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Hitting level 70 with 1000 AAs as fast as possible.

You only need to get to 70 if you aren't any good at the game.

Everquest can be beaten at level 5 and here is how:

Make a bard

Train evil players with giants

Declare yourself the winner!

Go Good Guys!

((Alas it seems that the old fansy site www.notacult.com/fansythefamous is no longer with us, or at least it didn't work when I tried it just now. This is a sad day in the history of MMORPGs. Our record of the only man to beat Everquest has passed on to the great server in the sky. I'll miss the little $&#^%* @!! &$#@! &^$$))

Edited, Mon Mar 27 14:11:29 2006 by Hakiko

Edited because I should have taken the quote from IMDB the first time. I lose at teh internets.

Edited, Mon Mar 27 17:54:37 2006 by BellamDreamguard

"GO GO GOOD TEAM!"

I think that's the right quote.

"GO GO GOOD TEAM!"

I think that's the right quote.


You're right! Been a long time. Stupid senility.

Rate up for Bellam, because his avatar is something that is hanging on the wall of the computer room.

I agree with the folks that say it's about setting goals for yourself. Currently I'm looking to make the top 50 droods on my server and become a master artisan. It's gonna be a long haul but those are realistic goals for me.

So set some goals that are attainable, once you achieve them, set some new ones. Then you can pat yourself on the back and you are a winner

When the game stopped being real.

I'm sure most hardcore players know of a "cat room". I spent a good while in the late Luclin-era searching for all of them.. I'd started to believe there was one in each zone. After finding them in.. Kosora (sp?)?, is it, that's the well-known one?, I've found them (from easiest to hardest) in: Qeynos Aquaducts, Unrest, Everfrost, and Qeynos Hills.

Additionally, I've noted interesting properties to them. The one in Everfrost has almost a shimmering-mirror type look to it. Of all of them, it was also most PvP practical (all the uncommon ones I've found have been outside the normal EQ world). While I'm not letting on exactly where its out, or how to get to it, its at a place that allows you to nuke those in a confined area from a place in the world they can't respond to you. Addionately, it allows you to teleport to two places in zone near-instantly by walking on different parts of it.

After finding enough that I was satisfied I'd found more than anyone else, I considered myself as having won. And I took a break.

Fast forward: The Luclin era ended. Its now the early PoP era. On Rallos Zek, PoTime is already being invaded. I find myself much weaker than others (which is a major concern on PvP), but have too little time to play to fix it. I power level like hell to 65, but not nearly enough time to gather all the AA's everyone else has. Gear is completely different, and anything decent required a raid. The zones which I found the secrets in are hardly used by anyone of considerable level for long, if at all.
I lost the feeling of having won upon returning. After this, each break got worse. There were more AA's to collect, flags to track down, and raid-class equipment I didn't have the time to get. Never again had the feeling of winning the game.

Warning: Long rant ahead. If you don't have time or/and braincells to kill, you may want to give this one a miss. It's, more or less, my EQ life story, with the specific names cut out.




This is only one way of looking at it, Wiestrum. The point of this thread was to find differing prospectives and to put them out in the open.

For many of us, there is indeed competition. Competition is the very reason I play online games. Competition, at its peak, is the reason for the Zek server. It's what drives much of those who play constantly. We seek to be ontop, to be strongest, to have earned some recognition in our endeavors.

This said, the social and adventure aspects are other reasons for playing this game. While I can respect these, as being one who values competition more than these two other aspects put together, I can not possibly agree that competition isn't a driving force of the game.

I want to be stronger. Stronger than that decaying skeleton that I first saw as a challenge on my orginal Barbarian Shaman, stronger than that mammoth calf that I saw when first exploring the tundra's edge, stronger than the mammoths my Druid saw in his early days, stronger than that damned ice gaint that dropped such great amounts of cash, stronger than that wretched diplomat who shrugged off my most powerful spells, stronger than that contemptable dragon whose gaurds alone where a pain to dispatch, and, finally, I wanted to be stronger than anyone else that did; stronger than that damned Iksar Monk with his twinks, that Wizard who continually stood away and blasted people from the tops of the peaks, than that duo of Rangers who constantly stalked me until my power was low in the tundra, than that Mage who kept trying to fight me over the IG camp, than the Necro/Ranger duo who led the main PvP guild of the time on tracking me down. It was all for competition.

Strangely enough, even social interactions were competition for me. I rememeber finally checking my /played and realizing I'd spent over 102 days in game time; I wasn't one to go AFK and leave it on. I wasn't particularly wealthy, so where had the time gone? I was gifted at leveling, so it definately wasn't to that. I rarely gave trading a second glance, nor did I camp much. While I fought PvP a good bit, most logged or headed to a different part of Norrath after several short encounters; I was an "anti-PK", meaning the only people I PvP'd were the hardened players who took PvP as a way of life on Rallos. Well, the time had gone to power leveling. I'd built several guilds from the bottom up through it, proudly watching my creations take down The Sleeper one faithful day (or, rather, trio of days). It was even competition that drove me to this. On a highly factionized world of Zek, even achomplishing this required several different characters with several different guilds and followings.

Blah. Why am I rambling? I suppose, the bottom line is, competition, for me, has driven nearly a real-life year of game time by the end of it, and its crazy, to me, to discount competition as a reason for gaming.

I won already, just hanging around to help the rest of you.

Bah, you didn't beat the eBay, that's one tough mob, no one who goes there escapes without buying.