Finally I was invited to a PoG raid, so excited I started the run from Iceclad port in.....

Forgot to get Levi....

Fell off the ledge trying to find Kael :(

Corpse run made me miss raid start and it was full when I finally arrived.

I have always loved the variety of questing types in Everquest and Everquest II.

One of my best memories of EQ is hunting in Karnor's castle back in the day, about 12 or 13 years ago. I was hunting with my online girlfriend ( who I met in real life later and love more than anything today!) and a friend from the guild we were in at the time. I was a highelf wizard, my girlfriend was playing her highelf mage and our friend was a vahshir shamaness. We were doing fairly well, the three of ( long before mercs). We had been there for hours, despite the fact of the shamaness was a curious sort, and would from time to time go venturing and bring half the zone to us. She claimed she never been there before and wanted to check the zone. Finally, on one of those adventurous wanders, she aggrod, VS and wiped us. First major EQ wipe. I have killed VS many times since then, but whenever I do, I remember that day.

I went to Electronic's Boutique in the mall and walked around the store as I usually did. I had $95 in my pocket from saving allowance up for months and it was time to buy a video game. Usually I bought some game for the Sony Playstation as it was my go-to console at the time. I was 14 years old and the 1997 release of Final Fantasy 7 still had my mind in pieces. It was only around two years after the game had come out and I was still playing it over and over again. I had read about a RPG for the PC that was coming out and I thought it was really cool to be able to play with other people. As I roamed into the PC Game area there it sat, EverQuest. I quickly grabbed the box and looked at the front flap and back of the box. I had to have this game, it looked amazing. I quickly bought it and couldn't get home fast enough. After installing, patching, begging my mother to use her credit card and creating an account to log in, I was finally ready to play.

I started up the game and was in awe over its intro movie. I entered my login information and was prompted to the server select screen. What the hell was a server? I picked one and blasted into character creation. I couldn't wrap my head around all the class and races that I could pick from. After a good 20 minutes of deciding, I chose a highelf wizard. I appeared in Felwithe and had no idea what to do. I roamed around for hours, managed to find the other part of the city and was still dreadfully lost. I gave up. The game I was so excited to play had been a complete waste of time and money. The amazing graphics didn't mean much to me when I didn't know how to escape what felt like a maze of felwithe.

Two weeks later at lunch in school my friend told me he had bought the game over the weekend. I told him I played it and couldn't find where to level up. He told me I needed to start in Qeynos. You could level up in the city, it was all right there! That afternoon when I got home, I logged in again, making sure to pick the server my friend played on. I selected my human and decided I would be a Necromancer. No longer was I in a confusing dark city at night, I was in a town with a gate and lots of rats, bats, fire beetles, skeletons and gnoll pups to kill!

From that day on I learned everything about EverQuest and its world Norrath. I mastered everything about Necromancers and played for countless hours. Norrath was new and exciting and full of secrets, quests and places to explore. I finally set in on a Dark Elf Necromancer and never looked back. I played the game from 1999 until 2003, came back to the game again in 2010 and quit again in 2013. I'll eventually go back to Norrath, I always do. This time I know when I will at least....when the progression server comes out :)

- Xenolith (Firiona Vie)

I remember when EQ was first released, my Uncle had been a beta tester and has played his whole life up until recently. I came back to the game a year ago, because of the fond memories I've had, and have gotten back into hardcore end-game raiding, and it's been nothing short of fun and amazing.

My favorite memory would be my first character I ever created. Back in 2000, I was a mere 9 years old, and I remember creating a Dark Elf Necromancer on my Uncle's account. I remember waiting to zone into Nektulos Forest, and my hands were shaking with excitement. I walked out of the tunnel past the guards, and right away I noticed a dark blue bat, I cast my little Lifetap on it and started meleeing away with my big old wood staff. I remember getting down to about 20% hp, my palms started sweating, I had never been so nervous in my life! I was spamming lifetaps but out of mana, and I literally remember hitting my last lifetap, it putting me above 10% hp, and it also killed the bat. I was so happy.. and since that day I've had an internal love for EQ, regardless of my time away from the game.

ZAM has been there the whole way, and I thank you guys for your hard/awesome work :)
-Tierwin

It was way back this. Was playing on my rogue and it dinged 46 late that evening. I was thrilled for a lvl. I was standing in Gfay and a guilded asked for a rogue to Plane of Hate raid, i was sure i just dinged 46 and i want try it. Got invited and we started to kill stuff in there. Got my self a armor piece and it was so good!

After a while it was Master rancor time. We pulled and we failed big time. When i died i prayed to my self that i did not lose my lvl and guess it was just that i did. Naked and lvl 45 i was standing in Gfay. The raid tryed to rez me but i could not get back in to Hate. It was getting really late for me and i was almost crying, i could not get back and get my corp with all my stuff on.

Finally i found some kind persons that helped me re ding so i could port back in and get my corp. Just got back from Hate and was ready to log out it was time to get to School. It took all night long!

It is one of my best and heartbreaking moments in Everquest!

EQ is probably the game that gives a lot of us the joy of computer gaming for all this years. Keep it up with the contents and thank you for all your efforts to make this game an examply of what computer gaming is about.

I love the music in Lavastorm Mountains!

Everquest is by far the best game I've ever played, even after 16 years I'm still exploring new areas and revisiting old areas. Revisiting old areas usually has a real nostalgic feeling to it.That coupled with a little revenge on mobs that gave you a hard time in your lower levels makes for an epic return. I'll never forget the first time I went back to Crushbone to seek out Emperor Crush. He smacked me down more than a few times in my youth, even corpse camping me once (before we had a lobby to summon our corpses), so going back to lay the smack down on him was fun.

More than anything else I love the friends I've made playing this game, and that the game encouraged you to make friends to progress. I still play this game with friends I made many years ago, and still talk to some of those friends who have long since retired.

Currently back again after another few months' break. I just can't stay away, and really don't want to anyway. Have my new necro in Greig's End at 54 currently, and loving it.

I remember starting to play this game back in 1999, before the Kunark expansion:

Running my low level enchanter through the corner of Kithicor Forest, at night (!), from Rivervale to Highpass Hold, to get my new level pet spell. Being somewhat a newbie at the time, all I knew was that I didn't want the skeleton off to the side to notice me as I raced by on my way to the entrance to HPH. So I pressed harder on my Up-Arrow key to run faster. (Yeah, right ... I know...)

That skeleton? Yep, he noticed me. And yes, I applied even more down pressure to the key, hoping I would run faster. I did not want that skeleton to catch me and kill me. I would not look forward to doing a corpse run at my level in here ... at night ...

My surround sound speakers were working very well, as I could hear the skeleton chasing me as the sound of its footfalls swung around behind me.

Of course I happen to be running a path that when that skellie is chasing me, his friends are noticing me too, so I am beginning to train my may to the HPH entrance.

The sound quality of the creatures chasing me, their footfalls getting louder behind me, was raising the hairs up on the back of my neck...

And *that's* when I knew ... I love this game.

And still to this day, when I am VERY CAUTIOUSLY trying to peek around a probably dangerous corner to see what might be lurking, and how close danger might be lurking, I find myself leaning over ... IN MY CHAIR ... (And then of course I sit up straight, wondering if anyone noticed me leaning over, feeling silly)

Trilo Bate
Born on Lanys T'Vyl
"You're In Our World Now"