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03-09-2012, 01:28 PM
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Interesting that many people grumbled about the death penalties in EQ, but if it weren't for that fear of losing XP and corpse runs that came with it, would the excitement of adventuring a new area be as ingrained in our memories?
Adventuring new places was exciting and dangerous, and was never taken lightly. Seeing other players and their unique look or gear because it wasn't as easy as 1-2-3 poof new gear, it took time and a lot of luck to acquire many items in game. My first eq experience came at the request of a friend, after playing diablo and similar games, he had stumbled on some friends playing EQ and he got hooked, then showed it to me one day, so I bought it. When dicussing classes he suggested a Paladin because they are warrior and cleric built into one(of course now we know it wasn't that easy). So I started my human Paladin in Freeport. Stumbled around lost for a while trying to figure out who I was supposed to talk to and how to find them. Spent much time killing rats by the WFP gates. I think it took me like 2-3 hours to get to lvl 3. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] FInally my buddy called and said he was loggin on. I told him I was in a place called West Freeport near an arch with some guards. He said he knew where I was and would be there shortly. I continued fighting for about 20-30 mins, even stumbled on EC at one point and got my butt killed, so stayed near WFP. As I'm fighting an orc I suddenly see spell effects around me, but I hadn't cast an heals on me. Finished my orc and ran off for th next one, and was like Whoa!!! I'm way faster, then I saw my buddy standing nearby, along with a pretty druid friend, who apparently had just cast SoW on me. She threw a few more buffs on me and sent me a guild invite(although i had no idea what that was about at the time). She then said her goodbyes and my friend shadowed me while I spent the next few hours killing, as he was around a level 19 warrior at the time. Took me quite some time to get levels up to group with those folks, but they would occasionally show up and assist me and whomever I was grouped with at the time.
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03-09-2012, 01:31 PM
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So, continuing on to chapter 4...
4. Having more or less becoming familiar with Qeynos Hills, I grew increasingly upset about my warrior combat abilities. The mobs that I could kill easily no longer gave any good XP, and those that did would beat the living crap out of me, so I would have to sit and wait for health to recover what seem to be hours and hours.... At this time it occurred to me, that I need some healing. Thought of grouping with other players haven't visited me yet - I never played a social game before, so I thought grouping only relevant at high levels and during dragon raids. So I have made a conclusion, to MAYBE try a different class. Thankfully I am not a person who gets upset by the need to start over, so went back to char select and decided to make a Paladin. "It will be just like a warrior, but I could heal! Its ok that i won't get Dual Wield, but I could survive better". So my Human Paladin was created, again in Qeynos and I proceed to repeat the process of last 3 days of playing from the scratch... Fast Forward to my new paladin level 5, I made few new discoveries. First of all, I discovered BASH skill. Prior to this I had no idea how to get it. All the time I played my Warrior, I had no idea I could Kick from level 1, since the the Kick button wasn't on the starting interface, and I have missed on ton of DPS I could have done, which could have made my fights to end much faster. Another, sad discovery was that - the fighting wasn't really getting any easier. I knew I had heal spell waiting for me at level 9, but it was A VERY LONG WAY TO GO. And I was once again stuck at level 6, sitting on my arse waiting for my hp to regenerate. This is where I told myself "I need MORE healing power" And best healing class around is Cleric (according to the manual at least). And cleric is the toughest of the priests - he can wear Plate armor and can heal at the same time! the mobs won't be able to kill me at all! With this in mind I have created my 3rd character - the Cleric. Starting with Minor heal at level 1 was COOL. One problem I run with the cleric, is the need to buy my spells, which cost TON OF MONEY. Something I didn't had with warrior and paladin so far. And there seemed to be A LOT of spells to buy. Some were useful, so looked useless to me. I could not for the life of me figure out how LULL spell suppose to work I was casting on a mob and attacking the same mob somehow hopping it will not attack me back, and of course that didn't work [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] Frustrated of money lost of a stupid spell that didn't work, I moved on, once again onto Qeynos Hills. At level 4, I got Spook the Dead spell, which I found to be very cool. For a moment I thought I can now kill any undead very very easily. Unfortunately, the undead had other plans. The skeleton I tried it on, started to run away at a speed of light, and me chasing after it, while unharmed, could barely get any swings with staff at it. 18 seconds later, the fear run out, and skeleton proceeded to beat at me like it always happened before, and since I was continuously interrupted, i could not get another Spook or Nuke off, and was forced to melee it to death. Another discovery I made was what BIND was. I was selling in North Qeynos, when someone asked for a bind at the gates. I knew that warrior could Bind Wound, and I thought that person wanted someone to bandage him. I promptly replied that I was a cleric, and I could heal him instead. I rushed to the gates to deliver my services, where I discovered this player at full health. I was confused for a moment, till I somehow figured out that he wanted a re-spawn point BIND, which I read about in the manual, I haven't yet encountered this feature myself, as I have not yet needed to change for re-spawn point for any reason. Slowly progressing up to level 6 (AGAIN), I came to a new realization. It really didn't got much easier. Yes I did had heals now, and I could nuke, and fear, but casting in mid combat was nearly impossible (I had no knowledge of my channeling skills yet, and that they take a while to build up). And it took forever for my mana to recover, which while being slightly better that HP regeneration, still sucked. Another thing that happened at this point of time, is when I did ding 6, and proudly announced to the zone "RAWR! level 6! Fear me infidel!", someone replied back with following "LOL, Fear Cleric!" My day was ruined. If this what fellow player thought of my combat abilities, I could only imagine what mobs thought [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] Frustrated, upset, disappointed, I sat down with EQ manual once again, to maybe find a new class that tie well with my play mentality. My Diablo and Baldurs Gates skill set was rather useless, and I knew I had to improvise to get anywhere... ---------------- to be continued [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] | ||
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03-09-2012, 01:36 PM
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03-09-2012, 03:20 PM
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My first memory is picking up the game cause a buddy from tribes said it was awesome.
Having only played FPS before on a PC, I made a dwarf. Wandered around a bit, found a guard and thought pffft this guy is lame I'm gonna whoop his ass. Hit attack, insta died, spawned naked outside with no idea of how to get back to the city. I thought it was the lamest game ever, I quit and went back to halflife and tribes. It was months later that I gave it another fair shot, and got hooked for years to come lol.
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03-10-2012, 03:00 AM
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So, continuing on to chapter 5...
5. During this in RL i was working with a young man called Kevin. At this point I was talking about EQ non stop for 2 weeks, and finally persuaded him to join up. I was told Kevin to make a Qeynos based character while I decided to make a Shadow Knight. Starting on my new SK and reading my guild note, I for the first time discovered that there were CATACOMBS under the city! Wow! I had no idea before this. I knew there were evil characters somewhere in the city, but I had no clue they were underground. I followed the instruction in the note to "follow the path of bones" and zoned into catacombs. I was truly impressed at all the Evil that has gathered under the city - the skeleton guards, and the Specters showed me how fearsome the Bloodsabers were. I tried to explore catacombs a bit, but since my clip plane was still all way down, i could only see few steps ahead, and with tunnels going in what seemed to be all possible directions, I was fearing that I would get lost very very quickly, plus I expected the catacombs to be very high level area. So I turned back, and returned to the city. In the city, much to my surprised, all the good merchants I use to deal with, looked at me with unprovoked anger. "Isn't there is some kind of law, that prevents Shadow Knights crawling from under their rock?" - this is what I been told by my favorite merchant in Lion's Inn Tavern. I scowled back at her, I thought to myself - "Just wait, few more levels, and all you fools will be on your knees before me!" Zoning to North Qeynos, I found another surprise waiting for me - a peaceful npc I always passed on my way to the gates, suddenly rushed at me screaming "Die infidel!" and promptly beat me into bloody pulp. This is how I found out that paladin/clerics REALLY HATE Shadow Knight, and a value of a right mouse click (/con). before this incident I only paid attention to the color of the /con message, since I naturally assumed that all the monsters are to be killed anyway, and all the npc are the good guys... At least from my former character's perspective [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] Now I had to be extra careful walking around my own city. But it was ok. As went out to get my levels, I smiled at the sweet revenge I will have on all those who refused to talk to me today. While i was gaining level, my friend Kevin finally logged in, and told me that he has made a Ranger. "Cool" I told him "Where are in You?" The next 30 min we spend trying to figure out WHERE THE HECK HE WAS, so i can find him. Since I was more or less familiar with Qeynos by now, I asked him to read names of the shops he see around him. I was running around city trying to match them to the shops there, and found none. This is when I realized that he wasn't in the Qeynos at all - he was in Surefall Glide, since he was a ranger, and they start there! I told him to find a tunnel leading to Q Hills, and run towards him. Unfortunately it was night and raining (as usual), so I got a bit off the road and ended up on the path leading to West Karana instead. By the time I found my way back again, the Kevin told me he has to get off, as his wife needed the phone. Few days later, we finally got a chance to meet, and Kevin even played a bit, but eventually he decided EQ was too time consuming for him, so he canceled his account. In the main time, my adventure as Shadow Knight continued. I found hunting to become increasingly difficult that it was before. I could no longer sell at the Miller's House, and had go all way back to catacombs to sell. Another thing was, that a whole bunch of high level npc who hang around Qeynos Hills, started to attack me: Sandra, Baob, Holy and Cross - all were out for my blood. During this time, another memorable event has take place: my encounter with a Rabbit Grizzly. Resting by the Millers House, I saw a HUGE bear standing up on the hill. It conned RED and was named a Rabid Grizzly. English being second language to me, I read this as "Rabbit Grizzly". "Oh, this is so cool" i told my self "How truly deep this game is. This giant bear while fearsome, only eats Rabbits. hence, this is why its called a Rabbit Grizzly! Its completely harmless to humans. Look, i will show you". Continuing to talk to my imaginary audience, I promptly run up to the hill to take a screenshot with me fearlessly standing next to the big bear. Suddenly, a thought occurred to me to /con the beast before approaching it! But no, it was a split second too late! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] SMACK! Wait, What?! SMACK! Hey!!! SMACK! Ouch! SMACK!!! Loading please wait... This is how I learned the meaning of the word "rabid" [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] So, I finally made it to level 6(AGAIN!!!) and gave up. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] The faction penalties were killing me, and despite the promise of all the cool spells I was suppose to get at lev 9, I hate the very idea of grinding XP of low end mobs just to get there. This time I was MAJORLY upset. I really wanted to be good - if I just could find a class that I felt comfortable with. I opened up all the online guides I could find (EQlore was a good site for class descriptions back then), and started reading through them, over and over, trying to find a class that could sustain itself, with healing and combat power, and won't rely too heavily on mana. ----------- to be continue [You must be logged in to view images. 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03-12-2012, 02:18 PM
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I'm interested Kika! EQ was like a playground for me at 14 years old.
It all started with my Cleric Ongor, a High Elf from Felwithe. It took me a good week to get level 5. I had never played any games like it before, I was an FPS player with no RPG background at all, but also I was 14. I eventually learned there were harder mobs in Greater Faydark and started hunting them. I'll have to think of some stories and come back and tell them. I had an amazing time and still love hanging around Faydark.
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03-12-2012, 03:31 PM
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EQ then - camping King room in SolB and struggling to keep up with the spawns in that room only. EQ now - camping the "Royals" area and having twinked monks/tanks/rogues pull not only kobolds, but bats/bugs and kill stuff before you can get a DD spell off. High level enchanter buffing all with C2 and haste. Melee spam going by too quick to notice, and none of your buffs will stick to anyone since they all have better clicky items. It's a blast and not a whole lot different than the new MMO's out today.
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