EverQuest

The goblin spawner got stopped up. That’s the only explanation why we were sitting in the King room in Sol A, mindin our own business, when suddenly seven, eight, ten goblins were dancing on our lower intestines. Between sudden goblin drop ships landing troops wherever we happened to be, having to keep apart from the other group, and the powerlevelers who used the place as their private reserve… well, by the end of the evening, corpses were piled high at the entrance, the goblins were very well fed, but most of us were pushing 30… and we had fun. ...

German EQ player Mohanos is looking for people with whom to start a European-time progression group on the Luclin server. Those people who want to see EQ from the beginning once again (or perhaps for the first time), but couldn’t make North American times… might want to check this out :)

The leader of the Tuesday group said we should finish our racial armor quests before next week; I figured I’d get them out of the way today. A variety of wolf furs, various yellowjacket drops, and some iron bricks from goblins. I started at around 6, finished at 11:30. OUCH. Okay, I thought that would go faster. I did take a couple of breaks. I peeked into the Bazaar to see if I could find any sort of shield that would work for me and wouldn’t be considered twinked. But all of them, even the cheapest, were well beyond what we’re allowed to use. Same for weapons. Even assuming I had that sort of cash… it would have just been too much. ...

The Friday progression group is pretty hot stuff, but leveling in EverQuest is so fast now that we quickly leveled past a lot of low level content that we really wanted to see. The only cure? More cowbell. Another progression group! Hakiko couldn’t make the Friday progression group, so he went ahead and made another for Tuesdays. I simply couldn’t resist. I rolled a pally, and with the help of a guildy and some others, finished the tutorial missions for the last of my armor, and then headed off to the dungeon, Befallen. ...

Hard to believe tonight was just the third meeting of our Nostalgia-fueled progression group! We’re trying to slow down our progression so that we have the chance to see everything, and we’re looking to the Lost Dungeons of Norrath to give us instant, instanced fun, challenges and decent loot. Gozad was the big winner. He started off as a 17 monk, and quickly won a huge weapon upgrade, a nice cloak and a Legends of Norrath Starter Pack and ended the night a hair from 19. Because of Moors questing, I was one kill from 21 and ended the night about a third of the way through 24 and with a booster deck of my own. ...

People who think it is hard to level in EverQuest haven’t even been through Blightfire Moors. This 20-30 zone will level you so fast, and leave you with such great gear, that you’ll hardly notice you skipped past most old-world content. That’s been a problem with the progression guild. Every week, we find ourselves smashed against our weekly progression limit because EQ leveling is now so fast. Back nine years ago, you had plenty of time to smell the roses. Now, it’s a mad rush, and I have no idea where the express train ends. We’re going to have to take a step off it so we can see some of the old places we loved. ...

I think we quite possibly may have been the first full, normal, untwinked, level appropriate group in Kurn’s Tower in quite some time. We can’t know for sure, but none others showed up while we were there. By the time everyone showed, we had seven people at Kurn’s, two people still leveling through the tutorial, and three who couldn’t make it that night. Ishbel volunteered to solo the upper skeletons. We bid her adieu and headed downstairs, to the land of the Burynai. ...

SOE has just registered trademarks for (presumably) the next expansions for EQ and EQ2. EQ2’s next expansion is The Shadow of Odyssey, while EQ’s next expansion is The Seeds of Destruction. Shadow of Odyssey… well, since Luclin was the shadowed moon and the gateway to the Plane of Shadow was within it, I think I have to call “I WIN” on this one. Given the connections between the Everlings, the Tunarian Throne and Luclin disclosed recently… ...

I can’t be a full time raider, perform my day job competently, be a professional blogger, play the wide variety of MMOs I need to play to do my job, participate in the two betas I am in (don’t ask), and also sleep. The past couple of weeks, sleep-debt has been killing me. Simple fact is, I need to be in bed 11PM each night. Staying up until 1, 2 or 3AM writing after raids is killing me. ...

Hey! It’s not too late to get in on one last romp through Norrath before it all blowed up! We’re looking for a druid, cleric, berserker, monk or beastlord to fill out a second group. Check us out at Nostalgia the Guild the Website! Requirements: EverQuest expansions up through The Buried Sea, an ability to play Friday nights at 7PM Eastern time on a regular basis, and a desire to experience EQ1 with friends as it was meant to be seen. We have a Vent server and SOE willing, may soon even have a guild :) ...