I don't really have an elaborate decade long list of game experience that others have, but I'm learning. History lesson in the meanwhile before I provide actual worth reading content.
Like I said before, I started playing to hang out with my boyfriend. He and his buddies donated days of their lives weekly to playing Everquest. That year, the EQ convention was in my town. A friend of the BF's (they were in senior year of highschool) hooked up with his 35 year old guildmate and no one really blinked an eye. She was married to another member of the guild. He eventually drove several thousand miles to see her again. I was intrigued.
Soon he had me running around killing bugs in a field playing a non-vital class (hybrid DPS) I'm sure he chose for me because of the low fuck up value available to grouping with it. I managed to die and lose my corpse running pretty much anywhere for the first few weeks.
You ever notice how people who played Everquest have war stories? They usually start "Repair costs! hah! I remember spending 30 hours just retriving corpses in Plane of Fear (or was it Sky? hate?)..." I don't have any of those kind of stories. I didn't see any of N.ToV, didn't worry about dragon v giant faction,I never got my epic 1.0 and the only time I ever had been to Butcherblock was for the LDoN camp. The cap was 65 when I started playing, 70 when I left it.
I'm envious of those who did all the above, but I have to say that I'm glad I did get a chance to cut my teeth on EQ for just a lil bit before WoW softened the genre up forever. I did partake in raiding for the first time and found myself swallowed by massive syncronization and execution. It was even more impressive for the lack of voice chat, with sometimes 72 people involved..
It was here that my many hours as undesired DPS class (see: beastlord) trying to put together experience groups led me to choose to roll the healer. The guild I was in did PoP flagging and eventually stepped foot into the early elemental raiding, meanwhile other guilds were in Gates of Discord. I did however get to experience the first ever adrenaline rush of conquering content when we downed Rallos Zek for the first time as a guild. A Blade of War dropped and some neck piece that was promptly ninjaed. But! it was returned to the person who rightfully won it by enterprising GM's.
World of Warcraft went to open beta, I decided I wanted to be around in a game from the ground up, tried it out, and promptly moved on.
Like I said before, I started playing to hang out with my boyfriend. He and his buddies donated days of their lives weekly to playing Everquest. That year, the EQ convention was in my town. A friend of the BF's (they were in senior year of highschool) hooked up with his 35 year old guildmate and no one really blinked an eye. She was married to another member of the guild. He eventually drove several thousand miles to see her again. I was intrigued.
Soon he had me running around killing bugs in a field playing a non-vital class (hybrid DPS) I'm sure he chose for me because of the low fuck up value available to grouping with it. I managed to die and lose my corpse running pretty much anywhere for the first few weeks.
You ever notice how people who played Everquest have war stories? They usually start "Repair costs! hah! I remember spending 30 hours just retriving corpses in Plane of Fear (or was it Sky? hate?)..." I don't have any of those kind of stories. I didn't see any of N.ToV, didn't worry about dragon v giant faction,I never got my epic 1.0 and the only time I ever had been to Butcherblock was for the LDoN camp. The cap was 65 when I started playing, 70 when I left it.
I'm envious of those who did all the above, but I have to say that I'm glad I did get a chance to cut my teeth on EQ for just a lil bit before WoW softened the genre up forever. I did partake in raiding for the first time and found myself swallowed by massive syncronization and execution. It was even more impressive for the lack of voice chat, with sometimes 72 people involved..
It was here that my many hours as undesired DPS class (see: beastlord) trying to put together experience groups led me to choose to roll the healer. The guild I was in did PoP flagging and eventually stepped foot into the early elemental raiding, meanwhile other guilds were in Gates of Discord. I did however get to experience the first ever adrenaline rush of conquering content when we downed Rallos Zek for the first time as a guild. A Blade of War dropped and some neck piece that was promptly ninjaed. But! it was returned to the person who rightfully won it by enterprising GM's.
World of Warcraft went to open beta, I decided I wanted to be around in a game from the ground up, tried it out, and promptly moved on.
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