the game was a colossal mess, when it was in beta you had a 30 minute waiting list just to get on and it likely dumped you before that happened. then when it went live they let everyone have fun with promises of an expansion of sorts. well what we didnt know was the game did have some extra zones, but the tradeoff was an utter and complete item wipe. all my fairy boxes, all my other baubles gone poof. all i had was the noob clothes on my lv 100 adventurer and a veteran plaque on the door of my house.. but but but wait, we got a new level cap, from lv 100 to lv 1000. and the new mobs were awesome hard mobs ranging from lv 100 to lv 150.
uh yeah. so they expected us to play til lv 1000 on mobs that only went as high as 150. its ok, the mobs gave you a minimum of 5 or 7 points. so it only took you forever to level up after a certain while. i managed to get up to 550 before EQ started. i knew a guy. Charles or whatever his name who made it all the way to 750. i think there were a few highers. one guy named Thule or something. still was good times to be had killing players trying to pickpocket you. was great tossing an ice spell and if you did it a certain way you could leave combat and they would be frozen indefinitely. then you could shout that such and such was frozen and everyone come pickpocket his gear til he had absolutely nothing left.
these guys were never really high level, nobody wanted to fuck their character over because pickpocketing was a crime punishable by the Warden in Leinster who would toss you in the dungeon where you would spend RL time waiting out your sentence. i had a friend who had acrued something like 90 days RL sentence of sitting in one room as a stupid rat walked back and forth. he quit the game. i dont blame him.