What do you spend most of your in-game time doing?Follow

I spend the majority of my time in groups with my friends. We have a "friend channel" that we all autojoin when logging in. Since we are all in separate guilds this is an excellent way for us to keep in touch. I spend most of my time with this small group of great people. We have fun with whatever we're doing (usually exp grps and dons). It's common to laugh so much that my side hurts from the banter and jokes going on while playing. This is what EQ should be all about and I recommend this system to anyone that plays. =)

Edited, Fri Oct 7 23:43:23 2005 by Iludiin

We sould be able to 2 or 3 choices.
While I picked soloing, I also quest & tradeskill at the same time. I do group and raid too but can't always stay on long enough to get a whole lot done. :)

Drueden
52 Druid
Mith Marr (ok Erolisi)

I usually end up soloing, although I try to "socialize" in guild chat. It seems that my regular play times don't quite synch up with the rest of the people I know. I also enjoy tradeskilling and have been known to join a pickup group or two.

For my first year or so in EQ I spent most of my time soloing.

Then after Velious I started doing a lot of pick-up groups.

Later, after Luclin, I spent about 18 months doing mainly friends list and guild groups.

During LDoN era I did countless pick-up groups.

Now I mostly duo with my girlfriend.

The whole 6 years I have also quested and explored, and I've done my share of tradeskills.

Stop trying to live in the past, it never works. Trust me, I know. I traveled across the country in hopes of reliving the past and found nothing. A wise man once said "You will have a hard time steering your boat if your always looking at the wake".

I was like you once, bitter and angry and the game was no fun for me. When I decided to come back to eq I decided that I would change my attitude and avoid all the pitfalls that had ruined my game in the past. And today I'm having more fun then ever. Within 5 mins of logging on I always find a group. I have all new friends. I'm in a great guild that didn't need a background check to join.

Oh, and lighten up on the monster missions. MM's alow you to group with younger guildies and get some AA in the process. You might dismiss the lower levels but what I've seen is really good teamwork, the same type of teamwork that you see in organized raiding.

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Derailment over....nudging train back on to the tracks...

What do you spend most of your in-game time doing?:

I'm always grouping, from the time I log on till I go to sleep. Sometimes I do MM's, sometimes other things.

I'll be 2-boxing soon, just waiting on a new DSL modem. The problem is I just bought a new computer and the Win XP Pro 64 doesn't recognize my old modem. =/

lol,.. As a Paladine, I spend about 80% of the time LFG (Looking For Group). Alot of group want a 11k to 12k Warrior and sence I am only a 10k tank,.. i get passed up alot. But,. I have gotten use to it. :-)

totally agree with a few of these posts , ok so yeah i solo a fair bit but as a druid am always available for a quick port from here to there ,with guildies or just about anyone that asks , so it would have made more sense to be able to pick 3 or 4 of them , then just being put in one slot as if thats all you do from log in to log out .

For me something else = pvping

before, EQ was better. i know some of you are pissed or somehting about that, but the truth is is was. SOE spoiled it.
not i devote my tiem to helping and socializing, taking pictures and building up a good family guild, all this ta the level of 35. luky im 1/2 uber and 1/2 demon.

I was glad to see the Ecom auctions go. It was mostly a waste of time to try to collect rusty wpns and junk to sell to vendors and maybe get lucky with a 30p high quality bear hide and then try to sell junk and buy junk by each item or looking in ppl's bags. The lag there was very bad and almost cut out camping the orc campsites and stuff. I dont miss that at all. Many ppl I know just sold their loots from EJ or whereever to the vendor instead of standing around in ECom hawking it. There were many ppl just buying and re-selling stuff because many ppl couldn't stand being there for more than 10 minutes and would sell off their stuff cheap just to get out of the zone. Many times I would see something I needed bad like ivy bracers for my ranger or something and some pally would jump to the trade before I could purchase it and then I would see him auctioning it after a markup.
Ppl seemed to have fun training Sgt Slaughter to the tunnel all day long also. I was ok faction with him but I heard shouts constantly from upset ppl
There were a lot more scams going on back then too. My most memorable loss was my first toon and was when I was lvl 2 and spent 10p of very hard earned money for a fine steel wpn that turned out to be a rusty wpn. I hunted tonz of rats and gnoll pups and saved up the coppers until I had a whopping 10p. I was upset until somebody gave me some free +2 agi earrings just outside blackburrow on the path. :( hehe
It will be six years in December for me and I enjoyed all the expansions. I started out soloing for everything, then moved to occasional pickup groups, then went to almost 100% tradeskilling, then went to guild groups exclusively, then did the antonica armor quests exclusively (got my lvl 12 shaman up over 100 in several skills, funded through sow and binds at the freeport gates). Then I started an alt of every different type of character to see which one I enjoyed the most. Had to do that over two different servers and two different accounts since not enuf slots in one place to do that.
Ended up with bard character on 7th hammer server and now mostly do pickup groups with occasional raids.
As a side note, might upset some ppl, I was the one that found out how to dupe items and reported it to Verant. Proved it to them when I turned one Wurmslayer into two. They fixed the problem but it involved slow zoning with a slow computer that not only warped the toon to a safe spot in the zone but reset him to the last saved instance. How I did it was zone into ecom, give my Wurmslayer to somebody. He leaves the zone with it and keeps it, and I leave the zone, get warped, and still have it. How I found it out was when I zoned into ecom, immediatly bought something, zoned, warped and no longer had the item but had my money back instead. Sent the person a tell and he said he had the money i gave him still also. I never got any year of free service or anything but I was paranoid that I would be banned if I didnt turn myself it!!!!! I was such a newb. hehe

Agreed. I miss the EQ of 6 years ago to a very bad extent. I quit my 69 necromancer because I have found *nothing* I can do that interests me without an elite, must-be-on-48-hours-of-the-day (exaggeration) guild. I've solo'ed Terror in PoFear, I've soloed my epic 1.5 up til Viarglug, I've soloed every piece of my 1.0 (which I still to this day wield for sheer representation of the old days), etc. Anything a casual player has done I've done. And what finally made me quit was when I spent over a half an hour in Crushbone remembering the days and not a single soul passed through. That place used to be flooded with people arguing over camps; I ran through and killed every named, because they were all up. Blackburrow / Unrest trains are a myth to me at this point; you'd be lucky to find anyone in there that isn't a monster. Fear armor is only worth the gems you get from it, etc. Everything short of Omens, DoN, and Darkhollow is outdated. One could ask where the end game fun went, and all I have to reply is "OoW, DoN, or Darkhollow groups only plz"

-Azeryen
69 necromancer, 115 aa's
-Andarian Foglifter
65 bard, 104 aa's
R.I.P Ancient Legacy of Mithaniel Marr server

90% of all the new content requires a high level group, if not raid group. Here is why that is making EQ suck for a big bunch of us:

PlayerA (Ooc): Guild X is looking for some high level toons, level 60+ for good clean family fun, PST if interested.
Me (Tell): Hi, I am interested, but I only play maybe about 10-12 hours a week, mainly on weekends
PlayerA (Reply to tell): Sorry, but we are only looking for players who play over 25+ hours a week to do some raiding and things.


Player B (Ooc): Guild Y is now recruiting all level 70's for some serious raiding. Must have at least 200 AA and have comnpleted your 1.5 epic.
Me: /sigh

Sony needs to start doing something to eliminate this before it becomes an "Uber Only" game. The people who have a life or a job are being left behind because the old zones that require groups simply are not there and where you used to be able to find some pickup groups to level up, it is getting tougher because the only people who are in the mid-level zones are either the uber guilds or two boxers powerlevelling themselves (Lazy if you ask me).