When was your first experience with Everquest?

[Mortiis]

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.]

Best post ever ^

Started sometime in the fall of 1999 while at my first duty station in the AF..Keesler AFB. A co-worker showed it me the game- I was hooked until they changed the trolls and introduced the frogloks taking over Grobb. I got overly into the lore at the time and was really pissed off that happened. I quit a few months or so afterwards. I don't rememeber the exact dates.
-Mortiis was my troll shammy toon on the Tallen Zek pvp server back then. Rolled Ihsahnn Troll SK, Sammoth Troll war

Played a few MMO's following all of that- None compared to EQ. They still don't.
I first saw WoW in England and thought it looked like a cartoon.

Despite all the forum ass to mouth bickering back and forth- it's just great to play like the old days. A big thank you goes out to those who put this all together and those that have helped out along the way with both creation and in game.

[Aus]

Started on Prexus. My first character was a HE Paladin, cause they can heal AND melee! How overpowered is that!? Struggled for the longest time, tried out an iksar monk when Kunark came out and never looked back. Ended up quitting when DAOC came out but nothing really compares to EQ. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Soleste]

My first was a barbarian. i couldn't see in the dark and fell in the water and drowned. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[JShred86]

EverQuest had just came out, my brother bought a copy of the game and let me play on his account. This was in may of 1999, I was 12 years old. I quit Live servers several years later after the Planes of Power fan faire in 2004. SONY unveiled EQ2 there, I wanted to vomit after getting to play a test run. I came home finished PoTime with my guild, then the whole entire server just died, People went to WoW and EQ2. EverQuest had become so far from what I had remembered it as I lost interest. 3 years later, I played some on Shards of dalaya, until I found P1999 last month. Now I've reunited with my favorite game, Everquest. Thank you P1999 staff/developers for making this happen. -Jeff

[Fargus]

May 22, 2000 to sometime late 2008.

[eqgmrdbz]

Most definitely after Kunark, i got my first experience watching my roommate play, i asked him what he was playing, and he told me all about it, i went and got my own copy, and i clearly remember the Kunark picture on the disk. I cant remember the exact date, but it might have been around 2000.

I was immediately attracted to the Barb's, so i made a Barb Shammy, and Demarcuss was born, played Demarcuss the rest of my days, got him to 65. Many other character followed, but I have to say playing on p99 feels like i have just continued the journey i started on live. Now Demarcuss has become Grumpybear lvl 24 Shammy on p99, "let the journey continue". [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Schultes]

I started playing back at launch on my friends brothers computer since i didn't even have 56k modem back then or a computer!!!

By far hands down at the time the most amazing game in existence since no other MMORPG could compare to EQ's Glory!!!

First night i ever played i was crazy lost in Freeport and was wandering around the sewers till i stumbled a pone a necro and was about to be slaughtered, but out of know where a Dwarf Paladin named Barq Rootbeard saved me with layhands and showed me to the gate. After that i was hooked pretty bad especially after i found my Ghoulsbane when it was crazy rare to have.

Played on The Rathe till PoP but The Shadows of Luclin was the real fatal blow for me since trading and dueling was my gimmick and once the East Commons tunnel was taken out by the bazaar the best trades you could get were the ones people put the wrong prices on. Even with the giant arena in the Bazaar everyone was a afk mule anyways.

On The Rathe i was Gadwin Saratoga of the Saratoga brothers. Eaglesblood and I were team duelers and only lost one duel due to drop out. Feel free to say hello to him! I was finally able to get him to start playing again after all this time.

This time around i went with an Enchanter named Spontini. Toss me a message especially if your from The Rathe!! Us Ratheins need to stick together!

[Larcen]

I started playing Kunark not long after it came out but stopped playing until after Velious came out; but still only had the Kunark client for a long time. My first character I believe was a human monk named Laloan; which I think was just a auto generated name. I didn't much care for the character so I rolled a Gnome wizard named Balonstine. I didnt care for him much either so I made a Dark Elf rogue named Larcen. I really liked playing him but it was hard to solo and I had trouble finding groups. I ended up making a Dark Elf Necromancer named Malistrom and played him until 51. I then used him to farm hill giants and made a good amount of money. I then twinked out my rogue and he was my main character from there on out. My necro to this day only managed to get to level 52 but I loved playing him as well. I played exclusively on the Druzzil Ro server and ended up quitting several times until I finally finished playing with any regularity after DON. I played casually, like once a week or so, when they opened up the free-to-play but never really liked the whole cap system for the free account.

[Larcen]

Thinking about it a little more, my first time seeing everquest was while I was at a friends house and I saw his step-dad playing everquest and running around doing a CR in one of the Karana's I think. This would have been pre-Kunark.

[Overcast]

I started playing on the Wife's account Pre-Kunark. As a matter of fact, she told me a new expansion was coming out in about two weeks.

Considering my finances at the time - I thought that I'd just wait on the new expansion to come out and play if they offered a combo pack with the original game + the expansion. They did, so I officially started two days after Kunark was released. Too much patching and emergency downtime right after it was released.

My very first toon was a DE Shadowknight on Vallon Zek - but my friggin' wife was playing a High Elf Cleric, so I re-rolled a Human Warrior... real fun for a new player, lol - and then made a Human Pally so I could heal some. Went with the Human Pally for quite some time.

I bet I had more /played time on that Human Pally than a did my 80 Necro on the Blue server, Cazic-Thule.