When was your first experience with Everquest?

[Kevynne]

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I started mid kunark. Made a high elf cleric. Got to about 15 and headed off to the commons for my first trip to EC. The chat spammed by so fast, it seemed. It was a surreal experience. Then next thing i knew, people were just giving me stuff. I was like" this game is great people help each other out". then i met a friend of mine and we discovered I was a female high elf. I never saw the male/female tab. It was a good laugh. Being a female toon got me free stuff.

pree much my sole reason for rolling female toons.
plus most male avatars SUCK.

[Theta]

My older brother got into EQ when I was in 5th grade because of a few of his friends. We shared an account for about a year before he drifted away from the game, and the account effectively became mine.

Some of my best memories from middle school involved playing EQ with my friends, especially when Kunark was released. My dad had just upgraded us from dial-up to cable, and it became something of a new game because of it. I remember the Kunark box came with that cloth map that I held onto for many years and is now probably somewhere crumpled up in my attic, sadly. I also remember getting the official Kunark strategy guide for my birthday. Looking back on it, I'm not sure why anyone would want a watered-down EQ strategy guide...

One of my fondest memories was during Kunark era, I believe, when there was an event in Qeynos Hills that filled the zone with mass amounts of undead, including massive skeletons. We were all like level 9 so we just kind of ran around dying over and over, hoping to get some free stuff from the lvl 60's that began filling the zone. The utter mystery and fear that originally made this game so epic has waned a bit.

My main was a 65 high elf enchanter on Cazic-Thule named Yuroshi.

[EVocati]

I started playing EQ about 2 months after it went live and got my first account in October of the same year. Veteran all the way.

[Nirgon]

Got a mage to lvl 8 on the Tunare server. Found my way into Lavastorm, died to a pair of red con fire elementals while burning down a fire drake.

Decided I wanted a wizard and the fact I couldn't attack other players (hey I was a dark race) was kinda gimp.

From there? I logged into Rallos Zek for what was undoubtedly the most unique and best experience I think I'll ever have in an MMO.

[diplo]

i saw my brother play this game on our shitty 56k when i was like 11 years old. my first glimpse - he was in qhills at night time and it looked damn frightening...he let me hit the 1 key to kill a large bat. i thought the game was dumb.

2 weeks later, he made me an erudite mage and brought him to qeynos and i thoroughly enjoyed killing fire beetles, rats, etc...I got him to lvl 20, got a robe of the elements and went to oasis, then our 56k couldn't handle it anymore so we quit til we got cable a few years later...still a fond memory.

[Kevynne]

nice xD

[choklo]

I started on the first week of August 1999 on the Brell Server. I picked it since it was the top of the list. It was the best game I had every played, and my first MMO. I quit after PoP, but EQ will always be my first love MMO.

[Kevynne]

i picked veeshan, it was last on list and it had a cool anem ;3

[lolondar]

Beta my mom was part of it and I played then was lolondar of immy forever was 8 or 9 first time lol

[kriton]

As a vet eq player remembering where everthing is is fun and all the things we killed and did.