, the raft took off down the coastline wall,

About Face once more to wave good bye, but whats this i see out the corner of my eye.

I look out and with great Fight, Cazel is wigging out on those hater's and smashing them together like toys, To his delight..

He ate the cleric first, the ranger got it worst, the mage just almost got away..
This is what happens when you mess with primal forces, and the agents of the spirits, or Greenloaf anyways! 8P

The ballad of greenloaf the shaman. I have to run to work, i'm sorry i could not edit this properly. Short on time. i hope you enjoyed the first half of my ballad!

[Dagavis]

My favorite newb zone has to be Butcherblock Mountains. I remember making my first dwarf cleric by the name of Brewbeard back on live.

I walked out onto the hillside in front of Kaladim and looked back upon the craft work of my fellow dwarves and it was amazing! what a beautiful monument to dwarven kind. As I was gazing upon the statues i was struck down by a oversized chicken! Darn Aviaks! After looting my corpse I went to work gaining experience and strength. This place was wonderous. It had all sorts of creatures from your typical vermin to Orcs blazing down the paths carrying messages for only the Duke of Below might know. Upon further exploration I found goblins a plenty to beat down, even some living under the water by the docks... durned gobbies were everywhere. Not to mention a gigantic chessboard full of abominations waiting to be destroyed with my holy powers.

What an experience! I will always hold a spot in my heart for that zone. I am also at work, so no pictures [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Faldain 18 Shaman

[kallit]

I just figured out that this site is not blocked at my school. I'm a very young player that wasn't even born when EQ came out. my dad was addicted and a hardcore raider and he showed me a lot of the other games like LOTRO and SWTOR and WOW but he always said nothing came close to classic EQ.

He found this server a few months ago and we have been playing on it together. I love this game too. I made an ogre shaman and my dad got me a port to Neriak to team up and we have made level 15. I die a lot because I forgot that the guards don't like me outside of Nektokulos. I have been playing in befallen and love that zone. Its fun even when my dad isn't there people group with me and I have learned my way around and have all the keys. Some people have given me some armor and stuff too.

I like Befallen because I have to duck to get through doors and stuff and its more realistic than other games where people run through me. Its a challenging zone where you have to pull carefully and work as a team. Everyone I have met in there is super nice and I got to help someone else out yesterday who had never been in there and was lost. It was so much fun.

My hardest kill in there so far has been an icebone skeleton. it nuked me really hard with some frost spell and I was so close to dying it made the victory great.

[Dagavis]

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

My favorite newb zone has to be Butcherblock Mountains. I remember making my first dwarf cleric by the name of Brewbeard back on live.

I walked out onto the hillside in front of Kaladim and looked back upon the craft work of my fellow dwarves and it was amazing! what a beautiful monument to dwarven kind. As I was gazing upon the statues i was struck down by a oversized chicken! Darn Aviaks! After looting my corpse I went to work gaining experience and strength. This place was wonderous. It had all sorts of creatures from your typical vermin to Orcs blazing down the paths carrying messages for only the Duke of Below might know. Upon further exploration I found goblins a plenty to beat down, even some living under the water by the docks... durned gobbies were everywhere. Not to mention a gigantic chessboard full of abominations waiting to be destroyed with my holy powers.

What an experience! I will always hold a spot in my heart for that zone. I am also at work, so no pictures [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Faldain 18 Shaman

Thanks for the consolation prizes, you are a hero to us newbs [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Schnappi]

which server is this contest for?