everquest – Page 63 – Chasing Dings!

Emerald Halls and the Plane of Growth

June 9, 2007 by Tipa

We raided Emerald Halls last night, and the whole thing reminded me so much of old Everquest’s Plane of Growth… so before getting into our Emerald Halls raid, a little nostalgia to another zone that, years ago, was also filled with loads and loads of trash, mobs with a zillion hit points, and more growing … Read more

EQ Diku

March 9, 2007 by Tipa

EQ and its related games (pretty much every modern MMO) have long been dismissed as nothing but “DikuMUDs with a graphical interface slapped on top of them”. I’ve been playing with the DikuMUD code over the last few days to get a feel for world building and to add a feature (what I call “rally … Read more

EQ2: Why I Won’t Watch an EverQuest Movie

February 25, 2007 by Tipa

I just heard the news that SOE might be considering an EverQuest movie.
Now, I love EverQuest and have been playing since 1999; nearly eight years devoted to that game or its sequel. But you won’t find me warming a chair when it opens. I’ll tell you why.

EQ2: The Fashionable Bard

February 12, 2007 by Tipa

The Slavering Azid finally let go of his bard legs tonight. I told Taps, the other bard (a dirge, poor guy) on the raid, that when he went AFK to get his kid that bard gear would be sure to drop, and it did… but I doubt he was unhappy with the Nightchord wrists and boots he got.

wc xp grp lftank+1m @xr rtg

January 25, 2007 by Tipa

If you play MMOs, you instantly knew from the title that there is a group of people who want to go to Wailing Caves/Caverns/West Commonlands (depending on your MMO) for the purpose of making their characters more experienced, and they are looking for someone to take the hits and attacks from the monsters therein, plus an additional person of any profession to fill the group. They are meeting at the Crossroads (both EQ2 and WoW have a Crossroads near their WC, go figure) and are otherwise ready to go.