EQ1 Progression Servers

Why would someone want to restart from scratch on the EverQuest progression servers? To be challenged, and to compete. Current content is so hard and tedious and it breaks people. Being the first to gear up and take down Vox and Nagafen – I predict both will be dead within a month – is something … Read more

Progression Server Update

MMORPG.com has an interview with an EQ producer about the new progression server. There's more talk about what players might expect when they join, and they announce a second progression server, The Sleeper, to launch alongside The Combine. I've been sitting on the fence about restarting on the progression servers. I already restarted on a … Read more

Okay, so they DO look ugly

Looking back on my characters from around the time of the Velious expansion, I can see why people considered EQ1 a little hard on the eyes. I wonder if I can even remember who all these characters are…. some of them were on Fennin Ro, where I played with a couple of fellow Guides sometimes… … Read more

Nightmares 2

I was about fifty/fifty on whether or not to log into EQ1 or WoW and raid last night; the coin came down EQ1, and so I logged in and made my extremely slow way to the Demiplane of Blood. This is the most cleric-unfriendly zone in the game; to get there safely, a good invis … Read more

Sand Elves

Kinda bugs me when people insist they cannot play the original EverQuest because of “the horrible graphics”. Sure, seven years ago, the graphics were blocky – but that was seven years ago. Things have changed quite a lot. This shot, killing some treants in the new Prophecy of Ro zone of Taka’hiz… (or whatever…), wouldn’t … Read more