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Tuesday, Oct 13
Daily Blogroll 10/14 – Puns R Us edition
Well, maybe, but if you read between the lines, it’s almost certain that EverQuest Next will be a PS3/PSP release. A browser-based EQ would compete with Free Realms, and they’ve learned the lesson about competing with themselves….
Thursday, Oct 8
Daily Blogroll 10/10: Short Week edition
Daily Blogroll 6/24 — I Love Allergies edition Yes, we’re back to the Daily Blogroll. Another allergy...Daily Blogroll 8/7 — Band Camp edition Back in EverQuest, the raid leader had banned all...Daily Blogroll 8/10 — Thank God it’s Monday edition I got a spam comment today which mentioned, whil...
Wednesday, Oct 7
Daily Blogroll 10/8: Inappropriate Birth Metaphor edition
Gordon of We Fly Spitfires asks how it came to be that raiding is the end-game for MMOs? Why not something else — ANYTHING else? Well, Gordon, it all began with a little game called EverQuest. The EQ devs set their level cap so impossibly high that they never expected many people to ever reach i...
Friday, Sep 25
Earth Eternal: Tallgrass Farm
Anthro* MMO Earth Eternal launches new web site There’s a slim possibility I may have been dismissive...Earth Eternal announces *22* player races The distinguished Senior Partners. Sparkplay, developers of the upcoming free-to-play,...EverQuest: Down at the farm SOE loves reinventing t...
Thursday, Sep 24
Daily Blogroll 9/25 – Apocalypse edition
Back in EverQuest, unexpected adds usually meant a group wipe (unless you were specifically doing an AE group). Crowd control or a puller who knew how to split was really important. Modern MMOs ramp down the difficulty quite a lot, and Spinks wonders if specialized crowd control has any sor...
Wednesday, Sep 23
Daily Blogroll 9/23 – All Queued Up Edition
SOE’s working on a new EverQuest, EverQuest Next. They could do far worse than to go back to basics and try to capture what made EQ special for its time. EQ has changed so much now that it’s a different game, but back then…. and as someone who last year started over from scratch, I can avow that EQ st...
Sunday, Sep 20
Opinion: Quick Updates: Runes of Magic, EVE Online, EverQuest II
RoM’s classes include Warrior, Knight, Rogue, Priest, Mage and Scout (Ranger). If you’re an elf (the only player race other than human), the recent expansion added the Druid and Warden classes. Where’s the human love, huh? Once you level to 10 in your main class, you have the option of addin...
Thursday, Sep 17
Daily Blogroll 9/17 – Kanye edition
The Friendly Necromancer spills the beans about the special PvP armor you can earn in Wizard101. -100% mana? Sounds like winning stats to me. But it does look cool, though making plate armor and metal helms kinda stretches traditional wizard-wear, doesn’t it?
Tuesday, Sep 15
Daily Blogroll Looks Back: 2001 — Followup
Jeff Friedman, at that time an 8th grader (we assume by his offhand mention of a test in pre-algebra), with a copy of Visual BASIC and a top secret “MMORPG API” that would propel MMO development to heights unseen, announced Dawn, a groundbreaking MMO already nearing alpha test. Jeff’s inab...
Sunday, Sep 13
Opinion: Daily Blogroll Looks Back: 2001
Meanwhile, back at the ranch Origin Systems…. Ultima Online Worlds, 3D follow-up to the spectacularly successful (but non-3D) MMO Ultima Online, has been canceled. Asked why this title, which would have taken the Ultima MMO franchise for the first time into the 3D arena, was canceled, Or...
Thursday, Sep 10
Daily Blogroll 9/10 – Launch Madness edition
Aion brings its lush, saturated graphics to our shores September 22 after a summer-long beta, following WoW’s lead in that as in so much else. And again, like WoW, Aion’s North American servers will be segregated by time zone, although not by RP/Non-RP servers. Naamah of Aionic Thoughts ha...
Wednesday, Sep 9
Daily Blogroll 9/9/09 – Galaxy Express edition
Daily Blogroll 8/21 – Gloomshine Edition Is Gatheryn in open beta or not? Massively says...Daily Blogroll 8/10 — Thank God it’s Monday edition I got a spam comment today which mentioned, while...Daily Blogroll 8/13: Gyrating Goo edition I THINK this screen shot came while we were... Related post...
Wednesday, Sep 2
Daily Blogroll 9/3 – Sushi day edition!
Did ya think that onerous death penalties were a thing of the past? Not so fast. Werit finds that in Aion’s open PvP “Abyss” zone, dying in PvP can strip you of vast amounts of the PvP currency, Abyss Points, while killing someone in PvP brings far fewer. This apparently leads to people only doi...
Sunday, Aug 30
Daily Blogroll 8/31 – End of Summer edition
Both WoW and EQ2 are revamping their innate racial bonuses, and the Verdant Dasypodid at Player vs Developer looks at the reasoning behind the changes, which seems to be at cross purposes. WoW is adding more fluff and less advantage to theirs, while EQ2 aims to give certain race/class comb...
Wednesday, Aug 26
Daily Blogroll 8/27 — Curioser and curioser edition
Daily Blogroll 6/18 — Fun with your new Brad edition A few days ago, the MMO blogging world burned...Daily Blogroll 7/20 – Much Ado about Nothing edition The weekend went by too fast, as it always...Daily Blogroll 8/7 — Band Camp edition Back in EverQuest, the raid leader had banned all... Related po...
Tuesday, Aug 25
Täglich Blogroll 26.8 – Auflage: Sturm und Drang
IGN has some SWTOR gameplay videos hosted by Bioware peeps and I have to admit, it looks really great, a lot better than I thought it would. So much like Knights of the Old Republic that I mostly am just hoping Bioware decides to release SWTOR as a single player game. I do like how party members sw...
Wednesday, Aug 19
Daily Blogroll 8/19 – L2Test edition
With Blizzcon only days away, bloggers have been speculating endlessly about rumors that the next World of Warcraft expansion will bring a complete revamping of the old world. That didn’t go over so well when EverQuest started on that path with the Prophecy of Ro and Depths of Darkhollow e...
Thursday, Aug 13
Daily Blogroll 8/13: Gyrating Goo edition
I THINK this screen shot came while we were raiding the City of Mist for Jalanea’s shaman epic. Remember when guilds used to raid the City of Mist? Something I really liked about EverQuest was the mix of raid targets in leveling zones. Now it’s all instances and keeping people away from each ot...
Tuesday, Aug 11
Daily Blogroll 8/12 – Dominix edition
Daily Blogroll 7/20 – Much Ado about Nothing edition The weekend went by too fast, as it always...Daily Blogroll 8/7 — Band Camp edition Back in EverQuest, the raid leader had banned all...Daily Blogroll 7/24 — See You Next Wednesday edition Aside from just being a shout-out to John Landis... Relat...
Sunday, Aug 9
Daily Blogroll 8/10 — Thank God it’s Monday edition
Brad McQuaid continues his expose on why Vanguard failed where EverQuest succeeded with a look back at their decision to ship a game that would bring most gamers’ computers to their knees, expecting them to be eager to upgrade their computers, as the original EQ players once were. What rea...
Thursday, Aug 6
Daily Blogroll 8/7 — Band Camp edition
Mr. Anderson of Juxtaposed Life wonders about Blizzard’s priest math. If Healer A and Healer B are meant to be able to heal just as well, but Healer B can do it using only half the spells, and also tank, nuke, fly, breathe underwater and do dps, then just what is the advantage of playing Healer A a...
Wednesday, Aug 5
When I die….
Etha, 67 Druid, 191d 3h playedTipa, 71 Rogue, 254d 12h playedBrita, 75 Cleric, 181d 8h playedTipa, 68 Ranger, 9d 1h played Those aren’t even all my EverQuest characters. Six hundred and thirty five full days playing just across those characters. I could add my 65 mage or 58 shadow knight to t...
Tuesday, Jul 28
MMORPGs in 3D: A Study in Red and Blue
A few weeks ago, I got wondering how I could turn game screenshots into three dimensional images. MMORPGs would be a lot more immersive if we could see the game world in the same number of dimensions as we see the real world. It turned out to be both easier and harder than I thought.
Friday, Jul 24
Daily Blogroll 7/24 — See You Next Wednesday edition
The banner picture is of a raid dying in EQ2’s Wrath of the Elements x2 raid instance. It’s a guild raid, and the guild is Twilight Disciples, and it’s a PST raiding guild with a full roster of raiding nights, but the WoE raid was fun enough that, warning them I’d likely be missing most weeknigh...
Wednesday, Jul 22
Wizard 101 Comic Contest
38 Studios to unveil their MMO at San Diego Comic Con According to this Wired blog post that refers to an...EQ1: The Comic Adventures of Crimson Eternity Check out the comics I made for my EverQuest...Web log 4/20 — Special Contest Edition I am SO EXCITED today! Last week, KingsIsle, developers o...
Daily Blogroll 7/23 — Aftermath edition
Anjin is concerned that Champions Online won’t encourage solo play, but then corrects himself. Truth is, Champions Online supports solo play the way EQ2 does. You can solo, but you won’t be able to do a certain portion of the quests from the yellow exclamation point dotted quest hubs unless...
Tuesday, Jul 21
EQ2: The sixteenth minute — a rebuttal
Can we get back to talking about EverQuest 3 now? Will EverQuest 3 be going cartoony? Free Realms looks great...WoW and EQ2: Newbie Quests Finished fighting the Scholar to finish the Strange Black...LoTRO Post Mortem Lord of the Rings Online is a casual MMO very... Related posts brought to you by Ye...
Daily Blogroll 7/21 — Scrapyard edition
I almost resubscribed to WoW last night. Just for a month, just so I could see some of the new places, see if the stuff the expansions added changed the game for the better. I didn’t, though, because to roll up a Death Knight and see all this cool stuff would cost me $$$ for the core game, Burning Cr...
Thursday, Jul 16
EQ2: Antonia Bayle, Day 2
I’m soaking in the AB ambiance. For all its fans, the tone of the chat channels is identical to Befallen and Najena. There are lots of guild recruiting, and from their various spams, I build a picture of my perfect guild. Alt-loving, casual, occasionally raids t5-t7 content for fun and AAs, gr...
Sunday, Jul 12
Daily Blogroll 7/13 — Monday is Funday edition
Brad McQuaid continues wearing his public hair shirt of taking the piss for other people’s problems leading to the downfall of Sigil in “The All-Star Team“. Sigil hired the best and the brightest, and got a team of MMO superstars all pulling in different directions, claims Brad.
Wednesday, Jul 8
Daily Blogroll 7/8
Yes, I know a WoW player is worth more than a Free Realms player. But people brag about the numbers so much, and even a FR player is worth more than a Chinese player, given the very, very, very small amount of money Blizzard makes from any given Chinese player.
Monday, Jul 6
Wizard 101: Why crafting is broken, and how to fix it
By and large, MMOs have used the idea of a skilled artisan earning a living by selling the items they make as the basis for their crafting systems. Becoming a skilled crafter was so expensive and time-consuming in EverQuest that those who chose to take on a trade or two were highly prized by th...
EQ2 Fashion Show: Metal Gear and Tramp Wear
I really hope that Antonia Bayle server will be a more relaxed, casual experience than my current home, Najena. I was goofing off last night, listening to channels, and it sounds like T2 TSO armor PLUS mythical weapon is the baseline for TSO groups now. My main, Dina, has T1 TSO + Kunark raid ar...
Tuesday, Jun 30
Daily Blogroll 7/1 – MMO Overload edition
Inspired by the Star Wars: Galaxies news out of SOE’s Fan Faire last weekend, Werit jumped into the game after some time away and found a lot to like with the new battlegrounds, player-created content and factions wars. He even has some video!
Friday, Jun 26
EQ2 NEXT EXPANSION IS ODUS NOT VELIOUS!
Releases February 2010, FF attendees get the expansion free and beta access. EVERQUEST NEWS. EQ next expansion: Underfoot. Launching in November. Participate in live events before the expansion releases and get in early. — can have an art book of everyone in your guild. #ff09 middle of july —
Monday, Jun 22
Wizard 101: Grizzleheim
The Bazaar is not an Auction House, like WoW, or a broker, like in EverQuest II. You don’t get to choose a price for your item. To find a similar scheme, you have to go all the way back to the original EverQuest, where people would sell things to NPC merchants, which other players could then exami...
Wednesday, Jun 17
Daily Blogroll 6/18 — Fun with your new Brad edition
Recently returned-to-Dungeons & Dragons Online cleric Syp discovers that pickup groups are pretty much the same everywhere, and why it’s so hard to find people to play healers when it’s clear they are among the most desired of archetypes. People in pickup groups feel free to do anyth...
Tuesday, Jun 16
Aion: The User Interface
I found out that Aion was built on the Crytek engine, and that implies it won’t “run on a toaster”, the famous boast Blizzard made about WoW. It doesn’t go so far as to replace the other games — EverQuest II, in particular, has far more social gameplay — but what it does, it does perfectly.
A first look at Aion: The Tower of Eternity
Aion is not an innovative MMO. Anybody will tell you that. And yes, you get to fly. WoW took ideas from Ultima Online, EverQuest (mostly) and Dark Age of Camelot, and made them into a single game that was greater than them all. That’s all Aion is doing here.
Wednesday, Jun 10
EVERQUEST II’s NEXT EXPANSION: VELIOUS
This was EverQuest’s second expansion, and for the first time brought a three faction war into the game, where players chose sides and earned rewards. Also appearing was Sleeper’s Tomb, which included the once-per-server event where players woke The Sleeper, the illicit child of forbi...
Saturday, May 2
It’s official, the new EverQuest server is chosen, plus EQ3 rumors?
EverQuest merging servers, adding NEW server in 2009 Actually in an EverQuest group *right now* so can’t write...EverQuest’s new server — what are the choices? Way back in December, SOE mentioned offhandedly that they would...Progression Server Update MMORPG.com has an interview with an EQ...
Thursday, Apr 16
Happy 10th Birthday, EverQuest!
To celebrate EverQuest’s tenth anniversary, guides, GMs and the gods themselves are running through the servers getting down and giving treats. Nostalgia the Guild, EQ2 division, was there in force. Because, if you’re gonna talk Classic EverQuest, nostalgia is gonna happen.
Thursday, Apr 9
EQ2: Bugbears always roll need
SOE brings RMT fluff items to EverQuest 2? This story is causing a bit of a stir here...EQ2: Hooded Justice never looked so sweet Back in, oh, I guess this would be the early...EQ2: Epic encounter in my bedroom It was really cool! See, Kasul and I were kinda... Related posts brought to you by Yet Another...
Tuesday, Mar 31
EverQuest: How I soloed Veeshan
EQ2: Looking for Veeshan. The barrier that separates the calm veldt of the...Word Clouds, EverQuest and Levels I found this cool little app over at Wordle...New hot zones for EverQuest As expected, SOE has made a whole new set of... Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
Saturday, Mar 14
EverQuest’s new server — what are the choices?
Way back in December, SOE mentioned offhandedly that they would be adding a NEW server to EverQuest — the first since the two progression servers from a couple of years ago. New PvP Server — Zek rules — Free for all PvP with 1 item + coin looting.
Wednesday, Mar 11
Classic EQ Petition
EverQuest merging servers, adding NEW server in 2009 Actually in an EverQuest group *right now* so can’t write...It’s not the game’s fault you moved on. Okay, get ready for some links. Most people are pretty...Lord of the Rings: Best Pre-Order Plan Ever? Lord of the Rings Online announced today t...
Friday, Feb 27
EQ2: Hooded Justice never looked so sweet
EQ2: Setting Free the Bear We started Veeshan’s Peak last night, but it didn’t go...EverQuest expansion beta registration is now open Play EverQuest? Want to get in on the ground floor...EQ2: Don’t leave your guild hall without your appearance armor! It’s been a long time since I peeked beneat...
Monday, Feb 23
EQ: A signature trip down memory lane.
Most of these were hand drawn over EQ Pix pixel art dolls. I loved the sand elf outfits in Lost Dungeons of Norrath so much, I decided that I should wear one of them, too. Again, lagging behind the group as I took screen shot after screen shot.
Friday, Dec 19
EverQuest merging servers, adding NEW server in 2009
But more excitedly, EverQuest will be adding its first new server since the progression servers. Full details below. EQ players Player information will be updated to reflect new names/guilds/servers. New servers will allow two of the same artifacts.
Monday, Dec 15
Opinion: DOMO: Level 23 Thief/Musician, LFG
Let me back up. I’d unlocked the Musician job awhile ago, but had only played it just long enough to get the pet heal, then switched back to Thief, but now with pet heals and buffs. When I swapped back to Musician Saturday, my pet had leveled to 17 from adventuring with my Thief job, and so I went ki...
Wednesday, Dec 10
New EverQuest hot zones. RMT, and Frostfell missions
Level 50: Plane of Innovation (Planes of Power) Level 55: Sshraeshza Temple (Luclin) Level 60: Crypt of Decay (Planes of Power) Level 65: Stoneroot Falls (Depths of Darkhollow) Level 70: Valdeholm (The Serpent’s Spine) Level 75: Dreadspire Keep (Depths of Darkhollow)
Wednesday, Oct 8
Opinion: EQ: October 7 update patch notes
Spells *** Reader and guildmate Egat pointed out that not only EverQuest 2 patched yesterday — so did its daddy, EverQuest. Here’s the patch notes, along with some commentary. Seeds of Destruction Zone Sneak Preview: All active EverQuest subscribers with accounts in good standing will b...
Wednesday, Sep 17
Opinion: EQ2: GU 49 Test patch notes commentary
Spells which do not expire have been made uninterruptable. There are some exceptions which include spells which summon pets or have limited uses. This is cool. I’m not sure how USEFUL it is outside of PvP servers or as a shortcut to the Shard of Hate, but it’s good.
Tuesday, Aug 26
Bringing a character to life — three character creators
Next up was EverQuest 2. Unlike EverQuest, EQ2’s character creator is pretty customizable. Stout Henry would be a bruiser in EQ2 terms, and I soon had a decent looking character, except that the clothes were entirely wrong. Also, he’s a little TOO clean cut. Personal hygiene is not at the top o...
Wednesday, Jul 16
EQ: Tower of Frozen Shadow, floors 2 and 3.
I’d THOUGHT I had gone through Allakhazam’s and gotten every spell for my paladin, same as I did for the ranger. But, no. I was missing some vital spells, and it was the lack of Invisibility to Undead that would kill me a second time. Lull just doesn’t do the job.
Monday, Jun 16
Opinion: Word Clouds, EverQuest and Levels
Stargrace’s peek into The Buried Sea expansion got me looking at the stuff they offer — even MORE armor sets! I have no clue whether we should work at some point on Dragons of Norrath armor, or hea straight to TBS armor, or see if Secrets of Faydwer has even ANOTHER set which makes the older stu...
Tuesday, Jun 10
It’s not the game’s fault you moved on.
But he couldn’t leave it alone. When the Living Legacy promotion was announced, he took it as if it were a bullet aimed at his heart, and he wrote a creed best summarized as: People left EQ because they HATED YOUR STUPID AWFUL UGLY GAME. Your Living Legacy promotion is WORTHLESS. If you changed y...
Tuesday, Jun 3
Opinion: EverQuest: Down at the farm
The introduction of Defiant armor to lure people back in with top-of-the-line, raid quality armor, has changed all that. In a stroke of a pen, SOE signed away any reason at all to explore or try difficult dungeons. Defiant armor is SO GOOD that going to Nagafen’s Lair for the 40-ish armor drop...
Monday, May 26
City of Mist
On Nostalgia nights, we tend to crawl through dungeons. This was not the typical way of playing EverQuest. Usually you fought your way to someplace you liked, and you STAYED there. The puller would pull, the tank would grab the aggro, and everyone would pile on. But that sort of play has fallen o...
Thursday, Mar 20
EQ2 Expansion Watch Contest
Due to the oddities of the USPTO website, you might miss some matches, so it’s best to just look for SOE without the game name and pore through the lists. Note that some unfamiliar titles like “EVERQUEST EVOLUTION” or “EVERQUEST ATTACK ON QEYNOS” may be for omnibus collections or undevelop...
