Everquest Nostalgia

[serenya_loreden]

 I rolled my warrior, Loredena, on the Tribunal on 9/1/99.  A coworker had convinced me to play EQ by telling me ‘it’s D&D online!’.   Despite a confusing UI, corpse-runs, blind Barbarian in Halas and everything else that went with a new online game, I was immediately enthralled.    While Lore was my much-loved main, played most days, I rolled up

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[serenya_loreden]

I remember spending my first year always running around blind. Then Sisca came to visit and turned up the gamma on my monitor :o

I keep getting bored with WoW and burning out, still haven't hit max there. But then, I don't raid nor pvp, and grinding instances so I can grind the heroic version of them doesn't work for me.

EQ and EQ2 were both free all summer to prior subscribers, I saw a lot of people go back, and even some newcomers. It's still a harder game then WoW of course, but it is significantly easier then back in the day.