When was your first experience with Everquest?

[Beebo]

I started in may 1999...barbarian warrior. I made it to lvl 5 and continually got killed in the tunnel to BB cuz I'd get stuck on the rock every time...lol used to love it when a shaman would run by and light up my eyes...haha good times

Beebo

[ElegantBastard]

I'm not sure to what extent I skew the demographic (or maybe I'm the norm?). My wife and I had not tried EQ before a month ago. We played EQ2 for a few months about 4 years ago with some guys from work and then stopped. Last month, some of the same guys got on p1999 and then got me interested. My wife and I play just about daily now.

I don't want to give the impression that we haven't played RPGs: We played Baldur's and Neverwinter back in '99, have played WoW and EQ2, EVE, PerfectWorld for a while, but lately we play more RTSs esp. DotA2 than anything else. For whatever reason, we didn't get around to EQ classic until now, which is great because it's all new for us now! I do tend to erroneously right-click on things a lot [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[askme19k]

Sometime after the release of Kunark. Didn't own a computer that didn't crash every 5-30 minutes while playing EverQuest until early Luclin.

[Aarone]

Winter of '99/00, pretty sure it was after Christmas, but I'm not positive, certain it was a month or two prior to Kunark, so I'm guessing Jan/Feb of 2000. I can vividly recall relentlessly dieing to lag spikes while using the Kelethin lifts, so much so that I said the hell with it and learned the run to Felwithe to bank.

[kc7wzl]

well I played a little bit in late fall of 1999 ( if I recall around Dec. of 1999 ) with a friends account off and on till fall of 2001 but I did not play regular untill I got my own account Dec. 2002 when PoP was fairly new...

so I have fond roots in bolth OEM verant EQ and SOE EQ.. to me EQ did not start declining bad till LDoN... that expation gave me a bad taiste that will never get wrinsed out.. there was a small gimmer of hope when GoD was released... but buy the time they released titanum client I was done with LIVE.. to me the perfect server would be 100% recreation of live just befor LDoN... IE... after then fixxed most of the buggs in LoY expantion..

Sad thing is it was EQemu that got me to get back on in 2002... and I played live and dabbled with EQemu till I had enough of SoE and the expantion pack mill in summer 2005 and played fully on EQemu... and yes I had my little WoW spert off and on from 2005 to 2009 but I stopped giving blizzard any time when they desided to fallow the ways of SoE and destroy OEM content.. now EQemu has had my full attention since dec of 2009...

when I was on live I mostly played on MithMarr, FV, and drainal (sorry I cant remeber how it was spelled I left that server in 2004 ) and main stayed in MM and FV..

my toons was Daanlia SHM, Yanaduno ENC, Sheennaa BST, Tinna WAR, Wanasbik MAG, Fagar RANG, and Ninander CLR

heh I though this would be a good place to tell a little about me...

kc7wzl

P.S. sorry I know my spelling and grammer is horrid but I dont care.. it does not meant I am not smart just not what I consider inportant... sorry forum trolls.. but you will not gent under my skin

[Walabaego]

Woot I am 1/3 that have never played EQ till this Emu. :P Well...ok I played a friends Cleric back in the day when he was raiding once in a while. All I knew how to do was Complete Heal at 40% haha. Total noob though, got to 50, grinding out plat, gearing alts and helping lowbies. I feel i've done well [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Salvelinus]

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

Woot I am 1/3 that have never played EQ till this Emu.

That makes me 2/3

[deificus]

I was in beta P4.

[Kani]

August 1999 My first 5 minutes went like this: Created a Wood Elf, took a few steps forward and , "LOADING, PLEASE WAIT." The gamma was turned down on my video card settings, so I didn't realize that I was standing like 5 steps from the edge of a platform. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Aarone]

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

August 1999 My first 5 minutes went like this: Created a Wood Elf, took a few steps forward and , "LOADING, PLEASE WAIT." The gamma was turned down on my video card settings, so I didn't realize that I was standing like 5 steps from the edge of a platform. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

That sounds about right! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]