Posted: 5/20/2026 1:05:12 AM EDT
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So some mad lads have gone all the way back to the original 1999 EQ, made a ton of QoL changes, and are currently in closed beta to release it to retail. I played the shit out of the OG EQ from beta 1 on, so I'm all over this. Possible guild? |
God's children are not for sale.
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I like how they state on their website, Kerran, is a playable class. Then you look at their intro trailer and it clearly shows Vah Shir. No self respecting EQ player/developer would ever make that mistake. I wonder if it's going to be retail, as you stated, or just another EMU? |
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One of my favorite gaming moments was playing early with two buddies. We had grouped up to chat, but went out separately to and I went to grind some lions. I’d shoot a lion to pull it and the fucker would run away. WTF. Alright, let’s try this other lion. Where the hell is that one going? This is dumb. Then one of my buddies says “what’s with all these lions?” It then dawned on me that he had buffed me before we split up. I started chuckling. And pulled another. Away it ran. Wait a little and do another. My buddy starts swearing. After a short bit, I’m in tears, and in fact I’m laughing so hard I’m crying right now remembering it. Finally, I just went and shot as many as I could in rapid succession. And then ran in the opposite direction, so they’d de-aggro before getting to me. I think they got me anyway cuz I seem to recall it was really hard to break aggro. Overall, I found EverQuest to be rather slow paced and tedious compared to WoW, and people took it way too seriously. I had a lot more fun with WoW. |
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I still fire up EQ2 every few years and run around a bit. (Even got my wife and 10 year old daughter into it a bit. I have a 130+ Necro, so I mostly escort them around. Even in the Mentor mode, i'll one shot entire groups if they mess up their pulls.) About a decade ago I fired up EQ and my character was still standing where I left her in like 2003. I was a bit disappointed that the graphics had been improved, so it didn't have that '99 blocky look to it. So yeah, I might check out an official EQ99 project. |
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Originally Posted By BuddyChryst: Overall, I found EverQuest to be rather slow paced and tedious compared to WoW, and people took it way too seriously. I had a lot more fun with WoW. The original version definitely was.. it was grindy as hell and leveling was a bitch. I’ve been watching a few of the beta streamers and it looks like leveling is as fast as WoW and there are a ton of really cool QoL additions and AA buffs. It appeals to me to have a game that plays somewhat new, but I also have a lot of knowledge about. |
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Oh the MMORPG memories. Instead of EQ, though, I played Asheron’s Call. To the point it was a problem early in my marriage. My weirdest memory involved a GameStop in a mall when AC2 was being released. By this point I had broken free of the games and had my first son in a stroller with me. The guy behind the counter asked me if I had played AC1 and I told him I had been a monarch on the Thistedown server. When he asked my character name and I told him, he got really quiet, and then started talking in awe how I had been his monarch, had given him his first real set of good gear, and had showed up to save him from dying when he got in way over his head as a noob. I told him that was cool, and started to leave, and he followed me and kept geeking out about stuff that had happened in the game. Left the store completely unattended to follow me around the mall. To the point it started to freak out my son. Closest I’ve ever come to feeling celebrity status. Fun fact, it’s also how I got my username on all these forums. It was my AC character. My first character was Triolus, but I made some build flaws, so I created Trio, and the rest is completely irrelevant internet history |
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Started back into EQ2 back in November. I tire quickly and now just log on to do some daily quests. Would be interesting to jump into Legends and start with everyone at square one. Played a Pally in EQ and a Pally and Fury back in the day in EQ2. Now I play a SK with Death’s Devotion Eveled to Ancient and a Celestial Merc and I can solo well enough. The problem is to really enjoy the content you have to have the time. I miss raiding but damn that becomes a second job if you’re in a good raid guild. I’m 54 not 34 anymore so I just don’t have time to run the game the way it should. I signed up for Beta, should check my email to see if there is an invite. |
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Originally Posted By trio: Fun fact, it’s also how I got my username on all these forums. It was my AC character. My first character was Triolus, but I made some build flaws, so I created Trio, and the rest is completely irrelevant internet history Same for me. On WoW we needed a healer and we were horde so I made an undead priest. Priest+coming back from dead+appreciation for Kevin Smith movies and BuddyChryst became my name. |
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I wasn't down since Day 1, but I did start just after RoK was released, so only 1 year behind and IMO this is still very early EQ. I logged in a year or two ago for the first time since 2008. My established characters were still there but I lost all my guys that were sub-level 10. They did a purge years ago and I lost my guys, most important of all my lvl 1 bazaar Trader Gnomemart. I had like maybe $50M plat on him plus other rare items. At that time that amount of money was more than many entire guilds held. I had a few million on my mains but when I logged in the economy was super inflated and people were spamming /wtb and /wts shit for several million for normal stuff, so a few million 20 years later ain't shit  . I made so much money as one of the couple people on the server who could combine a Quad A (Ambleshift's Amazing Automated Amalgamator) which made some pretty uber augments that guilds wanted for their star members. I think I was selling these for like $500K plat at the time. It was the most complex Tinkering recipe ever conceived at that point. I didn't have any super crazy items like a BFG or special GM event items, but stuff like Amulet of Necropotence, Fungi Staff, Manastone. IIRC those all got nerfed at some point but I had the pre-nerf ones and now their data is gone forever after they deleted Gnomemart. To this day I mentally judge games against EQ. NOTHING will ever create that sense of wonder and mystery as it did the 1st time in 2000. I'd like to try this new server but I feel it's been done before. Too many know just what to do there's no mystery. It will progress in like 1 day. |
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I started on a game called the realm around 1998 or so and moved on to eq shortly after launch.i logged on to both of my accounts a few years back but cant remember how to even play and a non paying account lost all the progress I had before I quit the game in 2008 I have a screenshot of innoruuk on the plane of hate from when illusion skeleton made you non agro there pretty sure I have other shots on my old computer at my parents house that hasn't been run in over 20 years |
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Originally Posted By Webdood: phat lewts? I beta tested EQ2 but never played 1 (I was a Ultima Online dweeb) Go to the Plane of Growth Seek out Prince Thirneg, a satyr (like Phil in Disney's Hercules). Target him and use the /hail command. He will respond by saying, "Salutations, (yourracehere) (yournamehere)! I am the Prince of the Tunarean Court! What brings you to this most sacred of all Tunare's blessed creations?" Answer him by saying, "I have come here for Phat Lewts." Prince Thirneg will then say, "You will find no 'Phat Lewts' here!! Your selfishness will be your downfall!" and slay you on the spot, apparently using Death Touch or something equally powerful on you. |
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So I pre-ordered and started the public beta July 1. This was the first time I actually played since I quit in 08 and did a few hours Wednesday. Had to work Thursday and didn't touch it. After taking care of stuff I needed this morning I got on and have been on all day like its 2000 again. It's both funny and sad to me. I'm playing a class combo (MNK/SHM and not sure what my 3rd will be yet) that I've never played either of before and it's cool but I think I prefer being a caster. I'm also in the part of the classic world I didn't really play in with my previous characters so it makes it even more "new". All the enhancements make the game WAY more friendlier but it's still slow and a grind at the early levels. Once higher, people are going to be able to own a lot of shit on their own without groups. I don't want to get sucked in again and I probably wont after the first couple weeks of nostalgia wear off. It is $10/month but I heard some content will be locked behind paywalls and/or stuff will be available for purchase. If they do that to a game you already pay for then I'm really out. It will be fun for a few weeks or a couple months maybe but I don't think I'll ever go back like before. This has really been a fun reunion. If you didn't play at the beginning, you won't like it. |
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So I broke down and got EQL. I was looking at Monsters and Memories but it has some of the same issues the original EQ did which is why I stopped playing. EQL is so much better and kept all the cool stuff and changed enough to make it more user friendly. They also fixed the issue the original had. That was you could not do anything worthwhile without a full on group after level 20ish. Loving it so far. Ydnar on the Oggok server Monk/Shadow Knight/Shaman. just dinged 29 yesterday. Oh yea, that EQ level up ding that is so iconic!! |
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Originally Posted By Webdood: phat lewts? I beta tested EQ2 but never played 1 (I was a Ultima Online dweeb) I played EQ2 as a time killer a while after launch when they had some deal where you could play free for several months. One of my guildies worked for Turbine so we played a few of their games. (LOTRO & DDO primarily) We beta and Alpha tested tons of mmos |
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Originally Posted By svt40: So I broke down and got EQL. I was looking at Monsters and Memories but it has some of the same issues the original EQ did which is why I stopped playing. EQL is so much better and kept all the cool stuff and changed enough to make it more user friendly. They also fixed the issue the original had. That was you could not do anything worthwhile without a full on group after level 20ish. Loving it so far. Ydnar on the Oggok server Monk/Shadow Knight/Shaman. just dinged 29 yesterday. Oh yea, that EQ level up ding that is so iconic!! I'm on Oggok also. Ping Malokhan if you have any questions or need some help. When I get spare dragon bags, I may through them at you. I get so many of the damn things. SK/Shm/Wiz || SK/Brd/Dru || And leveling War/Clr/Enc now, think this last set is mid 20s right now. Have all classes unlocked for primary via sky quests except 3, Rog, Clr, Enc. Need 1 drop from bee, 1 from sister, and 1 from eye. |
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Originally Posted By Skootr: I'm on Oggok also. Ping Malokhan if you have any questions or need some help. When I get spare dragon bags, I may through them at you. I get so many of the damn things. SK/Shm/Wiz || SK/Brd/Dru || And leveling War/Clr/Enc now, think this last set is mid 20s right now. Have all classes unlocked for primary via sky quests except 3, Rog, Clr, Enc. Need 1 drop from bee, 1 from sister, and 1 from eye. Hah I feel like the newb that spawned into Halas all those years ago and could not see anything because it was so dark. Then someone came and told me how to change my gamma so I could see. Then about 10 levels later I met a kindly mage who gave me a full set of bronze and led me to Freeport. Scared as hell the whole trip because everything was red!! |
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Originally Posted By Skootr: I would advise leveling a Druid and Wizard to 25, to make life simpler. Once you are of level with the ports in your spell book, all your classes will have access to the teleports via the Ritual system. Press 'L' in game to access. That's a good idea. I might try to do that sooner rather than later. Just dinged 30 and was farming Befallen D4 to upgrade my pristine leather. |
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I feel like I've been playing this way too much, just like original EQ. I can't believe how many people have so much end game stuff to +10 already; they must be retired guys. I think it's mostly older dudes playing but there are some real newbs which is cool. I got a couple kids from work to try it but they don't seem to like it much (like I predicted). They are pretty amazed at the lack of handholding and when I tell them this is easy mode and to imagine how things used to be they think it's crazy. I've been really trying to explore places I didn't get to spend as much time in originally and realized just how much content there was/is in classic EQ. Doing quests and working on tradeskills so I don't even have a lvl 50 yet. Unlocking races and leveling multiple characters is taking time in and of itself. I never got a Pegasus Feather Cloak back in the day and I swore to get one this time. I've wasted so much time on this over the last month it really cut into leveling my other chars. Created a ranger just for Quillmane and Lynuga and pretty much leveled the ranger from 15-31 in just South Karana on mostly dark blues if that gives you an idea of how long I spent in there. It appears they made some slight changes to the spawn cycle from original so what I was doing wasn't working. Someone just went in there on 09/05 and figured out the new PH list and timers. I was finally able to lock it down consistently and then got 2 cloaks in a row! Not a fan of DLC and I've never paid for a single DLC item in any game in my life, BUT I broke that record by buying some bags from the real life money shop. At least they're not selling "pay to win" items, just cosmetic or storage. I made a semi-RP, meme character and made a meme guild but nobody gives a shit. So I'm stuck with a silly name and I might have to pay the big $10 bucks and switch it out. We'll see. |
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More advise, get to the early 40's so you are able to clear D0 vox, naggy, yael. So you can get your 3 Void Touched motes per week. This will help you level gear / spells beyond 6 or 7, which is about the most you want to spend motes on as the costs gets crazy. Void Touched motes will raise any item or spell 1 full tier. So advise to get them to +6 or +7 before using. |
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Originally Posted By Skootr: More advise, get to the early 40's so you are able to clear D0 vox, naggy, yael. So you can get your 3 Void Touched motes per week. This will help you level gear / spells beyond 6 or 7, which is about the most you want to spend motes on as the costs gets crazy. Void Touched motes will raise any item or spell 1 full tier. So advise to get them to +6 or +7 before using. I did not even know you could upgrade the spells. I found out on accident. I put 42 motes into my SoW and pressed merge thinking it would use 1 of them. Nope it ate all 42 of them!! Does not feel faster but it lasts much longer. |
Yeah, not all spells are worth upgrading. Some of them only give stat increases every other level etc etc. Best to ask in general chat before testing. Once you get high enough to mote farm, then test away.
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Originally Posted By Skootr: Yeah, not all spells are worth upgrading. Some of them only give stat increases every other level etc etc. Best to ask in general chat before testing. Once you get high enough to mote farm, then test away.
Good to know. I did get a druid to level 25 for most of the single ports. I've also learned that not having any plate class in my line up is killing me right now and slowing me down a touch. Just dinged 42 and we tried to do Naggy. The tank was a level 47 cleric/SK/enchanter and me being a monk/nec/shammy. After some shenanigans to get Naggy split from the giants we somehow got Naggy solo. We got him/her down to about 40% before we died. I could not slow Naggy for anything. Even doing the belly debuff trick and with naggy being tashed. |