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/passives doesnt work anymore? Is there a new for this info?

So many inaccurate statements within the first 4 minutes of the video, had me checking out early. As someone who played EQ the month it released, I appreciate what you attempted to do here. But, you should really try not to make so many broad statements of fact, before verifying them.

I don't think this man is even going to play the GAME. 😅

Started EQ back in the fall of '99, on the Veeshan server, I miss those days. I remember buying graph paper and having to draw out my own maps and having notebooks to write notes in.

Long story short this game never held your hand they just leave pictures of said hand laying around the world to troll you

This was my first MMO and also the best one that I've ever played. In the early stages being an enchanter was so much fun. You had the power to charm NPC guards for a few seconds. The benefit of that would be to command them to attack other people. This was great if I was ever in town dealing with a griefer. I would just sick the guards on them. Or you could charm a person. And do commands on their body like make them sit down. I've had people a couple of levels higher than me that I would charm and make them sit down to bring them to my level of height since I was a short gnome. I would then command a guard to attack them. Or if I wanted to do my own briefing as an enchanter I could transform into objects around me such as a tree. In the forest along the path in the form of a tree I could root someone in place and start casting on them. Or even more fun I would stand next to a bridge over a small stream full of piranhas. And turn into a non-tangible duplicate bridge. When the noobs would try to cross me not knowing which one was the real one, they would fall into the stream of piranhas. The losses were big as well. I still remember gaining a oracle's robe at some point. This was a robe that most magic casters wanted, because of its stat boosting. I remember getting killed in my robe getting stolen along with my money and everything else. Rallos Zek was my server. This is and always will be the best PVP. After that I would say Shadowbane. Not many people know about that one either. Good times.

bazzaar? no w command tunnel

No other game since has captured that same sense of immersion and adventure. They all just went the way of number go up, dopamine, dopamine, dopamine. Time = more number go up, dopamine.

lol there is so much wrong with this "history" i dont know where to begin

I decided to download this game again. I haven't played in probably 10 years. I stumbled across this video and was very impressed with how you presented each class. You could tell you were describing the classes from the lenses of "play what you want and enjoy" but keep this in mind also. Love how you put it together. Anyways, glad to be back, I'm going to sub and check out some of your other vids while the game downloads. Cheers

I still play Eve Online casually, but I can't imagine playing EQ again. I enjoy a complex, more brutal system like EQ, but I just don't have time for it.

I played on Rallos Zek, mostly we explored other people's inventory

the last third of your video, you are talking about a lot of things that wasn't at launch, POK, the Bazaar, that wasn't there at launch. I played it from launch till months after the first expansion and those things didn't exist that whole time. there was a Bazaar but it wasnt a zone, we met at east commonlands in this tunnel and there weren't vendors, people just shouted out what they had , you contacted them and did a trade and hopped that you didn't get ripped off. the only way to get ported anywhere was to have a wizard or druid port you using spells, there was no stones you click on to port around.

Are you playing in Origins? I want to start a monk but everyone poopoo's them and talks me out of it :( But from what it sounds like, you say they are worth it clearly!

Bad video is bad. You have information from 2002 in here talking like it was 1999. You skipped over the EC tunnel for selling stuff and went straight to plane of knowledge from 2002. You also didn't mention how they had a beta with max lvl of 6 and people killed emperor crush during it.

Thankfully I didn't have to use dial-up internet for EQ back then, I had already gotten a cable modem with a whopping 300kb download at most. It was kinda interesting how I found out about EQ. I had been playing mostly Delta Force and Half-Life 1 since 1998 but after playing a ton of different mods for half life I tried out one called Master Sword; it was an rpg mod kinda similar to... fable? Anyway, one of my friends that I played with said that he knew of a game that was even better than the mod, a whole world to explore instead of just a few maps. Man, talk about an eye opening experience. I was blown away at what they created back then. I got so into the game that I had managed to buy some kind of EQ guidebook and would study it during class, lol.

The Bazar was not around at launch. You had hubs in different zones where you would find people gathered. They would be casting buffs to practice and shouting their wares. The Bazar wasn’t introduced till Luclin came out.

"Ignorance and innocents go hand in hand". I think of this quote often nearly 26 years later. It was chilly outside but sunny and the warmth came through the window while I made my first character on launch day. I had gotten my reserved copy from electronics botiqe formerly Walden software.

How come ya counted Beastlord but excluded Channeler? Beastlord was released during Age of Discovery which was like.. This mini side-expansion that dropped with Sentinel's Fate, so definitely not original

I remember thinking. Omg i got a whole platinum. Im not joking it took me like a week to gain one! Lol great videos great nostalgia!

I played in beta in 1998 then after launch loved the game miss it

Does anyone have a copy of that Everquest: Offline Avatars PR fluff piece they released? I remember it happened after the one player killed himself, and it was all over the news.

Thanks @legendarybloodlines, but my computer did not create any restore points.

Love EQ, and I played from 99-03. Monk. Fennin Ro. I remember I dropped 3000$, on a new custom gameing PC so I could run EQ like a king. Much time was wasted. Loved every second of it.

Lol, the graphics in that 1999 trailer look nothing like the original game.

Slight correction to your video, the first online 3d game to play online with other players was Meridan 59 (a straight pvp game that had massive penalties when you died first off you lost stats on your character across the board and if that wasn't enough you dropped everything your caring and wearing but was a great 4 years), Than EQ came out and than 2 years later came Dark Age of Camelot (Still to this day the best PVP mechanics/system of them all) and than a few years after that World of Warcraft and everyone quit everything they were playing for that grinder of a game. But had a blast playing all of them, I still remember downloading a patch on Meridian 59 that took every bit of 14 hours to do on that dial-up connection. Between being disconnected from AOL or losing server connection I wanted to smash the computer a billion times. But once that loading screen popped up I was like a fat kid in a candy store.

I remember being really excited, my cleric hit 60 about 30 min before 911. Suddenly the whole world changed

Gaming was better then. Ironic

Damn I miss playing at launch so bad times were great back then

Man, I have a conflicted feeling about one aspect of the classic eq... quests you had to hail all the NPC you see and talk to them and type in specific phrases in order to get and details if the quests and lores which I miss but find it PITA but now (i quit playing(again) 6 years ago, everything is automated meaning the NPC is already labled as a quest/task giver

No lie asherons call was 10x better and was released in '99

Very good points and 100% true. I have gamed since the late 90s (did EQ 1 and EQ2, DAoC, and other ones I can’t even remember now lol, and I have never been a hard core wow player but I’ve played it more than I’d like to admit. I just played wow TWW and I did the main campaign and leveled a char to 80 and I’m getting ready to put it down. I figure that I’ve got my money worth and it has definitely caused me to reduce my activity levels substantially. I think less addictive games are a better idea and free ones :D The “getting your money’s worth” is where they got me this time ! It is a great escape from family issues but there are other healthier escapes imho.

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7 months after this vid.. Combat update is coming and more content, currency/market update... I call your next divorce lol

That is the best way to describe first playing this game on launch. Having played NWN on AoL, I was already into the 'social aspect' of the game, but actually being in there, it felt like I was in another world.

Blue Protocol was completely abolished, they straight up canceled the game entirely. You may already know that now though...

El juego es una lavadera de dinero. Ha recaudado 33 millones de dólares, de fondos de inversores de riesgo,que se dedican a invertir en juegos nft y web3. Eso no se lo dicen a su audiencia. También contrató a una empresa woke que se dedica al análisis y asesoramiento( Solsten) parecida a Sweet baby y así pudo pedir financiamiento de un banco Finlandes( llamado Businesses Finland) que está alineado con la agenda 2030. Este juego es una completa cortina de humo y una de las estafas y lavados de dinero más efectivos que ha dado la industria de los videojuegos. Nadie lo vió venir

In France we played with pentium 3 500 / 256 or 512 mega ram was the reference with ati rage fury 128 or 3dfx., we had aol too and ontel for unlimited 56k - we were essentially on karana and Morel Thule. The french community stopped at lLuclin and a lot of us went to DAoC for the pvp/rvr

when I first started out on Ralos Zek PVP server - the enchanters were able to charm other players - - they had me attacking my friends - lol - it was pretty cut throat - - Player killers running trains on people in Black Burrow - - it sucked but it was awesome - you really had to keep your wits about you - - sadly these days the Quenos Hills are mostly abandoned by all but Fippy Darkpaw

Overall helpful information if not a little outdated. Like has been said before in other comments most classes are neutral as of August 18, 2010, in GU 57. With the alignment based being Pally/SK for Fighter, Swashy/Brig for Scout, Conjy/Necro for mage, and Mystic/ Defiler for Priest. Also, I would like to point out that at this point all of the classes are free to play and a little annoyed that you skipped over in my Opinion one of the best classes in the game being Channeler, but included info about the Beastlord, which was also a class added later on by the way. Overall, very helpful but please get the facts right, and as another creator in the Niche I hope to see you grow and flourish the game really is under rated and deserves more credit in the genre😄

People had Palm Pilots in 1999, but nobody really had cell phones yet. The world really transformed after that.

I got to Beta test EQ I remember getting on my uncles PC when he went to his friends for Dnd night. and I played all night till he came home in the morning

Plane of knowledge not portal and that wasnt in original eq, neither was the bazaar

I started playing just before Kunark was released. It was so much fun and alive. I remember creating a bard in Freeport and was amazed at how vibrant and teeming with people who were also playing the game. The city resembled a real city; there were hundreds of people moving about, talking, questing, selling and buying, and just living life. You had to use your entire computer with the original client. For example, I had a druid that would have to open the book to meditate and regain mana. I would pull with a snare, cast a dot, run just far enough to keep aggro and then sit down and meditate by opening the spell book, which took up the entire screen. I would then have to listen to the footsteps of the mob as it approached and guess when the best time would be to stand up and cast again. It was definitely trial and error. I remember meeting my first friend, Ben, and his wife, while grouping in Befallen. We died a horrible death by falling down the well and it took hours to get our corpses and gear back. Eventually, a large "raid" team of high levels (back then, they were 25-30ish) had to go down and retrieve not only our corpses, but the corpses of level 20-25s that tried to help us; there were a couple dozen of us waiting for our corpses. Our group received a stern talking to about being responsible and that next time, people might not help. I definitely have lost a bit of gear over the years. You could buff not only players, but random mobs. Just for fun, in the East Commonlands, we would buff a low-level skeleton with level 30+ cleric buffs and watch it tear through people. Inevitably, a player would run into the tunnel where people were selling and the skeleton, now uber buffed, would tear through a bunch of players before being killed. Also, you could drop coin on the ground and people could pick it up. This lead us to drop like 10,000 copper on the ground, which would make it almost impossible to move without strength and/or speed buffs. Some low level character would pick it up and be stuck as the mobs got closer. You would hear panicked shouts asking for help, which most people would, but a lot of times not in time. We also used coins to draw arrows in dungeons to mark where we had been or mark the way for group members who would join us. We had to be creative without maps. Good memories!

I visited my cousin in the Summer of 99, he had the game and I needed it, I was 17. I went home and talked my Mom into selling my instruments to get a PC to play this game. Bad choices were made.

I could give you real gameplay in any zone from the original 1999 client from disk. I have an old version of EQEmulator that was modified to support it. Then, you could see all the fantastic bugs in the client we used to exploit as well back then. I used to GM rez, port, haste, and heal as a level 4 magician, it was glorious.

Why no scouts?

thanks for this - microsoft made themselves OVERLORDS over peoples' PCs (give no choice) My Win 10 doesn't give RESTORE POINTS this is July21, 2024 & s.o.b.'s NOT allowing what you did Jan 9, 2024 !!! communism !!!

If you solo, or rather molo (solo with a merc), there is hardly any difference between classes. It breaks down to what graphics you like. First, on LIVE, with a merc, you can almost 1 shot most mobs, regardless of level. As long as they don't one shot you or the mobs are too high, you'll do okay. For example, my 43 bruiser just (like 10 seconds ago) wandered into Unrest and was attacked by two level 72 mobs and survived the run to the zone. The only thing that matters is that you push the buttons when they are not grey to do damage. I've NEVER had to use Feign Death on my monks or bruisers, ever, on LIVE. The fights are too short. Second, again, on LIVE, death has elaborately no meaning. If you die, you get a death exp penalty that you have to pay back. It's not a lot and you will easily get it back within a few kills. Third, no fight lasts long on LIVE servers. None. Root does nothing, as the mob dies too quickly for that to matter. DoTs don't matter, the fight doesn't last long enough for the damage to matter. Fourth, on LIVE you will NOT find groups until level 130 (as of July 2024, with the latest expansion). I've paid for a subscription for the last 3 years and the ONLY groups I have found have been on the recent Origins server. On LIVE, I have not had one group. Ever. Fifth, on LIVE, you will be WAAAAAY behind the curve if you want to raid and haven't been playing forever or you're not willing to pay a lot of real-life money. The top raiders, let alone the top tier of raiders, have been a part of the game for 2 decades! EQ2 Origins could be fun, but it's gimped by a half-ass attempt to recapture 2004/2006-ish, but with corporate greed running it. At least it's not a gimme' like LIVE is, but it's completely, 180 degrees opposite in that it's too tough

These steps don't work in my Windows 10 on my PC but I am so untechnical when something goes wrong it's me ha! Also this tutorial is 5 months old so could that be the problem? I went to MicroSoft Edge and it said something like "We can't help you removed Copilot from your system" when they were the ones who put it in. I remember I'd get notices like add their wonderful Copilot to your system with a button to "accept" but no button to not accept and you couldn't close the window. Twice I got out of it only by shutting down. This time they went a step further. I had an update notice and clicked for that at shut-down but when I restarted suddenly there was Copilot with a white vertical bar taking space on my desktop. I can't find any simple uninstall. I have Windows 10 and I use FireFox or Duck Duck Go so should I just uninstall MicroSoft Edge or will that cause problems with various functions in my computer? Big corps have their ways and I wonder how this is a similar scenario with the future of AI and a parallel to George Orwell's famous novel.