List the following in the comments:
Character name(s)/class/server:
Nothingtodo/Bard/Hodstock
Clamor/Bard/Hodstock
Stonee/Alchemist/CLW
Years active: March 2003- July 2005, 2011
List the following in the comments:
Character name(s)/class/server:
Nothingtodo/Bard/Hodstock
Clamor/Bard/Hodstock
Stonee/Alchemist/CLW
Years active: March 2003- July 2005, 2011
Character name(s)/class/server: Yesp / Druid /Hodstock
Years active: March 2003- March 2004
Time zone: CST
I remember Yesp rockin’ a green, fur robe and the druid epic. I want to say I saw you in pixie form a lot too.
Ive had quite a few characters. My server was CLW since day 1, some names i had were
Warbladez (troll war)
Owner (hum bard)
Raptile( d elf War)
Legendary(barb war)
Spineback (barb war)
Example (hum mag)
Berserka (barb rge)
Shavage (troll sha)
i really want to come back but idk if people still play =(
DUDE. Idk if you’ll remember me but I was Ogronix, a lowly lvl 31 Ogre Warrior. I knew you by the name Owner lol! I don’t remember what we did, but you were one of the few names I remember from this beautiful game. Stupid thing, but everytime I see houses for sale with the sign saying “for sale by owner”, I’m reminded by you! lmao
Tanuvia, 60 Halfling Druid
Sup Tan,it’s Birdman from DC
Sup Tan and Bird. Solution/Necrosol sk/nec from DC too. Miss that guild. Some1 told me you moved to WoW but I forgot what server. I’m not on much but feel free to add me on battle.net – Taldin#1603
Moyssis /PPO/ Cleric, (many more also) Maryana, Mryan/ DH/ Stack and tinker resist Cleric, Anothercl/CLW/ FF, Hoping to help save EQOA
CLW
60 Pyro Governator
60 Minstrel (I don’t remember name)
40 Brd Lionsflurry
40 War Followme
36 Rge Pocketit
and some more noobs.
Beatemup Gnome Necro, Zalamael Dark elf Mage, Zaliden Gnome Enchanter, Pickpockett Gnome Rogue, Bonesnap Troll Shadowknight. All Hodstock 2003-2005
Guilds: First guild I was in was Revelations family oriented guild ran by Daldameres, his wife Luvme and her brother Swolest. After awhile we wanted to see endgame stuff, what little they were at the time. We joined AoK. People I remember – Toxicity/Mage (probably more letters in that name cant remember how he spelled it) Seikoh/warrior Djpaulofva/Shaman <- A dick at times… Jazzyme/Druid, Sundowne/rge, Arrowfyn/ranger, Timmytata/enchanter, Occelot/druid, Jackkatl and her husband forgot his name..(<- I had one of your experiences with her. I was 14 or 15!) Microwave/Ranger, Talantheus/Pally, Smokedup/mage (<-Good friend back then would let me borrow a all/all robe from time to time) Edwin/pally.. And more! To much to remember!
yea i remember many of these people, im nutralized or bloodbeastx miss eqoa so much ;(
beatmeup..always waving in a black robe..posted up at the stable or bank..i miss eqoa
Nefertiti/Necromancer/hodstock
I remember all those names hail AoK
My characters were: Thiji, a Dark Elf Necromancer turned Lich; Nejihyuuga, Human Monk and Were-Hunter turned Ninja (expert kiter during the Plane of War arcs); Renkotsu; Dark Elf Warrior and Gatorwere turned Hero; Mukotsu, Eastern Human Alchemist turned Transmuter; Ginkotsu, Western Human Paladin (enjoyed the Arcadin exp farming on him); Shiro, Elf Enchantress turned Spellbinder (Dem Rampaging Rhinos!); Uunjerr, Troll Shaman turned Elder; and Kabutoyakushi, Eastern Human Cleric (no Master Class), all on Castle Lightwolf.
Years active: February 2004 – July 2011
Time Zone: EDT
I wish I were there to see EQOA in its final hours… I loved the hell out of this game.
Sent via ZTE Warp
I didn’t see it in it’s final hours myself. I was gone due to RL issues.
dots war , wizzdots wiz , minydotz sha, dizdotz pal, someoneunot cl, firedots nec, darkdotz mag, dotsmixer alc , imblood alc, healuright cl, mrnukker wiz, shadowdotz sk, all on clw server
Character Name: Zilder
Level: 60
Class: Warrior
Sever: Dont remember, too long ago.
Fistofkrosa immortal druid, Oyobi Lionwere Pyromancer on Ferran’s Hope Server. Vialbreaker Transmuter CLW
Server: CLW
Zophar 60hunter (main) 1500 (2004)
Hymnal 60wildling
Axlmapleleaf 60animator
From Day 1 off and on until the end. Heavy until 08-09.
Rest in Peace EQOA.
Stinko/60 HumRan GWH/Marr’s Fist
February 2003-Sometime late 2010
Yamus barbarian berserker rogue. Ppo and clw. Started when Fronts started and played till the last day. Ohhhhh hellll yeahhhhh!!!!
Frostman Barb Shaman Hodstock
Hodstock server,
hahaha Yesp my buddy I was Cinork =p
Not my character but my dads. am curios if he is remembered,
Celmor/Warrior/Dark Elf
Baglunch/Wizard/Gnome
Years Active: Can’t remember
Time Zone: EST
Doesn’t look like someone on Hodstock. Any chance you remember what server he played on?
Tidal/Bard/Marr’s Fist launch-2006
Cutcreator/Bard/Marr’s Fist-CLW 2007-2010
Did you move Cutcreator from MF to CLW?
Actually Cut was my character on MF from like 05. I had the years wrong. I had Tidal and Cut on MF but since I could not get the name Tidal on CLW, I recreated Cut there.
I had a char on MF named Dredar – Bard
Other IRL friends played on CLW, Delrith…. i dont remember
Welcome to the blog! You still keep in contact with the real life friends?
Yes, i’m in the room with one of them right now. We played pre-frontiers and frontiers beta – 2006ish. Still have my beta disk 🙂 Fun times……..
Characters: PPO: Kenobie 55 war, Wreckanize 60 nec (Lich)
CLW: Wreckula 60 Alc
Active Dec 2004 – 07, sporadic activity 08-09
EST
Edit: active Dec 2003 – 07
Character: Airica – 60 Elven Minstrel/Gypsy (Gatorwere)(PPO)
Active: April 2003 (PPO launch) to September 2007
Yeah, I made the one zone map that might still be floating around. Was going to complete it before SOE banned me. Thanks Zatozia! D:
BTW, nice blog. Nice to see that people still play. Too bad they never updated it with an in-game map.
Welcome, welcome! I’ve actually heard your name referenced both ingame and on this blog for a good map. Why did SOE ban you?
They banned me because I posted a signature that they found threatening, where everyone knew that, due to it being a meme, was a complete joke. Even after explaining it to them and giving them the source and various references, they refused to unban me.
Afterwards, Marinia (another player and good friend from my server) posted stuff on her private forum exploiting the almost-dictatorship that SOE propagates. Soon after, she was banned (even though it was not directly on SOE’s website), along with a few of her friends and guildmates. I suppose this is when the shit hit the fan, where most people that rose up and challenged SOE got themselves banned on both my and Marinia’s account. Since then, players on the forums (the strongest of the gaming community members) saw the injustice, saw the lack of content, and realized that me being banned was a martyrdom to the downfall of this once great game. I saw many of my friends leave the forums, one by one, until only a handful of quad-boxers remained. I never wanted this to happen, but SOE in their infinite wisdom saw no future in EQOA and decided to milk it dry instead.
You can read article and understand why I was so infuriated that the game I have placed a lot of time and dedication into, as well as giving back to the community with the map and a few walkthroughs.
Pretty much irrelevant since I was already planning on leaving as Zatozia and Daemass continually said they would grant me coordinates and guide access so that I could scour the world to finish my map. It never happened, and I felt that after this “say one thing, do another” routine, it was evident that this game was doomed due to the staff that SOE hired.
My map .
I post here because I played a travelling minstrel, so the story will continue to be told. Since this outrage, I have not purchased or played any other SOE/SCEA game. I do, however, have my Frontiers disc, as well as the Frontiers beta disc (when I was testing beta before it went live) as a memento. I do have access to another account, but I don’t think I will be giving SOE money any time soon!
It is a shame really, as the game is STILL quite good, but the content is non-existent. If only they expanded the game and pushed advertisements like other companies do (Blizzard, SquareEnix), they would have found themselves quite a gravy train. I mean, why not? They did that for Everquest and Everquest 2, which have fallen flat on their faces in the wake of the Lich King WoW expansion and other similar MMOs. I wonder how much money Zatozia and company has costed SOE? Hmmm…
Wow Tidal I remember you bro from MF, I bet you remember my ranger Arathorne too hehe and I had a SK Darkarathorn on MF and bard my the name of Wartimes. I have a few 60s on CLW at the moment as well. I don’t know if I can come back now though we will see.
I remember Darkarathorn we leveled together on my sk Darksarodare 😮 whats up man?
hahha hell yeah I remember you dude wow, good times man. I want to get the game and system and get back into it it’s too damn fun not to get back and the nostalgia brings back memories from prefronts and all the grinding and times and adventuring, raids, etc
I gotta get a ps2 for cheap and the game for cheap from Amazon like I was looking for it on, they got nice prices, I got my old account on CLW with my Assassin, Ranger and Enchanter, so I’ll be back as soon as I can sell my DC Universe Online, not really liking it and get a system and game. If anyone wants it let me know I’ll sell it for cheap digital downlaod as well. 40$ as soon as I sell im picking up a cheap ps2 and eqoa. Here I come back hah
I know what you mean man.. been having those urges for awhile now. Luckily I don’t have a way to activate my account lol. I’ve been playing WoW for about a year or 2 now. I still have a 60 ench and something on an account… I might find a way to activate it
Tried calling in?
Lostangyl / Cleric / Hodstock
active from Aug 2003 (I got a little later start) on and off through 2007 or 2008 when we finally quit for good, after they made both all/all robes NTL with NO ADVANCE WARNING and my husband Lostpilgrim (SK Hod) had loaned his (That he had waited many years to acquire) to a good friend. Irretrievable. We did come back for a short-lived stint on CLW after that, and have considered taking another shot at it.
Hey Lost, I remember you and Pilgrim standing around FP! If you guys do return, let me know and we can help you get up to speed. It’s always good to get people from Hodstock back!
Lilinea/shaman/hodstock
Sephiron/bestgnomeever/warrior/hodstock
Wow, this website brings back such fond memories. LA, Pil, and a score of other people, we had a lot of great times. I finally called this game quits when I moved to college, but gradually moved to WoW. I actually stole LP’s name for one of my toons. I hope this message finds you both well (and anyone else who sees this). It would be entertaining to come back, but i don’t know my password anymore.
1luv!
DCru
TGNV
Ah, the first official bear to keep his butt in my toons face constantly, lol… Glad to see you’re doing well =)
holy crap i know its been forever since you guys have posted on this but i was just snooping around online and seen that you and the lost ones posted on here and it brought back alot of memories!!!!
Hey LP/LA/Lil how have you guys been?!? Send me an invite on ps3 Echo57
I was Cinork I remember you Lili
I was Tibalt, Lostpilgrim and Lostangyl’s token melee. (Human Ranger/Hunter). I recognize a ton of names from here. All of the DCRU and TGNV people were very special to me. We had a ton of laughs and adventures. Lilinea and I had a 30 minute duel in blackwater Shaman versus my Hunter. I think I finally got frustrated and gave up after nearly killing Lil a dozen times only to have victory snatched from my hands by the shaman form heals.
My fondest memory of DCRU was spawning quest Siloskor on top of the regular random spawn. I think that actually broke the spawn for a while. Decimater tanked them for us, but accidentally chain pulled them. We were all freaking out when the second Siloskor added. I think we managed to escape that blunder without a death thanks to Lostangyl’s Faithful tick and stacks and Lostpilgrim taking aggro and the critical to give Dec a chance to recover.
I remember Pollux kicking Dwin out of the guild at nearly every TGNV raid for talking some nonsense. Pollux always insisted that we all bow to the west and say a prayer to Daeon before every raid.
Cryptopsy MT’ed Bertox with like 775 cms while JP and othet tanks kept coming so close but kept dying with like 1250 cms. Talantheus the elf Paladin got the chance to MT several high end mobs but always managed to fail somehow. Usually because I would somehow manage to pull aggro even though we gave him a couple minutes to taunt the mob before we attacked. Ang, Pilot and I nicknamed him Talentless for it. He was a nice enough guy but got more chances than he deserved and we felt that was taking away some of Pils opportunities to tank as a Shadowknight.
The endless War, Pally, and SK debates were always interesting. I always thought Warriors were overpowered with that Defense Pod MCA Immortal guard which gave a ton of stackable AC. I always thought that such a powerful ability should have been available for all tanks in the Soldier MC. Soldier cost a ton of CMS and the abilities were crap. Tanks were made to absorb damage, so it would only make sense that the Archetype MC would contain the best damage mitigation ability. Bravo probably should have had true shot or some similar fast recast, heavy dex mod attack. Diviner should have had the faithful tick and Sage should have had a nuke like mana burn. Healers heal, melee do physical damage and casters nuke, s the expensive archetype MCS should have had the best abilities for the Archetype main function. I always though this was the biggest flaw with the game and the MC system. This system was pretty good otherwise. There were endless possibilities for character builds and almost all of them were useful to a certain degree. I can’t believe how much I remember about this game.
My Hunter had about 930 cms and maxed out at 645 dex 425 wis 550 sta. I was bow path from the beginning even when it was broken for so long. The class balancing fixed this ability and changed the entire way the class was played. After the update, I had no need for any weapons other than the bow. The epic ability gave a huge wisdom and PoT buff and redused the power pool to make arrow shots chainable along with trueshot and the other arrow abilities. I could literally shoot non stop without ever worrying about power. I might not have had the huge damage numbers like a monk or rogue, but the damage never stopped. Ang, Pil and I ground out a ton of levels and cms and we worked so well together that I would pull aggro and take the last couple of hits as the mob ran off and Pil would go pull the next one as I finished off the first one. Good times.
I can’t tell you how many times I soloed Grundle on my SK. When the server population started to drop, this was part of my daily ritual. We single grouped the fire archon and primeval elemental a lot too. Pretty decent drops for the difficulty.
I think Sarek the Betrayer is the only high end mob that I never killed. Strange since I spent so much time in the area.
Sup Lost, I definitely remember you. Welcome to the blog and I hope you can round up some of your former EQOA friends!
Thanks. I have been bit by the nostalgia bug lately and went out and bought The Elder Scrolls online for PS4 yesterday. I’m still downloading the latest update. Are there any EQOA players playing there?
No idea. The biggest group of former players can be found on the Facebook EQOA groups. Around 200 or so consistently posting members and they’re on various games from vanilla WoW to Black Desert Online
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A bunch moved to WoW. I used to have a list of a bunch of peoples names and servers, but its been lost for ages. A few of us still play League of Legends and whatnot together.
Currently playing Dark Souls 3, BF4, LoL and some others. All PC, who plays consoles these days anyways when a PC is so much better =P.
Sarodare 60 Hydromancer/Aeromancer Marrs Fist
Mozzerella 60 Faithful Marrs Fist
Eradoras 60 Forester Marrs Fist
Years active: December 29th, 2004 – June 21, 2009
Time zone: CST
Randalflag 60 wizard sorc CLW main/first character ever created.
Randalnec 60 nec lich CLW
Randalmag 60 mage CLW
Terminate 60 Pal Guard DH
Randalflag 60 Rge Ass DH
Msterminate 60 CL (wifes toon)
Terminate 60 Pal Guard Hagly
I watched a friend play beta got interested, started playing second week after the original EQOA came out. Played until about 2005, took a six month break, picked it back up and played until 06. Quit playing because, even though the community migrated to CLW, the population was small, with the majority of players dual or quadboxing, AFKing, grouping at the camps that took absolutely no skill to grind, the game lost ALL of its major draws to me. I remember chatting in groups at camps that we had to fight through mobs to get to a safe place and set up a grind camp in the middle of a bunch of reds, but when i left, grinding became grouping with a group of afk petters in complete and utter silence at a camp of reds spawning in a circle in the middle of a field of greens. (trees/gobs/giants).
I came back for a month in 07 to see if anything had been updated, and found they had taken out the last major update and replaced it with a bunch of green bats (plane of war/zoarans plane). I sometimes check out the EQOA message boards to see whats going on, hoping for a red name to announce the production of a new EQOA 2 for ps3, but always end up finding things like how they updated the game to nerf level grinding with the addition of hagly boon to live servers.
I have tried many MMOs, (currently have active toons in EQ2 and WoW) but EQOA was the best in its prime. It made you have to use your community to actually level instead of all the HnG boredom that is now plaguing ALL MMOS).
I wont be coming back, but if they ever make another EQOA and actually support it, i might think about it, (doubtful, SOE has shown a lack of support for ALL their MMOS except the original EQ).
Oh, and i was in the guild in that one picture, from your blogpost “how good is your memory” (and my wizard was in the picture between infamousmage and razlirak) im pretty sure we were on our way to help one of the guildies kill the 60 epic quest mob located in the swamp, a giant skelly? if memory serves me right?).
Nice! Welcome to the blog… No worries on coming back. Would love to have you if you ever feel like it. Also, pretty awesome you’re in one of the photos. You know of anywhere else I could get some of your guild’s media?
I have reactivated my unbanned dual-box account to play on CLW for a bit. Since I reserved my name on all servers on my old account, my character’s name is Ayrica. Would be nice to see some others get back in, but if things don’t turn out I will probably head back to my SMP Minecraft server. (If you play Minecraft, check out Herocraft on the Minecraft forums. One of the most popular beta survival servers!)
I haven’t seen you on past the first day. Your bard is like 21ish right? We have 7 or so regulars at this point and I know of at least 2 more that are returning this week. I’m sure we’ll pick up more and this will snow ball into a regular crowd.
I just hit 24 before the server went down, maintenance I think. Got all of my 17 quests done and finish my path quest. Going to do my 23 and 25 quests later, but until then I’m going to be grinding at BBW orcs for faction.
Hey im interested in coming back soon I have a few alts Im also Johnp clw 60 guardian.
I am considering coming back sometime around july when im through with my semester in college.
Id like to dual box, ive also saw your post on the forums how long do you guys plan on sticking around this would be great for players who all would like to come back and experience the nostalgia that remains in eqoa. Do i hear a guild coming?lol
Hey man, whenever you want to come back… feel free. Send us a message. We have a guild going so leave a mail message if none of us are available!
oh this sounds awesome. Hoping you guys will still be around when i return. If you guys ever start raiding towards summer time you can count in 2 stackers(Nec) ive decided to dual box.
Ok so I was Omniac/Halfling /Rogue/DH
I was one of the founders of Death from Below, and Death from Above, both guilds hit the Max member cap!. I just came back last year, left for WOW for about 3 years. I still think EQOA is the best MMO I have ever played! Right now I am omnicasts and omnitanks on CLW trying to grind to end game! Oh and we talk EQOA on my podcast occasionally, check it out!
link to the podcast?
http://www.allthingsgeek.info lol little late huh
Hey Omniac, how’s it going? I wasn’t in your guilds but I remember you around the server. Hit us up on the DH facebook group. There’s a little over 130 members now. https://www.facebook.com/groups/38689404946/
Character name(s)/class/server: Saurown/Saurostack – FH
Saurown, Saurostack, Saurtofevil, Saurosight, Iuckycharms, Policy – CLW
Years active: Febuary 2003-October 2010
Time zone: EST
Occoclet – 60 Storm Caller Druid -Hodstcok
Nice! What’s up Occ? I always remember you standing in FP. So far we have had Pollux, Yesp, Lostangyl, and now yourself post a comment. You interest in returning?
If I had enough time I would. I’m currently in the US Navy and between work and my other responsibilities I just don’t have enough time anymore. I’m at least looking into trying “Everquest Next” when it comes out. I’m hoping it hits home with consoles too.
Haha I remember you too Occ I was Cinork.
Caddil 60 Monk Hodstock
Active from February 2003-August 2004, and off and on from 2005-2007.
Time zone: CST.
DCru 4lyfe.
Good to see some Dark Crusaders in here. Still stay in contact with your former guildies?
No, I don’t. I’m terrible at keeping in touch with people. But I do adore the old DC members, and we’ll always have our memories if nothing else. It’s amazing how names you thought you’d never see or hear again pop up, even on the interwebz. Hopefully more names will find their way to these comments, and reveal themselves.
Never really played on Hodstock. I was just one of the first on Marr’s Fist pre-fronts and then migrated to CLW as time went on through the years. But good to have more people on 🙂
Rezikai 60 Human assassin Hodstock
Kristalice 60 Barb warrior Hodstock
Rezikai 60 Human burglar Diren’s Hold
Played in Legend’s guild New World Order a bit, then hopped to Dark Covenant a little bit (Sethriel’s guild) and then finally stopping in The Unnamed…
i miss hodstock.com… kono ended it i guess.
Yeah Kono wasn’t going to keep paying the no-ad’s fee if he wasn’t apart of the game anymore. It lasted until 2007ish even though he quit in ’04. I remember you pretty well Rez.. pretty sure you had a CV? I thought you were also Ezikiel the monk.
What up Rezi! I was Cinork.. haha
Wow! alot of familiar names out there! Hope everyones doing well! I sure do miss those old EQOA days. I’d plug it back in and catch up a little with you guys if I still had a ps2. I started basically around launch and played maybe 3 or so years. Was an Elder in Knight’s Templar on Marr’s Fist and ran one of the baddest Alch’s out there.
Zinfindel – 60 – Paladin – Marr’s Fist
Alchemyst – 60 -Alchemist – Marr’s Fist
Mayhemgemule – 60 – Necro – Marr’s Fist
Kjeldoran – 60 – Ranger – Marr’s Fist
I think the weirdest thing about this blog so far is seeing old names 4-5 years later. It’s good to know those people are still around, somewhere. PS2’s go for under 80 bucks used! Just don’t quad box… We saw a guy quad boxing ogres and realize that he’s paying $60 in subscriptions alone! Most of the returners weren’t CLW players — so if you’re nervous about coming back because you don’t have a foundation of 60’s on the server, no worries. We’ll help you out with that.
I’ve got a pill for that!
/wave @ Alchemyst
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Dethral – Exorcist (re-incarnated in WoW as an 85 Alliance Dwarf Priest on Hellscream)
Soliloquey – Power Bard (retired)
Darkdethral – Necro (retired)
Sausagefest 60 Pyromancer CLW
2003-2005 and then off/on from about 2007 until now.
I have contemplated coming back and would probably only do it if I could get into a perma group and xp like the old days. I don’t care if it was with or without boon.
Love the site btw!
That was our intention too… then I experienced boon and… dang. Perma group was really tough with people’s schedules and time zones. A lot of our readers are still in college (seeing as the game came out in 2003 when most were in high school or middle school.) Boon is a huge help to getting your feet underneath you money and experience wise.
Yeah, I guess you’re right about the scheduling. I actually just graduated college the end of December and still looking for a job so, I have a lot of free time. I guess if I came back I would probably make a guy, but I would also like to have a character that I only leveled with a perma group. We could just level them when we were all on at the same time. Would anyone be willing to do something like that?
What college? I graduated in May. I would definitely be up for that… I’d like to make shammy at some point.
Ball State University. It’s a school in Indiana.
Yeah! 13-1 season a few years ago?
Haha. Well we were 12-0, then lost our last 2 games, but we got ranked up to 11th. So, it was a really good year. Most people haven’t heard of the school haha. Where’d you grad. from?
Michigan. Huge college football fan though.
I would be down for a perma group with a toon. I’m always getting bored and wanting to roll another class.
Yo Wreck, I’ve been busy and should be on Sat morning. I hate to say it, but the biggest deterrent to this game is pushing the power button, haha! Not sure if you’ll be on Saturday, but let’s plan a grind group to get my tag and your abils? Or even your alc’s tag.
Alright, cool. I’ll let you guys know when I fire the game back up and all that. I am not sure what I would make yet, but I would only level that toon in a perma group. I will just make other toons to play until everyone is on together.
I’ll prolly be on Saturday but it will be in the evening. Can do nec or alc doesn’t matter gotta get them both done. Lol
Congrats. I’m a huge college football fan as well. I was kinda pissed when I found out I don’t have ESPNU to watch some of the signing day today.
Characters: Kordolin 60 Defender (DH), many alts below 50
Active: March 2003 – April 2004; January 2005 – June 2005
EST
I came across this blog a few weeks ago, and it has brought back a lot of great memories! Thanks for putting it together.
I had been playing WoW for awhile, but I was getting bored with it around when WotLK came out. As my desire to play dwindled, so did my free time, and before I knew it, I both didn’t want to play and didn’t have time to even if I did want to.
Over a year later, I started missing MMOs. I decided to make a return to EQOA last May because I was feeling nostalgic. DH was mostly dead so I rerolled on CLW. I dual-boxed an ALC and CL to the mid 30’s before I got bored, mainly from missing many of the great people I had played with back in the day. In the end, I lasted less than a month.
Seeing some of you pick the game up again has made me want to give returning ANOTHER shot because there would be people in the same boat as me, excited to give the game another try and looking to experience some of the new things that have been added as well as re-experience all the old things we used to enjoy. Unfortunately, I sold one of my PS2s and don’t have access to the other. I’m very tempted to order a slim PS2 (and the game) so that I could play again. If I did return then I would want to dual box again, so I would need to order another PS2 anyways. That would at least let me single box for a while until I can get my other PS2 in a few months. I’m still making up my mind whether or not I should make the commitment to come back because if I’m going to do it a second time then I want to stick with it for awhile. The biggest barriers right now are that my weekly play time would be pretty limited and the cost, though I’m less concerned by the second. It might take me 3-4 months to get 2 characters raid ready. Knowing that a few months from now there would still be people who have recently returned to the game still questing, raiding, and trying to tackle a lot of the new content (that people who never stopped playing finished years ago) would make the commitment it takes to play again much easier to make. Have you put a guild together made up of blog readers and other recently returned players, and do you all plan to keep playing longer-term?
Whoo, that was much more long-winded than I intended! Once again, thanks for collecting all of these great memories from one of my favorite games.
Hello and welcome! Thank you for the comment! We did put a guild together but a lot of our players are in college and are busy with school. We do have about 4 active players and 3-4 semi-active. Right now, I think we’re looking to join up with a more active group. I would highly recommend sticking with single boxing until you’re hooked again. It’s a completely different game than it used to be. I actually like the new version better… with the exception of not having the people I used to remember around. Let us know when you want to return and we’ll be happy to help you out.
So I have decided to come back. I ordered a PS2 and it should be here in about a week. I’m going to keep my cleric and alc on the shelf for now until I’m ready to dual box again.
I haven’t decided what class I’m going to roll, but at this point I’m leaning towards an elf enchanter. However, it would be great if we can get the personnel together to see some raid content eventually, so if class diversity could potentially limit our raiding options, I’d be willing to consider some other class you guys think might be needed more. Honestly I could enjoy playing almost any class so it wouldn’t matter to me, though I did experience a decent amount of raiding as a tank so it would be nice to play another archetype to 60.
Hi.
Purplecl/Chrisgriffin, cleric/enchanter from CLW here.
Played from 2004-07.
I’ve tried to come back but it’s just not the same. Maybe if more people i used to know did it would be worth it. i dont know, it was fun at least.
Plus, I have some old EQOA vids on youtube.com/snakeg88. Good times.
Great blog!
Welcome to the blog! Even though we are all on CLW, it’s rare to see an original CLW’er around here. I’ll def check out your vids. What’d you use to record back then?
Thanks. Yeah, I used to glitch… everything. lol. I don’t know what it was like on other servers, but on CLW there were quite a few people “rocking” and me and my friends were known for it. I have to say, while raiding was good, there was nothing like killing Bertox with 2 people. Did people glitch on other servers? Have you?
man now this brings back some good memories
toons were Benrona 60 mage and Nofreepills 60 Alc, played from around 2003 to 2006 or so, was in All for One One for All, and then some guild Calaway started followed by a guild Blace and Holywarrior put together.
I remember people like Jigen, Jazzyme, Selesia, Jipt, Cheesefry and his brother, Somkedup/Nattyice, Sskain, Beastly, Ryder, and that one dude who would never let High Chieftan in soulsek’ s eye be up for more than 2 mins think his name was Giglilo or something like that, i cant say much tho i spent countless hours up on deso 2 farming RoDs and BPoA’s
Yo man! Definitely remember a lot of those people you listed. Calaway was a warrior if I remember irght? Human?
I still miss eqoa. I play Hodstock as well and I remember you.
So weird that I stumbled upon this website and some hold hodstock names are postin!
This is Maximillan/Xplosion/idontevenremember – War-Defender/Alchemist-(Can’t remember which)
Postin for my Dad too, most of you will probably remember Kaotic/Bonesy the 60 Dark Elf Warrior and Erudite Necromancer.
Reppin Alliance of Kings, still play World of Warcraft with a lot of old AoK/EQoA people too, fadedlight, crimsonlight, their son, bearzy played for a while, a ton more I just can’t really remember who all lol
Yo Max it is Crocadoc Defender and Crocer. I had some run ins with you. Good times.
I remember both you haha tell your dad hello for me I played Cinork Knuckle a ton was in The Unnamed
Dlain/multiple 60 god tanks/PPO
my resume includes baddest mother fucker on the game, first pally to tank bertoxx on ppo, set multiple server records for my time period with my pal, ran monster raid guild for 3 years with about 4 good players and multiple noobs who i booted or replaced with random noobs weekly and still ran server, first to glitch CT, naggy(pre-pet rock fix and post rock fix) first to glitch RZ(back in late 09 for my nostalgia comeback tour)…god knows what else i glitched. I had 3 smr’s throughout my career, got about 12-15 accounts banned. Had a GM(kenpachii) actually give me a free fucking smr. I was known as a god/king of the server along with my partner in crime Grobic who was the first/only SK to tank bertoxx and many other mobs on ppo with low numbers as well. Anyone from ppo will remember this name even til this day. rawr!
Haha… Please tell me you recite that entire bit when you apply for jobs?
I’m not entirely sure “first to glitch (insert raid mob)” is the best thing to be known for, but for sure I do remember Dlain and Grobic from PPO. Never knew you personally, or heard anything specific about you, but saw you around a lot. What guild did you run?
Our guild was The Prophecy… but yea bro, most people don’t know me and few of my friends were the first to glitch a lot of these mobs, kinda annoying they just call me a “rocker” and not “the best rocker” ya know? Isn’t like I glitched mobs cuz I couldn’t kill them with my guild, did it cuz i didn’t wanna roll for the loot with my guild. Then of course it became a sport..the rush you get from doing a mob and hoping you don’t get caught is like running from the cops! lawl
I remember the names Dlain and Grobic. I was Galvadriel and Mindibus, 60 Lich and 60 Sorc. Just stumbled on this forum after feeling some nostalgia for eqoa
scottyelf was better
Did you tank Erin?
Wasn’t one of the “popular attention seeking females” on our server named Erin? It’s been a LONG time but it sounds really familiar.
On Marr’s Fist I played from early March 03 – Feb 06
1st account ( Can nolonger Access 😐 )
Sidius – Human SK
Pancreas – DELF Nec
Gnome Alchemist Cannot Recall the name anylonger
2nd account (currently active at least for a month)
Wiickerman – Gnome Wizard
Demeurge – Ogre WAR Gator (Thanks Qanadarie for Helping)
Federfleisch – Human Bard
I made a couple of new toons on CLW,dunno how much Ill be on though, heh
Yeloweyes – Troll SK
Bubbahottep – Delf Nec
My Yahoo ID is Necronomnicon & mail is Necronomnicon @ gmail dot com if anyone knew me
Also on EQ2Extended Im Alff wiz & Revenous SK
On WOW I was on Blackhand Ashmodai or Ashmdai & Divorce (Lock & DK) & on Trollbane I believe Happlo or Hapllo DK, but I didn’t take well to wow everyone seemed to solo their way to 80 so I was mostly playing alone it seemed or falling asleep looting on dungeon runs from 80s lol, I might try it again but dunno anyone on WOW any more and I’m likely to get into Rift instead in a couple or few weeks
Anyone Remember Jaydeo if they’re from Marr’s Fist? LOL @ that guy, geez, it’s nearly a fond memory now though he was quite a little griefer back then
Jaydeo! God I got trained by him several times at Clops! What a time, Elf Druid right? I think hes an NPC now lmao. Kelinar I believe
hagley NPC lol, that little town not too far from Qeynos and on the way to bear cave it think. My first character was a paladin from qeynos and he had a quest there around level 13 or 15 i think.
Jaydeo got my group at hexbones outside zentar’s keep while I was grouped with an old friend Motley, he sow’d me probably hoping I would run and let my group die lol. then he came back with about 7 or 8 hexbones at least. I have to say I lol’d even though we died if I remember right, I totally didn’t see that coming shame as it is to say, he waited till I pulled too LOL
Haha yup, I remember Jaydeo! I also recall Scarecrow training like crazy at the huge Nasehir camp down the coast from MTG….man I got so pissed back then, but now looking back & really thinking about it gives me a good laugh =)
Sildien-60 Elf Assassin, Vaydin-60 Delf Defiler Marrs Fist server
March ’03-’06
First off I must say, I love your blog. Brings back so many fond memories and great times with my first ever MMO. Ive recently came back, I blame all you guys who have made me realize how awesome this game really is. I played WoW, FFXI, DC Universe and others but nothing besides EQOA ever did it for me. Guess sitting back on my couch just “hits the spot”. Ive been back about a week now, Im looking for a guild to call home again on CLW. I will also be Dual boxing in the coming week. If anyone is recruiting or just wants to go whack on some monsters just throw me a message. My in game name is Ascend right now, 30 Druid. Looking forward to hearing from someone. See you in Norrath!
Hey man! Mail me on either Stonee, Stoneb, or Corrigan. I’ll be on all this week.
Hey man been on havent seen ya, whats your play times?
Wasn’t on yesterday and might not be on tonight. I have a crazy first part of the week with some travel stuff. Wreck is usually on or try a guy playing under Whirls.
I was on yesterday for a bit, til CLW went down then switched over to PPO. Everyone switched back when it crashed and we raided on Uzra and PoS twins. Finally got LoP on my nec on PPO lol.
Anyway, I will probably be on today. Most likely on Wreckanize or Wreckuiem, possibly Magmahand. Send me a tell or mail if you want in guild or just to group.
Did you all manage to get an invite to the guild?
Sorry I haven’t been around the last week, my schedule has been pretty hectic. I should have more free time to play again in 4 or 5 days. I’ll also have my second ps2 then, so I’ll be dual boxing.
Just a heads up so you don’t think I’ve quit on you all!
No worries man, I haven’t been on since Sunday. I’ll be back Monday night or Tuesday. Got really busy with work and St Patty’s day, then traveled for the weekend.
Yeah, I got him in guild the other day. I need some bady on in guild to invite my bard in lol when ar you guys gonna be back on?
Yo Wreck… I’ll be back on Monday night. Away from home right now.
Woops forgot a sign off: that was Whirls (aka Kordolin)
Salvatron – 55 Barbarian Berserker – Hodstock (I don’t remember why but I went 100% mastery at 55)
Also hey occoclet, not for sure if you remember me man, but we played LOTRO when it first came out. Saw you posted you’re in the Navy, great to here that man.
I should be on in a few, couple questions about your guild( I definetly plan on joining) First off whats your name so I can try looking for some people if your not on. Plan on trying to raid casually? And what kind of classes are you looking for or need? Myself and my cousin will be playing, ill be dual boxing and he will be single our first set of toons will be Paladin,Mage and a Bard. Just looking to experience some old memories and make some new ones with the content I havent explored yet. Ill be looking for you Wreck
Hey everyone, better late than never to post here. If anyone remembers me I was Kibawolf: 60 Barb Warrior, Drorphious: 60 Scholar Necromancer, Edwardelrick: 60 Alchemist, Tsumewolf: 55 Rouge (if i recall) and I would almost always run around with my best friend’s 60 Stormcaller Druid Tatakai who’s dad played the game from the start, Goto 60 Barb Shaman and Avenger 60 Barb Warrior who is Tatakai’s older brother.
EQOA brought me a lot of happy memories from 2003 to 2007 from walking around exploring Tunaria’s secrets to raiding. I was good friends with Purpleclr / Chrisgriffon above and I talk to him in ventrilo from time to time with my current kin (guild) in Lord of the Rings Online. I’m possibly the top guardian on my server tied with a couple other acquaintances of mine as far as tanking goes. I accomplished my MMO dream in LOTRO what I couldn’t in EQOA. The best Kiba ever tanked was Norroxus. If I had the chance to come back for a bit just to face the big boys like CT or Bert I gladly would for nostalgia but I unfortunately sold my account. But who knows, I DO have an unused keycode so I may come back one day just for kicks. 🙂 wouldn’t mind starting the journey again.
A lot of things happened while I was absent. I’m about to start a new career path in college. I’m going for a Bachelor’s degree in any field so I can get a work permit so I can be an English teacher over in Japan. I was planning on Graphics Design but I sorta grew out of that, I’m even certified in CISCO networking. I was diagnosed with and starting to overcome Psoriatic arthritis. I spent a lot of time working out but I kept feeling worse and worse by the week to where I couldn’t even hardly move out of bed. Frick, that was the worst year of my life and it always will be. But now It’s well managed and I can move like I could before, now I just have to get back into the routine of going to the gym again -_-. And I have a stable job working with CROSSMARK with extremely flexible hours. I basically collect data on displays in stores for companies like Nestle, Coke, Pepsi, Kellogs, and so on. When it comes to gaming time I usually spend my time in LOTRO like I said above or playing fps games like Left 4 Dead, Team Fortress 2 and I’m also playing Minecraft. If any of you play on Steam feel free to add me as a friend “tyrothehedgehog” is my username. It should appear as “Tyro the Tenko.”
Sorry for the life’s story lol. I wish I visited this site sooner to join in. I miss you all even If I never grouped or talked with any of you. EQOA was a pretty big chapter in my teen years because if it wasn’t for this game I would have never meet Alicia (Tatakai), Rob (Avenger) or Steve (Goto). I seriously can’t believe its been almost 10 years since I joined the game and became friends with them and a majority of everyone here. Again, sorry for the EXTREMELY late post and I’m glad to see some familiar names here.
PS. Thanks for hosting some of my EQOA videos on your blog 😉 Looking on it now, my Overlord Xrag video has over 10,000 views!? FRRIIIIIIIICKKKKK! oO
I actually saw you in a video today, PoS. Small world eh. Go ahead and come back you know you wanna, I just recently re rolled on CLW and that feeling of starting fresh and meeting new people and just going through the adventure and seeing everything again is what makes this game so fun. So yea go ahead and use the keycode =P
Hey, do any of you have a 360? We could boot up 360s start a party chat and use it like ventrillo for playing eqoa. Could do it with a ps3 also probably. Does ps3 have party chat? Never used mine for that.
I have a ps2 still… I’m living in the stone age my friend. Can do Skype though. And it marked your roll call post as spam… weird.
Yeah, I tried posting it a few days ago and it wouldn’t let me. So I tried again yesterday and it did it again.
My Main (well i actually had 6 mains lol but primary)
Kahzahm / Magician / Proudpine Outpost
Wildcards / Magician / CLW
Other toons omg cant list all but heres some, Virtigo,Doomseed,Spiritpaw,Bloodvane,Brigade
Played from 04-06 took break till 08-09 break until about 3 months ago and im addicted again lol.
Characters: Mighyelf Dark Elf Sk, Quadra Human Bard, Stimulant Dark Elf Necro all on hodstock also have Stimulant Human necro on clw
Hey guys. awesome read going here.
Hemotep/ranger/hodstock
Lysol/necro/hodstock
i played 03-05 then a few hardcore runs 05-08, swapping with EQ2:
Radio/troubadour/Antonia Bayle
Clockwork/swashbuckler/Antonia Bayle
I definitely remember Hemotep! You ever consider returning to CLW?
Hey I remember Lysol, you remember dula or Squag? Or notamonk?
I also remember those names I was Cinork in the unnamed
Nice thing you have going on here , anything that keeps the EQOA community together is a good thing . Was none too happy when hodstock.com shutdown. Anyhow i’ll be making a comeback any day now. Nazermael/55 wiz/hod Arzun/51 war/hod nope , never reached 60 , didnt care
Well getting to 60 is a breeze now… I’ve seen some guys do it in less than 24 hours. If you really, really want a 60 an alc or wizzy will get you there fastest. Bards and petters are probably 2nd fastest.
First andmain server: Castle Lightwolf
Started: About 2 weeks after EQOA came out
First character was a Western Human Paladin named Noraxium (or now that I think of it, was it Northalius? Either or, I forgot now, lol!). I was such a noob, EQOA was my first MMORPG, so I did not know much. I thought I was a DD, not a “tank”. So I remember fighting at the gnoll camp that is down the road from DM and I did not taunt or anything, I just hit the gnolls like everyone else. lol! Luckily I do remember there being higher levels (30ish) with us, so they were taking the damage well, no one died much. lol! But dang, what a noob I was. lol! I had all ‘store bought’ armor on at level 28, too. I did not know about the 17 armor quests at the time. lol! Ah! 🙂
I remember at around level 12 I was running around with like 15 people near Qeynos and I followed them all the way to this big cave, so one said something like “Wait here…” and he brought out Gertrude! We all scattered like roaches when the lights went on! It was so fun (and funny!). We did not know she was only agro to those that specifically pulled her though, we were noobs. Fun times! My Qeynos Prison memories are the strongest out of all of them, even trumping the high level raiding zones like IoD and PoS, etc. Though I did enjoy farming for ruby in CT! Killing those lizard men. 🙂
Anyway, I did not level him (Paladin) much higher; he was left at around 28-30 before I deleted him later on. I made a rogue (Zorthon – level 47), Bard (Northax – hit level 60, power path), Wizard (Arithomisius – hit 60, Channeler), Zanitar (hit 60, power path Lich – this character I enjoyed the most in groups, he kept me REALLY busy in Lich form and feeding everyone power constantly! I loved it!), etc. I made a monk, but no level past 40 as far as I remember. Shaman hit around level 48 or 49. Wumple, my gnome Cleric hit around 40ish.
I left EQOA around 2006, really because the devs just gave up on the game; no more expansions. I left for other reasons on top of that, but I won’t get into it here, unless you really want to know. lol
Oh, and the first big guild I was in on CLW server was: Rites of The Four Horsemen
And now I remember, my W Human Ranger was named Northalius. I remember first going to IoD with my guild when my Ranger was 49. That was pretty cool! Though I didn’t stay long since I’d get more debt if I died. I dinged and went back ASAP! Fun raiding there back in the day!
I also loved xping at hexes near Zentars Keep. Those were fun around 43-46. Spent hours and hours there. Loved the snowy setting and all. Luckily being human, I was able to always coach there! ;P
Loved farming in Vox’s lair as well.
Xping at Phantoms (in Frontiers) was fun, as well.
So many memories! 🙂
Twink
Dark Elf Cleric
Castle Lightwolf
Level 50 unmolested MC/talents from pre Frontiers
She still posesses two Ceremonial Vestments, global drop number seven and number sixteen from Blackburrow.
I have not logged on that account since I stopped the bard Rhyme over five years ago.
Interestingly enough years later, I ran into persons in EverQuest 2 who said they knew me.
Roxy
Heya Twink! 8)
UrbanKaiser Lv 60 Diviner Shaman (switched to Mystic eventually, just wanted to be the first diviner shaman on the server) Ferran’s Hope server
LumpyGriffon Lv 60 gnome sorcerer FH
RekkufCro Lv 60 Enchanter (dual boxed account. unlimited mana for my wizard 😀 )FH
I remember you Urb. Good to see some FH people on here. I duel boxed as Ciirus (Sorc) and Talyna (Diviner)
Urban it’s Reskill 🙂
Haha great memories reading this!!
Had quite a few Diffrent characters all On CLW
Lennadarr- Lvl 60 Elf Hunter
Kallurr- Lvl 60 Elf Animator then Spellbinder later (Was My First)
Kalurr- Lvl 60 Orge Juggernaught (Necro)
Gaethan- Lvl 60 Shadowknight
Couple others lower lvl as well.
I just came back about 2 months ago enjoyed a little bit of rekindling the good times, but had to quite before I became to addicted again lol.. Played it to much before!!! But oh how I loved Kiting with my Elf Hunter those were the good times. Hope they make one for the Ps3 deff somthing I would invest in.
Cant really remeber my playing dates but it was quite a bit probably from late 2003 ish to maybe 2006 or later not sure.
Actually played quite a good span I believe in 2008-2009 some time, when i built my Hunter.
Blace 60 Defender (hod)
Pre frontiers played for about 6 years and got bored of the no updates, now just waiting to see if “eq next” hit the ps3 =/ .
This is Solution 60 DK/Necrosol 60 Lock. Miss grinding bandits with you, Deadwhisper and Holyworrior. Hit me up some time battle.net Taldin#1603 or add me on Skype hodkenneth@hotmail.com. I still talk and play with Giacomo 60 pally all the time.
sup Blace I was Cinork
Yep Barbarian Wariorr i really had fun mting whit that toon lol, also my other toons was….
Rosario cl
Borracho alc
Shaulin Mnk
Ferviente Pal
Convicted Nec
Judce sha
those was the more i use and btw sorry for the spelling (spanish) after all this years and still suck on wrinting english hehe.
Pugilist (Monk)
Crypt, Blood, and Saryrn’s Echelon (guilds)
i miss this game. i ran with beezal and neodnb on ferrans hope mostly; although, i did play on hagley(test) and clw before i left. i have played many online games since and none came close…
this is for the madmen i knew in the good ole days…ORCFOKKERS!!!!!
Venris 60 Lich CLW
Vinres 60 Ninja CLW
Vinris 53 Rogue CLW
Rameth 60 Mystic CLW
03-07
Venris 60 Lich CLW
Vinres 60 Ninja CLW
Vinris 53 Rogue CLW
Rameth 60 Mystic
03-08
lol,i know this is really late posting i remember you, hiyas this is carebears =+)
Hey anyone coming back now that everyone gets free time added to their accts.
I’m active on clw and belong to a guild that raids all mobs on the server. Any new returning players just hit me up if u need help.
Falkrinn 60 defender Falkfarmz 60 enchanter Falkcoth 60 pyro
Falkboom 60 sorcerer Falkrinstack 60 diviner Falkdebuffz 60 mystic
Falk’s a good player… just a recommendation on my behalf. -Stonee
60 Defender
Old Times
PPO
Sup crims it’s dollron. Hit me up. Laz_406@yahoo.com facebook
Love me some Crims – Nibble
i miss you scottyelf
Pollux
60 Firestarter
TGNV
Doolz?
You’re both noobs.
Pollux hahahaha what up it’s Cinork!
Rikemaru/55 Ranger/(PPO) 03-04
Rike! I remember you from Fayspires! I had an elf paladin named Ball. Add me on Facebook using ezekstone at gmail.com
Rike! I remember you from my first day playing in Fayspires! I had an elf paladin named Ball. Find me on Facebook using my gmail address of ezekstone at gmail
Always disappearing – Nibble
Malavan
Dark Elf
Sorcerer
Syphadias
Dark Elf
Were Hunter (Shadow Knight)
Hodstock
Were my 2 “main” mains. In the end I was quadboxing… the good old days are sorely missed. Glad Google brought me here, several names I remember. Truly hoping that Sony brings me some EQ on the PS3 – still can’t find that fix EQOA once was… Hi to all the TGNV’ers out there…
Keogh Hum WH/Wiz Hod
Nele Hum Rge/Bravo Hod
Nikol Nec Defiler Hod
Dartain Eru Nec Scol.
Arlyxir Hum Wiz Sorc.
I’m back for the 45 days thing, I’m also debating about starting up again. I had quit in april 09 when most my friends quit, I then played FFXI full time till Sept last year, I haven’t played any MMO since then. I was looking at starting EVE up, but the 45 days came up and I thought I would give EQoA one last run, kinda missed it I guess. I wish is was like 05-06 again,with the devs gone and no support it doesn’t look like it, hopefully EQnext comes on ps3/ps4.
Ah, I ran into you the other day, right?
Errid-45 warrior
Errad-60pyromancer
Squag-60nec I forget the MC…was a tink at one point.
Amari-60nec same story
Notamonk-60 ninja
Dula-60 barrier path pally, multiple mc’s most epic ploober on the planet.
Other include- whomp shlomp notawiz and so on
All on hodstock.
I used to have like a million accounts between me and my brother lol we were bad kids who stole shit and ran that game like the mothafuckin mob. I remember you nothingtodo I’m pretty sure you and dula used to ploob groups during the Ferber days!! I also started seekers of doom and ran it for a while
I started in decemeber of 03 I think it was. Mentioned this on the roll call but I figure might as post it here too :).
All my toons were PPO:
Queequod: 60 Dwarf Guardian/ Touch of Death guild (Long time ago :D)
Drey: 60 Ogre Defender/ Cryptic Souls guild
Wormydirt: 55 Barbarian Warrior/Keepers of Proudpine (this was actually my first toon and the guild is crazy crazy old :))
Had a few more toons here and there mostly on the PPO server.
Hey there. I think I remember seeing Queequod running around sometimes. I definitely remember seeing Touch of Death people from time to time (at least it rings a bell, as it’s been so long). I was a founder of the Lollipop Guild. Pre-frontiers. Remember us?
ha! I remember the Lollipop Guild
Aravol Dark elf Shadow knight here. These posts bringing back some memories.
Kaedayin
60 Sorcerer
TGNV!
Hodstock
Had several other less important (yet superoober) toons, and a wizard on CLW named Ingenius.
So gnarly seeing all these familiar faces posting!
Kae I remember you!
Crocadoc 60 Def
you suck croc haha it’s cinork people told me how they jacked some shield and gave you when we mt’d vox… what up bro!
sup Kaed!
Syuviel-60 Scholar Necro-Hodstock, Syudabaptist-60 Cleric-Hodstock
plus many other alt toons. I started at launch, quit for a year then came back until 2005. When did the 45 free days start?
when you reset your PW on SOE.com
sup Sy! its Cinork!
Alessandra Elf Spellbinder hodstock
Glottis 60 Defender bro
Sirens 60 Faithful bro
Miyne 60 Sage me
Realmwalker 60 Transmuter me
Damagicstick 60 Sorcerer bro
BegforMercy 60 Rogue me
Jimmybones 60 Pyromancer me
All on hodstock, me and my brother shared an account for a long time then got our old one going again, lots of alts on jimmybones account.
On CLW I’m
Damagicstick 60 Sorcere
Laiho 60 Pyromancer
Sirens 60 Faithful
Justgotowned 60 Sage
Bro is
Realmwalker 60 Metabolist
Alexii 60 Pyromancer
Realitycheck 60 Spellbinder
Healsonweels 60 Wilding
I was Cinork in the unnamed I remember you sup!
Polaris 41 Ranger on PPO from May 03′ to about mid 04′ then I had gone over to FFXI
I made a comeback in Summer of 08′ where my best friend and I thought it would be a fun revival of our past time to jump back into EQOA. So I made a new character Obsidious 55 Slayer on CLW, and I’m looking to hop back in it again.
Get a mail from SOE saying 45 days free, so figured i’d go visit my sexy little gnomies. One box is never enough so into the closet I go to dig out 3 more ps2’s. Evercrack is all I need to say.
Woowoo 60 Gno Clr – PPO
Nickers 60 Clr PPO / 50 Clr CLW
Handfull of others….
Been a long time since i have seen some of these names 🙂 my main was jenjam 60 firemancer. ive been playing eq2 for a long while, but thinking of trying the game again it was a really good time back in the day playing this game.
ack i think it was geomancer, had badi elder god its been so long i got the names lol
Which server did you play on?PPO? that name is familiar to me.
I was reminising reading this page. I was Starchaser on Hodstock server. I had a 60 diviner drd, 60 Defender, and 60 necro. It was great to read about everyone. I play eq2 with my sister now but miss so many people from the game. I had so many good times. I played from the time it came out until about 2005. Never know maybe I will be back sometime.
Starchaser 🙂
I remember you I was Cinork whats up!
cunokyle/wiz – I do not remember for sure where I was level wise when I stopped playing.
I played beta phase 1 ( I still may have the 3 different discs somewhere) – March ’04
Played a couple of different toons. I do not remember which server I was on for sure at the time…I have not touched the game since March of 2004….until this week! My wife and I decided to start playing EQOA!
We are both on CLW…and I was sad when I was outside of Halas…and there were not a ton of people LFGing. 😦
My wife is not the fondest of the game (even though she was up all night playing it last night!) but she is starting to get the hang of it. She was brainwashed by WoW so she was not used to having to “work” at the game.
Now, the wife and I are both level 10 on our Mains (She is an Elf Paladin and I am an Elf Cleric) and we are really starting to get into it. I forgot how much fun the game was! Glad to be back!
Oh…and we are currently playing the non-Frontiers version of the game…hard to find a decently priced Frontiers!
Does anyone here play league of legends?
add me Wolfsorax
Vokal
60 Minstrel
TGNV/TU
Hodstock
Hodstock:
Zeroepyon 60 Guardian
Zeroness 60 Faithful
Vadel 60 Geo
Serene 60 Transmuter
I logged into the game just a few days ago, pretty quiet on Hodstock but still people around, I think I will play it for a while again really missed it.
Yo.
What have you and Poll been up to lately? It’s been a minute
-Waz
Hey Waz,
Just been playin Gears 3 with Bricktop on Xbox as far as gaming goes. Pop into the party sometime man. Hope all is well with you. Tell Short to get back on Xbox for Battlefield 3 too.
-V
what up old man it’s Cinork talking to Salem right now as I type this miss you bro!
Cin! Whats up bro! Tell Sal I said hey! What are you playing nowadays?
Vokal ^
Skorge
60 Savage Shaman
Highlights Include:
First Level 50 on Hodstock
First to Complete Epic Quest on Hodstock
Only Character with Both Epic Abilities
One-Time Owner of that all/all robe (there were only 2 on the server – I sold mine to a guilde for only $400 paypal…I could have gotten way more on eBay)
First to take down several bosses, Avatar of Fear especially (pet spam lol)
” Only Character with Both Epic Abilities ” Nah, just first one, I think the first 10 – 20 50s on Hodstock had them too, before it got addressed. I had both on Mcwolf (warrior), but it just made me wish I had leveled my bard first 😦 . Back then at the beginning a bard could go both Freeport and Qeynos and do both quest lines to get both abilities.
First one because he reported it fast and they let him keep them haha =p I was Cinork miss you and Con best dressed trolls on hod!
Wazanga
Elf Spellbinder / Immortal
Hodstock
TU
Wazzzza sup its Cinork haha miss you afk’n as I pulled geo cit!
Wow so many people on here, I have been thinking of coming back for some time now but since Hodstock is apparently dead now would be such a mess remaking my toons on CLW.
Dareis-Dark Elf Shadowknight (DK when it wasnt cool hehe)
Famandil-Human Necromancer
Character Miroku/Monk/CLW
Years active: February 2003- September 2004
Time zone: PST
Lots of memories in this blog.
If you have anything from your days that you’d like to share… feel free to email it to me!
Sheemp / halfling / druid
Sheempagain / halfling /`rouge
Ultrina /Erd / Wiz
all on CLW.
Was friends with Vegeta Newman Cogline Itar Montarkeen Khankar, Kujo, Korn, Necro, Hoppy. I ran Legacy guild for a while, was also in Necromancers, Lords of Contempt, Dominion, Neversleep
Mdiar/ Dark Elf/ Necromancer (Lich) 60
Bloodyvil/ Human/ Warrior (Wanna say… Defender or Mercenary for this guy) 56?
Bloodyviltwo/ Troll/ Warrior (Savage) 60
Hodstock
CST
All for One, One for All (guild)
My central highlight was having both level 60 epic reward items. I want to say I had both spells too, but I don’t recall that part. I think I had the Power path spell and Agony of the Dead.
Hey Md!
I was Maltaethir and Bamsama. I don’t remember when I quit, but was around since beta.
Oh yeah, Hodstock for life.
Indeed. I created a bard named Clamor and at one point played with a toon you rolled when you returned for a bit.
Though I might have already told you that… I haven’t checked this thread.
I was Cinork what up Malt!
Wow lol I rem some of u guys nice job on this site well anyway I hada two chars Kainen and Mebash 60 sk and hero does anybody know how to retrieve old accs I’ll totally get bak in that game lol oh yea I was on Mf to
You should call customer service. If you don’t remember your old account info they will ask you questions like the email address you used to create the account, a credit card number you used, and failing all of that they will ask you toon names and which server they are on. I had to do that with one of my accounts. When I did it they were pretty cool about it and I got it all set upagain in about 10 minutes.
I remember Mebash ogre right? and I think Kainen was a DELF? didn’t know you were the same person though i think. My SK was Sidius and Nec was Pancreas, and my paladin which i deleted initially and very first toon was Vladtepes (ironic name for a pally heh). Wiz was Wiickerman and my Ogre Gator Warrior was Demeurge or Demiurge, the last toon I worked on i think was gatoring him before i decided to quit , and Wiickerman I was leveling also around the time I remember sleeping at Sirens on Wiick with a rubberband holding my analog up to keep him from drownin heh
Haha I remember Mebash! It’s wildatily ! Wow such fun memories of EQ !
you were a druid?
Santaria – 60 Shammy, Naleh – 60 Wizzy, Sorana – 60 Cleric, Tresa – 60 Nec
plus a plethora of others, all Hodstock
Played from about May 2003 until sometime in late 2006 or so
Wow, just wow…I can’t get over all of these old names from the past! So many hodstockers on here it’s crazy! I played WoW for a few years w/ some old Hodders….Rosered, Smeegle, Corax, Hatework, Spitfyre, Naruto and a few others. My fiance and I have been reminisching about EQOA a lot lately (we both played before we met, me on hod and him on CLW). We’re in the process of getting our hands on some copies of Frontiers and hoping to play again in the near future. Nothing has quite matched what EQOA was. I’d prefer to not play on CLW, but if all the other servers are really that dead, guess that’s where we’ll end up lol. Gonna be starting brand new toons, neither of us have any clue what our info was from 8 years ago. So awesome to still see a lot of familiar names floating around!
Zildjen 60 Faithful, Houdeni 57ish Aeromancer… and others that i cant remember, all on Hodstock. Up until I started reading this I couldn’t even remember the name of the server I played on for years! I remember you Santaria, Serephin and I were the leaders of “The Peacekeepers”. Wow thats been so long ago! Its cool to see all these familiar names pop up again, but also sad to know that the game has been laid to rest 😦
Oh sorry, I had to edit the last post, because I forgot Serephin and I later merged “The Peacekeepers” with “The Daybreakers” which was probably the (guild) that was around alot longer 🙂
I was Cinork in the unnamed miss you and hate santa!!
Souldinkou- 60 Cleric Diviner. Leader of Valiance and Pioneer of eqoa and the Castle Lightwolf server.. Pop.
2003- Til Necros stack got crazy and pet groups were invented! ❤
… Soul? Buddy? Long time no speak, you gotta get ahold of me man… phreakin2008@gmail.com
Also, played from launch on CLW with my cousin Helminator, had a warrior and a necro Bhaalyman and Bhaalysdead respectively.
Miss ya Soul buddy : )
Oh lawdy, how i loved this game.
My cousins got me into this game and it was probably the best thing i could take from my childhood lol.. I must of started eqoaf when i was 10 or 11 so like 2004 till ’06 or ’07? It was great!
well my characters were:
Radiox – 60 pyromancer DH
55 monk 51 wiz and a bunch of 40s because i loved phantoms so much 😀
Wish i could remember the names but they were all on Diren!
xbennyx and xjennyx
Roenick Human Ranger Hodstock
Co-Guild Leader of Hunters of the Fallen
Dang, super old school player. Welcome Roenick!
Whats up Roenick , Mcwolf here
You ever find that next best MMO ?
Myself been in wow since, played both eqoa and wow the same time for a year, but eventually moved on to just wow. Gave it another stint with sonys free 45 days the past year and made another Arlore on lightwolf. Miss the game, but hate putting time in something that the developers have already given up on.
Anyway, if anyone finds a good fantasy based MMO on console out there, let me know.
Distortion / Defender / Hodstock. I don’t even remember the dates.
Scarthem / Bard / Hodstock — Zyenscar / Mage / Hodstock — Mehtracs / Necro / Hodstock
And a plethora of other toons, from start and on for about 4 years I believe. I think I stopped logging in when I got into 360 and PS3 games.
Wow. haven’t seen that name in some time. Used to grind a ton with you. One day you just up and disappeared. Add me sometime Taldin#1604 on battle.net or hodkenneth@hotmail.com on Skype. Solutions 60dk, Necrosol 60nec
Taldin#1603′
Yain / Shaman / Hodstock
Many other toons as well. Played from Beta til EQ2 came out.
Crocadoc 60 Defender HODSTOCK
Crocer 60 Pyro (mostly) HODSTOCK
Guild: Team Machine (Where my heart was at)
wish I had played one more time in 2012 miss you guys croc! I was Cinork
Girod 60 Guardian Hodstock
Zomg 60 Minstrel Hodstock
Orrien 60 Scholar (nec) Hodstock
Habel 60 Pyro Hodstock
Vostris 60 Faithful Hodstock
Guilds: TGNV, TU, Ascendancy, I Joined This Guild So U Cant Ask Me To Join Urs
I was Cinork a fellow TU!
Brucecheese lvl 12 Monk, CLW
2012-
Just started and bought a new ps2 & a new disk just so i could play this game & a few other games i missed out on back when i had a ps2 in early 2001before i got into PC online games.
Tori/ Shaman/ Proudpine
Played this character from the day Proudpine opened until I quit when Final Fantasy came out in 2004. Had more fun in EQOA… Played WoW and EQ2 as well, but was never as involved as I was in EQOA.
I was the Guild Master of Three Kingdoms, as well as founder and co-leader of the Proudpine Guild Association; one of the best experiences of my life! I made lifelong friends. FYI, 3K was active in both FF and WoW in addition to EQOA. A GREAT group of people!!!!
Truly the “good old days”.
Hey there. I remember Three Kingdoms. I was a founder of the Lollipop Guild. Snowfall the dark elf rogue and Snowball the troll SK. I know I got the rogue to 60 and went assassin but came to despise it. The troll i got to mid 50s. I’ve tried other mmos, but they just don’t cut the mustard.
Ever since I got the urge tonight to check out this almost decade old game, I’ve been googling like crazy as the memories flood back. I came across the name Belerephon. He was a bard in 3 K! I remember seeing him alot.
Oh hey, I remember you! 🙂
Whatever the faults EQOA had we sure did have fun playing it!
inki<3
Tori, I was in your guild for awhile until I went rogue on my account. I had an elf paladin named Ball. I haven’t played in ages, but the game ending has made me nostalgic
Castle Lightwolf
Ogrenec- King of Oggok- The Necromancer Ambassador
Imixalot- Human Meta Vital – Barbarian Beserker Deadlycast – Erudite Sorceress
King of Oggok huh? Hahaha. Hey Ogrenec how are you?
Sorry for the above reply thought i was posting ….. Man , where to start ……Played this game since day one , pretty regularly for the first 3-4 years .Often i would take breaks of 6 months , however I have played at least 3-4 months of every year since the release of E.Q.O.A .. In so many ways this was, and in many ways, still the best m.m.o.r.p.g. ever to be released in the last decade in my opinion of course .Lack of advertisement killed this game , period!!! Sony’s decision to spend minimal funds in this area ultimately costs them hundreds of thousand of dollars . (Dare i say millions.)And i think we can all be honest and say even with their lack of spreading the word in the beginning , they still had ample time to promote this game in its later years or do anything at all to entice new players to try it out . This game didn’t need to be sold to all of us original players , it simply needed a little push start for all newcomers. We as players didn’t want or need much in this game , aside from the regular maintenance, feedback and technical support we deserved and payed for . Sony failed , well gave up in this area , with flying colors .When they released the original Z.P. , I thought to myself , maybe this game does have a fighting chance. However, in short, with the collapse of Z.P. , and the departure of multiple developers, this game became like a ghost town. I LOVE THIS GAME ……honestly i do…..I just wish somebody would’ve done something
to save this game when the opportunity was there .Sorry for the rant , my next post will be a lot more positive .
Ogrenec- Best Hybrid Nec in Game Imixalot- Human Meta Vital – Barbarian Beserker Medixx – Gnome Faithful Deadlycast – Erudite Sorceress Dexint- Human Channeler among many many other 60’s
Hey folks. As I stated in a reply above. Proudpine outpost. Pre-Frontiers to about late 2004 I think. I was a founding member of the Lollipop Guild. I’m sure you saw us as we lasted two years. I played Snowfall the dark elf rogue, Snowball the SK troll, as well as a few mid lvl alts.I played alot with Pootytang the gnome warrior, Plumpkin the druid, Earwax the dwarf warrior, Kolahan the monk, Tattybear (or Tatonka) the barbarian shaman and wizard respectively, Jazzy the bard, Sedona the Alchemist, Valkery the elf cleric,and Movarrin the erudite cleric, as well as others I wish I could remember. My roommate was Farradar the barbarian warrior on Marr’s Fist. I gotta say, the wereforms sort of spoiled it for me a bit, as I thought it looked stupid when the world was a vast zoo. Also, the quests to get it for each guildy was just soulsucking. I also felt the cm points starting to become mind numbingly slow to gain. But my memories are fond nonetheless. There is nothing else like this game. I’m not actually huge into games, and I’ve just tried Star Wars the Old Republic, which is modeled after WoW, and it is so not the same. It lacks the sandbox feeling of being free in a strange world. And honestly, I prefer grinding at a camp w/ a group to basically being a bike courier on perpetual deliveries. Nothing like beating on frost giants.
Yeah make that to spring of 2005.
Hell, memories still coming in of original Lollipops. Turgon (aka Turgonil), Fawnia and Turcan, QTipp (Earwax’s alt), Tatertot (Pootytang’s alt), and Aradhel (who always needed my help.
This was my crew too! Snowball, snowfall I remember your toons. You were the first on to take me on a world tour and show me where everything was located. That was my first MMO experience and I was in awe. So much fun. I remember Kolohan, Tatty and her husband Mr Mojo I believe, Valkery and Grinded for hours with Sedona! Jazzy I remember too. That seemed like ages ago but have been hoping PlayStation would bring it back on free downloads but to no avail. Hope your doing well, man.
Aravol , Dark Elf Shadownight here
Mcwolf/55 Warrior/Hodstock Beta late 2002 – retired him in 2005
Arlore/ 60 Minstrel Bard/Hodstock March 2003 – early 2006
Arlore/60 minstrel Bard/Castle lightwolf July-Sept 2011
Time zone: Hawaii
Miss this game, WOW is so dumbed down now and getting more simplified next expansion. I loved eqoa’s simplicity, but you pretty much earned everything you had. Maybe one day find another good fantasy based MMORPG on console.
Hey McWolf. I played with you back during the Beta Corps days. In fact, I made an enchanter and AFK’d with you at the Qeynos prison. That was probably back in 2004.
Yeah it has been a while.
getting board with Cata again, all i do is wait around for the weekly raid with my guild runs. At the point few things are upgrades and hold little interest. Would be nice to find a game similar to EQOA on console that made you work for your items.
Kumpa 60 Dwarf Doomseeker on Hodstock
Galmander Barb(cant remember what level) warrior on Hodstock.
After reading this website and what not, i have arranged to buy a used ps2 from somebody on saturday. Going to re activate my account! 😀
Seeya all on CLW. Starting from scratch!
so is ps2 the only way to play?
No. You need a backwards compatible PS3.
Manwel, Barbarian Warrior CLW 51
really loooooooved the game since I stopped playing it, I played many many different games and nothing compared to it, I am on a ps3 anyone else maybe going back to play? please contact me Ill prob start…is it lonely or is there alot of people thanks
Well I just started today and Im lvl 14. Havent seem many in Moradhim, but when did you ever. Freeport has a good chunk of people. Mostly lvl 60s.
Just heard the news today (email from SONY)…. I never thought this day would come, it has brought true heartbreak even though I have been away from the game for quite some time. I always had it in the back of my mind that I’d grab another PS2 and return to Norrath. Some nights I still dream of Shon To Monastery, Tethelin, Vox’s Castle, and Plane of Disease. To everyone who I played with that remembers me, I miss you all and cherish the good times we had.
Romenadan / 60 Human Shadowknight / Marr’s Fist
Innorhate / 60 Dark Elf Necromancer / Marr’s Fist
Innorthief / 60 Dwarf Rogue / Marr’s Fist
Galeus / 24 Elf Wizard / Marr’s Fist
Hey good to see you Rom.
I wish I had an active account to get on. I always wanted to run through PoS start to finish again. Me and the Wife did it once with a small group. Took an entire Sunday. Like 8 AM to 11 PM.
-Kitara
Wife was: Pestillence
Hi Kit!,
It’s great to hear from you two again! Ah man I miss running with you guys. I wish I could’ve gotten on one last time. Hehe, Tour de Force of PoS sounds like a blast. It seems that unless your account was active for Feb you can’t even get on anymore. No way to reactivate your account, what a bummer! Please keep in touch! I’d rather not give out my email – got enough spam already, but I’m on FB and easiest way to find me is through my YT account as I told Jib. Hope to hear from you guys! youtube (dot) com (slash) Romenadan . =)
/wave @ Romenadan
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Dethral – Exorcist (re-incarnated in WoW as an 85 Alliance Dwarf Priest on Hellscream)
Soliloquey – Power Bard (retired)
Darkdethral – Necro (retired)
/wave Deth! Good to see ya again. I didn’t know you were on WoW! I’ve spent several years on it, though not really active now while waiting on MoP. Always been horde except a short stint as a Hum Pal before BC. I’m on Nesingwary these days, name is Sigurthr or Romenadan depending on the toon.
Romenadan, hey! I remember you well probably because you were also a Human SK like myself, but I don’t think I ever knew you were Galeus too? When I saw that name I had to respond as it sparked a memory of me running around outside Neriak, don’t remember why, but I remember Galeus a skinny Elf Wizard came up to me, sent me a trade, which I refused a couple times out of confusion LOL….but eventually accepted IIRC; a Neriak guard spear. Wow old memories, that must’ve been like 2003 or 2004?
Hey Aquinos! Good to see you! Haha yes, I remember you well too! Indeed, that was me way back when in 2003. You were actually the first SK I ever met, and were the inspiration for me to make my SK all those years ago.
I’ve started playing a bit on the new Vox server on EQ, just a necro and wiz so far. I’ve also got a warlock and a SK on EQ2: lvl8 WL on Freeport and lvl30 Arasai SK on Permafrost. I’m trying but I just can’t get in to EQ/EQ2 like I did on EQOA. My EQ2 SK is from 2008, the rest are new. I can’t remember my old account info from Pre-PoP EQ, I ditched the game when EQOA came out and made a new account. I had a nec way back then but didn’t get far (shitty comp back in 1999!).
Woolfmoon 60 Wilding, Magesta 60 Geo, wife was Carebears 60 Mystic, Zonia 60 Sage, and Shine 60 Defender. Castle lightwolf day 1.
This spot is reserved for Shades of Grey CLW.
Character name(s)/class/server: Slaithin / Cleric / Castle Lightwolf .. also known as Slaith
Years active: Feb 2004- April 2008
Time zone: PST
I’m shocked to hear the game is shutting down.
I’m 22 years old now, and when I was playing this game I was 14 or so. It might seem funny and everything but this game was a safe haven for me, I’ll always love it. I’ll always remember and cherish names of people I met like Anedia, Crimson Legion, Ndien, Fission, Aneii.. butterflies, Ramaden/Dramacydal my fave canadian gnome, Bless elf enchanter who ended up being my RL friend after we discovered we go to the same school in game, Keepers of The Blue Flame.. my newb guild, Venris (who I saw posted on here), there were two people I girl and a guy I played with from like my first week playing and I can’t remember their names but I’ll always remember being guilded with them and having fun at croc camp near BBW. I hope they are all healthy and happy and doing well. I’ll never forget my first coach run with Anedia, little gnome cleric who I was amazed by took me to many of the coaches one morning and I was in awe at the game, it being my first mmo. Moradhim and Fayspire will always be fond memories where so many of my newb days took place, running through the orc tunnel with my friends, making it over the mountain just to go say hi to our other friends in Fayspire on the other side was such an accomplishment. It was a different accomplishment than anything in WoW, you got no quest for it, you got no armor piece for it, it wasnt instanced, u just did it because u wanted to meet up with your friends in another city. Chakra Village near moradhim where I’d have little newb guild meetings with everyone… so nice to look back at. I’ll never forget one of my first raids, Siliskor with Crimson Legion. Aeyinar with Rights was amazing fun too, Noroxus with Decimation, and most notably taking part in the first main tank server wide of CT with Cosa Nostra where I spent the last of my EQOA days. What a game. I’ll never forget the place.. that’s for sure. Love every one of you guys who I played with back then.
I’ll be in game as much as I can be until the servers close down.. Hope to see many familiar faces on my dwarf in these last days on castle lightwolf. /salute. Anyone want to stay in touch email me sevrommo@gmail.com as I mostly play games under that name now (still play as Slaith/Slaithin someitmes though). Any old EQOA players feel free to add my PSN too, sevvro
will miss it all
Heya, I was in Rites of The Four Horsemen too, pre-Fronts and a little while after Frontiers came out (then I left in 2006). My main was Zanitar, 60 Power path Lich Necromancer. Other high level was Arithomisius, 60 Power path Channeler Wizard. My first character that got in Rites was Northalius, 49 (at the time I got in) Ranger. I remember them bringing me to IoD at 49, but they told me to get out quick afterward and ding 50 so I don’t get debt if I died. lol! Was funny.
I miss pre-Frontiers EQOA the most. I loved being scared crapless when walking around alone on IoD at 50 (when the guild wasn’t raiding). Was so fun!
I’ll always love remembering my groups that I join to camp Tae Ew and farm Ruby armor in CT on my 50 Ranger. I always wanted the full set but sadly I only managed to get leggings and gloves I believe.
*sigh* Those were the days. 🙂
Even though I’ve not played since 2006, I am also sad to see it go for good. I especially feel bad for those that came back or newly playing it now expecting to get high level and raid, etc. 😦
Jibrish
Marr’s Fist
Spellbinder
I’ll be on CLW as much as I can for the last month… but I plan on spending the last day on MF in Klik’anon. We’ll see I suppose.
Holy crap Jib, good to see you around. I wish I could log in and join ya but my PS2 died years ago. Still have my discs and manuals though. How ya been? You and anyone else who remembers me can always reach/message me on YouTube; channel name is same as my SK; Romenadan. Hope you’re well.
Whats your info so we can chat around Jib?
-Arryl 60 Spellbinder
P.S. thanks for all the help on charming. When you left you took alot of information with you
hey there, you remember Pancreas? my SK was Sidius and Wiz Wiickerman, I remember Pancreas was in Betrayed a little while probably the most familiar name. You were such a smart player full of knowledge and strategy lol. and willing to share it which was awesome, a very smart and friendly player is always a plus to any game like EQOA
Laenei and Cere of PPO here. Not well known at all, but to those I considered friends, know that you were some of my favorite people ever. I wouldn’t trade those memories for all the money in the world.
So sad to be losing EQOA but grateful to have this last free month to get our affairs in order, if you will.
Wehrmacht 60 Warrior
Portauni 60 Rogue
Dollaen 60 Necro
Mtyson 60 Cleric
Solarion 60 Alch
Kalashnikov 60 Ranger
Repentagram 60 Druid
Jigowatt 60 Wiz
Years active – April 2003 – March 29th 2012
I’ve been on EQOA since a couple months after it was released, and never looked back. This game has been a companion throughout the majority of my formative teenage years and I have to say that many a lesson was learned on EQ. I learned people skills, honed my math skills and made many many friends. This game has brought my family closer, as we’ve all played it throughout the years together, leveling numerous 60’s together and building a guild on PPO (SLAYTANIC WHERMACHT). I’m heartbroken to see EQOA go out like this, especially with the reasoning of allowing the developers to work on new games. They haven’t touched EQOA since March 2009 so why decide to kill it now? I highly doubt after this I’ll put this much time and effort into another game especially one from SOE, why? Because no other game will ever compare to Evercrack. Great memories that I’ll remember forever, and I know this game will leave the same fond impression on many others hearts as well. Long live EQOA!
Long time Wehrmacht haha. Not sure if you will remember me or not but this is Kryptkeeperr haha. How have ya been man?
Link to thread for those wanting to leave their lass message(s) before they close it down on the official forums:
http://forums.station.sony.com/eqoa/posts/list.m?&topic_id=115600014245
Kitara 60 Guardian 1100 CMs(pre-boon)
Arryl 60 Spellbinder
Taselhoph 60 Bravo Rogue
Cucummbber 60 Savage SK
Keldaru 60 Berserker Shaman <— pretty fun btw
Snooppdog 60 Scholar Power Necromancer
Marr's Fist!
P.S. I ran with Kraaven in EG alot. Man I LOVED EG. Even nerfed EG is the best xp. Melee classes can destroy eyes so quick
Intuitive / WIZ / Marr’s Fist
Nebari / MAG / Marr’s Fist
Privatetutor / ENC / Marr’s Fist
Velasqua / WIZ / Castle Lightwolf
Salonga / MAG / Castle Lightwolf
I’ve been playing since before the game went live. I was beta testing EQOA in October of 2002. My account has been active from the start. Only break being when the servers were taken down due to the security breach in 2011.
Hi Int!
It’s good to see you again! Hope you’ve been well! I wish I could have kept active like you did. I’m sending ya a FB friend request. =)
Hi Rom, I was Sidius & Pancreas on MF… I remember how knowledgable you were with SK’s Sidius was also a human SK Slayer lol
/wave @ Intuitive
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Dethral – Exorcist (re-incarnated in WoW as an 85 Alliance Dwarf Priest on Hellscream)
Soliloquey – Power Bard (retired)
Darkdethral – Necro (retired)
hey intutive i remember you along with many others i played eqoa as jinkazamare/rogue jink/wiz honiebunn/shaman on marr’s fist thats crazy that eqoa has been running for aslong as it did .i wish i had a ps2 to log in with thr was plently of good times to remember .
if anyone has a ps3 u can play dc universe its free to download and to play up to 2 characters i play a hero named JinKazama2012 i also play with if anyone remembers spud/spudo..he also plays a few different toons on dcu …
or you can just add me directly to your psn account jinkazamare
This was quite a trip down memory lane.
I played on Marr’s Fist server, mainly using my tribox setup of Sheen, Stile, and Zaraki, farming PoD for the elders/ancient robes. Haven’t played in awhile, got my email notice from SOE about the shutdown, and it truly stinks.
To all those people above from Marr’s Fist, I remember you 😛
Sheen – DElf Sorcerer / Stile – DElf Animator / Zaraki – DElf Faithful
Chubbly – Ogre Sage / Wubbly – Gnome Geomancer / Eska – DElf Pyromancer
Wikibiki – Gnome Tinker / Rigor – Dwarf Faithful / Tashiro -DElf Assassin
Asami – HumE Geomancer / Chiaki – HumE Lich
-Solace Guild, Marr’s Fist
Hey man, looong time! Miss Solace & all the fund we had!
Faile 60 Bravo Marrs Fist
Aadaenyaa 60 Scholar Marr’s Fist
Adorra 60 Faithful Marr’s Fist
Bedlamm 60 nec Marr’s Fist
…and various others, We had 6 accounts, its hard to remember all the toons now 😎
I miss all you guys, and no matter what mmo we travel to, it still doesn’t have the sense of community that we had there.
Server: Marr’s Fist
Character: Nicci (Dark Elf Necromancer)
Tighter circles, dammit! Tighter circles!!
/wave @ Nicci
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Dethral – Exorcist (re-incarnated in WoW as an 85 Alliance Dwarf Priest on Hellscream)
Soliloquey – Power Bard (retired)
Darkdethral – Necro (retired)
Server: Castle Lightwolf
Characters: Orion / lvl60 / Human / Paladin / Guardian
Evildead / lvl60 / Dark Elf / Necromancer / Arcane Were-Hunter
Gnarl / lvl60 / Ogre / Shaman / Mystic
Astronomer / lvl60 / Gnome / Wizard / Sorcerer
Character name(s)/class/server:
Llylr Diviner(Druid) – CLW
Bhrom Heroic WereHunter(SK) – CLW
Ssyl Magician – CLW
Years active: July 2003- April 2010
Time zone: MST
Llylr,
This is Iya. OMG! didn’t expect to see you here.
Miss you!!!
Ruiz Barbarian Warrior
Elbuhdda Monk
Castle Lightwolf
Hey Buffalo is healsnotsleep just figured I’d holler at you been awhile since we spoke since the games gone till Eq3 hits ps3 in July 15,2013
Healsnotsleep cleric ff CLW Rise of the fallen ones
Elbudda sorry dam phone auto corrected
Ginnungagap Lvl 60 Halfling Burglar CLW
Yugoslavic Lvl 60 Dwarf Guardian CLW
Entrepid Lvl 60 Human Animator CLW
Nistelrooy Lvl 60 Human Minstrel CLW
Bakbuk Lvl 60 Troll Warrior CLW
My heart is breaking from reading every post on any website about the game shutting down and how much it’s affecting my fellow EQOA brethren. I too remember first logging into the game. I started so many characters when I first started playing and never really settled on one until I learned the great art of grinding lol. No game has been able to captivate me as much as EQOA and I don’t believe one ever will. I have seen and done it all on EQOA and yet I am still willing to pay the 14.99 a month(even though it should have always stayed 9.99) with no content updates or patches of any sort(like we’ve gotten one in the last year anyway….) but I don’t believe at this point that we can save EQOA. I pray we can. If anybody still plays I will be on in the coming weeks before its end just to celebrate something I so insanely enjoyed, I just can’t believe it’s going to be gone. Long Live CLW.
PSN: ArchKnight
Xbox Live: Immortal Keeper
EQ2: Ginnungagap, Giundorn
Hail CoES! Hey Ginn how ya doing?
Character: Havlat/Elf Ranger, Avatarofwoe/DE Cleric, Pitspawn DE Mage, Jerimiah Warrior
Server: Hodstock
Years Active: Launch- On and off till now.
I’ve been many characters so bear with me while I try to remember:
Enasni 60 Human Bard Minstrel
Dirttyimages 60 Delf Necro Defiler
Alchemeta 60 Erudite Alchemist Metabolist
Shortypower 60 Gnome Mage Pyromancer
Gothikca 60 Elf Druid Immortal Wilding or Stormcaller, depending on what I felt like doing.
the rest really aren’t that important. If anyone knows these names I miss you!!!! Especially Isan, Probationiss, Gizmo, Raam, and Valiantfox!!!
was your name leanna? deanna? something-anna?
I hope you’re well Enasni 🙂 Raam here 🙂
Raam! It is I, Thiji, the Dark Elf Necromancer that served as Razalghul’s apprentice! I would not have learned so much about Necromancy without you. It is good to hear from you again!
Ah, Thiji! How are you young one? How is life? It’s good to see and hear from you. 🙂
Eh, could be better. Trying to find a job at the moment…
Well send me an email at tourach1@hotmail.com
Everyone misses Raam Good Luck in all your endeavors hope we can save the game.
Raam was known by so many other names at one time or another lol. Him and Nightskyy had so many different 60 toons. I was in CoES for a couple years at least. Miss them too.
I miss you all. Nanes, Anothercl, Ginnungagap. Hail CoES! Hail to you!
My toons were.. Daegon, Razalghul, Raam, Seizan, Vladislauz, Nizidraman, Saravok, Kiljaeden, Civerb, Haashmallum, Kinjeta, Maga. Those were me. 🙂
Mary ann. I miss you. Email me some time.
Character name(s)/class/server: Tide / Mage / Marr’s Fist
Years active: God. I can’t remember. You think I keep track of things? Probably 03-05
Time zone: CST
/wave Tide!
I AM Mikeyjosh, Cynthya, Cinthya, Cinsmage, Docwolf, Joshymike, Makemerich, Illhealya, healsya, Joshymage,Flamearrow, Nika those are all my 60s on hodstock server, I have played since 2/2004 to present.
I am also Docwolf, Tiggertoo, Mikeyjosh on Marrs Fist
Im sorry first post didnt work to well, My list of toons is as follows: Mikeyjosh Barb Mystic lvl 60, Cynthia Erud Meta Lvl 60, Cinsmage Gnome Pyro lvl 60, Joshymike Barb Defender Lvl 60(retired), Makemerich Hlf Burg Lvl 60 (retired), Illhealya Human FF lvl 60, Joshymage Human Pyro lvl 60, Healsya Elf FF lvl 60, Flamearrow Human hunter lvl 60, Nika erud sorc. lvl 60 Docwolf Elf Wilding Lvl 60, and 4 low lvl toons that may and I pray im wrong never see lvl 60 on hodstock server 2/2004 till servers shut down no matter if its now or 10 years from now
I had several characters over many servers, but I was mostly known as
CLW Server:
Nanes
Snanes
Contrel
Senans
DH Server
Senan
Rosebud
Senosk
PPO Server
Rosebud
Nanes
The game coming to an end is a bittersweet for me. I left the game full time about 3 years ago. I came back for a month or 2 during that time. The game did alot of damage to my life but it also showed me some great times.
I remember you, weren’t you in CoES with me? Ginnungagap?
Yes, Yes he was. Nanes was one of ours, and he was a great asset to us. I wonder how he is these days.
Sup rose. It’s doll. 😉 remember me? Lol I doubt you can forget. Hit me up. Foursouls305@comcast.net
Nanes! Email me.
Character name(s)/class/server: Tanzen/Waxiphex-Marrs Fist
Years active: April 03-June 09
Time zone: CST
Hey Tanzen! /wave It’s been forever, man!
Heya Tanzen, another SK that started right around the same time I did, good to see your name again!
Aquinos / 60 Human Shadowknight / Marr’s Fist
Amagical / 60 Gnome Magician / Marr’s Fist
(Later acquired account)
Phanec / 60 Dark Elf Necro / Marr’s Fist
Kendamarr / 60 Elf Ranger / Marr’s Fist
Leveled on my own after acquiring account:
Tinkerbell / 60 Human Enchanter / Marr’s Fist
So many memories, started out shortly after launch in 03′, I remember running around the countryside and essentially leveling myself solo to about level 30 before I ever really started grouping…can you say anti-social? LOL. I met up with my long time buds, (and eventual perma-group) of Brandnowell a Human Bard, Mundell a Human Ranger & Xanthor a Human Druid.
Met up later on with some other good long term friends in the game; Jakob an Elf Druid & his girlfriend; Adelina an Elf Ranger. I met Jayna the nicest Barbarian Shaman I ever met, great girl. Alane a Dark Elf SK & Yunelcia a Dark Elf Wiz were also long time friends I met shortly after Frontiers was released while I was, you guessed it; soloing! Haha. Roygar, Zapp, Zoolander, Aumarea, Awiziam, Berube, Orbius, Slippery, Rocco, Ohladahn, Sheen, Mouko, Kordana, Franx, Chepo, Thievin, and the list goes on and on. Sad there are others I know I’ve forgotten, but I still wouldn’t trade the memories for anything!
Gonna start up on Everquest here any day now, will most likely re-make a SK named Aquinos if it’s available, hope to meet up with some old friends again!
Sad to see the game go, lots of great memories since starting in March 2003. My main was a bard on DH named Windwoven, of the guild The Order of the Sleepless Knights (a great group of people who have adventured together in many other MMOs since).
Most of the folks in OOTSK found their way to the guild by way of another guild on DH – The Vertically Challenged. The VC was a max level 20 guild of dwarves, gnomes, and halflings, who willingly capped their level in order to challenge themselves and enjoy the aspects of the game that many people ignored in the rush to 60. My toon in the VC was a dwarf warrior named Talonthorn. On Talon I had the pleasure of “MT’ing” many near insurmountable challenges with lots of other great folks like Berkin, Kazzy, Gnellie, Davlannan, Pieman, Crusoe, Zappitoya – so many more, wish I could remember all the names… Taking to the depths of Blackburrow, Castle Felstar, Runnyeye, and so many other places at level 20 were amazing challenges and memories. Still remember one night we made our way to Elephant Graveyard and put on a good showing for the XP’ers there, launching a mass shortie assault on an Eye of Xrag…
Will miss the game a lot. Off and on I’ve been trying to build out an EQOA archive at eqoa.wikia.com, I guess mostly for knowing the end would come eventually, and wanting to capture as much of the game as possible before it was gone. Would be great if others could also take some time to contribute and help ensure the lore and legacy of this game lives on after March 2012…
Jaradox/Shaman/CLW
Jara/Rogue/CLW
May 2003 – September 2006; 2009 – 2010
Time zone: EST
Guilds: Dragon’s of the Four Winds, Cosa Nostra
Good times indeed!
Hey Jara, spoke to you for the first time in guild chat this weekend. Welcome to the blog!
Thanks! Was nice meeting you the other day, perhaps I’ll run into you again during the final hours.. 🙂
Nemisis – Level 60 warrior – Hodstock
Feb 2003 – Nov 2004
Time zone: CST
Hello Mcwolf my old friend, good to see you, was always fun discussing the warrior class with you in the dark ages of the game.
over 2 years later I see this , Hope your doing good bud. Myself I wander over here to John’s blog when I get to missing this EQOA( which is often as I cant find any MMO that really holds my attention for long ).
sup Nem! I was Cinork.
All toons were on Diren’s Hold server.
Niarlathotep / 60 Necromancer (Lich)
Joenofarc / 60 Paladin (Guardian)
Fullmetel / 60 Alchemist (Transmuter)
Muzic / 60 Bard (Gypsy)
Guild: Ancient Legacy
Rank: Officer
After AL disband, I became an officer in another raid guild (though I can not recall what its name was. I think It was then the biggest one left after AL disband if that does anything to help lol)
Years active: July 2006 – June 2008 (account was passed off, and continued to be active with a new owner)
Time zone: EST
I quit do to my server being so inactive 😦
Here is the info on my account when I left, from what is remember (I had some notes to help me)…
PAL 1100 CMs – Spirit Maker’s Robe, Breastplate of the Anointed, Hammer of the Paragon, Helm of Disbelief, Otherworldly Helm, Bracers of Annihilation, Intrepid Gloves, Intrepid Boots, Leggings of the Valiant, Massive Mithril Torque, Primeval Iron Girdle, Guardian Band x2, Stoneheart, Lost King’s Talisman, level 60 epic sword and shield, PoD spell, Honor Guard spell, full Barrier path, lionwere infection, level 40 were ability, ST buff, ST form, zombie suit, PoD, IoD, ZP, 600 sta 425 agi 475 cha 300ish wis, 5287 ac, 12.1k hp, 7 defensive mods, all resists maxed, raid buffed.
NEC 1250 CMs – Robe of Divergence, Solusek’s Eye, Bone-Clasped Girdle, Gloves of Loathing, Crown of the Driven, Toxxulia’s Eye, Tunic of the Decrepit, Leggings of the Decrepit, Firepit Insignia x2, Golden Efreeti Boots, Firegold Band x2, Etheric Earring, Spiteful Earring, level 60 epic held, DH port, deso2 flag, snow1 flag, PoE port, PoS port flag, Envaric Salve, PoD spell, Zombie Suit, StB port, Blood of Noroxus, ST buff, ST form, lionwere infection, level 40 were ability, level 10 tailor, Blood path with 60 self blood, IoD, PoD, ZP, pet weapons, 575 sta 600 wis 450 int 120ish dex, self buffed.
ALC 1150 CMs – Amulet of Loathing, Serpent’s Heart, level 60 epic robe, Bracelet of Quickness, Transmutation Trinket x2, Otherworldly Coif, Transmuted Belt, Dark Art Tunic, Dark Art Gloves, Dark Art Boots, Vaporous Legwraps, Firepit Insignia, Earring of the Weaver x2, Zombie Suit, Blood of Noroxus, PoD spell, Envaric Salve, Zaoran spell, ST buff, ST form, fully Zaoran flagged, full Knack path, PoD, IoD, ZP, 8k HP, 400 dex 525 sta 525 wis 400 agi, self buffed.
BRD 1100 CMs – Shirt of Blackened Links, level 60 epic weapons, Rotting Fist, Blade Mace of Toxicity, Wakizashi of Toxicity, Tanto of Toxicity, Gladius of the Serpent Gods, Amulet of Disbelief, Virtuoso’s Boots, Leggings of the Traveler, Gloves of the Traveler, Ring of Congeniality, Gypsy Band, Pickclaw Brawler’s Sash, Pickclaw Brawler’s Headband, Bracelet of Quickness, Staff of the Feykind, Gold Ingot, Etched Rubicite Earring, Zombie Suit, PoD spell, ST buff, ST form, DtT spawner, wolfwere infection, level 40 were ability, PoD, IoD, ZP, full Power path, 6715 hp, 425 str, 425 dex, 550 sta, 550 agi, 600 cha, 5 offensive mods, 5 defensive mods, self buffed.
all four 60s ready to spawn Kalimet, 6 or so Luck charges, 18ish lucky stone charges, 80ish mil tunar, many costumes (including the vampire one), I believe there was still an anniversary certificate or two as well.
also on the account…
Heironeous / 20 CL – Resist path, Bertoxxian Pox (set as a rezzer on deso2)
Ichi / 20 MNK – Offensive path (spotter for the twins and bert)
Moondown / 30 ENC – Robe of Karana, Shield of Karana, 20 Self path, 30 Boon path (Skahyir spotter)
Elysa / 42 WIZ – Lythrial’s Robe, Invoker’s Wand, Horn of Sorrow, 20 Clash path, 30 and 40 Power path
I know I left a bunch of stuff out as well, been so long since I have logged in. I had just about everything you could want.
Just remembered that other raid guild’s name that I was an officer in, it was Shadows of Destiny.
And I think my bard was actually a Minstrel not a Gypsy lol 😛 I can’t seem to recall…
Well, the game ended tonight. I have not played in years. I have no regrets except losing touch with my good friend from PPO–Vakarla/Aenval.
Ball-Elf Paladin
Wireless-Erudite Enchanter
Noyouare-Delf Rogue
Zekial-Elf Druid
Zophar 60 Hunter CLW(Main) Feb 12th, 2003 – 2009
Hhymnal 60 Wildling
Axlmapleleaf 60 Animator
Promithian 60 Defiler
RedPyro 60 Magician
WhitePyro 60 Magician
BlackPyro 60 Magician
BluePyro 60 Magician
Guilds: Neversleep, Habius Luminous, Cosa Nostra
Zekial was the biggest piece of fucking shit on the game, you walking cum stane mother fucker
I was Spiritbreakr, Blood Slayer/Shadowknight, Marrs Fist. I knew from the start (Oct 03) that I wanted to become rich and draped in the finest finery this game could offer. I grouped at first but was new to MMO’s and didn’t fully grasp the mechanics of my class and the social aspect of it all. I learned by soloing and a few cool players who taught me different techniques for pulling and proper use of gear (thanks, Meranda, I miss you). I was soon soling all over Norrath, exploring alone, joining the occasional group and discovering cool places like the ratmen camp and Syndar’s island. I farmed ultra rares and sold them at ridiculous prices and got PAID. My name soon became synonymous with ‘ultra rare and expensive’ and I had dedicated clients. Made tons of friends I’ll NEVER forget, raided major mobs and saw some of the rarest mobs in game. I will NEVER forget it.
I never thought I’d feel like I do right now, as if I’ve suffered a death, almost .I prepared myself for it, but I’ll truly miss the coachmen, the grass snakes, Skahyir, all of it. I’ll especially miss the friends. Toss, Meschele, Jaxxs, Gemmie, Pryix, Blondmoment…too many to name you all but the ENTIRE guild Uncensored I love you all and thanks for affecting me as a human being.
No gaming experience has ever affected me in this way and I don’t think one ever will. I’m not immediately going to another MMO, but I’ve just begun Red Dead Redemption (GOtY edition) and it’s a whole new world (and a massive one). Good luck and fortune to any former EQOA players who read this, and even if I never met you, ‘Hail’!
-Spiritbreakr, Oct 2003-Mar 2012
I just grabbed Red Dead GOTY myself the other day lol, I dipped into the undead nightmare a little bit but I’m back on finishing the main game before I do the zombies too much yet. The ranching missions and the bounties are most of the ones that I’ve done so far, the ranching ones are kinda fun running the herds and stuff.
Siegmund 60 Death knight/Shadowknight
Wraitth 60 Lich/Necromancer
Hodstock 2003-2006
There’s nothing quite like your first MMO.
I’m gonna miss it.
Hey sieg! Got an email or something? Its Deejay
Character name(s)/class/server: MARRS FIST “GambitsAce” Bear Ninja “Gamdizzle” Power necro Scholar “Hightunes” power Minstrel “Chodah” Hydromancer “Gambizzle” Spellbinder “Potisgood” Metabolist ” Brother was “Shadytroll” Savage Shadowknight “Robbinyohood” 60 rogue “rickets” hunter…lifetime member of KT. Shout out to Eternal Eclipse for teachign me how to raid.
CLW “Holmes” resist faithful “Gamskizzle” WH MASS PULLIN SLAYER “Gamdizzle/Gambizzle” Necro power scholars “Gamsizzle” Metabolist “Magdizzle” pyromancer “Gambitsace ” 60 wh Ninja “Horrowshow ” Stack Tinker “Homdizzle” DoT Wilding “Bashdat” WH Mystic “pedroia” 60 Channeler I may of had more but my mind is drawing a blank
Years active: Was on for the launch then took a break. was on MF from 2005 to 2009 before switching to CLW off and on till servers shut down
Time zone: EST
Jinkazamare/rogue honiebunn/sham played marrs fist
Playing dcuo now as jinkazamare2012 🙂
Omegasteel60 Ran,PPO,Xyrone Wiz,PPo,Spongmonkey Ran,HOD.I had a few more 60’s but it’s been..over 5 years since i played so forgive me.Wish everyone the best of luck i play WoW off and on now Risseer is my DK on Emerald Dream.Best of luck everyone..
Bludspatter / Hum Rge / CLW Server…
I havent played in about a year now but i BETA tested the game…I literally just heard the news the server is gone and I’m practically in tears right now….
Marrs Fist has a facebook group now..
http://www.facebook.com/groups/101133216687461/
my PSN is Necronomnicon if anybody does DC Universe , it’s free on the ps3 & PC, superhero mmo. I’m downloading it on ps3 right now.My steam name is Currently ‘ Charles Bronson ‘ without the quotes, the picture with a white background and the double guns crossed over the chest if anyone wants to add to steam. necronomnicon at gmail is the addy to use to add me directly to steam without sifting through multiple similar names, I play L4d2 and brink on pc through steam.
Marrs Fist
Aanamdarr – level 60 Hunter
I was around when the game first launched, jumped on the WoW bandwagon around 06′.
Really miss the game, definitely the most memorable gaming experience I had the pleasure of experiencing. Definitely broke my heart when I got the email that it was shutting down for good. It always seemed like an alternate real world to me, how can you shut a world down? Thanks for all the great times guys.
All the best, see you in another life.
And Romenadan, you crazy *&#! What’s up! I sent you a friend req on FB, check it out.
Marrs Fist
Aanamdarr – level 60 Hunter
I was around when the game first launched, jumped on the WoW bandwagon around 06′.
Really miss the game, definitely the most memorable gaming experience I had the pleasure of experiencing. Definitely broke my heart when I got the email that it was shutting down for good. It always seemed like an alternate real world to me, how can you shut a world down? Thanks for all the great times guys.
All the best, see you in another life.
And Romenadan, you crazy *&#! What’s up! I sent you a friend req on FB, check it out. /iversonali3
Munkezbalz – 60 Human Cleric/Faithful – Hodstock (main)
Vowofsilence – 60 Human Monk/ninja – Hodstock
Munkeztank – >60 NE shadowknight – Hodstock
Toomuchforyou – >60 Barb Rogue – Hodstock
1999’ish – 2005’ish
Stayed a healer throughout my cleric’s life, although i tried my hand at DPS sometimes
(Eat that 21 damage %4)
Was in “Black Pearl” for the majority of my memory
Ran around with Foecussjuan (IRL friend),Gryanz, Jesster, Illyana, Steelspike, Slubbo (sp?), Linuts, and a host of others.
I don’t remember doing too much raiding, But I was always down for some XP grinding.
Played WoW for years, and Rift for a while after quitting EQOA.
Have not played any MMO for almost a year now. Starting to get the itch again.
Quagum – 60 Barb Warrior – Hodstock
Quagumii – 60 Gnome Wizard – Hodstock
Geilen – 60 Necro – Hodstock
i cant remember what else lol
Some of you might remember Azzare or Tarin as well.. 🙂
Bracks 60 troll shaman
Brackella 60 eru nec
Skcarb 60 troll sk
Brackattack 60 dwarf (i think) cleric
and 2 60 mages, 2 60 rges, 60 enc, 60 alc all with Brack in the name cant remember exactly
and i think i had a toon on clw Hodstockpwns lol for those server crashes great seeing a bunch of posts on here and whats up to everyone
RIP Allianon 60 Channeler – Hodstock. Start to 2007 or so.
Best fun? Raiding with my buds, and using my pet to tank for me with clash nukes.(I’ll miss you flappy!) Gah, tears me up a bit to remember how much fun I had killing HP guards at lvl 40 with flappy tanking for me..
Till we meet again everyone.
Krystalia DELF CLW 60 Exorcist
Jasminefoxli HUM CLW 60 Minstrel
Touch DELF CLW 60 Metabolist
Adrenalynn HUM CLW 60 Ninja
Jana ELF CLW 60 Pyromancer
Fade To Black & Valiance
Was an amazing game but now it’s gone til we all meet again in EQ Next
Fammumar, Wizard, Hodstock
I don’t remember when I started but I quite sometime in 2009.
MTN Time Zone
Character name(s)/class/server: Auronn/Shaman/Hodstock
Years active: March 2003- April 2005
Time zone: EST
Desidio Ranger Hodstock
Sabroso Bard Hodstock
Co-Founder/Co-Leader Hunters of the Fallen
Played since 1st Beta to 2003 or so
Loved the game, made a lot of great friends who I am still in touch with can’t even begin to list all the people I played with but it was one of the better gaming experiances I have had so far. It’s good to see some of the names on here, shame I found it so late. Hodstock.com was the shiz and made for some really worthless days at work.,
Ah well hope everyone is well and feel free to reach out lanche007@hotmail.com PSN Sab_56, I have an xbox GT too I think it’s Sab_56 but it could be something else.
Ciirus 60 Sorc Ferran’s Hope (Main)
Talyna 60 Diviner FH (Duel Boxed healer)
Zythos 60 Slayer FH
Thex 60 Defiler FH
Silmarillio 60 Lich FH
Member of Black Dragon Society and The Ring.
Thanks everyone for the great times. Vizzini, Sum(s), Randolph, Madmorg, Trentreznor, Laldily, Delieta, Lucian, Howitzer and Fumin, Oneskull, Lumpkin, I could go on and on and I miss those days with all the accomplishments and defeats we shared.
Every couple years I get nostalgic and sign up for a month but it was the people who made the game fun; without them the game is akin to walking through an empty abandoned house where you once lived. I often wish I could go back to those days that seemed so much more carefree and relive those moments from the first visit to IoD, the first port to PoS; killing Nagafen, Bertox, Tox, Sili, Vox, the Twins, Veeshan, the list goes on and on. We shared in the victories and we stayed up way too late and went to work with red eyes the next day. Those were good time spent with good people.
Bobofet(60 Zerker)/All toons on Ferrans Hope
Necrofet(60 AWH)
Saloman(60 Ninja)
Vanerial(60 Faithful)
Ran mostly with Crypt and Saryn’s Echelon.
Firesong barb war
Chaosummoner human necro
Thedopeman gnome enchanter
Onehitrquitters monk
Icecreamman Barb Rogue
Baconneggs shadowknight
The Plaque barb shammy
all on Dh server
Feqsboe 60 Human Warrior Were-Hunter-CLW
Resistinka 60 Gnome Cleric Resist Tinker-CLW
Boehnlein 50 Shadowknight-CLW
Original CLW Member Pre-Fronts.
Guilds included:Weigrafs Battalion,Knights of the Blue Star,Knighthood of Marr,Advocates of Evolution.Miss everyone and everything from this game from the lack of not knowing where anything was down to maxing out Exp Debt.The countless hours playing this game made me the person I am today and I will always remember the game for the best of times.
Best Memory-Helping former GM of KoM Faeador become the Fabled Adventurer.
Random Memory-Secretly wiping everyone on Lord Valkanyth(sp) ilse because they could not stop fighting with each other.
From Freeport to Envar I never once had a dull moment in this game and could easily wander out alone and never even care.There is just too much to talk about-I did it all in this game,and remember so much its unreal after all these years. My hearth goes out to everyone here and afar that was graced with the chance to enjoy this masterpiece.
Main Characters:
Grigorry- 21 Halfling Warrior-Marrs Fist
Mielo – 23 Elf Druid-Marrs First
Burbuckle- 60 Halfling Druid-Castle Lightwolf
Bumblebeard 17-Halfling Druid-Castle Lightwolf
Years active: 2003-2012 on and off
Timezone: MST
Played from early 2003 to late 2004, all kinds of fun and nostalgia. It bums me out that they had canceled the game, but no matter how much I tell myself I would have gone back to “check things out,” it never would have happened.
I played Fenlain as my first character, some doofus Paladin that I got to like level 32. I rolled hard in with my buds Eilwen, Kaoru, and Laeamiin (complete doofus, left the guild out of the blue for eight months.) Rolled a rogue named Eildar that, despite Eilwen probably thinking I named it after him, was completely by chance. Got him to level 40-something, hopped between a few guilds in the Proudpine Guild Alliance, , and typically hung out with people from like the annoying little-brother that I acted like back then. Went to FFXI and it wasn’t the same, hopped around too many servers and there never was the same kind of community. That’s still one of my favorite MMO memories, but it just ain’t the same.
Post-EQOA and FFXI I bounced between Guild Wars and WoW with a few core 3K people, tried EVE a few times, and bought FFXIV only to be disappointed. I wish I had the time to just blow four or five hours a night on an MMO like I could when I was thirteen, but that’s neither here nor there. Reading the comments here was nice, I recognize a few names (Hey, Tori,) and even more guild names.
One of these days I hope they make an MMO as hard and mysterious as EQOA was. I remember running from Tethelin to Qeynos using the map in the back of the booklet, and I was amazed that it actually worked. There wasn’t a huge wealth of information or community sites to hold your hand and tell you everything about the game worth knowing in the first week. That was cool.
Anyways, I’m out.
Ack, that should be ” I rolled hard in with my buds Eilwen, Kaoru, and Laeamiin (complete doofus, left the guild out of the blue for eight months.)”
Shadowlegend-60 Elder Shaman
Samurias-60 Monk
Vissura-60 Necromancer
Arcbound-60 Cleric
Marriana Cleric-Hodstock…I have a lot of wonderful memories of this game and wish I’d have stayed in contact with more people!!
Proudpine, Was Turcan, Turc and Twizzler. Was an original founder of the first Lollipop Guild with Plumkin, Earwax, Fawnia and Snowy..and a few others I struggle to remember names of. Nothing will ever replace this game for me… I spent years on it, and it was an amazing experience. I wish only I would have stayed in touch with some of the friends I made.. Farewell EQOA. There will never be another like you.
Yo Turc! Snow here man. I was talking old video games with a bud, and this led me to google eqoa after about 7 years. I favourited this for some reason when I first posted, and while going through my bookmarks I found it again, and thought I’d read to see who contributed since I first found this site. It’s weird how these old names pop out, isn’t it? I still remember how exciting it was to run around with you, Ear, and Pootytang in the first week. Lollipop Guild represent!
Yeah i remenber u too Fawnia hehe.
Hodstock
Beta – 2006
NItraw – 60 Barb Soldier
NItrawll – 60 Gnome Animator
Driveby – 60 Gnome Assassin
Hey Nit, old restless knight here sarduce, saradce. Friends with jibberish, qmulous, mithok, tarnum, elkie.
Damn hey man of course I remember you and our old Restless Knights guild 🙂 i miss the old times where i’d be just chillin at freeport watching people duel while at same time reading and laughing at guild chat. Fun times man
I actually got back into EQOA in Jan. 2012 like 3 months before they shut it down for good. Had to start new characters on Castle Lightwolf since thats where everyone moved to, but it was just like I had never left. Great game, ended up with a 60 defilier with 1200cms within those 2-3 months lol. I wish we had never left to go play WOW, but what can you do ? Me and mithok are going to try Everquest Next when it comes out.
nice to see all of ya marr’s fist representing. i knew a few of ya on this blog. wish i could see more of old school knights templar empire and bright darkness members. i play on wow if any of you want to hit me up sometime realid me on wow nateball#1771 find me on facebook
nateball, assassin rogue, and roomate jarrid on his slayer dk named show
Chloedancer LV60 DRKELF Necromancer (Bloodpact LVL 60) CASTLE LIGHT WOLF 2001-2008
Moonmythique LV60 ELF DRUID (Heal Path LVL 60) CASTLE LIGHT WOLF 2001-2008
Guild: The Brujah
I was the first person to finish & complete the IOD quest with my guild. We even killed CT, I remember the GM gave me a nice totem that would port me and a party to IOD they changed it soon after, I also seem to remember a certain douchebag druid from another guild who stole the loot..
To this to this day I’m still friends with Kronn, TInuviel, Notreal, Sirbiz, Tiametracv, Artemis, too many names to name here. Thanks again for handing over that “Ancient Robe” Cosa Nostra” My demise was perfect at the end of that long journey through Norrath with you noobs… and I have a few of you to thanks for watching my back despite your masters and elders wishes… you know who you are.. ❤
What, no love for Delcon =P
Character Name/Class/Server
Warui 60 Cleric Direns Hold
Vlakorado 60 Shadowknight Direns Hold
and a bunch of alts!
Est time zone
August 2003-July 2006
I definitely remember seeing Vlakorado around seeing as I was in a constant competition against all the other SKs in town 😛
My SK was Malidos – 60 Heroic Were-Hunter. Usually AFKed in Darvor Manor.
Warui! It’s Strongmad! If you see this, come find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/38689404946/
Laz
Dollron/60 Wizard/PPO until Sep 04
Dollron/60 Wizard/CLW and PPO from Jan 2010 2011
Played from the day PPO opened up to September 2004. If you saw me afterwards, it wasn’t me, I sold my account. Got it back and played for a bit in 2010 2011 How I miss the good times and the bad. Even though I play wow now, eqoa will never be replaced in my heart. For the record, I didn’t know that dragon was going to be trained lol I was 44 a noob and wanted to go see a dragon. Good times =] brilopad, dirtyj, vampiros, bleedie, evilbuu, thefonz aka fonz, marstead, sarahs, thirdeye, theoriginal anri, hoffer if any of you read this, find me.
Hated by many, loved by few
Doll
Foursouls305@comcast.net
Laz_46@yahoo.com for facebook
Paradox Theory EvE Online 2006 – 2008
Foursouls wow Drenden server 85 rogue 2009 – current
Correction laz_406@yahoo.com
I remember you 🙂
Alvin – Level 60 Warrior (Defender)
I remember you too! Hope you are doing well.
You gave your account to me. I gave it to Guncon. So you are on wow now. I see.
on and off on wow yes. only long enough to level the main character to the new max level whenever an expansion comes out to be honest.
Well that is nice. Personally I just quit. The game has lost it’s way and tbh I would rather not play if this is the level of game play they are offering. It is just sloppy and not worth the amount of money they are charging.
Scaryberry/Halfling Rogue/Proud Pine Outpost
I hung out in the fog swamp for ages. Not sure why. I have some really fond memories of this game and mourn its loss. Good times.
Since: ’03-’12
Dualbox since: ’08
Server: Ferran’s Hope
Guild: Dark Angels
Characters: Necroevil- 1420mp Delf Defiler (wolf) Mastery of Plague or Mop/Lop, FoF,
Tlometo- 1300 Delf Metabolist (rat), FoF,
Grayshadow- 1205 Delf Defender (gator),
Rgeshadowess-1155 gno Assassin (Vamp),
Sobostio- 1120 Barb DwH,
Charlinexxx- 1250 Hum Pyromancer (Vamp),
Tinkershadow- 1210 gno Faithful (Vamp),
Greenshadow- 1195 Troll Mystic (gator),
Evilshadow- 1239 Delf SpellBinder (Vamp), FoF
I miss this game so, so badly, I’ve dreamt a couple of times of it, being horribly alone at the plane of disease, having to fight my way to Bert, funny as it sounds sometimes i had some help in those dreams, had fun as well until reality slapped me awake LOL…
man, so many memories, leveling all of them up, listening to metallica, G ‘n R, Avenged sevenfold, etc while i played with everyone else, getting to 60 as fast as i possibly could just so i could get max debt when i did lmao..
getting 100 cms daily til it would turn to 1 every 5 hours.. grinding endlessly till i froze at treants and tenacious frost giants, camping vox and the others for PoS spell, goin to that zombie castle being scared as f**, death gating to Nox or Nagafen, trying to get ZP armor, fighting Lord Mithaniel Marr for his weapons, Downing Rallos Zek, till that new raid boss whats his name Khalimet appeared, dropping new obliterators and zp spells, overpricing white and green gems, fighing with auctions, out bidding prices til i won them epic armors for my characters, beating every Lv. 60 people in duels with a lv 52 alchemist, spending over 100 hours trying to get infected with a specific Lycantrophy, 4-manning that ice dragon at PoS, trying to get transcendental wall from Bulwark ‘n Talon, gating Sarek The Betrayer going for Heartsblood robe. Kiting The Avatar of hate, getting my dds and my tank the robe of shadows and robe of war respectively, oh mai gawd so many stories like the daywalkers and new super beast earring that i got for my war and necro n alc, self buffing my war to 12k hp, beast alc as tankhemist, saw a bard and another alc tank Uzrathixius and Poxathixius, 5 manning Nox, farming herbs at fp til i got filthy rich, so on and on,
nostalgia stroke me as i posted this, a knot in my throat, sniffling, as those awesome memories of a now impossible to revive game pass away.. they still live on, hoping a new EQOA would be recreated on the ps3 or upcoming ps4 now, playing DC Universe Online on Ps3..
If any have DCUO on PS3, Look for Veeshans Talon in the PvE side, Hero Hard Light Controller Combat Rating 83
Thanks for reading my story
PPO:
Theron – Barb War
Thalas – Barb Sha
Thrazor – Barb Rge
Grawp – Troll SK
CLW:
Thalas – Human Pal
Thrazor – Barb Rge
Oggurk – Ogre SK
Slughorn – Human Alc
It took me forever to get my first character to level 60 because I would remake them a million times before CM/TP reset was introduced. Would have saved me hours of gameplay. Still, I had a lot of fun playing this game. I never made it to 1k CMs (didn’t have the patience to grind so long for 1cm) and enjoyed exploring by myself or with groups.
Miss this game and wish SOE would bring it back.
60 human sk Denthon. MF Server. I stumbled upon this and damn. What a flood of memories
EqoA necromancer :Avant. ,Alchemist :Santafiredme, Paladin: Lancellott ,Shadowknight: Deathknygth, Wizard :Razzale, Mage: Trickortreat, Monk: Crazyoldman
All hail CLW server
Platinumdrop/human/warrior/clw
platunia/human/enc/clw
memory/barbarian/sham/clw
Freeraine 60 Dk ( psychopathic rydaz ) was the last guild. Other guilds (Gods among Men, Diciples of Darkness, Honorbound, Lords of Contempt)
Just found out this game got axed, very disappointed. I always thought I’d go back. I remember so many people from this game. If anyone stumbled on this and wants to chat or play some MW3(4)(5) whatever
alexander-ball@hotmail.com
Alts
Heclar 60 diviner cleric.
Freerain 60 lich
2004-2007
Whats up plat how the hell you been haven’t seen you in forever this is chaoticnec
Doing pretty good havent really been on any games since eqoa i shopped around a bit but didint like any of them. Just been doing my thing lately though working and school is about it hoping that some day we can all make a come back on something worth while lol.
Gweedo 60 Deputy Proudpine Outpost
Gweedow 60 Assassin Castle Lightwolf
You had some nice dance moves man!
Gweedo i remenber u man hehehe.
I remember Gweedo. I was Aravol 60 DRK Shadowknight on PPO server.
CLW since day one :3 Curingpaw – Mystic 60 / Woofe 60 Immortal DRD / Delepitore 60 Meta / Hela 60 Death Knight / Liturazzup 60 Sorc / Laurentha 60 Sorc / Vitamins 60 Nec Def
I hear ya I been doing the same an hey the new Eq 3 will be out soon an we can hopefully get the old guild an gang back together an grind like the good old days since this time its suppose tone free to play hit me up at my email dracula940ad@yahoo.com so we can keep in touch but glad your doing good really miss grinding with all the gang seeing platinumdrops go beast tanking lol well hit me up anytime I’m out for now
Yea sounds great! my email is christopherapodaca1988@gmail.com keep me posted on anything your hear. That goes out to everyone on here, I miss alot of the memories we all created together. Kinda miss tanking too 😛
I was on CLW the whole time i played which was on and off from about 2003-2008.
My first char was Brandontyr which i lved to 42, he was an elf ranger but didnt like him too much so i ended up making Oldrif, my gnome mage who i got to 60.
I also had a troll sk who was 35 and a barb shaman lv 20.
Whitesugar – Level 60 Barbarian Shaman down in Hodstock. 2004 – 2006 (I think)
I ran around with a bad ass level 60 Monk named Lamar. I believe our guild was ‘Infamous’ but its been awhile. Lamar took over my character for a long while after I moved out of my parents house.
I recognize some of you even after all this time; and I still say ‘ding’ whenever I have a birthday. It was a pleasure healing you all.
Dirtyj/Macnasty PPO. I still think about this game and how SOE blew it. They didnt know what a gem they had.
I remember your scarred up face and SV robe
The only thing I remember is whooping your ass in a duel =p
Alvin – Level 60 Defender
Hodstock Server –
Zaran 60 Delf SK
Darklynxz 60 Delf Nec
Buster 60 Monk
I miss EQOA 8(
Ismene 60 Bard
Monet 60 Faithful
Msdebt 60 Exorcist
Marr’s Fist
Evolution
PPO : Main Rogue – Bakaj / Alchemist Electric…
Saw few familiar names from ppo server cant believe i found this site, while checking eq next news…
If anyone playing WoW hit me up, Korgath server – Mordecaii / Bladestopper or add me real id bbakaj284@yahoo.com
Its Axxiis whats up man
hey ax, glad to know they let you out of rehab and you’re able to put together full sentences…hope your HIV is in check but atleast you know now no more dirty needles
axxiis, you still owe me a few million tunar man wtf
baka, why you steal my links
Shout out to Ferran’s Hope, Especially my Crypt and Saryrn’s Echelon peoples!
EQOA will always be missed.
Ferran’s Hope
Gotheals 60 Shaman
Cashmoney 60 Rogue
Gargofett 60 Warrior
Sircastalot 60 Mage
Marofett 60 Necro
Direns Hold
Maintank 60 Warrior
60 Necro (forget name lol)
Manifest Destiny guild
Maintank! I remember you from MD man. How’s it going? Come join us over on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/38689404946/ Bunch of DH folks on there too.
Ransom-Wiz/Sorc-CLW
makes me so sad to read this…miss eqoa
Ogronix/WAR/CLW
Played 2005-2007 (on and off)
EST
Toxx-Guardian-MF
Thornec-Defiler-MF
Thorinoak-Dwarf pal- MF
Dirtybeast-Elder-CLW
Toxx-Defiler-CLW
Thanks to all I had fun with, seen alot old MF players posted Like Deth, Aan, and more. You guys helped pave the way for alot MF players, and justed wanted to say thanks to all those who I met good times and bad, I was 17 when I started playing and now 26, was a big infulence throughout the years, some wish would done differently but nevertheless the players of MF made the game interesting and fun thanks everyone.
P.S Im currently Dreko on Burning Legion WoW, but have recently canceled my account because the game lacks any skill or challenge and now everythign is just que up meet random people and never see them again, so until Everquest Next come out if anyone want message or add me on Facebook stray-@hotmail.com
Gnome Enchanter “Wildatily”! Marrs Fist server
PPO (2003-09)- Turner(delf war), Infineon(barb sha)
CLW (2009-end)- Adrenalized(orge war), Ducati(delf wiz)
I quad boxed, to many toons to list, but these where my 2 mains (fav toons) on each server. I miss the game, my friends, and the community. Never giving up hope of a private server!!!
Undersummonr gnome necromancer from marrs fist, i think i quit in 05 but was going to renew it in april but found out they shutdown the servers.. just my luck
Undeadsummonr my bad
Hey to all the Hodstockians
I had a bunch of characters but primary was Davemustaine/Assassin/Hodstock
I miss EQOA days and all the crazy fun people on PPO!
Nibble – PPO Delf Mage
Cookiejar – PPO Delf Cleric
Teddibear – PPO Barb Shaman
If anyone wants to keep in touch : newlaurabs@gmail.com
Great memories and loved seeing this page.
Solarene | Castle Light Wolf | Western Human | Magician | Arcane Were-Hunter
I loved this character dearly, despite the many mistakes I made on her over the years. One such mistake was the slaying of every were-hunter NPC I could find, despite the fact that I was one. I even made a guide, which is still online somewhere. Why I decided to do this, I honestly can’t say. Around that time, I recall hanging out in Paineel in that awesome green dungeon area with the floating books and a few rather stuck up Erudites, pretending that I had turned ‘evil’ (as a western human, I was a ‘good’ aligned spell-caster).
While I eventually came to my senses and began working on fixing my were-hunter faction (which was at -2000), I only managed to bring it back down to around -1600 before quitting the game entirely. However, what I feel was quite possibly my greatest triumph in the game was rectifying that in the final week of EQOA, bringing what I thought of as a blood debt I owed down to -326, and becoming neutral with the Were-Hunters of Tunaria once more. It was a strangely liberating feeling, and something I never thought I’d ever get the chance to do.
There’s just so much more I could talk about, but I think I’ve gone on long enough.
Pretts – clw – ranger
Nikateen – clw – sk
Have way too many fond memories. Miss a few people on there wish I could find them again. Haunted miggett and ohmaden/blain.
Anyone know of them or how to get in touch?
Merry Christmas Castle Light Wolf. Miss you and Love you, Chloedancer / lvl 60 Defiler. / Moonmythique lv 60 Wilding. Anyone from CLW who played between first launch and 2007 who knew me please leave me a message or email here so I can contact you. I am still personal friends with more then a handful of uber players from CLW, Maybe I can help some people get in contact with old/lost friends. Personally I am looking for Geyser, he was a 60. elf Druid on Castle Light Wolf and anyone else who might of been in The Brujah or friends with me, Miss everyone a lot, I Believe only two of our friends from CLW have passed on and when I find more information on those characters and the people behind them I will post it here. ❤
Chloe I’m ready to club baby seals!
I remember you Chloedancer, I was Mogwai on CLW in Order of Chaos little gnome necro. I was either in a raid or out farming something.
Wow. I remember both Chloedancer and Mogwai. I was in OoC for awhile while Drave was out. Kalamus invited me I believe. Johnhead – 60 Rogue.
Hodstock
Rusha-Rogue
Amnesia- Paladin
Am!!!! hahahaha its Cinork!
Romeosheart 50 Shadowknight first toon
Monkculley 60 Cleric
Monkculleys 60 Bard
Monkculleyz 60 Wizard
Culleysays 30 Enchanter
Mantisray 60 Monk
Xredrum 60 Necromancer
Darkgambit 60 Mage
Jubii 60 Warrior
Thebattousai 60 Necromancer
All on CLW a few more I can’t think of was a tri boxer played watched friend play the beta and would play when he wasn’t on then bought the game when it came out and that was it lol from 03 to 09 then off and on after that
Glad I found this site. I had a 60 Rge Gypsy Were-Hunter named Feor on clw. I started this game in jr high and used to spend sooooooo much time on this game. I remember making a lot of friends on this game and having so much fun. I would explore more than grind. Its such a shame I will never lay sights on Qeynos or collecting every stable because I was a human rge. This was an amazing game. If anyone on clw knew Usuke, Nytengale, or Legosi please respond to this!
Characters: Sandara 60 MNK and Unholymagic 60 necro
Server: PPO
Brings back memories… Raids with Ethereal and then later on, Res, the Frontiers Beta. Good times. Met some cool people in this game.. no other MMO can replace the good times I had with this game.
CLW
Stereotype 60 Hero
Towers 60 Guardian
Castiel 60 SK/HwH
Meishin 60 Ninja
Scofield 60 Lich
Oxytocin 60 Alc
a lot of others over a long period of time, those were the last ones though.
I stumbled on this site and was like OMG! so awesome.
When Marr’s Fist laughed I went there. I played a Monk named Zlayer and my first guild I joined was DBZ Warriors and we were all monks! Then after that I joined ZUM which was Zettai Unmei Muka-ish-something…those were the early Marr’s Fist years.
Afterwards:
Vlayer 60 Cleric
Harly 60 Alchemist
Jagura Mage
I love seeing old names pop up here =) CRAZINESS
Those were some of the days in EQOA, it has been a long time since then but it was one of the better games out there in my opinion, especially with the people. The people and community truly made EQOA.
Shout out to Ferrans Hope, and to anyone that remembers/was apart of The Ageless Knights of Avalon.
~Raeadan 60 Paladin (FH)
~Evermore 60 Ranger (FH)
I was in AKOA with my aunt, Holyblight was my toon, Fallenhope was another!
That is great! Yes, the old days of Rainmaker, Redfire and the rest of all of us!
PPO:
Old Times
Crimsonelf-Defender
Crims-Defender
Too many to list.
I miss the game, it had a lot of potential to turn into more, it’s sad they shut it down. If anyone from PPO wants to hit me up, my email is ikcil@Hotmail.com
“OT” as the guild was known on PPO, Crimsonelf was a great player, miss the game. Seaweed
All Hodstock.
Norgan – 60 ran (hunter)
Toughguyy – 60 war (tinker/hero)
Shortyy – 60 rge (tinker)
Toughtoo – 60 cl (tinker)
Oceara – 60 nec (lich)
Server: CLW
Nolimits 60 NEC(Lich)
SkullBuster 60 NEC(Lich)
Japha 60 NEC(Lich)
Bizzmark 60 NEC(Lich)
Enigmaz 60 MAG(Pyro)
Tsukiyomi 60 MAG(Geo)
Healnotsleep 60 Cleric(FF)
Magicduster 60 Alc(Transmuter)
Rottincorps 60 WAR(Def)
i use to 5 Box EQOA played for 10years
How come you 5 boxed? I understand the need to 4 box, as it was a full group, but what was better about 5 boxing?
Played from 2003-2012
Krevix- (HUM)-Deathknight -CLW
Mrmixit-(HUM)- Metabolist- CLW
Smoothe-(Elf)- Spellbinder- CLW
Murmakil-(Gno)- Tinker/Necromancer- CLW
Krevastator-(Gno)- Sorcerer-CLW
Krevenstein-(Gno)- Defender- CLW
lots of other characters, I tri-boxed with 3 full accounts.
I miss this game soo much, went to EQ2 for a few months after EQOA shutdown and it didn’t come close to the experiences on EQOA. Haven’t been able to stay in touch with the old guild-mates (PoZ) and community. This was a gem of a game and SOE really dropped the ball by letting it die. I would gladly still be paying 45 a month to play even if the game never saw another update. One of the best MMO’s ever created.
Please check out Vanguard! It has much of an EQ/EQOA feel to it than EQ2 ever did.
If you do check it out, add Gnoble to your friend list!
I’m gonna check it out soon.
Donte 60 Proc Ranger/Bravo/Were-Hunter
Guild(s)- FoF and then KT
anyone here I know?!
Marr’s Fist ^^^
Donte.. 8-P
Character name(s)/class/server: Xiphos/DELF Wizard/Marr’s Fist, Mojimbo/GNOME Mage/Marr’s Fist
Years active: 2003 – 2005
Time zone: PST
Miidian – Delf Cleric – CLW
Amoremorte – Delf Rogue – CLW
All my time was spent on CLW, I remember so many of you from CLW on here, I played from when the game came out til 2005, when I went to EQ2 when my ps2 broke, but I was grounded alot as a kid lol so I spent ALOT of my time on eqoa, it was a second home to me, and Im still having a hard time coming to terms with the fact that there will never be another game to give me the feel I got from EQOA, its almost unnexplainable, I always wanted to get a ps2 again for the last few years and attempt to retrieve my account since i still have both origional and frontiers discs but, sadly tonight is the first time Ive actually done any research on eqoa and it is heartbreaking to find out they actually shut it down, but awsome to see a place like this where we can get together and remember it all. Thank You Sir for making this page. Also would love to hear from old friends from Hells Henchmen ALOK and YUMMYDAIN where are you fools at? we kept in touch til the last few years which seems to keep turning into a few years more and its saddening.
Hey bro, I know you posted this back in 2013, but this is yummydain. Miss you man! If you, Alok, or anyone else I played with on CLW see this add me on steam (profile name yummydain)! Or email me at yummydain@gmail.com
I know you posted this back in 2013, but this is Yummydain. I hope this notifies you in some way so we can get back in touch, I miss you bro! If you, Alok, or anyone that remembers me from CLW sees this shoot me an email at yummydain@gmail.com
Izengard/shadowknight/hodstock
Hey man, I was Salvatron on Hodstock. I remember you well. I don’t think we ever played. But me and Dareis been playing a lot of League of Legends. Do you play at all?
No but i do play wow , have a lvl 90 DK , pally, and hunter on Darkspear, And soon will have a 90 lock
Hey. Don’t quite remember the name, but feel free to add me and Giacomo on League. I’m HodKenneth and Gia is Kandula.
Sup. I remember running into you from time to time.If I remember you were a Delf right? Solution 60sk/Necrosol 60lock.
Vexus 60 Delf Sk
Obitual 60 Delf Nec
Value 60 Barb War
And many others.
I heard that if we get a strong petition going there’s a chance he would bring back CLW but there has to be a lot of signatures
Hodstock~
Guild: TGNV/Titans
Mrhyde (Barbarian Shaman)
Hizyde (Human Rogue)
Lilhyde (Gnome Necromancer
Castle Lightwolf~
Guild: Vindication/Triumph/The Merciless
Hydentify (Gnome Wizard)
Hizyde (Gnome Rogue)
Thehyde (Barbarian Warrior)
Rawhyde (Elf Ranger)
Hydedaweasle (Gnome Necromancer)
Americnhydel (Elf Bard)
Hyderoponics (Gnome Cleric)
Hyderopwnics (Gnome Enchanter)
shout out to my TGNV brethren, Smitz, Pollux, Vokal, Occ, Lilinea, Lostangyl, Lostpilgrim…Till the wheelz fall off!
Hyde!
hyde
Hyde! Man I cant believe its been 10 years since I met Buden outside of Qeynos…
❤ awwwshyitt. Hey bro, damn, last time i think we spoke you setting up in vegas
what up Hyde! I was Cinork mt in TU.
clw bloodroses 60 sk and bbops 60 war miss the game 😦 playing gw2 now if anyone remembers me
PPO: Jan 2005- I still play it in my head.
I remember when I first played I thought man I wasted money on this game, plus had to buy a modem but just like everyone else it was fun, exciting, memoriable, sad all wrapped up in one. Meet many good people and even watched a marriage and attended a funeral on POS. It was worth the 9.99 to 14.99 a month and I’d pay it again.
Seaweed
Revamp
Latitude
Abby
Delcon / delf 60 Slayer / CLW (Guild Master of: “The Brujah” and “Council of Eternal Shadows”)
Mersoul / 60 Sorcerer / CLW
Player since day one on CLW. Shout out to my friends Munjo, Double, Xunil, Corino, Angle, Silu, Chloedancer, Third, Pmurphy, Kif, Rendezvous, Norhia, and everyone else from the early days. I miss killing shit with you all. If you knew me hit me up, maybe we can play some CoD or some shit.
To the sucker who bought my SM robe for $400.00 cash, haha! the games over and now you have nothing!
This was probably the best game ever made, I’m sad to see it’s gone for good. Peace out all.
Delcon! Hey! How are you? I miss when you guys ran the guild. Such great days!
Hey Raam! I’m glad I’m not the only one feeling nostalgic about the game; now that it’s gone I want to play more then ever, but isn’t that how it goes. I’m doing well just got me BS in chemistry now i’m looking for work. How have you been? If you want you can hit me up on the PS network “T_Chris_Cannon” or “Mersoul”.
Hi Raam nice to see you are on 🙂
I spoke of you guys frequently while I played after you left. I hope I did all of us frm CoES proud.
From PPO server: Marryjean (Nec), Champloo (Nec), Coolsmoke (pally), Jloo (Mage), Threebox (Shammy) all 60.
From CLW server: Onebox (Nec), Twobox (Nec), Threebox (Mage) all 60.
I had a Ranger named Deadeye on Hodstock and a Monk named LuFeng on Hodstock……ah the mems…….i dont understand why they havent made another EQOA game on these newer systems…i crave it so bad
Deadeye!! Marriana and Dain here what are you up to now?!?! (4 years later lol)
Kakkarot/60 Bard/PPO-Ethereal
Didn’t I know you? I did the whole PPO Ethereal thing so much fun then several of us went to FFXI but eventually most went back.
R.I.P. EQOA, you were and always will be my favorite game. You were my first and best MMO ever, I play WoW, GW2 and EQ2, I have tried SWTOR, Rift and countless others, but none compare to the sense of fun, adventure and the feeling of “epic” moments the way you did. I just hope that SoE can recreate your glory on the PS4 or maybe even pc. Shout out to all my old EQOA friends!
Hodstock Server:
Dalnec 60 Dark Elf Defiler1400 cms
Dalchemist 60 Human Metabolist 1250 cms
Dalumah 55 Barbarian Warrior 1350 cms
Bloodtap 51 Ogre Shadowknight 650 cms
Wowthatsfast 51 Human Rogue 900 cms
Powerofsong 51 Human Bard 750 cms
Dalmage 51 Human Magician 800 cms
CASTLE LIGHTWOLF
Guild – HonorBound
Jeedai / Elf Ranger
Torque / Necromancer
Played from the first beta until… I don’t remember when, sometime after the expansion. Have fond memories pulling all nighters with my wife (Marajade / Elf Druid). We are both founding members of HonorBound – can’t remember all the people we played with.
HIGHLIGHTS / MEMORIES
Buying a second PS2, TV and keyboard because I couldn’t share a character with my wife
Realizing that I should have been a tank, because my wife was a healer.
That first trip to the gnoll camp, those things were fierce, or not.
One game session from 5:30pm Friday until Sunday 10:00pm – mommy I’m hungry…
AFK for “toast”
That first terrifying coach run, my heart was pounding the whole trip.
Shouts for SoW, Marajade always had to stop and help
Playing without Marajade and feeling like I was cheating on her.
Discovering the massive fan built zone map – thanks to whoever put that together.
Currently we (me, wife, son and daughter) play Order & Chaos on iOS – the family that plays together stays together. For me it’s as close to the EQOA experience as I’ve been able to find, except for the P2Play garbage content.
Cheers,
Marr’s Fist
Neobarbaric 60 Troll Hero/ Half-ass tank (thanks to all who healed and DD’d for me.. it wasn’t always pretty hahahaha)
Cleobarbaric 60 Trolless Shaman
Various other schlub toons
2003-2006
My PS3 crapped out yesterday and I was here thinking of all of the games I’d played on PS systems… started laughing at memories of EQOA… did a google and found this gem. Wow, flashback city.
I was one of the rare trolls on the server’s early days… I remember running (scary trip for a lowbie!!) out to Quenos to try and meet with a friend who started an Erudite. I was stopped and followed and stared at like a freak by the human players on the way out there…. first big Green they’d seen haha.
I was never ultra-social but was in some decent guilds, Knights Templar being my final resting place. My failing brain can’t recall the name of the one before that but it was fun as well. I just watched the Marr’s Fist farewell from last years closing day, I saw my KT guildmaster rode it out until the end.. Roygar.
You guys take care. I hope EQ Next might hit PS4 and bring us back around as the grump old codgers we will be by then.
Going to check out the Marrs Fist facebook someone linked.
Level 60 monk: Vegetah
Server: Marr’s fist
I had maxed my str, dex and sta from having max levels in tailoring. My brother had maxed his jewelry so we balanced each other out. I became a werewolf for the str and dex perks. I owned the Bow of turtlekind which was the ONLY bow usable by monks. Although I never got my Ninja class mastery.
Stumbled upon this site while bored at work. Glad I did.
Hodstock
TGNV
Echophreak-Rogue
Angerisagift-Mage
Anador-Nec
Fonaleb-Mage
Spellbinding-Ench
Also played (After they quit)
Shados-Nec
Rezwal-Cle
Fleshhowler-Nec
Cobra-War
Lilcobra-Alc
Worudan-Sha
Faile-Dru
If anyone remembers me from EQOA, send me a friend request on PSN Echo57, or shoot me an email j_collett@fuse.net.
sup I remember Echo I was Cinork in TU
I play WoW.
U suck & so does that trash game
I know that I chime in over a year after the shut down.. And I also know that little to no one reads this any more. But regardless, I’m here to show my support. I see in several of these forums my name is brought up, and so is CoES. I appreciate that, you all honor us. I want to say on behalf of CoES that I wish everyone the best in life. I also hope that another game will bring us all together again. Thank you to everyone who held myself and CoES close. I wish I could find you all, and have one hell of a party.
General Raam,
Council of Eternal Shadows
Master (Post rebirth) Officer (Pre-rebirth)
Hey, its nice to see people still talking about this game. I played prefronts on ppo then made the switch to clw and was on the last seconds. I always knew the only way id stop playing was for them to pull the plug. i play wow and eq2 now but so not the same. I never get sick of hearing people tell their stories about the game. I miss it a lot.
Man i cant wait for eq next on ps4 i hope. Maylung 60 ninja , sunrisemag , throwbacknec wish we all could play again.
I was on Stonwatchers server EU.
Spyr 60 Necromancer (chosen)
Kospyr 53 Shadowknight
Proud member of -=Delfism=- and -=Delfism Elite=- Best Game of all time I’ll never forget it and all the people on it.
Bring EQ Next to ps4 and I’ll be a happy man.
i was Budaku-Shaman/Okuyo-Necro/Sakara-Mage with probly a few others too on Hodstock
i actually remeber alot of these names even being so long ago haha
Wolfs 60 bard and Jonnycash 60 Alc
The best thing about eqoa to me was pulling down raid mobs with just me and the girlfriend at the time. Soloing ayeniar or 2 manning Aol. We got a third box just to farm epic mobs … I wish we had more time to farm Atu. The puzzle of “how to” crush epic monsters really helped me become more creative / adaptive in real life. It helped me see things differently than everyone else in my professional life. It helped me become very successful too thank you eqoa and all the people who taught me to think outside of the box in the game. 🙂
Great to see some names that I recognize! God I miss gweedo’s handshake to a bow dance!
Soo.. PPO
Funnycoins 60 rge
Jillripper 60 nec
Misera 60 wiz
Escort 60 brd
Hugz 60 clr
Optiks 60 enc
I had a 60 magician.. I just can’t think of the name.
I remember Funnycoins. 🙂
Tori- 3 kingdoms, btw
I remember you, I’d we afk’d together often!
I rember us too and do u remenber Loko and Reing of Fire guild hehe? im Marryjean, champloo and other toon fromn PPO server.
I remember you both! 😀
Good times man.
My toons in PPO server: Marryjean Nec, Champloo (Nec), Coolsmoke(Pally),Jloo (Mage)
CLW server: Onebox (Nec), Twobox (Nec) and Threebox (Mage).
Now I’m playing EQ2 since few year ago and I have March 1 boxing there too, because I want to try to get what I lost in EQOA for closure. Sure is not the same because EQOA strange, but life continue and EQ2 has many areas and the same or similar things EQOA q. I see them there in Guk Server.
funnycoins you were truly…..funny
Dlain, you were like the king of PPO. Thank God Krazybone left and his brother/uncle/cusins/whoever else played on his account. I remember being jealous of your robe. I let Gnatt borrow mine like a moron.
Xephyer / Assassin / FH
Quit about halfway through Frontiers and moved onto the PC EQ, then bounced to WoW for a good long while, and haven’t touched another MMO seriously since I quit WoW in ’11. Ran with Skelterr in Crypt, training mobs on people all day (can’t do that in modern MMOs – hahaha). After Crypt went under, I moved onto a smaller guild called Bloodrose Guardians and made some good friends there. Gave my account up to a friend when I quit so he can dual box for Prophets of Zion.
Enderyn / 60 Delf Deathknight / Marr’s Fist
Rumixx / 60 Gnome Channeler / Marr’s Fist
Vozz / 60 Ogre Defender / Marr’s Fist
Zedric / 60 Human Defiler / Marr’s Fist
2003-2009
Wow, was just sitting around thinking about my old eqoa times and stumbled upon this page with a lot of people still remembering the great times had in the eqoa universe. I had many characters from the start of the game, most noteworthy xxhappydeadxx 60 necro FH. Thanks for bringing back some good memories everyone!
Raam you are missed much as is everyone from EQ I still boycott Sony.
You never E-mailed me. You really should. I miss you.
Would like to say anyone interested in a game kinda like eqoa play guild wars 2 its the closest thing i have played and I have tried many many mmos if you do happen to get the game send me mail on there name is commander odyssey ill get you into the guild im in and will have some fun show you builds talk about old times in eqoa server is also tarnished coast be sure to join that one
Mogwai – Necromancer – CLW – Order of Chaos
Whomever- Paladin – CLW – Order of Chaos
I’m pretty sure I was the one who started the Necromancer craze, I made a post on the sony forums about using the Stamina Debuffs and soloing my way around Permafrost Castle. This was all prefronts and level 50 cap. I’d solo guards in highpass to trip people out. (Necros weren’t doing that at the time) After that necro’s exploded. I was a crazy farmer on CLW from Lauch in Feb ’03 til I sold my account in late ’05 I got $800 as I had a CV(thanks McDiesel) and a ton of crap and millions of tunar. I even farmed up an entire set of BoneDuke armor all on my own. I was fortunate to run with Order of Chaos. My buddy the monk Nicolas introduced me to Drave? shit I’m forgetting his name but nice guy and leader. We basically were the shit on CLW during that time. We killed it all first! Isle of Dread was so much fun. Hell just farming up those damn dreadnaughts was some of the best fun ever. Frontiers was sweet as hell too. We kicked ass but eventually the OoC core moved on to EQ2 and that led to the end of EQOA for me but it was the most fun I’ve ever had in a MMO. Nothing comes close, best gamers, best adventures.
Can’t believe its over 10 years old now.
And props to my first group we all played day in and day out.
Noffwin Druid he was our healer
McDiesel Shadownight sometimes tank sometimes dmg
Verdad Warrior sometimes tank sometimes dmg
Forgot to say Mogwai was gnome male and Whomever was Dwarf Female and I loved sporting the CV on my Pally, ahhh I such sweet memories lol
And Sorry Dares if you ever read this. You loaned me your account info so I could go back down memory lane and somehow I changed your log in info and then proceded to forget that new log in info. So sorry buddy, but I appreciated being to play a level 10 in FP again,. (This was in ’06)
drew dude u sicking kunt account jacker
Excuse me? account jacker?
listen phaggot, we all know you jack3d his account. don’t dodge like a puss
A) I’m obviously not dodging anything by responding before, B) WTF are you talking about? jacked who’s account? Stop being a douche with your insults before even explaining what’s got your panties in such a bunch?
how’d you “forget” the log in info you jizz swallowing phaggot?
LOL that’s what your crying about, this was settled long ago between me and Dares. He knows I lost the info LMAO you are one heck of a dumb punk I don’t need to justify shit to you when you can’t even say who you are, just an idiot troll. And obviously a seriously disturbed angry individual to say such things to someone you don’t know. hahaha what a turd.
Dlain you did start so much drama on PPO.I didn’t give a crap if you rocked for your gear.What did bother me and everyone else was your elitist attitude.You played to cause grief to others that didn’t have the most elite gear.
@mike,
hey man, that’s not entirely true. I did rock frequently, but rarely did I get any phat loots. I’d usually rock with a group of my loyal guildies and we’d obviously have to roll for loot. I got most of my gear easily because my mains were tanks and most of that loot came from farming, not high-end raid drops, also I had a few guildies pay me money to rig rolls for them on certain stuff, which in turn I’d buy phat-loot with.
I didn’t play to grief, I had a pretty good circle of friends a lot of who I still talk to today along side of me raping newbs and dragons and shit
thanks mike, hope that corrected some misconceptions
lol ok you bleeding liberal coalburner
Dlain, I still love ya – Nibble
Where shall we hunt?
Mellamowall hum monk DH
Frisko Hum Enchanter/Spellbinder 60 Castle Lightwolf
Roenick/60 Ranger /Hodstock
Rocantor/60 Enchanter/Hodstock
Beta2 – 2004
Founder/GL Hunters of the Fallen
Hodstock Server = Strongheals 60 Cleric, Purepain 60 Rogue, Buffnyou 60 Bard, and Cash 60 Alc
I only played on Diren Hold and was there from launch till late 2006.
Strongmad 60 Troll Shaman
Bruisr 60 Troll Warrior
There were several guilds that I was a part of but my last and favorite was Manifest Destiny. If anyone from DH wants to reconnect, we have a facebook group with about 60 players: https://www.facebook.com/groups/38689404946/
I remember seeing Bruisr!! I especially remember Manifest Desinty. Not sure if you remember seeing Omnipresence (60 Lich) or Malidos (60 SK) but I was in Elite Mercenaries guild up until it was disbanded in like 06 or 07.
Yeah, I remember those toons and that guild. Good times! Did you check out the facebook group for the DH server? https://www.facebook.com/groups/38689404946/
Taithleach: Marrs Fist
LvL 60 Erudite Necromancer Defiler.
I really miss this game. I wish SOE could have updated it on PS3 or maybe even carry it on elsewhere. It would be very awesome if this version of EQ could branch out into a franchise.
Jadiss (ninja) shoes (gwh bard) and apophiis (geomancer) on Diren’s Hold. Guilds were Until Valhalla then Ancient Legacy. Active 2004-2007.
I then played sporadically on CLW until the end, had a bard that got stuck in the 40s because i refused to level until i got the gatorwere infect (gah!), and a 60 Sensei named Kaouleiz.
I’m super excited about final fantasy 14, played relentlessly during beta phase 3 and 4. There is a really big population of former EQOA players on the Midardsormr server. FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/midgardsormr/
Hey man what’s up? Do you remember me? I was Niarlathotep in AL.
I’m
Also playing FFXIV now, but I am on Malboro server currently.
Ya totally! First time i logged into my DH monk after I quit she was in zp and I saw your NEC, sent it a tell but they told me it wasn’t really you. Had to have been like 2009. You’re like on of the only 3-4 people i’ve seen from my DH guilds since 2007.
Haha yeah. I sold my account in the first quarter of 2008. Not that I wanted to quit, but DH was a ghost town. I could sit on LFG the entire day without getting a group on any of my toons. At that point there were no guilds left with enough active members to take down any of the big bosses either. Sad days. I miss this game more than any other. So many great times I couldn’t even make a guess to how many.
I joined that Facebook group you linked. My name on Facebook is Matty Haxx. Pease feel free to add me 🙂
There is a group on Facebook for people that played on Diren Hold. You should definitely join if you haven’t already.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/38689404946/?ref=ts&fref=ts
So are there any old AL members on the FFXIV world you play on?
Nope, no one from AL, I totally lost touch with them all. I just went there because no knew they would be console friendly for end game stuff, and everyone has been great so far.
And i joined the dh group, ty!
I’ve kept in semi contact with a few. Not as many as I wish though. Graveghoul, yennoncrow, and sinuto come to mind.
Had some great times on EQOA,that said i had to quit the game was dead and most of my friends left for WOW or FF11.I just miss playing my hunter ranger/pyro mage.
Char names Clyd and Selo, and Fuer which the bastards made me change so it became Serafino CLW
My bards name was Iplayeqnaked and they made me change it so it became Lionsflurry as I went flurry path and was going to be a Lionwere. After doing research I found Gatorwere was way better for what I wanted so ended up going Gatorwere. So I know the woes of them making you change the name. Lionsflurry was one hell of a Dueler I rarely lost to anything my level. I kept her at level 40, seemed to be a prime spot to stop. CM’ed the crap out of her. I don’t remember the name but loved soloing the level 49 or 50 Wizard right next to the dueling arena in Freeport.
Miss this game so much nothing else has come close and now pretty much every site talking about the possibility of a private server has fallen off the face of the earth, oh forgot to tack it onto last post Clyd was an assassin 1380cms Selo was a bard 1100 cms and Serafino was a Defiler 1500 cms, all 3/3zps with PoD abilities
Malidos – 60 Shadowknight (Heroic Were-Hunter) Diren Hold
Omnipresence – 60 Lich – Diren Hold
Vampiro 60 Geomancer
Vampiriojr 60 Hydromamcer
Dobsmoker 60 Faithful
Sir Darkness 60 Nec Scholar
And few others
All on Hodstock
Started the day the EQOA released in 02 enjoyed it thru the beginning of 06. I miss it and all my peeps in All for one, one for All! Currently enjoying ffxiv
It’s been many years.. and I had many accounts.. let’s see if I can remember all of my characters.
Dahek/Halfling/Rogue – Assassin PPO (Werewolf)
Xsase/Human/Necromancer – Lich/Defiler for tanking PPO (Werelion)
Neline/Elf/Bard – Minstrel PPO (Werewolf)
Hollowsoul/Eru/Necromancer – Lich/Scholar for power buffs PPO (no pop after years of trying)
Zorian/Barb/Warrior – Defender PPO (Weregator)
Rapzody/Elf/Bard – Gypsy PPO (Werewolf)
Tenil/Dark Elf/Cleric – Faithful PPO (Werelion)
Calyus/Elf/Paladin – Crusader PPO (no pop same with Hollowsoul, account was cursed..)
Brutalis/Dark Elf/ Shadowknight – Slayer PPO (Weregator)
I can distinctly remember a Geo/Pyro Mage but can’t remember the name, I know I let Karou run it but that’s about it.
Not all of those characters started out as mine, a few were shared accounts with my best friend of over a decade and a half on this day. Others were bought or given to me to run. Only 5 characters can I claim as my own created from scratch. Those are Zorian, Rapzody, Hollowsoul, Calyus and Brutalis. Hollowsoul/Calyus were run on a shared account so I didn’t do everything myself, most of the grinding for levels and CMs was me playing though. Dahek is the character I spent the most time on next to Xsase, my buddy Mike let me run the account with Xsase/Neline on it, Dahek I can’t honestly remember where he came from but I do remember the account was bought for me after my main got hacked. The original owner eventually claimed the account back with no prior warning after around a year and a half of me running it. It became my most well known character next to Hollowsoul/Xsase. Getting screwed out of 1500 CMs by a GM tends to do that, and my known habit of dueling in FP. I don’t remember any other names really but I know I created those character names on CLW and DH. Don’t believe I ever hit 60 on any of them though. I played from 2003-2009 (think it was 2009.. according to the soe site a payment for eqoa came out then.. so I’ll assume that’s before I quit and sold my accounts).
This was by far the best MMO iv ever played, to this day I think about that game and the people I played with.
Server: CWL
Character: Barak ,Paladin, Stars of Destiny
Strogs 60 barb sham – CLW
Darklich 60 gnome nec – CLW i believe warelion
Had more but those were my mains all on clw
Just found my copy of eqoa made me look up info on the game sad to hear they shut the servers down this is my all time favorite game i think to this day that it still is. Hopefully they are making another one? but i doubt it. Seen some familiar names from back in the day. Brings back to many memories.
SoW plz
Hey people, shot in the dark here, but wondering if any of you’d like to post about any rare spawn mob, or rare item that you found in EQOA, that you think nobody else might’ve known about, or had. I based my entire gameplay existence in this game on finding the rarest of the rare items, and when I left, had, or owned at one time, every item that I knew about that was considered super rare, with the exception of 2 items; 1) tattred spectre robe, and 2) tidian prophet robe. Both of those items were “accidentally put in the game” as tank equipable, rather than a stack for the spectre robe, and a caster robe for the tidian. So, what did you all find that was the rarest of the rare items, again that you think NOBODY else, had, or knew about. Or any rare spawn mobs that you think nobody else knew about?
Long live the memories of this great game we loved, that’s all we have now.
I used to farm the skeletons on Synder’s Isle quite a bit, a few named would rarely spawn there (Mate Parr, Pirate Drudge and Admiral Basington). Sapphyra allegedly once said something ‘interesting’ dropped there, and a named hydra was to have spawned there with interesting loot (again, according to a dev), but was never put in game. It was said that a black all/all robe dropped off the Admiral, but in tons of kills I never saw it. There was also a named undead who would rarely spawn at the underwater crypt in Dead Hills–never looted anything from him. I DID make millions selling Orbs of Primordial Intellect, Vellium Ores, and Crowns of the Jaguar.
Puvo 60 enchanter Hodstock
active 03-04
This game was so amazing, brings back some great memories!
Grobic 60 SK PPO
along with other alts/rocking accounts
Found this site looking for eq next news, thought id pop in and let all you peasants bask in the glory of the best sk on ppo/in the game. Co leader of the prophecy, best sk tank to ever log into the game. 2 time undefeated ppo tank server dueling champion, and after tanking every mob in the game with lowest counts for any sk, rocked every mob known to man with my trusty sidekick dlain and friends. Am currently a amateur mma fighter and full time fitness instructor aka i still pwn you noobs in game and irl. A few shoutouts while im here: Dlain and crim. only other ppo tanks who were in same league as me. 3am guild n,n aka dlain lonewulfz and a few other loyal followers, best raid guild in game cleared all raids with 3 people. Zecron, fat goth size of a train, prob committed suicide by now. Zakkelf, my loyal bitch. Bakaj’s gf for letting us all see her naked. Sissyslur, rip at the bottom of that pond. That stupid clank who never tanked anything and tried seducing men online, your weight is still higher than my hp. Megeara for being probably the worst tank ive ever seen in my life. Freebase for being a virgin. Gades for casting DK pet to block bertox pull and wipe whole raid, then i stomped you out by 5r to 0 in multiple duels. Agrais, same goes for you my bitch #2. Thats about it, see you on eq next my slaves, happy holidays.
Hodstock here…
Bearzywearzy 60 Troll Shaman
Omariel something Elf Druid
Siona something Dorf Paladin
I forget the name of my 60 ALC…
It was many years ago, and I really only remember BW, who was my main. Loved this game. It’s sort of indefinable what made this game great…I remember thinking about all the problems it had when I started playing more “modern” MMOs like WoW and EQ2. By all the “bullet points,” those two games were superior. (Someone who watched a video of all three games and never played them would never pick EQOA as the one to play.)
…and yet…
No mmo has ever come close to providing as much entertainment, shared experience, and fun as this little gem on PS2 with its limited textures and world geometry, it’s almost complete lack of questing, lagginess at raids, pain in the ass camping of quest spawns, etc, etc, etc.
I can’t really explain it. The easy answer is of course that the community (especially Hodstock, which had the amazing Hodstock.com -props to Kono-) was everything, but that isn’t quite true. I think that it was a combination of things. At the time, I, like many others, did not own a pc. I did all my modding on Hodstock.com at work, but when I got home, I could get online and get in on the ground floor, so to speak, of a massively complex world with a bunch of other players who were experiencing this style of game for the first time as well. Remember, online gaming wasn’t nearly as prevalent back then. The flipside was that this game carried the EQ brand and as such attracted some veteran players from that game, without whom I would have completely failed to level past level 10 on my first character.
I wish I could remember the name of the character who took my group aside and schooled us on the concept of aggro, group makeup, and the concept of character achetypes and their roles within the group. Those first days/weeks in Tethelin were amazing.
I stuck with it, and eventually got sick of playing a druid. Druids were pretty lame before Frontiers. At least I thought so. I switched to Troll because I wanted a more brutish character, but went SHA because I enjoyed healing, and got a pet! Bearzywearzy eventually became my main, but it still took me forever to get to 50. I think I actually did my epic quest only a few weeks before Fronts came out. My epic quest was amazing. So many big names from the server showed up, I was genuinely moved, which would sound silly to anyone who hadn’t played the game, but it was awesome! (Belated thanks to everyone who showed up lol.)
After Fronts, I got to 60 pretty quick and was able to join some amazing guilds. Sure, there were a lot of great times in the “uber” guilds on Hodstock like The Unnamed and Alliance of Kings – I was never in TGNV…JP thought I was a dick 🙂 – but I also had some great times in some of the smaller guilds like Daybreakers…and…I’m sorry but I can’t even remember the names of the guilds I was in.
What an amazingly fun time that was. I will always remember it fondly. I met some people back then that I still play games with.
Unfortunately, I have had to accept that no mmo will ever give me that same experience. I do keep trying them, though.
Maybe it’s that the game was really hard in a way. Not technically hard, but the fact that getting a level took forever and you were dependent on getting a good group. This engendered a closeness and trust in your regular group members that just isn’t there in modern mmos. When I got to the level cap in EQOA, I felt like I had really earned it, and I owed the people that had helped me get there. Running around in that vast world with players I knew and trusted really gave me a sense of ownership over my character, to the point that I would have never sold my character on one of those sites. I had friends that did it and made some decent money, but I could never bear the thought of someone running around with my character name. I hated seeing old names and knowing it wasn’t the person I originally knew behind the wheel.
Anyway, a shout out to all the people I played with, especially the ones I lost touch with, like Mimose, Negativebo (or Positivebo,) Glorfindel (from the very early days in Tethelin,) Clyde, and Clyde’s guildmaster the gnome I can’t remember the name of, Dolein (and his alt, Bobdolein…that still cracks me up,) etc. etc.
Sorry I started rambling, but I really do miss this game. I just don’t get as heavily invested in today’s mmos. They encourage selfishness lol.
I fucking miss you, EQOA.
cheers…BW
that was kind of touching Bearzy. My name was Salvatron. I was a Barb Rogue (I was a kid and remember on the back of the game you could see a character and all you could see was alvatron, I just took a random shot and put an S on it and that’s the name I used. I thought I was cool, all right?)
But I went to hodstock.com a lot and remember how big you were to the community. Glad to see again though.
Well said, BW. Hope all is well
-Vokal/Tekki
Solution 60sk – Solutions 60cl – Necrosol 60nec Nice to see you Bear. You might not remember me but I had a blast fooling around with you in FP. Add on Skype or email hodkenneth@hotmail.com or Taldin#1603 on battle.net. And you may remember my RL friend Budda/Summons/Drakmoon, that dueling warrior/mage/wiz using food and drinks in a duel lol.
Bearzy!!! my boy its Cinork from TU or was I Knuckle/Achilles then miss you bro!
I think Clyde was in the Art of War and Phabulass was the master. I don’t know how I remember that.
that was supposed to be a response to BW’s post. whoops.
Clyde the gnome?
Stonee your name is so familiar to me.. Hmm..
For some reason I remember Clyde as the human pally in the blue SM robe? Maybe it was Glyde or something else.
Yep…Clyde and Phab…that’s exactly right. I actually ran into Phabulass on Xbox Live a year or so ago. Embarrassing that I didn’t remember his name. Sorry, Phab. It’s really hard to watch those Youtube videos of the game and not get nostalgic/sentimental. 😦
I remember when I came back to EQOA after a hiatus in EQ2 and WoW, I had almost no gear, since I gave it all away when I quit. Clyde gave me a bunch of healer robes and stuff. (Nice ones too.)
You know, for every training douchebag in that game, there were a dozen selfless people who would help you out for nothing in return. That trust was amazing. It really connected people, and while I wouldn’t necessarily say that the anti-griefing measures taken in subsequent mmos is bad, it made EQOA a self-policed zone, which truly made the community stronger. And with Hodstock.com to air the dirty laundry, it seemed like if you “fucked up” in-game, Norrath could become a very lonely place indeed.
The fact that people could jack your stuff, lie to you, and train you etc. really helped to make the game a macrocosm of human society. Maybe I’m getting a little too deep here, but I’,m sure you guys all know what I am talking about.
WoW was able to retain some of that constant sense of peril in a completely different way with its open PvP, which I’ll admit I enjoyed even though I was never really that good at it…I only played that game until just before the first expansion came out. That game’s gear-centricness wore me out, though. The problem with WoW was that it lulled you into a false sense of security by making it incredibly easy to get to the level cap, and then presenting you with a grind for EVERYTHING after that. Don’t get me wrong. I enjoyed WoW…more than EQ2, in fact, and I can see why so many people like it, but it just wasn’t my cup of tea, ultimately. neither is FFXIV…I got my tooon to 60 in that game pretty quick and after a long and detailed questline, became about running the same 2-3 instances over and over. Grouping in an instance is fun, but if everything else is soloing, that is just lame.
I really don’t have high hopes for EQ Next, to be quite honest. I’m sure I’ll try it and Elder Scrolls as well. (I did a beta weekend of ESO about 2 months ago. It was cool and I adore the Elder Scrolls games. The game is still real early but I can see some promise there.)
Lately I have been playing Rust, Minecraft (heavily modded,) Civilization V, Don’t Starve, and Age of Empires 2. If anyone here plays Minecraft/Tekkit, I run a small server. It would be fun to play with some people and build some Norrathy stuff…or whatever. i find Minecraft incredibly compelling, actually.
Bah…I’m rambling and I need to go to bed. Night all.
Based on some of the recommendations here and elsewhere, I decided to try Vanguard. Since its free, I have nothing to lose but my own time. I see why people compare it to EQOA. I am only on the first starting island place, but there are a lot of things that make it EQOAish. It’s not a cakewalk, you get penalized for death (after level 10,) It’s not a “pretty” game like GW2 or FFXI. I realize the game is 7 years old and Sony basically puts nothing into it, but its all new to me, so I don’t mind. I am a Wolfy Shaman named Bearzy Wearzy if anyone is playing. It’s kind of cool that there is only one server. Not perfect, kind of clunky, but I enjoy it.
One thing…I play games with the y-axis inverted, and I don’t think you can change that. That is BASIC and annoys the hell out of me.
Anyone else playing this?
Vanguard is a surprisingly complex game from a combat standpoint. I’ve never played an MMO where every time I got new spells, I had to relearn my character’s play style. As for quests, it’s highly repetitive with each quest zone having 8-10 quests, maybe half being hunt and gather. My biggest complaint with the game are the glitches (like randomly falling through the map) and moving from zone to zone, there’s no seamless transition. Sometimes you’re stuck in a lag for a solid 30 seconds waiting for the next zone to load. I’ll hop on sometime and send you some starter stuff.
I played vanguard for quite a bit at launch and tried it again when it when free to play. It’s what put the nail I the coffin for SOE for me. It still had the same excact game breaking bugs 6 years after launch (randomly dieing, getting teleported somewhere odd, important stuff not appearing, getting stuck underground…) Huge chunks of land with no content, not even trash mobs.
I really wanted to like it.,The foundation is definitely the most like eqoa that you’re going to find, but there’s just too much wrong with it. And it’s quite possible that it’s ignored even more than eqoa was.
I played it a bit. If I had someone to play with, it would obviously be more fun, but on the flipside, it’s not like I need a game to play. It’s just a thing I thought I would try since it is free.
It’s definitely not a smooth game, and from everything I have read, it is not going to get any better.
Bah. There just isn’t the market for these “harder” mmos. They don’t get supported. What was EQOA’s subscriber base? Like 30,000? Compared to the millions who subscribe(d) to WoW, it’s not worth it to a big corporation like Sony.
😦
I think it peaked at 25,000 and averaged 10,000 from months 6-12. I believe by 2007, it was down to 3,000 active accounts.
You have to admit, 45 grand a year isn’t enough to justify keeping the servers running. You actually have to pay people. In a way, it’s too bad it didn’t do better, but I think it had a pretty impressive run for what it was. I certainly feel privileged to have been a part of that (relatively) small community. It’s pretty rare that I run into someone irl that played this game. (I can count the times it happened on two fingers lol.) Do I think Sony could have done a better job of promoting it? Probably, but it was severely handicapped by the fact that all the geometry had to be on the disc, which was both a blessing and a curse. As incredible as the time I spent playing the game was, there’s a reason I didn’t stick around. The lack of real new content after Frontiers got boring, and the slow whittling away of the player base made it not as fun to play, ultimately. Sony really couldn’t stop the exodus once it started without funneling more money into what they saw as a dying project.
What I think is funniest of all…I didn’t know anyone who posted on the official Sony forums more than a few times. I wonder if the lack of visible community in the official forums contributed to the money earmarked for future development?
lol I’m rambling again…if you made it this far…thanks for reading.
I joined the official forums in 2010. I joined Hod.com forums in probably early May or June 2003. By 2010 the official forums were really the only ones around besides the ZAM database but I saw maybe 10 regular posters. Any idea what Kono is up to these days?
I played on Hodstock. I was Selesia lv 60 Druid. Also had Icepotions lv 60 Alc
/wave @ Donte
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Dethral – Cleric
Darkdethral – Necro
Soliloquey – Bard
I don’t know how to edit but this is a correction to my post above…I meant 45 grand a month.
Well to be fair… They were not really paying to many people in the end lol. From what I was told by people that were still playing (or frequented the forums still. I knew several people on the forums. And there were quite a lot that used them.), they had let go all the devs long befits shutting the game done. It had no support for quite a while I heard. I do understand that it did of course still take money to continue its operation, and that eventually it did have to hit the point where the player base just whittled away to too few.
Server merges it character transfers would have saved the game for much longer though. It’s a shame they never finished and released the second expansion. It was nearly finished when they canceled it 😦
Character name(s)/class/server: Junedi/Shadowknight/Diren Hold
Years active: March 2003- February 2006
Time zone: EST
So many old names I recognize here. Brings back a lot of memories.
Played since day 1, until about a year from the shut down.
Hodstock server.
Spitfyre 60 Elf Ranger
Spittfyre 60 Ogre Warrior
Spitball 60 Human Bard
Spittoon 60 Gnome Enchanter
Guilds: Alliance of Kings, Darklords (until the end)
I still keep in contact with many of the old players. Mrhyde, Naruto/Seikoh, Rosered, Smeegle, Firebird, Nitrawl, Hookededo, Vaeuuaer, Crobok, and a few others that their names escape me at the moment. So many good times. A number of them are awaiting EQNEXT, and will be playing together. BW, you were in Darklords with us for a bit while we were owning ZP. At the time we were the only guild with all the ZP bosses on farm on the server. Glad to see so many familiar names on here. Maybe someday we will be able to game together again.
Remember your ogre and ranger. Good times. I hope EQNext brings back some of the old times. Feel free to add on Skype or email hodkenneth@hotmail.com. or battle.net Taldin#1603. Solution 60sk/Solutions 60cl/Necrosol 60lock. May remember my RL friend Budda 60war/Summons 60mage/Drakmoon 60wiz, loved dueling in FP.
Hodstock Server.
Selesia lv 60 Druid
Icepotions lv 60 Alc
Was reminiscing about Eqoa watching youtube video and ran across this site. I recognize lots of names, if you guys still read this from hit me up on ps3/4 my psn name is Jaxxs_85
My eqoa toons was
Jaxxs 60 Defender-MF
Tazorac 60 Diviner-MF
Hurrican 60 Ninja-MF
Lethel 60 Sorcerer-CLW
Corinthian 60 Gaurdian-CLW
Had lots great memories really miss the game.
The name Jaxxs on the warrior is familiar. I was Sidius & Pancreas, SK & Necro… and eventually I began playing my Wiz Wiickerman & Bard Federfleisch on a second account also. I’d made Wiickerman on the first Halloween event when we got costumes, I only remember the skellie and scarecrow (the 1 I made Wiick to use on IoD lol) forms but I can swear there was 1 or 2 more.
I forgot to tell you earlier, on Facebook there is a MF group. https://www.facebook.com/groups/101133216687461/
Deadwinter – Dark Elf Necromancer on Diren Hold (years active 2003 – 2006)
Hey Deadwinter! I remember your toons name and I feel like we were in MD together? Can’t remember for sure though. There’s DH facebook group if you want to join and reconnect with some others: https://www.facebook.com/groups/38689404946/
Looking forward to what EQNEXT has to offer!
Miss all y’all!!
Stinko 60 HumRan GWH
Marr’s Fist
Shyzny 60 Wildling
Cool to see so many names I remember from Hodstock!
I mostly played from frontiers until WoW launched, as I had quit in the thirties pre-frontiers though I don’t remember why. Still played a little from time to time after WoW launched, mostly if someone I knew was doing some kind of raid. Also at times played as Badmagick (Hunter) and Sikwitted (some kind of necro, lol) as the three of us all played from the same apartment.
I wish I could remember the names of the guilds I was in, the only one I remember was Righteous and the Wicked. Looking back I kind of regret not playing longer, although I had a pretty good experience with WoW up through BWL too. Here’s to hoping EQN and Landmark are good and that we can organize an eqoa official server on one or the other.
Wow! So I knew so many people here. Hope all is well. I had a bunch of toons, all on CLW. First toon was Metalmalitia, created about 2 or 3 months after release. I played through 2011, mostly on MM.
Metalmalitia: HUM DEF WW (though I also had hero build for whoopin ass in duels)
Xoxoo: HUM PYRO/AERO LW belonged to my girlfriend at first, but after we split I took over and DB
Necromanncer: HUM LICH WW
Necromanccer: HUM forgot spec
Scree: ELF DRD BW (i grouped with the original owner a lot and when he quit, he gave me the account)
I also had a 60 WIZ and 60 CL FF but I forget the names.
So many good memories or late night beer and cigs while raiding…
Welcome to the blog! I’m still amazed at the number of former players who are first time visitors this long after playing.
I remember now. Malitiawiz and Malitiacl
I miss this game so much…
I played on Ferran’s Hope as Camalen/ 60 Ranger. I was in Blood and Prophets of Rage mainly.
Also as Lock/50 Enchanter. I was part of Ethereal and Sempiternal.
See a lot of old faces on this page, I recognize most of the CLW players
I’ve been all over the server is Rotfh, RoT, Cosa Nostra and some smaller guilds that went in and out of existence
Was good buddies with Kamenio, Morragan, Chloedancer, Rondezvous and some I can’t remember (sorry)
And Gnarkillx was my brother (aka Clashingfists)
CLW
Dracara 60 Elf Hunter
Fioria 60 Elf Enchanter
Rooted 60 Half Wilding
Scoriae 60 Gnome Wizard
Follow 60 Eru FF
Nelliel 60 Assassin
Nunchaku 60 Hum Ninja
Davoh 60 Defender
Dracara…. You were in Divine Knights too if I remember right… I haven’t seen or heard from you in ages. How are you?
Main: Felisia- 60 D elf Faithful
QTellen – 60 Eru Defiler
Puurty- 60 Elf Sorcerer
Cindera- 60 Barb Elder
I don’t remember if i posted here a while ago… i am sure i did but i don’t remember any of my info or when i posted lol I tried looking but too many posts.
Anyways, I am a veteran i started playing during the EQOA beta but i wasn’t on CLW then It was when beta for Frontiers came out that my ex and i moved to CLW 🙂 I played religiously like everyone else, nothing in the world mattered except either getting out of debt (as a healer why bother right?) or trying to get a few yellows. maybe even 1 mastery class point? lol.. I played all night, hardly slept, skipped school (well i was sick :P) I ended up staying back because i didn’t want to waste my time in summer school when EQ needed their faithful. hahahaha. I had a one track mind and nothing…mattered otherwise.
Before i left the game i was in the guild Cosa Nostra with some of the most amazing people. Wish i could find some old friends so we could re-connect.
If we’ve met before please come find me on facebook! https://www.facebook.com/SlipknotFelly87
I have a few of my EQ friends there already we talk about olden days still call eachother by our character names even after all these years!
Recently signed up for EQN beta… i really want to hear more about it!!
I recently made this group so friends can reconnect please join in. https://www.facebook.com/groups/EverquestOnlineAdventure/
was wondering when you’d find this lol
It was bookmarked from like 2 years ago but i guess i never left a reply O.O
Main: Drethen 60 Delf Lich/Necro
Server: Hodstock
Guild: Bane of Gods/The Sevanexium:Cult of the Cursed and the Damned
Hey guys! I Played Drethen, a 60 Werelion Lich Delf Necro on Hodstock. I ran the all evil guild Bane of Gods and the all Necro Guild(cult) The Sevanexium: Cult of the Cursed and the Damned. We had alliances with about 25 other guilds and most of them called upon us to help out in raids, good ol’ necro pets/heals. I recognize a ton of your Hodstock toon names, and many bring back some serious memories. I’ve had some of the best gaming experiences on EQOA and met the most awesome people. I also had a collection of a little over 120 something various robes. Towards the end that’s where most of my time went, robe hunting/purchasing. Great times were had indeed! }:)>
I kind of remember you. Always changing out robes. Thought it was cool. Solution 60sk
Randomly ran across this blog while reminiscing about EQOA. Wish I’ve known about it when it first started great site. Anyway
Played on Marrs Fist
Grimnecro 60 delf Necro
Lequan 60 elf rogue
Quan 60 Monk
Grimkniight 51 delf SK
Had access to other accounts but those were my own.
Played from 03 to about 07 then on and off from 07 to about 09. Came back when I heard servers were shutting down/free accounts. Played on Hagley a bit and joining CLW never peaked my interest I was very loyal to my server and didn’t want to start over. Hope someone recognizes one of these names
Welcome to the site!
Randomly ran across this blog while reminiscing about EQOA. Wish I’ve known about it when it first started great site. Anyway
Played on Marrs Fist
Grimnecro 60 delf Necro
Lequan 60 elf rogue
Quan 60 Monk
Grimkniight 51 delf SK
Taludin 37 barb warrior (first char only pre fronts char)
Had access to other accounts but those were my own.
Played from 03 to about 07 then on and off from 07 to about 09. Came back when I heard servers were shutting down/free accounts. Played on Hagley a bit and joining CLW never peaked my interest I was very loyal to my server and didn’t want to start over. Hope someone recognizes one of these names
Neriak 60 dark elf deadknight
Seriak 60 dark elf rogue
Markus 60 eastern human warrior
Asap 60 dark elf necromancer
Whyamisougly 60 gnome necromancer
i have played on Euope server called Stonewatchers (was the only EU server)
we never had frontiers content only by entering a US frontiers Game code into the European account it unlocked some masterys but not all and lvl cap from 50 to 60
i have played for many years but i believe the EU server was taken down a few years before the US servers
it was a huge pain for me
Whoa..lots of familiar names from MF. Still the best console mmorpg experience I’ve ever had. Started at launch pre-fronts with a Delf SK named Killian on Hodstock. I was in the Army then and had to put it up for a deployment in ’02. Picked fronts up, played up until just after the release of ZP. Participated in the ZP test guild and it left a horrible taste, left soon after. Miss EQOA like crazy…
Enderyn- 60 Delf Deathknight
Rummix- 60 Gnome Channeler
Vozz- 60 Ogre Defender
Zedric- 60 human Defiler
Multiple 50+ alts
My wife and I tri-boxed. Her toons were,
Jaydence- 60 Delf Spellbinder
Yiddle- 60 Gnome Faithful
Jadis- 60 Erudite Channeler
Multiple 50+ alts
All on Marr’s Fist.
What’s up guys. Just checking in. I remember a ton of the names here and miss the old community. Would like to see some of you in EQ Next(hope its good). I’ll list the most played characters.
Add me on Steam-Spray N Pray (Banshie Pic, there are a few), Origin-Bu11etsHurt, Bnet-Taldin#1603.
All Hodstock
Solution/Human/SK
Solutions/Human/Cleric
Necrosol/Erudite/Necro
Cuttin/Halfling/Druid
RL Friends were…
Budda/Barb/Warr
Summons/Human/Mage
Jmoore/Human/Mage
(few others that I can’t remember atm)
Hodstock was my main server but I had alts on every server,
Mains name was Kradnogard a Human Ranger who also was a were-hunter
Ratsnogard- Dark Elf Necromancer also a were-rat
Fishsales- Human bard also a were-gator
Nevlenogard- Elf druid
Luosnogard- Barbarian shaman
Erifnogard – Gnome mage
that’s about all the names I can still remember for Hodstock server. On CLW I had a mage named Kradnogard. he was a human. also had a Dark elf shadow knight named Kradnogard and a Ogre Shaman also with same name but cant remember what server they were on. Oh and a human warrior, I remember taking him to the Minatare caves and tanking like 7-8 of them while group wailed away at them. But yeah I miss the game and the friends I had made in it.
Diren Hold!
60 Human Warlock – Moislen of Manifest Destiny for a while and maybe Ethereal Descendants?
60 Human Alchemist – Fprobber
I remember raiding with Manifest Destiny and being apart of some awsome kills back in 03-04. I remember finally fighting Cazic Thule after what felt like months of glitches that wouldn’t allow people to start the quest! Even though we glitched past the golem to check out the basement 🙂
and by warlock clearly I meant Necromancer ><. It's been tooooooo long!
Oh yeah, I totally remember Fprobber. We were in MD together. There’s a bunch of us from DH on a facebook group if you wanna come join up: https://www.facebook.com/groups/38689404946/
Ahhh the Minotaurs. Loved that place along with the icebone skeletons in the igloo’s by CLW or w/e they were called.
Hey guys,
First and only server was CLW.
Characters:
Claydough- 60 Ninja, Cotj, Faykind
Claybobz- 60 Pyro
Thorlock- 60 S.B
Zorcen-60 Defiler
(Was working on wiz until I heard servers were coming down 😦
47 Dethmagnetik (Wiz)
This games going to come back
Also Claybardo- 60 Bravo
Hey guys,
Blade/Necromancer/Dark Solace (GER Server)
I started playing 2 weeks before the official release in Europe without knowing it, I phoned the retail store to ask if the game was broken because I didn’t see anyone in the game for days until a friend started playing as well. The guild i was in was called New World Order.
See ya, Rizzit aka Blade
Hey!
Metalbear 60 Shaman/Elder CLW
Metalliika 60 Bard/Minstrel CLW
Metalysium 60 Alchemist/Metabolist CLW
2003 – 2010
Man, this game was the BEST! It would be great to get it back!
Have ya’ll heard of EQ Next for PS4 tho? I guss that’s as close as we’re gonna get to getting something like this back.
xbennyx paladin 60 /hostock
xjennyx cleric 60 /hostock
Beefylips/barbarian/hodstock
Was Mugwump a troll shaman and Deadsage a human necro on hodstock from the beginning until shortly after pos, if memory serves.
i really miss the community of players that made this game special.
no other MMO has captured the nostalgia for me like EQOA did.
I played these toons mostly
Exarkun/60 SK/Hodstock
Darksadness/60 necro/ Hodstock -AOK
I really miss this game, was my First mmo and every single one I have played since did not hold me like EQOA, I beta tested it, I played it from launch until about 08 or 09. I believe my Server was Hodstock, It’s been so long, I had one character of note, a level 60 Barb Warrior named: Gorlack.
This site is a total trip down nostalgia lane…I had many alts on the PPO server but the big ones were:
Izeil : 60 Elf Minstrel (with both epics, old school bard king)
Bizanned : 60 Metabolist
Malzra : 60 Gnome Tinker Necromancer
The rest I don’t remember the names of included a couple 60 sorcs and a 60 resist faithful. Been a LONG time since I played this game but I saw a few names that I remember like Dlain, Grobic, Dollron, and Crim. I miss the community we had for good or ill and all the stupid teenage crap we got into. Playing EQ1/2 currently if anyone wants to get a hold of me on the Vox (EQ1) or Freeport (EQ2) servers or email: izeil@hotmail.com
Welcome Izeil,
I had a post recently with links to other community content that you should check out. There are a couple of forums out there that might have old EQOA friends lurking around.
Relyc-47 gatorwere shadowknight-Direns hold-Elite mercenaries/shangri la guild
Brother of lamilya-56 immortal druid- DH
Brother of stealbalz-53 palidin-DH
Boyfriend of rainbowbrite-53 druid-DH
My alts were all on DH.
Rainbowdark-37 wolfwere cleric
Nyte-28 ranger
Teror- 20ish necromancer
Moonlily / Diviner Druid
Moonwitch / Blood Necro
Darkdancer / Pyromancer
Proudpine
I played almost the whole time, Lost intrest when my guild was full of a bunch of dorks who would not let me roll on loot. Old Times, Bad guild some good people.
I know Marinia, Luanna and Guncon. Still talk to Guncon and Luanna after all these years. Guncon is my best bud I am talking to his punk self right now XD
I was the Guild master of The Order of the skull and the Rose and Deepmidnight. Was main druid for Old Times and Township Rebelion.
I miss that game was so much fun even when you wanted to kill your guild mates for being ding dongs. Miss a ton of people and some people not so much lol
Play wow now off and on.
EQOA FOREVER!
I think I know Stonee…
Wow just wow….blown away at this site I was feeling a little nostalgia so hit the google. well add me to the list of ppl who would like to play this game again and makes jokes like “god my leggs hurt; if only i could sit down”
Guncon – Sorcerer
Matrix – Shadow Knight
Cures – Faith / Resist bot
Gmoney – minstrel (I miss singing songs while stabbing mobs)
(and an army of alts bwahaha)
as mentioned above I part of group mentioned by Airica (hiya bud i remember you still lulz) Marina n myself ran a social site for the guilds we were in were we literally just vented n shot the breeze from everything n anything but mostly eqoa. SoE found the site deemed it evil & that it has to diaf hence our banns. Still crave this games CM Grind and isle of dread….good times please if the game gets revived feel free to email me =)
Giovanni you forgot to say you were on PPO dork xP
Yo yo yo Represent y’all::::::flashes PPO gang signs::::::
Shout out to my Home ” Stones”
PPO FTW
I wish they would revamp EQOA give us back what we had, just clean up the graphics and add a ton of new stuff maybe some new races. Put it on the comp and Xbox and PS4, so many more people could play it. I do not miss how long it took to get to a raid in the start, but the kinda fixed that. I guess they should call it something other then Everquest, because anyone who has played any of the new MMORPGs knows that those have so many quests it is insanity. Maybe call it Everpull because I spent so many hours out at frogs or eyes just pulling for hours on end idk if I had to choose that or hours of questing it is a real toss up. They both get old fast, but I like that in most of the new MMOs you can fly which helps a lot. So maybe bring back the gam with lots of updates and bring back the really good people, minus Homogenious and how he use to cyber that one chick in Freeport everynight sometimes in shouts. That was bad.
Remember….Being lvl one and running from Halas to Freeport and yelling in shouts “Is this Halas?!”
Good times!
i miss the eqoa quests that gave epic loot they were long had content to a story n made you envelope your imagination but like all bad quests the grind part made it old fast….as far as the xp grind…its a good way to enjoy the power of your toon instead of blasting through instas like a sprinter being chased by wolves. that to me got old plus i like the ability to see raid bosses in world F’n ppl up n having the choice to come in and help or be a spectator. plus grinding lead to exploring to find the better camps and made it fun i mean c’mon how many of use killed tfgs naked to save rep n for the lulz
Personally i enjoyed those long grinds. Was sooo long you couldnt help but get to know your group members. Its hard to get to know anyone in a speedy instance, just not enough time. Now after a 4-5 hour grind it hard to avoid gettin to players after so long. Even more so if you camped raid mobs for days with other players (got to know alotta people camping siliskor, skyahir, and vox to get the PoS port)
I am my guild camped Lady Vox for 147 hours…she never spawned. That was the worst camp ever and in the end we bought the two robes we needed. As for getting to know people, did that in my guild. knew some really awesome people.
Hey no problem guys
PPO was a very fun in many ways. I miss the funny people. People you could just chill out with and have fun. And as it was stated before you did get to know your group mates well. Sometimes to well and to deep. But as they say ignore is always there for a reason and you never really did have to many problems. I hope I can find some of the old people I use to hang with. I really miss DirtyJ that guy was the best tank I knew. He could pull stuff off that was crazy. There was also this dwarf pally who was insane at soloing I forget his name , but he gave me his Anri account and I gave it back but he was a great guy. Best bard for me was Macarenna (spelling) And Deedee was a slamming cleric. Relinquished was so good at solo and raids very good Necro taught me everything I knew and dinged me to 80 on my druid and my necro. I know that I remember Stoney , but not from what guild unless it was Township rebelion. Knew two bad a** shammys that were bugs one was Hiestine and I think the other was Duppa , just wonder where all these guys went. Stupid and a few others. Saw an old EQOA raid that was just put up on Youtube from old school Etheral. Man talk about the old days. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz8vA_bLMXo Don’t know if anyone has seen it but here it is. I hope to talk to some of the people from the old days. PPO forever!
I’m friends with a dwarf pally from township rebellion, named Padishar. He and DeeDee were friends. He got me hooked on eqoa.
Gods I can not remember his name, but he was way old school, Did he have a Rogue named Anri? And could he solo almost anything? Dang I miss TSR! Had so much fun in it, till we all left for Old Times then it was kinda less fun lol
I slaughtered DirtyJ in a duel and we were both Level 60 Human Warriors. 😉
Alvin – Level 60 Defender
It’s 2017 and I still miss this game like you would not believe. Hey Lily, it’s me Dirtyj. Hows it hanging?
I love all you PPO mofos! I can’t believe it’s already been ten years.
I shall talk about a guild I was in anytime I want as I was in that guild and you were not. I was in the main tank group and you were not. Feel free to talk about Resurrection all you wish. I won’t be as I was never in it. 10 years, leave me be. I will not turn this in to a war board that would not be fair to stoney or anyone else who wishes just to come here and relive old school days. I am being as kind as I can possibly be to you, Asking you as nicely as I can. You know nothing about me, you have never seen me. So your words towards me are childish and cruel. You are a bully nothing more and nothing less and a stalker. Just stop already. Please.
Good response buttercup well thought out and well written
These recent interactions provide no value at all.
Ya I’m gonna have to unsubscribe if this doesn’t stop soon.
Hey all everyone, Hemoglobin here. Its nice to see a bunch of Ppo’s here. There are about 380 eqoa players in this Facebook group.www.facebook.com/groups/everquestonlineadventure . please join us if you have not done so already quite active there. You can add me at Facebook.com/mike.Ganance and I’ll add you.
P.s. Dlain where have you been? Get at me dude, I don’t care if you don’t have Facebook get it.
Sorath/Warrior/Hodstock
Sora I remember you I was Cinork
Hey Cin, how’ve you been? I Totally forgot that I had found this site a couple years ago.. not sure what made me Google my EQoA name just now, but I’m glad I did, or I never would have seen your reply lol.
Hey Stoney, did you ever play on PPO? I remember a person named Stoney on there, but not what class or race as it was so long ago. Maybe you had an admirer.
I didn’t! I came up with the name Stonee after a boss I had in 2010. I actually went by other names when I played from 2003-05.
Wow cause we had a Stoney on our PPO server. He was a nice guy too.
Character name: Caliccoo
Class: 44 Barbarian Shaman
Server: Darren’s Hold.
C.n: Shareawizzy
C: 60 wizard/sorcerer.
S: Marr’s Fist
I was on Diren Hold my toons were Thegost lvl60 human mage, Thedarkness lvl 60 human mage, Remember lvl 60 ogre nec, Thealamogre lvl 60 ogre nec ,Thealamo lvl 60 barb war, Raein lvl 60 hum wiz. I dualboxed and spent a lot of time at ratmen grinding whiskers. The people I remember playing with the most were Faile druid, Yalar ranger, Haystac rogue, Clownroyale warrior, Ozzuin nec, Telchar paladin. Their were many more but names escape me.
Eqoa was my first mmo and nothing has compared to the excitement I got from that game since. WoW ,Rift, Guild Wars, Star Wars The Old Republic,Dayz and currently playing Wildstar. I have enjoyed playing all of these games but they just don’t give me the feeling I first got when I played my first mmo. I guess I know the feeling a drug addict gets always chasing that first intense high but never attaining it again.
No game will ever mske me feel the way EQOA did, ill never forget all the great hours raiding and helping my bros and friends, a shout out to Darii, Ramador, Dcloc, Sunnis, Drunknrangr, Bobofet, Acoz, so. Many others i forget all the names but all my homies on Ferrans Hope miss you all hope you all are well
Isilidor or as many known me by isi, lvl 60 mc hunter werewolf. 1250 cm count on ferrans hope, isi was the 3rd strongest on the server under drunknrangr and acoz. Guilds were SE sayryns ecolon ans TR the ring. Ill never forget Darii she was a lvl 60 druid i met when i was a nooby she was nice enough to run me around on my hard quests and she power leveled me countless times, my character was known very well as well as Dcloc my brother in rl which was a dark elf shadow knight, him and i took siliscor down just the 2 of us with the help of darii’s heals miss that game intensly
Divinehealr – gnome rogue marr’s fist
Munzert- human mage castle light wolf
I created the guild, ‘The Return’ on castle lightwolf. during the final year of the game.
Divinehealr – gnome rogue marr’s fist
Munzert- human mage castle light wolf
I created the guild, ‘The Return’ on castle lightwolf. during the final year of the game.
I played from the first day of pre-fronts (Ryyon- human ranger) until the last year. I am now 23 years old.
Character name(s)/class/server:
Divinehealr- gnome rogue on Marr’s fist. I always ran around with brickfist the monk. We were active in OG status. You probably heard me yelling in Freeport to play my “rolling” game.
Also Munzert on CLW 2011-2012. I created the guild ‘The Return’ on CLW the final year of this
Years active: March 2003- off and on until 2012
Seeking the person who played the elf ranger Vakarla on PPO. PST
Magicdust 60 Muter CLW
Vlladian 60 Pyro CLW
Vlladimir 60 Doomseeker CLW
Clem 60 Warrior CLW
Vlladette 60 Faithful CLW
Annafaye 60 Wiz CLW
Kerak 60 Nec HOD
Vlladimir 60 Faithful HOD
and many many alts haha. Missing the game so much! I hope and pray that EQNext reunites the EQOA community! Would be nice to get as many EQOA players to game together in EQNext
Also looking for the person who played Ramathorn. HOdstock
Vllad I remember that name great healer I was Cinork/Knuckle/Achilles had a few tanks don’t know which you would remember.
Hodstock
Diaswife 60 Guardian
Sirina 60 Necromancer Chosen
Starclad 60 Mystic
Diamonon 60 Pyromancer
Diamonos 50 Wizzy
I used to hang out and group with Telchar a lot as well. I think he has a Facebook account now. His phone number brings up a page if you search for it.
Aanin Dark Elf Rogue from The Unnamed!
I play FFXIV:ARR mainly now, and am going to play EQNext when it comes out.
Hello all from The Unnamed! if you’re out there.
what up bro! its Cin or Knuckle or was I Achilles when we played haha.
Though the sands of time (and 4:20) have made some memories vanish, I will never forget my first two characters: both on CLW; level 50 dwarf warrior Dalinar and level 60 troll shaman iloveweeds…sad to say that this game is not around anymore. Also, just to throw it out there, if anyone sees/talks to Hdrikki from CLW, tell her I would like to get a hold of her (sweet person in RL). Eastern Time Zone…
Crushdem (60 Mystic) Hodstock
what up crush its Cin aka Knuckle aka Achilles!
so many memories lately reading thru EQOA information
Ikki \ Barb Warrior \ CLW was my first toon and never got to 60 lol
Ykky \ Gnome Magician(Aeromancer for the SOW lol) \ CLW
And tons of other alts that I played from 2003 thru 2006, I don’t know why I stopped playing, miss the game so much 😦
I started in beta and played up to Fronteers, I remember being one of the first to explore perma and running into Vox. Or killing Promaythor or what ever his name was for the first PLD epic on CLW. The memories and the people i met still come to my memory almost 12 years later. After quitting and moving on to other MMO’s like FFx1 and WoW this is still the one MMO that I reminisce about my only regret is not going back to play it again. To those that I had a blast with if you ever read this respond, I follow these posts….. Kyvonn, Newman, Vladrinko, Gollom and to many more
Barak 50 PLD CLW
Guild founder “Stars of Destiny”
I was hoping to find someone I knew from Stars! I remember hearing about the top 3 guilds and meeting people from stars. Pyrexia, zeddy, Vlad, aynesworth(sp?), moizic, and many more.
I was a wizard, I joined at level 30 since that was the minimum level haha. It was my best mmo experience even if it wasnt the ‘best’ mmo out there. I been trying to find many people from CLW but its hard this far out. Like you im hoping to get in contact with these people, I mean they could be playing an mmo I play already, haha and even the great break into Stars of Destiny elite(i think). I wont bring up too many old memories but my time in that game and that guild sits solidly with me today, over a decade later.
I play ff14 these days, but my roots are still from that old mmo that not many played on ps2. Twas great!
Umm barak reply to this if you still follow, maybe we can work together to find some mutual friends, vlad and gollum are an overlap, I didnt know gollum too well(cleric if i remember right) but I was great friends with vlad and his buddies.
Atronarch 50 WIZ CLW
Kryptkeeperr 60 Sage Necromancer (PPO)
Crossbone 60 Defender (PPO)
Runningwolff 60 Immortal Druid (PPO)
Stumbled across this site and figured id name my toons from my original server. Moved to CLW shortly afterwards but far as i know i was best known on ppo. CLW i kept to myself mostly. Glad to see the EQOA community is still alive and kicking. Looking forward to seeing you guys in Everquest Next.
Forgot to add –
Blitzkrieg – 60 Were-hunter Warrior (CLW)
Was good times with all of you.
Voxstellarum: Human Sorcerer on DH. First Wiz on the server to MC, second person on the server to get the Plane of Sky port. Quit soon after that, and gave my account away so as not to screw over anybody that wanted to raid PoS.
My favorite memory was taking down Siliskor with just me and Sekualhealin- an absolute monster of a Cleric. He was 56, I was 55. We had some “oh crap” moments, but the simultaneous “Goodbye Siliskor!”s in guild chat was one of the greatest moments of my experience with MMOs.
I’ve been out of MMos pretty much since I stopped playing EQOA. Sure, I’ve dabbled around in a handful of free-to-plays, and checked out some private servers, but nothing like back then. You guys make this project a reality, and I’ll be back.
Man nostalgia right into my veins
CLW
Landoria /human wizard Hiil / halfling rogue Ohta / elf ranger Automaton / gnome enchanter
No other MMO comes close to the community in this game, lot of old friends and acquaintances on this page
I will admit i was a bit of a guild hopper but the best times i had were in RoT, rites of the four horsemen, dragons of the four winds, and nuttyprof’s guild which i forget the name of at the moment, and of course KKoN!
Johnhead was my main – a 60 Gnome Rogue on CLW.
Sterist — est hum alc
Sterilizer — barb war
Ster — hum nec
Necrodancer — hum nec
Stereal — gno cl
Sterbear — barb sha
Sterists — gno alc
??? — delf wiz, anyone remember the name?! lol
more, can’t remember. you can find me on The Infinite Black (android / iphone game)
kik, Sterist
kakao talk, Sterist (but I’ll have to message you first)
~king of the FP wall and old bank tower glitch, HP wall and floor glitch. I am probably the only one who remembers how to do most if not all of these. very few knew how to do it at all.
Anyone else consider petitioning Sony for the software? Sony might be willing to sell it; they sure as hell aren’t making any money off it being decommissioned.
Croudsourcing might be an option to get EQOA back. HIt me up at codewolfe81@gmail.com if you’re interested in advancing this.
Ciirus Sorc Ferrans Hope
Omegaprime 60 Elf WW Paladin CLW 2003-2008
I was in love with this game it was my first mmorpg and I never found another game that captured my attention as much as this.
Silentkillin/Assassin/CLW
Nitroustank/Stack CL/CLW
Silsk/SK/CLW
Benjenstark/Ranger/CLW
Dckeybetts/Alc/CLW
I miss EQOA so much. It’s like once a month or so I have my nostalgia day and I look around on the web archive for the CS website or look at the forums that Lear is running. =( I haven’t played another MMO since, short a small stint into WoW with which I was not impressed.
PPO4Lyfe
Wollfie 37 Shaman/deleted but never forgot
Xxwollfiexx 55 Paladin
Biscuits 60 Ministrel
Paperific 35 Warrior/625Cms ..and many more
My first MMO grew up on this game and loved every minute of it. Seeing alot of names and people that I’d played with, glad to see the game is still being kept alive in memories. Mainly hung out with Omnix and Nityen/Ketsu…. FP arena all day…. Kiru oh how people hated you my friend… wish I had a way to get ahold of you! Baylan, last time I talked to you you were headed to collage hope all is well! Ama we departed on bad vibes, but you were and always will be a friend I will never forget… goodluck to all the former players EQOA4Lyfe PPO4Lyfe
Well, I was one whom you either loved or you think I was big part of the downfall of the game. I might not have invented the AFK exp thing, but I definitely mastered it and popularized it.
Hodstock Server
Abracadaver – 60 Gnome Necro
I believe my enchanter was Iovol also 60
and my rouge was Iol. (the first letter was an i not an l)
Bruehaha was my alch the kiting champion.
Forgot the name of the Bard i was AFKing when Sony decided to suspend my account for awhile, which was my motivation for selling the account when they released my account from suspension.
other alts.of various classes (can’t remember them all).
So many names and memories in this thread it’s not even funny. Had so much fun in this game it wasn’t (well) funny. My schedule never really allowed me to par take in many of the high end raids or even participate much in guild stuff. That is pretty much why i started experimenting with HOT/DOT and afk techniques. Because my time in game was limited and it wasn’t uncommon for me and Bearzy and other friends start alts, then I get home from class or work and they’re 10 levels up on me.
The games success was mostly I feel in the people playing it. It was a small game and in a sense we all had each others back (most the time). Something that I never felt really happened in WoW (which I graduated to).
I came upon this site because I haven’t seen Bearzy in years, and it seems he is just as much in the shadows as ever. If you read this Bearzy I’m still at the same place, stop by sometime, someone is almost always home.
Anyway, thanks for the little stroll down memory lane. It was a great game with great people, something that is severely missing now.
Rainmaker-Ageless Knights of Avalon
Ferrans Hope Server
King of Highbourne! Bender of the Sky! Lord of the Morning!
Miss all of my EQOA friends. Ah good times! Camping the Dragons! Line of Sight Rez to PLane of Sky!
Ah the elite Paladin: Raeadan of the Azure Sky!
I do want to apologize though, for my friend Redfire, wiping so many raids.
Shout out to Grimgnaw aka Mr. Bear. Daethen and of course Dragmite
As one of the first guilds to POS
Too many times we beat Crypt, Blood and POR to the dragons!
Finally a name I remember! Hope you’re doing well Rain! ~Ciirus
Soil/Necro/Hodstock for life baby!!
Tharlarion/Druid/”
Dementedpyro/DK/”
And some awesome alts bahaha
Soil/Necro/Hodstock for life!!
Tharlarion/Druid/Hodstock!
Dementedpyro/DK/Hodstock!
Frostman, I remember you and Budamorff I think it was.
BlackPearl guild, where ya at?
Darklords, you too?!
Eff Mighty Klansmen of Light lol
Holy hell, so many names I remember. Suamian here, the gay elf combat spec bard in The Unnamed! I remember the day we formed up and couldn’t decide on a name haha… Good times with great people, still is one of my most memorable gaming experiences. Kept in contact with a few people over the years, good to see all these names again.
hahahaha I remember sua my buddy what up bro its Cin!
CIN! A year too late for the reply but what’s up bud! I go by Aramyle on most shit now. Look me up on Xbox or Steam etc.
Looks like posting has slowed lately. I continue to come back and look for private serves, eqoa revival, and etc. I tried to get the save state running but was never successful. The nostalgia of this game has never left. It was my first mmo like many others. I loved every part of this game. I would grind CMs for hours on end. We had several 30-40-50 hours straight groups with no one sleeping. Ahh my college days were all spent on this game.
I played on PPO. I was in ethereal when Frontiers rolled around, Krazybone left and we changed the name to Ressurection. I played Jizoe 60 dark elf cleric faithful. I was the first cleric to his 60 with Class mastery on PPO. I beat the stoney on PPO literally by like an hour. We were both on and grinding it out to be first! Jizoe had about 950cms when I decided to make fill the need of the guild and make a main tank.
My next main character was Joeknowledge 60 Ogre Defender. I used the pet-in-group glitch and had a swarm of 60 necro pets in my group as I leveled. I got from 1-60 with 900cms over the course of about 12 days. I raided as the main tank for Ressurection for a couple of years. Had some major accomplishments along the way. We did Lord Nagafen with 11 toons with everyone else was using 16+. I MT’d noroxus one night with no ogre pill or avatar. Having only 7500hp when his triple 2000 crit hit was a sight to see. I MT’d Bertox on our very first try for the guild. I survived for 10.5 minutes and we had him down to 1 red left. All of my gear hit 0 and my buffs all dropped off. I remember DJ being there watching that one.
Other characters over the days:
Aracanablade 60 hum bard
Arraignment 60 gnome wiz
I ended up selling my gear and account and making a little over $1200 bucks off of it. The person that bought it leveled 5-6 toons to 60 on clw. I had a 2nd account that I had let a friend use. He leveled a warrior to 60 and did the 60 epics. I can’t recall the name he gave it. After I got the urge to play again, I came back and leveled another mage to 60 to join a guild.
I am still in contact with my rl friends that played as well. Cizzy/Ciznody, Equis, Hartnett, Mrshartnett. I read through this list and saw some names I remember. Moonlilly, Anri, Dlain, DeeDee.
Maybe I’ll be able to catch up to everyone once EQNext Finally makes it here.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/EQOA-Memorial-Magazine-EGM-2003-/131442915474 Saw this on FB tonight, not trying to sell anything, just wow someone has something like that still from the game, I have like 2 unopened 1st game CDs lol I found em in a box. Kept em idk why.
Housewife, 60 Cleric Werelion Faithful, CLW
Pria, 60 Shaman, CLW
I played almost the entire game, up until about 4 months prior to shutdown. HMU on WoW: US Server Muradin: Domminatryx (Horde) and many others.
Ran with Houserules, 60 Bard and Mysticalxz and Forsakenxz and Cataclsym and my homie Neil’s toon whom I can’t remember his name at this time (though Neil and I are still friends to this day). I would take every penny spent on WoW since EQ died and double it to play EQOA again. I freaking loved this game…so many memories and friends.
Phatrabb/ Barrien /diren hold
Kakkarot Bard PPO Ethereal
Powerboard Mage PPO Ethereal
I remember Stoney. This was a fun intro to MMO’s game. My first one. I play a hunter on Draka WoW in Burning Sensation now.
Great memories in that game. Getting to play in the beta for Frontiers with the devs. Seeing my bard make the box for Frontiers. Then discovering the pet PL bug which I later regretted as it kinda messed up the game.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/445149928880146/ If you want to follow the private server development. Hemoglobin – PPO
Lornith/60 assassin/Hobbit/hodstock
Reading Dlains comments takes me back to the good old flame wars in Freeport. Doesn’t matter if you liked or hated him, you dam sure know who he was. My rogue Yamus loved the tells we used to send back and fourth. I remember the first tell he sent me, “hey man can I give you some advice? Delete your toon.” Lmao. This prompted me to create several low level Freeport characters, “Dlainsmom and Dlainsister.” After that I thought we got along pretty well. Any which way you can’t think EQOA Freeport without thinking of Dlain. Miss all you guys. Merry Christmas.
I miss when Dm and Hp were crazy and people spammed chat looking for groups before migrating to Freeport.
Towards the end when the population went down and all people did was luck farm the turn ed in stacks kinda sucked. I missed grinding all the different camps in the beginning. Like treants, wasps and gnolls.
O.O OMG that was you?! LOL
Oops forgot to save right, but OMG that was you Yamus? I saw those low levels all the time in Freeport, never knew who they were. LOL
Hodstock The Unnamed guild main tank for a lot of out first kills Cinork aka Knuckle aka Achilles miss you guys!
Hey Cin,
Just got to approving all of your comments and these guys should be getting notifications that you’ve commented.
Welcome and good to see your name again.
haha I love this site I always talk about eqoa times with Salem… sorry for all the posts to approve and man the stories I could tell you, devs in our guild watching us raid, devs got a bunch of our members in some gaming mag, or Yoou frying balls and leading raids….good times!
Please feel free to email them to me and I’ll post them. People still visit and love reading stories from former players. Email me at rickstonebrook@yahoo.com.
I used to stay up all night and pull for your pet groups in EG
Crushdem
haha I loved killing eyeballs my buddy Crush!
great site stonee
Wow. Lotta old names popping up in here lately. Glad to see everyone’s still posting. Be sure to join the EQOA Revival Facebook group and the server sub groups!!!
we play d4 sometimes just to bs still kind of waiting for a good mmo got sick of wow my email is samsmoke69@yahoo.com get a hold of me sal and I have wondered how you and wazza are short plays d4 still sometimes too. Jackmove916#1527 for diablo4
Hold up…Jackmove. You didn’t play a Rogue on wow did you? Blood elf too?
Hold up…Jackmove. You didn’t play a Rogue on wow did you? Blood elf too?
Cus if so. I think we were guildies lol. And I think I remember talking about EQ.
ya haha that was me was bloodelf with a glaive and a brutal glad sword thanks to Recovery caring me on his priest, he also played eqoa was a monk in TU named kickinnagbaz, who did you play on wow?
Cool Cin, Ill email you bro.
Haha.
It’s Taldin the Druid. Miss the old raids we had. Tore BT and Hyjal up. My RL friend was Budda/Summons in EQ, played Drakmoon in WoW and was always running around with me.
Knew Kicking was on wow and talked to him a bunch. 4got he was Recovery tho. Must of been on his alt when I met him and that’s why I don’t remember.
my buddy taldin haha I remember you bro, we even did some arena back in the day, and I also remember Drak, tell him whats up for me if you talk to him, funny how fast we forget that we played eqoa also.
Hobomonk – Monk
Mewindoolztoo – Warrior
On Hodstock, sorry!
We used to duel in Freeport.
Man if you ever read this, just know after like 12+ years of trying to contact you, I still feel like absolute shit for deleting your monk. Hope you can learn to forgive me man. Maybe we can share good memories of Monks of the Jade Fist 😦
Cress (36) – Paladin/Elf Farren’s Hope
Keiinchi (20s) – Paladin/Elf
Keinchi (20s)- Warrior/Dark Elf Mar’s Fist
Played 2004 – 2005 up to the point I was accepted to college.
Welcome! So you never got a toon to 60? I returned to the game well after college and got my first to 60 in 2011… started in 2003.
I wanted to, but by time I got the internet after becoming self sufficient the servers were closing, along with the fact I couldn’t even remember my login information.
Ahh, I had to call SOE Customer Support.
Aonladar…Aonswizard…Awolrus…Blumufn……Riddlore all 60s 14++ cms proudpine…………….. FUKKKKKKIN SLAYYYYER!!!!!!!!!!!
Ahh the nostalgia… Cryptopsy 60 Defender… Hodstock. TGNV. Bows west in the name of Deion.
Hahaha, I forgot about Deoan. /bow West.
-Vokal
Ah shit man, you remember Cinamon/Eamdar?
Been for fuckin ever, just had a nostalgia trip haha.
This is incredible, seeing all this puts a huge smile on my face! Can’t believe I stumbled across it. Wish I could remember more names by heart, but the second I see them in print the realization that our paths have crossed hits me like a ton of bricks (when I saw Hobomonk commented just recently I was like–I remember seeing you, man!)
Hodstock:
Joran, 60 barb warrior
EQOA was a huge part of my childhood and some of my best memories are of playing with you guys back in the day. Shout out to Bovine (halfling druid) wherever he may be in the world. First friend in the game after a chance encounter in the wild, and had him on my friends list until the very end. Shout outs to Celine (elf ranger) wherever she is as well, who was a great friend (who I also gave my ceremonial vestment to as a parting gift!). And to kono, although we never played together, for the massive contributions he made for so many years to the community.
So wonderful to see that the spirit lives on and hope you guys are doing well.
I am glad Stonee made this site, what’s up Sora and what up Crypto the best dark elf war on hodstock haha! def remember you and dangit you guys we need a new cool mmo to play….Salem says whats up Vokal he’s playing that new fps by blizzard.
Nice Cin, thanks. I’ve been playing Overwatch on Xbox. Definitely need a new MMO!
I was a person of many characters, all on Proudpine Outpost.
Megaera and Ayrlyn Barbarian Defenders/
Sylibus 60 dark elf Sorcerer
Lolieus and Brazee Both human pyromancers..and finally my bard Nyryah elf minstrel.
My wife (Karou, Neece, Azhurewrath) played heavily from frontiers release until 2011 when we finally gave up on the game, and still logged in hoping and praying sony finally did something with it.
I was Sphinxs on proudpine and a shadowknight. powerleveled many mannnnny ppl over those years
Hey guys. Crushdem here. Anyone playing Neverwinter on ps4? A few of us Hodstockers are playing.
Khazaddum barb defender
Nefertiti erudite lich
Parathior elf faithful
Character name Crealv
Server Ferrans Hope
Guild Blood
Character: Slandar / 60 Cleric
Server: Hodstock
Guild: Hunters of the Fallen
Started playing during beta testing, through launch of EQ2. Still my favorite MMORPG! It’s good to see some familiar names here.
Walamin 60 Rogue Ferran’s Hope Checking in!
I was curious if anyone remembers a few peeps I ran with from Direns Hold? Faile she was a level 60 druid and Clownroyal a level 60 warrior ? Also a fellow named skulpik
Warloq 60 lich
Warlok 60 Faithful
Gutzripper 60 Assassin
Dunwich 60 ench
Denterreur 60 mag
FH
Warloq 60 Muter
Healeux 60 Diviner
CLW
Missing the game still…
Don’t know if this is still an active blog but:
Hodstock:
Cinamen- Elf bard
Eamdar- Elf paladin
I use to roll with Cryptopsy and his sister back in the day, I don’t remember my active years @.@
Enaro / Gnome Necromancer / Hodstock
Enzo / Erudite Paladin / Hodstock
We were pioneers of the healing Necro! (it was not my idea)
Enaro! My buddy. How have you been?
Spittfyre
Spitt! I’m doing well…and old. Hope all is well with you. I remember when I ran into you and Cenlain for the first time. NUTS! I wonder if he’s still alive…he was pure entertainment.
Playing any MMOs these days?
Hey. Feel free to join the Eqoa Facebook groups. EQOA:Revival and they have groups for all the servers too.
Sarani first level 60 Alchemist member of psychopathic ryderz guild
Starlight level 60 raid cleric
Active 2003-until end
It’s 2017 and I’m still amazed and nostalgic about this game and the times I had on it. I was Dirtyj / MacNasty on PPO. When I first started playing, I like most others, didnt even know what the hell a tank was. By the time i quit, I was one of the best MTs on that server’s history. I truly believe there will never be another game like it but… Pantheon rise of the Fallen is looking very promising. If anyone is interested, just look it up. These guys are saying all the right things that someone that came from eqoa would like to hear.
I could go on for hours about the memories and experiences that I have had with this game… and every once in a while, I do with co-workers who needless to say could care less. I miss tanking and the group experiences and even the grind a little bit. That game was like a whole nother world. You didn’t want to not be on it for too long because you felt like you were missing out on something. It sucks when I think about how all the good devs went to eq2 and the ones who were left didnt know what made the game great/addictive. I always say that who you were in real life manifested itself in the game when it came to your personality. People who are asses in real life, were asses in the game as well. The same goes for those who are nice, funny and everything else in between. But this is one of the things that I loved about the game the most. There was real drama. There were battles over raid mobs and camps as well. And people brought their drama into guild chat. I had real hatred for some of the notorious grifters and a-holes. And I had real compassion for my good friends.
I don’t miss all the time it took to be great at it, I will say that. Passing out with the game on and then waking up and starting right where you left off. It’s amazing to think that I had a job and was going to school at the same time. Those were the days…
Holy shit it’s dirtyj. Aka mcnasty. Dude hit me up how can I get in contact with you. It’s the original Dollron by the way. Remember me? I used to steal all your lines lol. “Points to the eyepatch” “don’t ask questions”
Dirty J?
Dang Dj DUDE! Been a long while man. Thought you did not want to be bothered anymore! So good to hear from you, glad you are well. Best damn tank on all of PPO! Miss you man!
I’m missing the game bad today. I was watching a YouTube video that had the Highpass music in the background. I got insta sad. Playing Neverwinter on ps4 currently, but nothing is eqoa.
I can’t believe its taken me this long to find everyone trying to bring this game back….I feel like I’ve failed you all but I too miss this game more than any others in the past.
My characters: ianadil -elf ranger (main) MF-server
Vuldemort -night elf necromancer (2nd main) MF-server
Murcielago – troll death knight ( a irl friend gave me this DK after he quit ) MF-server
Senar- elf rogue (I wanna say proudpine outpost test server?)
I fondly remember being a rogue dueling people in FP , stepping through their body and backstabbing them and winning within 5-10 seconds.
Reskill 60 defender were hunter, Farrens hope
You were on my buddy list! And you actually on my ps4 friends list to this day lol
Flametongue 60 Hunter
Magixx 60 Aeromancer
Proverbs 60 Faithful
Contagion 60 Assassin
Main guild I were in The Ring, and Saryrns Echelon
FERRANS HOPE
Axiom – Rogue – Hodstock
Man oh man. So many memories. I played from 2003 to maybe 2004ish? I remember being in TU.. Hodstock.com… so many raids and so many screw ups. Man what a blast this was. I miss it.
Sup Ax, hope things are good bro.
-Vokal
Salem wants his icescale armor back!
“Glo” Dustyballz/Dustyspheres on EQOA official forums. PPO – Kinyna, Glorious, Glorfina, Baybee, Glorawyn in “Guild-Less” (a very small guild). I made a couple toons on CLW near the end (probably similar names). Still waiting for something that comes close to this gameplay experience (or the Revival to get a server running). Cheers! – Glo