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I remember it was ruins of kunark experience. co-workers back then tried to get me to game with them as the mmo gaming became a thing. EverQuest was our 1st 3d MMO game together. we were coming from Ultima Online. the game mechanics was familiar with dnd like rules.
so there we were in 2000 playing everquest. coworkers and their wives playing the game together. it was a blast. i had a roommate who played eq and i made a human qeynos monk. i didnt get my own game until later when i decided to leave UO. ruins of kunark was fairly new in the game and i made an iksar monk. there i was in quarter of Cabilis. it looked savage like it's been through some shit. I thought of how battle torn everything was compared to the human settlements in the main land.
fast forward to shadows of luclin coworkers and I were camping poair for epic mobs. we all got to a certain isle and just camp out to alts until we all were ready to camp the isle. lotsa fun that was farming key to key and clearing the isles to get where we needed to be.
by planes of power, most my coworkers left the game by then. they moved on to other games. while i did more key farming.
by gates of discord, i think I saw the game lose its wealth of players. man I loved raiding GoD. the challenge was vastly pumped up. going through zone debuffs and crazy raid splits was worth the efforts because Tacvi was raidloot end gear payoff I didn't know there was another raid loot zone like potimeb. made my berserker then. I wanted to key and flag him for rots but i just didn't get my berserker geared enough to survive and my monk was needed more on the raids.
I played my berserker when i returned to the game and pretty much stuck with him from omens of war to veil of alaris. the game went f2p then and I just couldn't play anymore. the thing was I knew the game and played well. it just wasn't the same without my friends.
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