Yep yep i remember when eq first came out was so hooked i would fall asleep at computer while playing would get pissed when i would wake up and be missing a full lvl or couldnt remember where i died at lol good times good times
hey guys google eqemu vztz pvp server. all you need is titanium package to play for free! pvp server currently with kunark & velious released. population a little low atm but is growing. need some of you oldschool pvpers to come back and get this community going
Used to play on the same server as these guys, in a competing (during Velious, at least) guild.
EQ ruled, but things started going downhill with Luclin. Didn't like the new models and AA points.
We all remember EQ as awesome because we had so much invested in our characters. Dying was a PITA, grinding was extremely long, especially that lvl 59. But I can't see anyone who never played the game before getting into it now.
i miss eq so much=(( made so many friends, i used to just log on a talk to them sitting in various towns =( if anyone is from the tribunal server and knows Grimlim-59 dark elf Shadowknight Message me..or if anyone still playes eq or if the Classic is stil alive MEssage me and inform me how to get on it please
ok so i have a question. How do i start playing everquest? i have played wow for 3 years and i am bored of it. I want to play everquest. But i have no idea how to start. Like whats with all the expansions? is there an original one i need to have, then get the expansions? can someone PLEASE help me. Message me if you have some the answers. It will be DEEPLY appreciated
Anyone here remember the shortlived monster patch? Where you could choose to start the game as a lowbie monster in one of the noobie zones. A level 1 rat or a lvl 3 skelleton (if you were lucky since skellies had armor and weapons sometimes which increased your monsters stats) You could go around and kill other mobs and level up (having a level 8 decaying skeleton in a level 1-4 zone felt awesome) or you could harass players. Real funny.
lol Actually that patch was coming out when I quit, which of course was all over the EQ website at the time. Later on I was talking to other EQers about the monster patch because it seemed like Sony just erased it in all forms. Only one other person actually remembered it and for the first time in a long time, I felt like I didn't just dream that monster patch up! rofl
It was a great concept, but they didn't expect the negative impact it would have on low level players. Ultimately they just decided to give Monster Classes in an expansion to expand on the idea, but not allow monster vs player combat.
I do however remember that for the longest time, certain pets were "Scowls, Ready to Attack" for anyone other than the master and the master could actually have the pet attack someone without any repercussions. My level 49 pet was that way when cap was 50.
I want to see a game that's deep and hardcore like a mud (like eq was based on) but a little more forgiving like WoW. Somewhere in the middle...with LOTS of conent. ANd not just monsters to kill...lots of stuff so if you get bored of mobs you can do other things. And good quests...easy ones, epic ones, and the ones that are tricky to figure out so nobody knows how to do them for a year. (usually they have to do with waiting around 2 weeks for ONE mob to spawn lol)
Vanilla wow was absolutely great. No, not in the later patches, but right around the first honor patch. pvp balance was still good, gear gaps weren't that huge, there was room for out of the box stuff and grinding wasn't mandatory. You could still raid cities without being utterly discouraged by the spawning of 100 elite guards and there was still some immersion. Everquest had more player freedom then wow now, but everything took 10 times longer. WoW has hardly any freedom anymore.
There are two things I've heard about mmorpgs that rang true.
1. They are a lot like another country - they have their own laws, their own economies, and typically their currency has real world value. They are basically little, new, countries.
2. As such, economies are incredibly difficult to keep balanced - eventually people find ways to 'manipulate the system' and things unbalance for one class of people or another. And attempts to rebalance it destroys the freedom of the market/game.
until someone figures out how to perfect human society (lol, might take a while considering the current state of affairs), the best bet for mmorpgs is to expect a life of around 5 years tops and then design a new one.
The old game is still good for the long term players who don't want to leave...but to catch new fish every 5 years you need a new mmorpg with a new idea and keeping all the old good ideas.
Who knows, maybe one day the real world will learn from all these virtual ones.
Yes, but the stuff in WoW is ridiculous. There's keeping people from exploiting and then there is acting like a Nazi regime. Loads changes they made which restricted gameplay weren't needed. Stomping out City raids in the way they did, Resillience (completely ruined itemisation)invisible walls everywhere (who cares that people can get into an empty undone Mount Hyal) I like out of the box stuff, which is allmost impossible in WoW now. Imho they went to far. Let's hope they get it right one day
EQ had it's huge flaws aswell tho. If you weren't in some uber guild you shouldn't even bother logging on in EQ, which was no fun either. Oldschool WoW had the raids from EQ (altho a little less hardcore) and the solo stuff, it was a decent mix. Current WoW is....meh. I played WoW from the first open Beta wave and enjoyed it up untill Outland.
I enjoyed WoW, but no where near as much as old school EQ.
I was in a high level guild in EQ though, so I got to see the end game content. I preferred the non-instance raids... was fun racing other guilds on rare spawns etc :)
In WoW, I could solo a lot of the old raid instances at 80, where as in EQ even content from 3-4 expansions prior were a challenge
My best MMO moments come from EQ aswell, but I tried playing it again a while ago and..ugh..
I agree on that EQ did a great job of keeping balance between expansions. In WoW, as soon as an expansion hits, everything pre that is immediatly trivialized. There is no reason whatsoever to do old content in WoW except nostalgia, which is a huge shame.
What you are describing is EQ2. It can be deep and hardcore with raid instances, but solo friendly as well. It is more forgiving than EQ1, but not as pansy as WoW. There is a lot more to do besides hacking monsters. World events, the best crafting out there, holiday events, in game battle card game, the absolute best in game housing options that actually ad to the game. Plus it has 50 times more content than WoW, and a community that isn't stuck in freshman year in high school.
One difference that strikes when comparing EQ to WoW is how stuff feels so much more epic in EQ. dunno exactly how and why. The rediculously short clipping distance in WoW might be one thing. In Everquest you could stand on a mountain and see mobs from pretty much all across the zone, in WoW stuff doesnt clip into view untill you're almost on top of it which makes zones feel much smaller.
Maybe it was also because if you died in EQ that was a BIG problem. And, you couldn't just run around the levels and see how far you could get...because you'd lose your corpse somewhere and it would be a pain in the ass to continue playing after that (plus the xp loss..ouch)
So you had to take things more seriously.
WoW is more carebear. Don't be me wrong though..EQ was a little too hardcore...remember that kid who killed himself?
The lack of death penalty doesnt bother me in WoW. Losing xp is just wasted time and the accumilating res timer in Old WoW was penalty enough. Nothing more annoying then having to wait 10 minutes to res after dieing many times in a good world pvp battle(/mourn world pvp). For me Arenas and daylies killed WoW. The fact that you are 100% forced to do Blizzes way. Want pvp? no choice but to do arenas for that one single resillience set and look like everyone else doing the threadmill
speaking of old days.. remember getting queynos faction for in blackburrow and getting killed by elites? and... hunting Pyzgin for them darn GBS?! lol the GOD old days... fighting the shark in freeport while waiting for the stupid boat... or.. falling off the boat because of the "lag-monster" and getting lost trying to find sister isle?
haha well i think your funny..anyways im leaving a comment to say im sick of reading the forums about eq dying...its prob the best game ever made hands down and if people were smart they would quit gay wow and come back and stop bitching u guys say how great the game is then play it...damn it wont die anytime soon people will get sick of wow and the other mmos and come back home thats just how it is ...shadowbolt...of stromm
Heh, wow. Some of the stuff you come across on the internet. Hey Jess, I had forgotten all about these videos. Akreon, dude, you still suck. Heh... seeing myself run around with Fiery Defender. Damn I miss that game sometimes.
support a CLASSIC OR SLOW PROGRESSION SERVER!! Just search for: special ruleset server everquest (at google) and you will see a link to an everquest producer made thread about special ruleset server ideas. A slow progression server or classic server is the hot topic right now!
OMG OMG OMG It's me tanking Vindicator ! It's been a fucking while Vision was on Ayonae Ro ... European server but we we're east :) dang man nostalgia :)
I like the dancing bear! All the houres invested in EQ i'we never seen a dragon! Well... I am only lvl 30 but i never hear anyone talking about them either! always talking bout giants!
**LQTM Man this one brought back some memories!! Actually recognizing the frost jiants, and kurns tower, and remembering all the time I spent farming those areas...
Lol these days a cleric can enter a zone like these and everything dies just from their presence and clerics will never be dps :P
celticdruid3 2 months ago
This isn't the original soundtrack for this video.....
StarFury777 6 months ago in playlist Everquest
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AzerothianBackUp 1 year ago
Yep yep i remember when eq first came out was so hooked i would fall asleep at computer while playing would get pissed when i would wake up and be missing a full lvl or couldnt remember where i died at lol good times good times
falconhog 1 year ago
EQ will live forever
Aleanyr 1 year ago
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Takyn33 2 years ago
Used to play on the same server as these guys, in a competing (during Velious, at least) guild.
EQ ruled, but things started going downhill with Luclin. Didn't like the new models and AA points.
We all remember EQ as awesome because we had so much invested in our characters. Dying was a PITA, grinding was extremely long, especially that lvl 59. But I can't see anyone who never played the game before getting into it now.
vinzayro 2 years ago 2
do people still play this game
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i miss eq so much=(( made so many friends, i used to just log on a talk to them sitting in various towns =( if anyone is from the tribunal server and knows Grimlim-59 dark elf Shadowknight Message me..or if anyone still playes eq or if the Classic is stil alive MEssage me and inform me how to get on it please
Justinbtex 3 years ago
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ok so i have a question. How do i start playing everquest? i have played wow for 3 years and i am bored of it. I want to play everquest. But i have no idea how to start. Like whats with all the expansions? is there an original one i need to have, then get the expansions? can someone PLEASE help me. Message me if you have some the answers. It will be DEEPLY appreciated
jessejohnson122 3 years ago
Anyone here remember the shortlived monster patch? Where you could choose to start the game as a lowbie monster in one of the noobie zones. A level 1 rat or a lvl 3 skelleton (if you were lucky since skellies had armor and weapons sometimes which increased your monsters stats) You could go around and kill other mobs and level up (having a level 8 decaying skeleton in a level 1-4 zone felt awesome) or you could harass players. Real funny.
Eener101 3 years ago
lol Actually that patch was coming out when I quit, which of course was all over the EQ website at the time. Later on I was talking to other EQers about the monster patch because it seemed like Sony just erased it in all forms. Only one other person actually remembered it and for the first time in a long time, I felt like I didn't just dream that monster patch up! rofl
RagingConflagration 3 years ago
haha yep. it was live for all of about a couple hours if i remember correctly...they took down the servers and patched it out almost immediately.
and just like Sony, they ditched the idea
lament48 2 years ago
It was a great concept, but they didn't expect the negative impact it would have on low level players. Ultimately they just decided to give Monster Classes in an expansion to expand on the idea, but not allow monster vs player combat.
I do however remember that for the longest time, certain pets were "Scowls, Ready to Attack" for anyone other than the master and the master could actually have the pet attack someone without any repercussions. My level 49 pet was that way when cap was 50.
jadedhawk 2 years ago
Yes, this was one of the greatest gaming experiences I ever had. It was so freaking hilarious!
explodeychik 2 years ago
LOL I love Sshaerra Temple. Or how ever you spell it.
krayzee001 3 years ago
I want to see a game that's deep and hardcore like a mud (like eq was based on) but a little more forgiving like WoW. Somewhere in the middle...with LOTS of conent. ANd not just monsters to kill...lots of stuff so if you get bored of mobs you can do other things. And good quests...easy ones, epic ones, and the ones that are tricky to figure out so nobody knows how to do them for a year. (usually they have to do with waiting around 2 weeks for ONE mob to spawn lol)
Aro2220 3 years ago
Vanilla wow was absolutely great. No, not in the later patches, but right around the first honor patch. pvp balance was still good, gear gaps weren't that huge, there was room for out of the box stuff and grinding wasn't mandatory. You could still raid cities without being utterly discouraged by the spawning of 100 elite guards and there was still some immersion. Everquest had more player freedom then wow now, but everything took 10 times longer. WoW has hardly any freedom anymore.
Shadax101 3 years ago
There are two things I've heard about mmorpgs that rang true.
1. They are a lot like another country - they have their own laws, their own economies, and typically their currency has real world value. They are basically little, new, countries.
2. As such, economies are incredibly difficult to keep balanced - eventually people find ways to 'manipulate the system' and things unbalance for one class of people or another. And attempts to rebalance it destroys the freedom of the market/game.
Aro2220 3 years ago
until someone figures out how to perfect human society (lol, might take a while considering the current state of affairs), the best bet for mmorpgs is to expect a life of around 5 years tops and then design a new one.
The old game is still good for the long term players who don't want to leave...but to catch new fish every 5 years you need a new mmorpg with a new idea and keeping all the old good ideas.
Who knows, maybe one day the real world will learn from all these virtual ones.
Aro2220 3 years ago
Yes, but the stuff in WoW is ridiculous. There's keeping people from exploiting and then there is acting like a Nazi regime. Loads changes they made which restricted gameplay weren't needed. Stomping out City raids in the way they did, Resillience (completely ruined itemisation)invisible walls everywhere (who cares that people can get into an empty undone Mount Hyal) I like out of the box stuff, which is allmost impossible in WoW now. Imho they went to far. Let's hope they get it right one day
Shadax101 3 years ago
WoW doesn't compare to EQ.
EQ was a challenge, everything you did was an adventure.
WoW is about soloing level 900 elites for phat epix.
1kkinz 3 years ago
EQ had it's huge flaws aswell tho. If you weren't in some uber guild you shouldn't even bother logging on in EQ, which was no fun either. Oldschool WoW had the raids from EQ (altho a little less hardcore) and the solo stuff, it was a decent mix. Current WoW is....meh. I played WoW from the first open Beta wave and enjoyed it up untill Outland.
Shadax101 3 years ago
I enjoyed WoW, but no where near as much as old school EQ.
I was in a high level guild in EQ though, so I got to see the end game content. I preferred the non-instance raids... was fun racing other guilds on rare spawns etc :)
In WoW, I could solo a lot of the old raid instances at 80, where as in EQ even content from 3-4 expansions prior were a challenge
1kkinz 3 years ago
My best MMO moments come from EQ aswell, but I tried playing it again a while ago and..ugh..
I agree on that EQ did a great job of keeping balance between expansions. In WoW, as soon as an expansion hits, everything pre that is immediatly trivialized. There is no reason whatsoever to do old content in WoW except nostalgia, which is a huge shame.
Shadax101 3 years ago
Spot on... I reactivated my account early last year for some 'fun'.
There was nobody around. The best part about EQ was that it forced people to work together, it really created an amazing community.
I guess I did have some fun revisiting some old content, like making my monk another Robe of the Whistling Fists, or visiting ToV etc.
1kkinz 3 years ago 3
What you are describing is EQ2. It can be deep and hardcore with raid instances, but solo friendly as well. It is more forgiving than EQ1, but not as pansy as WoW. There is a lot more to do besides hacking monsters. World events, the best crafting out there, holiday events, in game battle card game, the absolute best in game housing options that actually ad to the game. Plus it has 50 times more content than WoW, and a community that isn't stuck in freshman year in high school.
fawdown 3 years ago
One difference that strikes when comparing EQ to WoW is how stuff feels so much more epic in EQ. dunno exactly how and why. The rediculously short clipping distance in WoW might be one thing. In Everquest you could stand on a mountain and see mobs from pretty much all across the zone, in WoW stuff doesnt clip into view untill you're almost on top of it which makes zones feel much smaller.
Shadax101 3 years ago
Maybe it was also because if you died in EQ that was a BIG problem. And, you couldn't just run around the levels and see how far you could get...because you'd lose your corpse somewhere and it would be a pain in the ass to continue playing after that (plus the xp loss..ouch)
So you had to take things more seriously.
WoW is more carebear. Don't be me wrong though..EQ was a little too hardcore...remember that kid who killed himself?
Aro2220 3 years ago
The lack of death penalty doesnt bother me in WoW. Losing xp is just wasted time and the accumilating res timer in Old WoW was penalty enough. Nothing more annoying then having to wait 10 minutes to res after dieing many times in a good world pvp battle(/mourn world pvp). For me Arenas and daylies killed WoW. The fact that you are 100% forced to do Blizzes way. Want pvp? no choice but to do arenas for that one single resillience set and look like everyone else doing the threadmill
Shadax101 3 years ago
Nice video, dude.
EQ will always be the best.
YawnGod 3 years ago
OMFGWTF ITS EVERSHIT! jK/./ peace peace no war=D
ohtehnose 3 years ago
That was a great collection of really old fights ... them were the days man great video
cammandor 3 years ago
Im the one who was tanking vindicator ... was a fucking pain in the ass ...
Thgladiator 3 years ago
the gm was palimax.
i was in vision a longgg time ago. im even in the movie!
underachiever07 4 years ago 2
OMG .... haha me too i was in Vision!
<--------- Menendi Barbarian Warrior :P long time agoooooooooo ... It was Jessnut who made this movie haha !
Thgladiator 3 years ago
this isn't the old days lol... all of this is post luclin
randall642 4 years ago 4
LOL, I agree.
feioncastor 3 years ago 2
@randall642 agreed
AzerothianBackUp 1 year ago
LOL the bear i was like WTF
llyrae 4 years ago
projectnorrath dot com
sathiran123 4 years ago
It was funny with the bear part
ectl3k 4 years ago
speaking of old days.. remember getting queynos faction for in blackburrow and getting killed by elites? and... hunting Pyzgin for them darn GBS?! lol the GOD old days... fighting the shark in freeport while waiting for the stupid boat... or.. falling off the boat because of the "lag-monster" and getting lost trying to find sister isle?
GES1985 4 years ago
haha well i think your funny..anyways im leaving a comment to say im sick of reading the forums about eq dying...its prob the best game ever made hands down and if people were smart they would quit gay wow and come back and stop bitching u guys say how great the game is then play it...damn it wont die anytime soon people will get sick of wow and the other mmos and come back home thats just how it is ...shadowbolt...of stromm
bo12117 4 years ago
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whycantirem 4 years ago
Wow i remember Vision.. Who was the Gnome Necromancer GM..
3 Cheers for Ayonae Ro
JonB582 4 years ago
Heh, wow. Some of the stuff you come across on the internet. Hey Jess, I had forgotten all about these videos. Akreon, dude, you still suck. Heh... seeing myself run around with Fiery Defender. Damn I miss that game sometimes.
-Bradious
litandy 4 years ago
Hey want to play a pure eq classic server? Me too.
projecteq dot org
revilor 4 years ago 3
very cool eq stuff
,,i miss it
wes85292 4 years ago
Hey want to play a pure eq classic server? Me too.
projecteq dot org
clownsheep22 4 years ago 2
No offense, but the stuff shown in this video IS NOT ''old days''. You need pre-luclin for that.
NarZhule 4 years ago
support a CLASSIC OR SLOW PROGRESSION SERVER!! Just search for: special ruleset server everquest (at google) and you will see a link to an everquest producer made thread about special ruleset server ideas. A slow progression server or classic server is the hot topic right now!
linkamus 4 years ago
Rallos Zek ---
1999 - 2004 RIP thats when it when down :(
Producer12 4 years ago 2
What up Jess!! <-- Akreon ... lol I miss Vision ;) That gnome in the purple with a duck stick is Palimax, the guild leader =oP
AkreonLaz 4 years ago
Akreon? ... if my memory is good you were a Dark Elf necro ? Maybe im wrong ...
Thgladiator 3 years ago
I miss my shadownight Iksar! i named it spungii! he got to lvl 36!
spungii117 4 years ago
i can shammy/rogue duo all of this on luclin now
BootsTheCat777 4 years ago
OMG OMG OMG It's me tanking Vindicator ! It's been a fucking while Vision was on Ayonae Ro ... European server but we we're east :) dang man nostalgia :)
Thgladiator 4 years ago
HAAHAHHHAHAHH that bear fight was retarded lol
x3stunnzx3 4 years ago
I like the dancing bear! All the houres invested in EQ i'we never seen a dragon! Well... I am only lvl 30 but i never hear anyone talking about them either! always talking bout giants!
nokirar 4 years ago
holy crap that was fridgin great... love the music and funny as hell clips =D great job
vyv101 4 years ago
Great Video, I miss the old days of EQ!
Sagepyro 4 years ago
LOL i feel sorry for that guys who got thrown off the bridge
blitzy16 4 years ago
LOL LMFAO.......did yall see the part when the man falls down and has face hits that womans ass lol ? it was around 01:20
blitzy16 4 years ago
i remember those raids barley, i got a levle 70 that i quit with and hope something like a new server domes out so i can do those raids again lol
killerluke 5 years ago
this song was so awesome back in the day and the videos were a good mix.
Borninthe1980s 5 years ago
**LQTM Man this one brought back some memories!! Actually recognizing the frost jiants, and kurns tower, and remembering all the time I spent farming those areas...
MishkaKitty 5 years ago
hey Matt, that was fun to watch. I like how you mixed in some a bunch of crazy stuff for comic relief.
ThorouBread 5 years ago
Hey..U did a really good job of mixing that all up! Some crazy funny stuff! Love the guy bein thrown off the bridge haha!
nayomee77 5 years ago