My newb story, I started a Rogue on VZ when it first came live, I think it was June or something. I was a halfelf rogue in Kelethin and I thought I knew all there was to know about role playing games because I beat FF7 with no walkthrough and both the optional bosses (Emerald and Ruby weapons). I got to level 5 killing trash at newb lift and then I stopped leveling, I killed and killed and killed and I couldn't level, I was pissed. I knew nothing about the con system so I didn't know that killing greens and greys was basically getting me nowhere. I played for about 6 weeks and got so frustrated at being level 5 I quit. I deleted that damn rogue and uninstalled EQ.
It was some time in 2000 that I finally started playing again, Kunark had just been released. I decided to make a ranger this time. A ranger with charisma so I could make better deals with the merchants... This time I read about the game a little and figured out I need to con mobs to make sure I get exp. I leveled through Gfay, to BB, and finally off to the Commonlands and I decide to swim to Freeport. I didn't know you couldn't swim across zone lines, so I swam and swam and swam, finally I started tracking the boat, thinking maybe I just wasn't taking the right path (my sense heading was shit at the time). I caught up with the boat and got hung up on the geometry of it somehow, my character zoned with the boat. So at this point I think I can still swim zone lines, I eventually make it to Freeport and decide since I'm on a roll I'll swim to the new land of Kunark. So I turn around from Freeport, head back to tracking the boat and get restuck on the boat zone and keep going, I did this all the way to OOT. Finally I get sick of swimming about 4 hours later and caught the boat to TD. I got stuck on this boat too, no idea how I kept managing it. After a long journey I decided to check out that passage in FV at the bottom of one of the docks, I can't even remember where it was but I ended up drowning in it and went all the way back Kelethin.
My only other newb story is that when I started that ranger I joined a roleplaying guild. But I didn't know they were roleplaying other than they said weird old English shit like ye and thee. I basically knew nothing of guilds, they made me the "Baroness of West Commonlands", I went to WC, our guild policy was to help people in 'your' land, so I ran around helping people who were having problems in WC telling them I was the Baroness of WC. Everyone thought I was crazy because they asked if I was RPing and I said no, I'm the actual baroness. I thought I had real power... it's kind of sad now that I think about it, especially since this went on for almost a week.
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08-27-2011, 10:43 PM
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