Everquest 10 Years and Counting

With the 10 year anniversary of Everquest upon us I took time to look around the EQ website and read up on the event. This got me a thinking  about the old days,so I decided to log in, just for the fun of looking around for a few. Got online and did the customary /who all friends just in case any of my old buds were online. No such luck. Then I checked out the /claim and got my 10 year cake! Yeah! Did a /played for my own information, my first character isn’t quite at 10 years yet, not until February. Then I noticed I had a bunch of other claims available to me.

One was odd had like 1000 uses left to it. Gift of Lost Legacies.. so I claimed it. I received two 10 stack of potions 3 pieces of armor all better then what I had on .. it was the Defiant stuff.. a new weapon (which I did have better of) and a  book with 5 charges of port to PoK. I think this is awesome, part of the problem I have had in the past with trying to go back to Everquest, is that my gear just is not good enough for the newer zones. This allows me to gear back up and go hunt without having to go back to the older expansions that no one is in to get re geared. One of the potions is the Adventurer Potions which allows you to increase your exp for 30 minutes. I guess you can now buy these with real cash. So they have given returning players 5 hours of increased exp which is nice. I have not checked out the new mercenary system, but I think it has something to do with hiring PC’s to hunt with you. I find that kind of sad, means that the server populations have dropped so much people need to hire people to hunt with them. eqtheme

Trying to Play Lord Of The Rings Online

Ok so tonight I sit down and I think, “Ya know what? I am not going to work tonight.” I had previously downloaded the Lord Of The Rings 14 day trial to take a look at and was going to take tonight to futz with it a bit. I get in the game, which on a side note is just beautiful, and start .. hmm.. pausing.. is the word I want to use. Now I am curious because my mom is playing the game with no issue at all. So I take a look and my hard drive if full. LOL, this is awsome to me. I would let my hard disk get full, knowing full well the damage that could be caused. Oh well, guess you would have to be here. Anyway I go though and uninstall a bunch of crap and then delete a bunch, oh yeah and move a ton of “DATA” to my data drive (HAH!). I now have like 20 gigs free. Cool, now I can play. Log in, still .. pausing.. SIGH.. ok now what. Read the internet, nope no one is having this problem. Ok.. DUH.. if the drive was FULL when you installed the game then the game is crammed in everywhere on the drive. Ok lets hit some defrag action. Which is what I am doing as we speak. I am wondering though is the 2 inch block of red is bad? LMAO!

The Everquest Comeback

So the other day I logged into good ol’ Everquest after about a 3 year break. What was awsome is that I was totally confused, in the good way. I wasn’t being told by every NPC walking by what to do and how to do it. I was totally baffled by even taking a look in my bank. The more I seemed to play and look around the more I just wanted to keep in playing. What was unfortunate for me is that I always pay for my Station account so that I can have access to Vanguard and Everquest 2 if I want to mess around in them. Anyway Everquest is offering a cool 2 months free, plus a full set of the Defiant armor that rocks.. all if you will come back and give Everquest a chance again. What is really awsome about it is TONS of old school Everquest players are coming back. I am having a ton of fun everynight grouping up with my cleric in Loping Planes. So anyway if you are from Everquest or ever thought of playing NOW is the time.