How do I make this god-forsaken game fun for my GF?

[Swish]

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

Seriously, go visit monuments....

words fail me Heallun [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[HeallunRumblebelly]

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

words fail me Heallun [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

What's up swish?

[Tecmos Deception]

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

What's up swish?

I think he was overcome with joy at your advice to tour the great sights of Norrath [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Erydan Ouragan]

Heallun's suggestion is good.

For me though, the real fun in EQ comes from the relationships. In the 12 years i've been playing online computer games, EQ comes out on top everytime. Not because of the gameplay itself, but because of the extremely lasting and powerful relationship you forge with the people you meet in the game.

An EQ bro (or sis) is like having a bro in prison or in the army. They have your back and you have theirs no matter what. In any other game you'll get matched with a group of strangers, clear the instance and never see them again.

So my advice is to socialize and meet new people. When you meet some really cool and funny people that dick around and joke in group chat, time will fly by and she'll have a good time. If you do it right, one day she will log on and say something like "I hope Grimblod and Sazzerx are online tonight they were so funny the other night in X zone!".

And when that happens, the game will start to be fun for your GF.

[Softcore PK]

You're playing on the wrong server. Women need pvp or they get bored.

[Jorgam]

Lol. Just dropping in to say, Lojik, your sig is fucking hilarious!

[Swish]

I'd agree with that, except the loot hoarders and people who only type to tell you about their recreational drug habits [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Corbin]

We just did this.

Pit got too boring for us too. We came into Kurns when I (monk) hit 8 and she (shammy) was 7. I had a jade mace mh and empty oh. I was wearing the newbie curscale armor. She had some Rhino Hide mixed with badger armor and her newbie weapon. We could kill an occasional greater with some risk. Did fine hunting scalebones for a couple levels.

We moved downstairs around 16 and camped her Iksar Berserker Club. Went kos to badegers ... think I saw faction hits on the Thickboned PH for the Jester.

We're in the tunnels now below Kurns and it seems like good xp to us. Typing this while my wife is medding. CR can be a drag. We'll stay until stuff go's light blue I think.

I've never played a monk before. My wife was a shammy 10 years ago on live.

Shaman are busy. Lots of supporting other characters who do stuff. Buffing them, weakening the mobs they fight, healing them. Once she gets canni she will be even busier. When my wife raided the tells never stopped and our guild was very rich in shammage. This supportive and hard working play style suit's my wife, but, I'd probably find it onerous.

I did roll a shammy here and recently finished running him through Kurns. I started my ogre there at 11. He only soloed till 19 and left, but, got lucky with a wand which is why the monk has one jade mace. Shamans are very neat and I'm nostalgic for them, despite having only occasionally boxed my wife's character in late night groups after she became too tired. I'm not sure I'd enjoy their role full time in groups and raids though.

Some caster oriented duos might be more fun for her. We have a low level chanter/druid combo which seems powerful and fun. We're old and slow moving tank and spank types from way back though.

[Erydan Ouragan]

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

I'd agree with that, except the loot hoarders and people who only type to tell you about their recreational drug habits [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Those people are necessary, imo.

Loot hoarders and other general assholes that you meet make it that once you find someone really nice and get along with them, you notice it even more.

It is after it's been raining for 2 weeks straight that you notice how nice the sun feels on your skin.

You have to sift through a ton of rocks to find a diamond.

And other various pseudo-philosophical catchphrases.

[Ahldagor]

you don't. take eq to be your personal time away from her that allows you to reflect upon your relationship passively. if you intermingle her into every fabric of your life then you'll soon tire of each other and slowly nurture a hatred that can only be calmed by an argument and make up sex. then after years of this cycle apathy will set in leading to a divorce of sorts and custody battles over everything because she is a possessive type trying to control you.