What I miss.

Bubba Grizz · Post by **Bubba Grizz** » March 4, 2005, 4:47 pm

I do miss a few things from EQ.
I miss:
That when it is night it is Dark outside and not this perpetual twilight thing.
I miss the Thunderstorms and rain.

I'm sure there is more but I can't think of anything else right now.

Fash · Post by **Fash** » March 4, 2005, 4:53 pm

I miss NToV and SSRA... my two favorite eq places. but mostly i miss teh celestial tomb.

Damiarch · Post by **Damiarch** » March 4, 2005, 7:35 pm

I hated thunderstorms and the thick fog you couldn't see two inchs past in.

The most fun I had in EQ was doing dungeon crawls or any sort of camp with a group of RL friends, and being in the same room as them IRL. I'm doing the same thing in WoW now.. So I don't miss a damn thing from that game.

Edit: In fact, the majority of my guild is comprised of real life friends and friends of friends etc. Through various connections, about 30 or so members all live in the same area of MN, and a couple in WS. So it's a whole lot more fun!

Now if only we could get them all to 60 so we can do more than Stratholm and Scholomance guild runs..

Canoe · Post by **Canoe** » March 4, 2005, 8:04 pm

Only real thing I miss is the people, got a lot of friends over my 5+ years in EQ.

noel · Post by **noel** » March 4, 2005, 8:28 pm

I miss Miir.

Funkmasterr · Post by **Funkmasterr** » March 4, 2005, 8:52 pm

Where in MN are ya'll at Damiarch ?

Tyek · Post by **Tyek** » March 4, 2005, 9:35 pm

I miss orc highway!!!!

Ajran, Sin and I had some great times there. At least they were great times for me. I should not speak for Ajran and Sin.

Damiarch · Post by **Damiarch** » March 4, 2005, 10:17 pm

Funkmasterr wrote:Where in MN are ya'll at Damiarch ?

Mostly in White Bear Lake, some in Oakdale, couple in Minneapolis.

esyle · Post by **esyle** » March 4, 2005, 11:27 pm

I miss da Sarg
I miss my Sunji
I miss COE
I miss raceing to spawns
I miss all nighters
I miss my seattle crew
I miss playing a dark elf
I miss FoH
I miss my friends in Sov
I miss the Newfs
I miss phone calls to wake up and get on
I miss Kiki, Zotha, grumpy gnome, boss man, rhyae, sirinar, glad, orkon, and like a ton of others

I wish the veeshan players had all gone to one server. At least i'm with digi, pyro, neef, and flawen. this pvp stuff is kinda new though. I hope everyone is still having fun no matter where they are!

emezzerelda/alorha

stormweaver

Lor · Post by **Lor** » March 5, 2005, 9:38 am

I miss having to have 30 people to do a raid
I miss losing hours of experience when you die
I miss camping a mob for hours to get an Item
I miss corpse retrieval's
I miss "TRAIN TO <insert zone line here>"

Wait a sec..... No I don't

Rayquan · Post by **Rayquan** » March 5, 2005, 1:31 pm

i miss verant

Mr Bacon · Post by **Mr Bacon** » March 5, 2005, 2:45 pm

i miss 989 Studios

Deneve · Post by **Deneve** » March 5, 2005, 4:16 pm

Damiarch wrote:Now if only we could get them all to 60 so we can do more than Stratholm and Scholomance guild runs..

I'm trying to get a computer going that will run WoW =/ In the mean time gaming on the computers of absent RL WoW junkies will have to do.

I honestly do miss trains. Being a monk in EQ had soooo many perks; whenever you get pissed at some stupid camp or a person it was time to train the hell out of some zone...or when a train came rolling in and everyone else had to roll out, I just laid down and watched the carnage. I loved it when a factory group in PoI fucked up and called the train as they came piling out of there, I just laid down while the zone-in exp groups got squished...

Keverian FireCry · Post by **Keverian FireCry** » March 5, 2005, 5:12 pm

I miss weather effects and night as well. I always loved thunderstorms and then the downpour of rain. Maybe because I'm used to rain from living in seattle all my life, but I really liked the weather effects. They deffinately could cut down on the fog though.

The main thing I miss is just being a true noob MMORPG player. EQ was the first and taught me a shitload about the mechanics of these games. No mmo has had quite the same feeling of mystery and discovery, not because they aren't good MMOs, but because they didn't pop my cherry like EQ did.

Diae Soulmender · Post by **Diae Soulmender** » March 7, 2005, 2:42 pm

I miss forming raids that take 1.5 - 2 hours waiting for people to log on.

I miss single buffing an entire raid.

I miss Mass Necrovac's

I miss killing hundreds of mobs for hours and hours to get to 1 named to obtain 2-3 pieces of loot divided in to a raid of 54-72 people.

I miss the never end grind of AA.

I miss backflagging.

I miss 6 hours raids killing content you have killed so many times you begin counting tiles on the floor.

I miss Death Touch.

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I do miss mu friends.
I do miss my guild.
I do miss the fucktards to some degree.
I do miss some single group content.

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Mostly I dont miss much about EQ. There is certainly nothing about the game itself that I miss, but I do miss the relationships that were built there.

cid · Post by **cid** » March 7, 2005, 3:10 pm

I miss the people.

New games will come and go, but nothing will ever compare to our 5 year’s in EQ1.

The PE vs Corps in Akheva Ruins.

The PE vs Fiends on our Emp camps.

It is funny on what pissed us off at the time, but now I look back at it as fun.

No other game will ever truely replace EQ

Drinsic Darkwood · Post by **Drinsic Darkwood** » March 7, 2005, 3:19 pm

My time in Fiends was definitely the most fun I ever had in EQ.

PE/PD/FS

Akaran_D · Post by **Akaran_D** » March 7, 2005, 3:30 pm

I miss the tradeskill system.. the one that they put in just before GoD.
I miss killing time by killing named mobs that posed no challenge to me.. just because I could, and because no one else was.
I miss the Wurmslayer.
I miss my Spear of Fire.. that weapon kicked so much ass and was so worth it to get in my hands.

I miss a lot. But oddly enough, not so much the people.

Fash · Post by **Fash** » March 7, 2005, 4:05 pm

after readin diae's post..... why did we play that game again?...

Animalor · Post by **Animalor** » March 7, 2005, 4:16 pm

Fash wrote:after readin diae's post..... why did we play that game again?...

Cause it was the only decent one out there.

Stalker Vacio · Post by **Stalker Vacio** » March 7, 2005, 5:33 pm

I miss POK books

Ennia · Post by **Ennia** » March 8, 2005, 6:58 pm

I miss stacks of 20, little detail but I hate stacks of 5 or 10, make it one number regardless of item

Deneve · Post by **Deneve** » March 9, 2005, 12:33 am

I miss aggroing PoK guards, building a train, running into mana-song range of some AFK bard and then FDing when I'm really bored...

Seebs · Post by **Seebs** » March 9, 2005, 5:11 pm

I miss being scared.

Early on I was scared shitless I would lose my character in some zones.

Dying into Hate

13 hour CR in Fear (Voronwe's fault) and waiting for the Japanese to log in ~yoro TT~

Selling Honeycomb for plat in the early days of the Moggok Stein Quest.

I miss 25 minute runs to get somewhere.

BOAT!!

Boogahz · Post by **Boogahz** » March 9, 2005, 11:16 pm

Bubba Grizz wrote:I do miss a few things from EQ.
I miss:
That when it is night it is Dark outside and not this perpetual twilight thing.
I miss the Thunderstorms and rain.

I'm sure there is more but I can't think of anything else right now.

The lack of widespread lighting/weather effects in WoW make those areas where they are present stand out even more. There is one village in the Eastern Plaguelands (I think it's eastern and not western) where the lighting drops A LOT, and you notice it just because that doesn't happen often. Also, there is the Mountain just Northwest of Crossroads in The Barrens. The top is covered by what appears to be a red dustcloud.

Most of the lighting changes I have noticed tend to be rather subtle, and I do agree that at least having different effects based on time of day would be better.

Jice Virago · Post by **Jice Virago** » March 10, 2005, 12:36 am

I honestly do not miss the griefing/limited spawns that contributed to the drama of the game, contrary to what others might suspect. The game was at its best when there were no idiots blocking your path or assholes breathing down your neck, but unfortunately those sorts of experiences were few and far between as the game aged. With the exception of a few sociopathic drama queens, I don't know how anyone could have enjoyed all the stress and drama that came as an indirect result of that bullshit. I find that I enjoy the company of my old gang a lot more now that I can just plop on Teamspeak, settle in for a nights play, and actually DECIDE what we are going to do for an evening.

I do miss the social interaction that came with non-instanced dungeons (and no bullshit cross faction language barriers), along with the sense of community it gave to a server. But its an acceptable sacrifice to be able to plan the game around my life instead of the other way around. Hopefully the rescent instance capping will force people to actually go out and join organized guilds instead of just pickup zerging for loot, but I am not holding my breath on that. I am dissapointed in that every time I have been nice to someone in this game, or tried to help out a stranger, I have been bit in the ass for my efforts.

I miss the days of EQ where Voronwe would shoot a tell asking for help bagging his last Helm of the Tracker mob, or I would hang out in Ghoul Lord room helping whatever group happened to be there while skilling up my 2hb, or two-boxing Gaydedar for some random dr00d at 3am who didn't have enough help to complete their epic. This game will never have moments like this because the user base is crammed full of too many people and (by extention) too many self absorbed idiots. If only could train the asshats who swoop in and mine your resources/clean out your chests just as you finnished clearing to them......

If I miss anything else, its mainly the late night bullshitting that went on with some folks, many of whom I will probably never hear from again. Those late night tells from Apostate making wry commentary on the state of the game, the cock waving tells from Trias making fun of me for being a gimp, Leyor tempting me to the Dark Side of Uberdom, Raist laughing at some of the latest server drama (often at my expense), and even tells from Cobs detailing his most current plan to make Rune of War rise from the ashes really made the game worth playing at times. But, as they say, your cherry can only be popped once. I will take plain Jane dependable WoW over the psycho crack whore who gave good head EQ1 any day of the week, but EQ1 made for some great stories.

Soreali · Post by **Soreali** » March 10, 2005, 3:34 am

I miss selling Silver Jaded rings for 20 plat in Gfay

I miss being scared shitless whenever I heard "Dvinn to zone!"

I miss goin on random adventures with my brother in the early days when we had no idea where we were going.

I miss hanging out at the top of the SK wizard spires.

I miss all my friends in Ring Of Shadows.. Espicially the ones I haven't talked to in ages

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I miss all weekend PoA raids that consisted of no sleep till we cleared it.

I miss my friends in FS...Espicially that bastard Resurrector

I miss the feeling I had when I finally hit 250 jewlcrafting one my first ever combine of a velium BD bracer..

I miss then selling that bracer for 8500 plat..

I miss my friends in Valhall that I used to find on when I'd be up at 5 a.m.

Most of all, I miss all the great people I played EQ with.. I played that game more just to hang with my friends than to advance through content.

Diae Soulmender · Post by **Diae Soulmender** » March 10, 2005, 4:36 am

I hate to show it... but this is the average Everquest player today...

Most of us can remember back in mid-'99 ... remember when your reputation was more important then your level, class or guild? I mean really. Back in them days if you got a bad name in the community (it was MUCH smaller then even now) you were cockblocked from all angles and you may as well roll a new character or switch server or you wouldnt get anywhere except solo. Reputation > All

Bubba Grizz · Post by **Bubba Grizz** » March 10, 2005, 9:34 am

BAHAHAHA "Shitcock"

Lynks · Post by **Lynks** » March 10, 2005, 10:45 am

I miss going into new places with Dups and try to take down mobs 10 levels above us.

2 am guildchat

Failing miserably on a first attempt only to execute it flawlessly the second time.

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