Sol B was actually crowded.
Ok someone please share their fond memories of EQ before RoK. 
True story: Stupid cleric one day refuses to cast a spell until he has KEI. We are hunting in PoV. We cant start until we get an enchanter from OUT OF THE ZONE to come cast on him.
Totally ridiculous.
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Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Now there's a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
You were caught on the crossfire of childhood and stardom,
blown on the steel breeze.
Come on you target for faraway laughter,
come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine!
You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Threatened by shadows at night, and exposed in the light.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Well you wore out your welcome with random precision,
rode on the steel breeze.
Come on you raver, you seer of visions,
come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine!
I also remember when Bronze was uber as hell and BIBS cost 250pp or more, and 250pp was a damn lot.
And.. I had to walk 6miles to school in the snow uphill both ways in ragged shoes with a tattered coat. 
I remember (this is post-Kunark, but still in an original game zone) losing Lyinar's corpse in Qeynos Hills, back when that place seemed freakishly huge, and rushing around for half an hour desperately trying to find it before it blipped out of existence.
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Lyinar Ka`Bael, Piney Fresh Druidess - Luclin
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Nobody really understood why Abbikat wrote:
I remember when the first train hit Karnors.....
I caused the first Karnor's train on the Rathe.
Three hours after that one, I trained Venril Sathir to the zone for the first time on the Rathe.
Ah, good times!
remember the first time my buddy and I saw blackburrow. crested a hill, saw the giant dog maw in the cliff face, said "wtf?!!" turned around and hauled ass back to Surefall.
hehe.. fun times.
The music that played in QHills. There was a bit near the crossroads sign, and the little hut.
Three words. Tomax, Varsoon and Pyzjn.
Remember getting a RTS at like level 6 because I told some nice high elf lady when Pyjzn accually spawned.
Being called a twink for having it... (reguardless the fact that I was wearing only patchwork pants and my druid guild tunic...)
When people accually bloody roleplayed.
Seeing my first wood elf, and the rest of that was history 
BEING #*(^%# BLIND AT NIGHT. And *not* being able to find my way out of the SureFall tunnel untill day when it was better lighted.
Two more words: Holly and Cross (My poor paladin...)
Seeing a guild tag for the first time <United Kingdoms>
Collecting gnoll teeth, handing them in for these moonstone things, handing those in for blackburrow stout, and selling those for 4g 7s each... moniesmonies went for spells... -.-
Getting charm animal and forever being labled "The Zoo Keeper" afterwards...
Seeing someone with a lastname for the first time and thinking "Damn, a god!"
More bugs then ever, server outages constantly, 2-3 day waiting periods on certain camps, terrible overcrowding...the list goes on. I cheered when they released RoK =)
Or using minor illusion as a tent and charging rent to roleplayers.
Tell me THAT nerf doesnt seem pointless now.
Or being proud upon slaying Corflunk as my dwarf cleric when tanks were having trouble at around the same level.
Exploring Crushbone for the first time as Nedra and being deathly afraid my invis would wear off sneaking into the throne room then up to Emperor Crush's room, and when Dvinn was considered to be a juggernaut that required zone-wide evac if he was trained.
Discovering Paineel for the first time, and being intensely intrigued when I was turned back after trying to zone.
Being hopelessly lost as my first bard in the Qeynos catacombs then having a heart attack when I stumbled upon the Bloodsaber's guild and not being able to get my corpse back requiring me to start my current bard Nixxius in Kelethin.
Getting clarity for the first time in Oasis with my cleric and my group thinking I was some kind of healing god with no end to mana in sight.
And of course, thinking "WTF!!!" when I got sprayed by a skunk and saw my cha take a dive, and laughed hysterically for half an hour.
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Elvish Crack Piper stumbled drunkenly to the keyboard and typed:
The have some sort of teleportation system that works every ten or 15 minutes and its free.
wizards were the only class that I really felt sorry for as a shaman. those poor bastards.
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edit: One thing I will miss is the East Commons market, or has that just mvoed to the bizzar? It wasn't implemented by the time i left the game.
Oasis of Marr: Orc Highway, and crocs.
The entire zone of Black Burrow.
The entire zone of Lower Guk.
The entire zone of Sol A.
Rathe Mountains: Hill giants. Oh wait they're still heavly camped.
One more thing, no one wanted a wizard in thier group or it's very rare to get into a group if you're a wizzy. Unless you're 47 and have the plane port spells.
You have to, at least die once on attempting to run to safe camp, in Hate. [ 10-31-2003: Message edited by: Freschel Spindrift ]
I had a wood elf warrior in kelethin, but my drivers we messed up and I displayed no textures (read: no paths). I quickly became a /loc master.
And I also remember that my cousin's (guy who dragged me in) first words of advice were 'Remember to check the name of the guuys you fight. Cents look like pawns, but they have a different name, and they'll eat you alive.'
I was leet.
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And I was all like 'Oh yeah?' and Mortious was all like:
When a full set of bronze was leet.I was leet.
I remember looking up from monk gear for the first time just after RoK came out. There were things better than bronze? Wow. Oh well...back to trying to get a suit of cured silk put together.
And of course the never-ending quest to find higher places to throw myself off of to raise my safe fall.
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Chief Durkin tried to impress everyone with:
When there was no sun
There was a sun (and moon) right from launch. I have screenshots of it from beta.
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Ja'Deth Issar Ka'bael had this to say about the Spice Girls:
And of course the never-ending quest to find higher places to throw myself off of to raise my safe fall.
Heh, my rogue got all of her Safe Fall points from the section of the giant wall in the Dark Race outpost on Kunark. It gradually went higher and higher so you just find the section that you could fall from without being hurt and still get a ton of Safe Fall points and then just gradually increase the height as you go.
I remember back when Winged Messenger (I think that was the name) was still being fixed, before they gave up on it and just yanked that spell.
People swamped Lanys, and she started getting pissed, telling everyone to give her room. Everyone didn't. I figured shit was gonna hit the fan, so I got way the hell away...
Gravity Flux + HUGE Pushback. Right out of sight pushback. There were like 3 of us left standing afterwards, heh.
Told to go to Neriak... instantly I got every buff known to man on me in a quarter second. Problem was, so many people went into EC the zone crashed. Twice. Half hour later I got to neriak, finally.
GMs had to teleport me in since I was hilarious KOS to everything in the city, and hung around for the event. Stuff happened, went outside, told what happened to Lanys, etc. etc.
My rogue, and a warrior who had been hanging around and I think was picked at random, got our tokens for our items. Handed them in... The warrior got a 9/18 1H piercer, I got a 0.1weight nosering with a ton of resists to all and assorted stats. I still suspect the GM reversed our rewards.
That was cool, but what was cool was afterwards, I went to Befallen where I had been killing earlier for kicks, and found out items had changed. This was during Befallen's short revamp with lanys supporter NPCs to kill and crap...
And the Lanys medallions, which had been DEF-NEC/CLR only had suddenly had half elf and rogue added to their list of equippable classes
That made me smile, knowing that even something pretty much no one would ever notice, had changed in the game as a result of something I was a part of. That is still one of my fondest memories of EQ.
I remember back before they made pets have to meet the level requirements for weapon procs and I racked up 8 backpacks full of Gnoll Hide Lariets plus extras solely for my wimpy SK pet to wield at all times so he contributed something useful to the fight
Whenever one dropped, I would pay the group member there and then to have it. Wasted a buttload of plat on them, but damn it was fun
I loved that little pet, I always had him out, regardless of the situation.
Hell, I remember when I first, FIRST played, someone obviously wanted to screw with me and told me when it rains it can rust and damage your armour, so I made sure to always fight near the houses in east commons so when it began raining I would run inside and wait it out
And I remember spending entirely too much time in Najena killing ogre guards for bronze. And when I did get the pieces, how freaking awesome that bronze was Wore it into my late 30's too, heh.
Hell, like a year and a half later when I re-made my SK, I made sure to wear bronze even at lvl 40. I loved how much people Flipped. The. Fuck. Out. at the sight of bronze
I claimed to have nothing better and people would just hand me free items to replace the bronze. Of course as soon as they left the bronze went back on and the items went into the bank
Man, when I deleted that char once and for all, I had a field day in EC handing stuff out to people for doing random crap I made up I had platinum out the ass (Sold everything in my bank for cheap, everythat I couldn't sell quickly got handed out). Had a total field day
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From the book of Kegwen, chapter 3, verse 16:
I find this incredibly amusing
Get lost.
I also remember my first visit to MistMoore. I was on a guild raid because I had asked erally nicely if I could tag along for fun and they aggreed. I bound myself in the graveyard. I was in an endless loophole of death. Went from my newly-won level 20 and lovely surname with my guild tag <Knights of the Myst> to being level 16 and quitting the character...I had to /q out just to stop the death cycle.
3 human monks. lv 4. unbuffed. in the dead of night running through the commonlands and the karanas. freaking out at the sillouettes of death surrounding us. The sounds of hill giants stomping around.. close.. but not seeing them
eep/
I remember joining my first guild just as they were raiding Befallen. I got a FS 2-handed sword out of it 
I remember scraping up every penny to buy as much bronze as I could (2pp/ac? I'll never get that much money!)
I remember taking all of my characters down to LGuk to get Shin Greaves/Gauntlets and enjoying being one of the only level 3's in the zone
I remember someone trying to start up a newbie high-dive competition in the Temple of Marr It was along the lines of 'Levels 1-5 welcome, who can jump from the highest point in the temple, AND LIVE?'
I remember... back when Rangers were overpowered and you couldn't hardly walk around EC without finding a half dozen rangers wearing green chain [ 11-01-2003: Message edited by: Khyron ] Paladins were whining 'cuz it was way too difficult for them to get their class armor 'cuz they'd have to be 46 to kill the shark, etc etc etc
