But I still want it. 
I had so many days logged on my main. I need some kind of addiction number...
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Verily, Bill doth proclaim:
I don't know when I last played, but I still have absolutely no drive to play that game. at all.
Really? It's not obvious at all. [ 04-20-2003: Message edited by: Where's Waisz? ]
Lyinar Ka`Bael, Piney Fresh Druidess - Luclin
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Lyinar Ka`Bael had this to say about Tron:
Should start it back up again. So many changes have been made since you last played.
And so very much has stayed the same
To be honest, being a newbie > being high level.
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Bill stopped staring at Deedlit long enough to write:
I don't know when I last played, but I still have absolutely no drive to play that game. at all.
Must resist...the evil one...must resist Sony... 
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Where's Waisz? stopped staring at Deedlit long enough to write:
I don't know if Waisztarroz would still be there. I had a friend on my account for a bit, but that too was months ago.To be honest, being a newbie > being high level.
Could play on a new server.
Lyinar Ka`Bael, Piney Fresh Druidess - Luclin
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Nicole spewed forth this undeniable truth:
...and eventually a year or so later you don't know what the hell you saw in it and don't want to touch the box for fear of infection...
Hell, I reached that point when I was still playing. It was the fascist death penalty that finally did me in. And to think that it had been decreased since EQ was released; outrageous! 
Lyinar Ka`Bael, Piney Fresh Druidess - Luclin
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The logic train ran off the tracks when Lyinar Ka`Bael said:
Leveling is nicer without the hell levels, too.
It's still the same amount of experience to get from 1-50, you know
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Bill was listening to Cher while typing:
It's still the same amount of experience to get from 1-50, you know
I don't think so. I think they resolved the hell levels by adding a plus-percent modifier to experience you earn on the levels formerly known as hell levels.
I think they've made other adjustments too, since the new Drysart gains experience much, much faster than the old Drysart did (even though he's level 42 now and the old Drysart was in the late teens).
Lyinar Ka`Bael, Piney Fresh Druidess - Luclin
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Drysart wrote, obviously thinking too hard:
I don't think so.
Nope, they said it themselves, they smoothed the exp curve but just put the exp from hell levels elsewhere.
I'm actually having a good bit of fun, went up to Hate today, got a wizard item, which is also part of Necro epic.... so i'm gonna get some money off that...
It's great fun.
And honestly, Low Levels aren't as much fun as they used to be, considering, atleast on most servers I've seen, very few people actually PLAY the low levels anymore.
Most people seem to have a high level friend or high level secondary account that they PL with.
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Lashanna impressed everyone with:
And honestly, Low Levels aren't as much fun as they used to be, considering, atleast on most servers I've seen, very few people actually PLAY the low levels anymore.Most people seem to have a high level friend or high level secondary account that they PL with.
Actually, that can be a good thing.
Lots of the fun lower level places are more open now than they used to be. While the lack of people can sometimes make it hard to get a group, it can sometimes make it easier too. (Because you're the only one around to fill an empty slot.)
If you like playing a low level, AS a low level (with mild to no twinking), it's still fun.
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This insanity brought to you by Tier:
Nope, they said it themselves, they smoothed the exp curve but just put the exp from hell levels elsewhere.
Yup.
I remember because I made a graph in excel of the difference with and without hell levels.
The curve may be smooth, but there's zones with better XP than others, zones better geared to certain classes, and let's face it, more zones period. Play in Ruins of Kunark era was annoying. With all the expansions now? Easy as pie. Smooth sailing. I'm looking forward to the planes in my near future.
I think the thing that appeals most to me with EQ these days is that the committment of time to be worthwhile isn't there. In the past if you didn't dedicate an inordinate chunk of your life to EQ, you might as well not play. These days that's plain not the case. Game casual. Hour or two here and there and you'll still go up nice and fast.
Pretty cool.
sigpic courtesy of This Guy, original modified by me
Starting and exploring was what made the game the best. I wasted my money on spells I couldn't use at first until I realized how to read all that, for example.
Man, that was long ago. I wasn't just new to the game, I was new to the genre and all RPGs that played similarly. My RPG experience was pretty much just Final Fantasy. A friend of mine told me about the game, and I played it with him.
Still, even grinding experience could be fun. There's nothing like the thrill of filling a bar.
Then I get the memories... memories of long hours spent on finding a group that would accept a Cleric who likes to tank...
what the heck am I wearing armor and wielding a warhammer for anyway?!?
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Kennatsu impressed everyone with:
what the heck am I wearing armor and wielding a warhammer for anyway?!?
You should have played a warrior and just pretended you were a cleric who could tank
Heck, I had fun yesterday grabbing a KEI or two and working on maxing out Rhiannah's spell casting skills.
Just something about it.
The only trouble I'm having right now is finding a place to keep the exp train going past 25. HHK is great when I can get a group there, but typically there's only one or two groups there, usually all full. Been trying Marus Seru, but finding a good place to pull coupled with a mob of appropriate difficulty can get bothersome. A good place for grouping would be great, but most of the places I knew from earlier like Unrest and others have all been abandoned. Any suggestions?
Yeah, I'm sort of sick of people PL'ing others through, or making highly twinked alts, which takes away from the experience in my opinion, which is why I've never gotten anyone to PL a lower character of mine, but twinking is ok, so long as you don't totally break that character. An example of good twinking is where you're helping your own characters advance via hand-me-downs ie a lvl 24 character donating his former 50pp armor item to a lvl 8 alt is fine, but buying a lvl 15 character an item that costs 12k...that's excessive.
KaLourin is now lv 50.
That is all.
omgz, i got the powerup and won the game.
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Where's Waisz? had this to say about Cuba:
I'll never be newbie like I was at first, though.Starting and exploring was what made the game the best. I wasted my money on spells I couldn't use at first until I realized how to read all that, for example.
Man, that was long ago. I wasn't just new to the game, I was new to the genre and all RPGs that played similarly. My RPG experience was pretty much just Final Fantasy. A friend of mine told me about the game, and I played it with him.
Still, even grinding experience could be fun. There's nothing like the thrill of filling a bar.
I remember on day 3 or so, when my wife started an Elf. I was an Erudite, so I decided to meet up with her on the other side of the universe.
That was when the Giant Spiders were aggressive. Ouch.
That was when no one was in Highpass Hold. Few people had even been there. I can't remember how many times I died trying to find my way through that damned mountain pass.
It was quite the adventure, though!
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
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Azrael Heavenblade painfully thought these words up:
The only trouble I'm having right now is finding a place to keep the exp train going past 25. HHK is great when I can get a group there, but typically there's only one or two groups there, usually all full. Been trying Marus Seru, but finding a good place to pull coupled with a mob of appropriate difficulty can get bothersome. A good place for grouping would be great, but most of the places I knew from earlier like Unrest and others have all been abandoned. Any suggestions?
Marus Seru and Dawnshroud Peaks are good places to go at this level. In MS, you can try pulling the non-aggressive creatures (stonegrabbers for instance) to the bandit camps. The Recuso won't KS you, because they're not aggressive to those, and they will kill the bugs and zels that might aggro. Or you can just fight close to a camp and run there if you get in trouble.
Dawnshroud is very nice, but stay away from the zones. They are constantly being trained. The zelniaks aren't social there, and they don't aggro. Neither do the tribals. The lightcrawlers and wolves there do, but there are spots, like a nice bit of water that is near both the ME zone line and the GE zone line where zelniaks and tribals pass by constantly and you hardly ever seen wolves and lightcrawlers in the area.
Lyinar Ka`Bael, Piney Fresh Druidess - Luclin
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Everyone wondered WTF when Kennatsu wrote:
I want to play EQ more....Then I get the memories... memories of long hours spent on finding a group that would accept a Cleric who likes to tank...
what the heck am I wearing armor and wielding a warhammer for anyway?!?
You know Cleric's get Bash now too as well as some sweet summoned hammers in the late 50's game.
Personally, as a cleric, as long as I keep everyone alive and healthy, I'll be in there swinging with the tanks and bashing away, depending on my mood. And if the cleric I'm grouped with (when I'm not main cleric) wants to do the same good for them, and I rarely see groups that complain about that. (As long as you are keeping people healed of course. If you are concentrating more on Offense rather than Healing, then you might as well just create a Paladdin.
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This one time, at Ja'Deth Issar Ka'bael camp:
Define "Low Levels". These days you can get from 1-20 in a day of sitting around, or two of casual play. It's insanely easy to level now
Just how do you go about doing that? I play casually, but I get nowhere near that kind of speed.
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Palador ChibiDragon had this to say about Robocop:
Just how do you go about doing that? I play casually, but I get nowhere near that kind of speed.
You would have to sit in EQ and level cram all day, but you could do it, especially with PC's help.
PLing will speed it up, too.
Lyinar Ka`Bael, Piney Fresh Druidess - Luclin
As it is, my usual hunting partner and twink/transfer assistant isn't able to play EQ right now, and it's annoying. I keep seeing all these great toys that I would love to get for a couple of my characters, but they're not the ones with the money. Oh well.
Lyinar Ka`Bael, Piney Fresh Druidess - Luclin
If you kill the goblin in one hit, you don't get many chances for skill gain.
Edit: And I'm thinking of making a new character on another server anyway. Just to try stuff till my partner gets back online. [ 04-22-2003: Message edited by: Palador ChibiDragon ]
