EQ1 wasn’t always the raiding powerhouse game it is today. In fact, the game had very humble roots, with little in its first implementation to suggest the game it would become.
Still, it was fun and even at the beginning, was totally addicting.
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EQ1: What waking the Sleeper meant to me…
Good times….
EQ: Need More Sinzan! The Best of EverQuest
Yeah, full nostalgia mode tonight. This is the last (for now)! I swear! Another video from Sinzan of Guild Mirage. Sinzan was EverQuest’s Leroy Jenkins. If we needed more healing on a raid, we called for MORE SINZAN! For non-EQ1-ers, most raids had just barely the amount of healing needed to keep the tank alive. … Read more
EQ: Has Anybody Seen My Corpse? The Best of EverQuest
Famed Japanese EQ guild Guild Mirage made a Flash video for Electric Funstuff’s song about one of EverQuest’s most remembered vocations — looking for your corpse. If you never played EQ1, maybe this will show… a little… how extreme hardships can bring people together. Of course, there are those who say games shouldn’t bring hardships … Read more
EQ: UBER YOU! The Best of EverQuest
Remember where you were in 2001? If you played EverQuest, maybe you were still running around in patchwork armor, struggling to kill fire beetles with splintered wooden staffs, when someone ran by you in gleaming armor, carrying amazing weapons, and sneered at you, if they even noticed you at all. And maybe you thought to … Read more