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Froglok Bonecaster's Robe, Ornate Rune Shield, Cone of Mystics, Supple Scale Armband, Jade Inlaid Spaulders, and Kunzar Cloak are all some off the top of my head that drop like absolute candy on Mischief.
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EQ TLP - Mischief (Free Trade / Random Loot)
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I got lost for over 2 hours on my first ever Dark Elf in 1999. It took me over 2 hours to turn in my starting note and get to Nektulos. Remember, no map. And you could NOT alt tab to the internet. Neriak is the hardest content in classic EQ.
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Rajaah
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I used the hand-drawn maps in the original instruction booklet for the game. They're close enough to the ingame layout to keep you from getting too lost in the starting town.
Unless it's Ak'anon. Fuck Ak'anon!
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TJT
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Ah yes. I remember day one at the noob log where I died because some mage was dropping mod rods all over the place. I inquired as to what it was after picking it up and then used it and died.
Honestly it was pretty hilarious.
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I learned Akanon really well camping the level 24-29 mechanics on my Druid. Those camps were sweet. Akanon is fucking awesome.
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My very, very first character ever made in EQ was a dwarven paladin. I had NO IDEA what a MMORPG was at all. All I knew was that I really liked playing SSI's Pools of Radiance back in the day on my Commodore 64, and I saw a magazine article talking about this EverQuest game that you create a character and you develop it over time. I thought it sounded cool like the old SSI games where you would take your characters from game to game as they came out.
So, I bought the game, installed it, created an account, logged in, and said "wow this game is ugly." I hopped around on tables, ran around a few rooms, and logged out.
A couple weeks later, I thought I would load up the game to give it one last shot before my free month ran out. As I was running around on my dwarf, the game froze. Just before I was about to do a hard reboot of the computer, it unfroze, and I was in a different area. I had no knowledge of a zone, so I had no idea that the "freeze" I experienced was the game loading up the next zone over. At that point, I was thinking, "hey there's more to this game than I thought."
I ran around until I somehow managed to get outside in Butcherblock mountains. That's where I encountered my first mob. It took a bit, but I figured out how to attack the thing, and I spent the next twenty minutes killing anything that moved. In all that time, I did not loot one single mob that I killed because I had no concept of "looting a mob".
Then the weirdest thing happened. A dwarf NPC ran up to me and said hello. I was like wo.... this game has some sort of AI. I said hey to the dwarf, and it said some more stuff. I was literally thinking, "holy shit this game has really good AI." The dwarf told me about right clicking the mobs I kill to loot what they drop. That was mind blowing.
Then... it hit me... like a ton of bricks.... THATS NOT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE!!!! I was actually talking to someone else somewhere else in the world playing the same game I was playing. Holly... Actual... Fucking... Shit. Mind blown.!
It's been 20 years now,. Just think. I was one login away from uninstalling EverQuest and never experiencing any of the past two decades.
So, I bought the game, installed it, created an account, logged in, and said "wow this game is ugly." I hopped around on tables, ran around a few rooms, and logged out.
A couple weeks later, I thought I would load up the game to give it one last shot before my free month ran out. As I was running around on my dwarf, the game froze. Just before I was about to do a hard reboot of the computer, it unfroze, and I was in a different area. I had no knowledge of a zone, so I had no idea that the "freeze" I experienced was the game loading up the next zone over. At that point, I was thinking, "hey there's more to this game than I thought."
I ran around until I somehow managed to get outside in Butcherblock mountains. That's where I encountered my first mob. It took a bit, but I figured out how to attack the thing, and I spent the next twenty minutes killing anything that moved. In all that time, I did not loot one single mob that I killed because I had no concept of "looting a mob".
Then the weirdest thing happened. A dwarf NPC ran up to me and said hello. I was like wo.... this game has some sort of AI. I said hey to the dwarf, and it said some more stuff. I was literally thinking, "holy shit this game has really good AI." The dwarf told me about right clicking the mobs I kill to loot what they drop. That was mind blowing.
Then... it hit me... like a ton of bricks.... THATS NOT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE!!!! I was actually talking to someone else somewhere else in the world playing the same game I was playing. Holly... Actual... Fucking... Shit. Mind blown.!
It's been 20 years now,. Just think. I was one login away from uninstalling EverQuest and never experiencing any of the past two decades.
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Flobee
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You were probably one login away from being a wealthy neurosurgeon with a gaggle of babes and 30 inch biceps. Way to go
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Rajaah
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My first character was also a Dark Elf. I somehow made my way over to Befallen at like level 6 and started killing things at the entrance, then promptly fell down the well and lost everything I'd gotten up to that point. It felt like the end of the world and I almost quit.
Yeah, I was super close to never playing this at all, too. I imagine the last two decades would probably look very different if I hadn't. I'd probably actually have a wife.
I'm having the same issue lately, but only when I log onto Phinigel, and only sometimes. I'll have to switch computers to play, then a few hours later I might try the first computer again and find that it isn't having the issue anymore. I have no idea what's going on but it's pretty obnoxious.
I've got lots of fond memories of camping things on my necro 20 years ago. Not sure why, but it was really relaxing back then to kill a mob or two on Sister Island or wherever, then sit and wait for five minutes, then do it again. For hours. I can't imagine doing that now, but when I was 16 it was great.
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Probably took you a long time to find Lay on hands. I remember my friend was a few years older and had his own account on his pc before I had a pc or my own account. He was a Dwarf Paladin. I slept over at his house one weekend after we left the card shop from playing Magic the Gathering. I watched him play all night until he finally went to bed that night and I got to play. I made a Paladin too, except High Elf, as my first ever character. I played around and found Lay on Hands. I told him about it in the morning and he refused to believe me until I showed him where to find it and how to use it. He was so blown away, and so mad that I was showing him up lol.
Glad I made a Druid as my first real character when my family got a PC a few weeks later. I'm still blown away by all you crazy people that actually played melee and hybrid back in original eq in original timeline.
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I started as an ogre warrior in beta 2, and played live through velious and shortly after the luclin launch, but not since. i think I started on Tunare, then Povar, then finally landed on Drinal, if I remember correctly.
I have never actually played anything other race/class combo. I've botted friends' accounts at level 60, representing most classes, but never had an alt above like level 10.
I've watched the TLP and custom server updates for years, but never jumped back in.
I'm tempted by Mischief more than ever, but also kind of dissuaded by how abnormal it is, and now by this recent news.
maybe I should just suck it up and do what Sorrows said yesterday, spend like $70 on the bag pack and 2 krono and dive in.
hmm... ogre warrior?
I have never actually played anything other race/class combo. I've botted friends' accounts at level 60, representing most classes, but never had an alt above like level 10.
I've watched the TLP and custom server updates for years, but never jumped back in.
I'm tempted by Mischief more than ever, but also kind of dissuaded by how abnormal it is, and now by this recent news.
maybe I should just suck it up and do what Sorrows said yesterday, spend like $70 on the bag pack and 2 krono and dive in.
hmm... ogre warrior?
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IIRC you're pretty technically sufficient so I'm not trying to come accross as the "Durr did you try turning it off" type of person, but one of the first things I'd check are whether or not the game folders are whitelisted with your antivirus and network security. Next I'd check the DX9 version that EQ uses. Then I'd check the eqclient.ini settings, like CPUAffinity (set to -1 for each), etc.
Here's a link that may be helpful from within the past year:
Anyway to make EQ stop crashing in Full Screen? :: EverQuest Free-to-Play General Discussions
Anyone know of any way to stop EQ from crashing every time something on the computer makes the game flip to desktop. If any notation pops in windows 10, then EQ crashes. Anyone know of this bug, and would like to share how you stop going out of Fullscreen mode. Thanks Edit: Thanks AcidT for the...
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nah try bein an Erudite lost in Tox forest with out night vision, dodging Kobolds and trying to figure out where the boat is to civilization
good memory of this for several hours watching my Dad in 99/00
we were shootin off the level 1 mage spell "Flare" as a guiding light source
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Then if you were an Erudite SK you had to make it through the Qeynos Sewers as you were KOS to a good chunk of Qeynos and then find someone to bind you in a safe spot.
Gooooooood luck.
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Removing/naming would likely be just an anon rejoin. Don't know how you deal with this. This is why I'm just a warm body/puller/offensive feign deather.
I'm just glad it's not getting the EQ2 treatment when they had an exploit/dupe like a month ago, didn't they get a big rollback?
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I don't know how people complain about ak anon and praise neriak. ak anon is a tiny town with everything within a 1 minute run. neriak is 3 confusing zones.
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