Cathan
10-26-2010, 09:18 AM
I read about this before it ever came out and it sounded interesting... It's a server devoted to bringing back EQ exactly the way it was (or at least very, very close) to the way it was originally.
I remade Cathan as a necro and I'm up to level 7! It really is authentic. There are some changes that were made just for the sake of playability (such as the ui). Personally I would have preferred the original UI as an option but I'm a masochist and honestly, I never thought it was that bad. I guess walking to school up hill in the snow both ways never bothered me...
It gets even better though, at least imo... The community feels like what original EQ felt like. For anyone that wasn't there the first year of EQ before Kunark even, EQ was an extremely unique experience. I don't know how they managed to recapture it but it's there, just the way people interact and are there to play the game, help each other etc etc.
For me, it's incredible seeing items like Oracle robes being something awesome again. I can't even describe how insane my first hill giant kill will be...
Ferrien is playing as Dospax I think is his name. Serinde from CoP is over there. FoH people or at least forum members of their site have a page in the MMORPG forum with a list of all players' names in game. They created a guild called, "The Black Hand".
I tried Runes of Magic, some free mmo and it's ok. It was fun the first few levels but then I see shit like mobs don't roam with crossing paths. It's impossible to get aggro off someone else's train. It's your own stupidity if you aggro multiple mobs. All that candy ass shit removed most of the danger and excitement.
I died 7x in level 2 at the newbie log in nektulos and I fucking loved it. Even EQ got dumbed down, especially in PoP.
Best part about this is I can actually play casually when I want until I want to raid. I think the only downside to p1999 is you only get 1 account so no 2 boxing. From what I understand MQ doesn't work because it wasn't written for original EQ. I think that's a plus. You can petition for a 2nd account because they block a single ip from logging in multiple characters and they do that for people that share an IP.
Anyway, check it out if you're interested. /friend Cathan and look me up if so.
I remade Cathan as a necro and I'm up to level 7! It really is authentic. There are some changes that were made just for the sake of playability (such as the ui). Personally I would have preferred the original UI as an option but I'm a masochist and honestly, I never thought it was that bad. I guess walking to school up hill in the snow both ways never bothered me...
It gets even better though, at least imo... The community feels like what original EQ felt like. For anyone that wasn't there the first year of EQ before Kunark even, EQ was an extremely unique experience. I don't know how they managed to recapture it but it's there, just the way people interact and are there to play the game, help each other etc etc.
For me, it's incredible seeing items like Oracle robes being something awesome again. I can't even describe how insane my first hill giant kill will be...
Ferrien is playing as Dospax I think is his name. Serinde from CoP is over there. FoH people or at least forum members of their site have a page in the MMORPG forum with a list of all players' names in game. They created a guild called, "The Black Hand".
I tried Runes of Magic, some free mmo and it's ok. It was fun the first few levels but then I see shit like mobs don't roam with crossing paths. It's impossible to get aggro off someone else's train. It's your own stupidity if you aggro multiple mobs. All that candy ass shit removed most of the danger and excitement.
I died 7x in level 2 at the newbie log in nektulos and I fucking loved it. Even EQ got dumbed down, especially in PoP.
Best part about this is I can actually play casually when I want until I want to raid. I think the only downside to p1999 is you only get 1 account so no 2 boxing. From what I understand MQ doesn't work because it wasn't written for original EQ. I think that's a plus. You can petition for a 2nd account because they block a single ip from logging in multiple characters and they do that for people that share an IP.
Anyway, check it out if you're interested. /friend Cathan and look me up if so.