_Minmaxer_ Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 I was Grubken on Sullen Zek, first in Malignant then joined Vindictive when we merged with them. I recall a massive pvp battle outside of ToV against the "newts" with dragons and wyrms and players running all over the place. Chaos. Exp loss from pvp deaths, plus zone/corpse camping and gear being left on your corpse when you died made for some long/late nights. 1hr + boss fights and day long raids, when your enemies could train you at any time kept everything interesting. Good times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RamzaBehoulve Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 Hehe, SZ is also renown for the Bloody Sunday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DimeStax Posted February 1, 2012 Author Share Posted February 1, 2012 And if you never went back to pickup gear you left on your corpse, your corpse rotted in 7 days and you lost it forever! LOL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qoojo Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 I played on RZ. Halfling cleric. I don't remember the rules to that server any more other than there was 4 level range for pvp. I think it was a ffa type of server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordTyrantXerxis Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 Was it Sullon or Rallos where all the top end guilds had a carebear agreement never to pvp eachother and took turns killing world bosses? I think that was Rallos. My buddy was on that one. I was on Bristlebane, or more affectionately knows as Bristlebroke - HAHA! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bovinity Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 I think the biggest QQ maker went to Sppeedd or w/e his name was... No doubt, that guy was insanely dedicated to not letting Newts/Goodies get any raid progress at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fingeryursalad Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 any set server for old EQ players or no? SZ here =) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicain Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 (edited) **** TZ/VZ invulnerable healer exploiters, Sullon Zek for life! SULLON ZEK FOR LIFE! No doubt, that guy was insanely dedicated to not letting Newts/Goodies get any raid progress at all. Why would he have left up? They were our enemies, I don't remember them cutting us any slack, ever. Remember, what is best in life? To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women. Stidjron <Hate> Edited March 26, 2012 by Nicain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fingeryursalad Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 GO GO GOOD TEAM!!!! <Telel Tubbies> BP rogue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IncursionZ Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 Oh EQ.. I played on Tallon Zek as a monk name Lilong. Good times, even after Pande came about. Oh the twinks you could make with no binded gear haha. I remember you too, Calrunner... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urothefox Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 Ahh the old EQ days. I was on RZ (played a rogue named Urocyon) for quite awhile though left pretty much around the moon expansion (Luclin?). Nothing more nervewracking than limping to the Jboots quest guy with 1000 gp weighing you down and hoping you don't get jumped by a PK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KotWR Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 Fdyen- Knights of the White Rose (Tallon Zek) I also had numerous alts also played on Karana/Rathe as Neainie and Neshi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mangar_LV Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 Rallos Zek was the best of the PvP Servers. I'm not a fan of factions and forced teams, and being able to loot an item when you killed somebody - Especially in an Item-Centric game just made PvP much more worthwhile. Lucid Vision was formed on the Rallos Zek server as a PK guild, and we left roughly when Luclin/PoP was released to go into Shadowbane. Been going strong ever since. We are on the Bondar Crystal server Sith side atm..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narenekapcazic Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 Narenek was in Disco on TZ until raid times drifted too late for my EU based ***. Those were good days. The 3 way battles for zone control when killing bosses were great fun. The game itself had many problems or what would be called problems now but back then there was nothing else so we didn't know they were bad design Have more fond memories of EQ days than i do WoW. Somehow WoW just doesn't have those great moments like waking the sleeper that EQ had Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MightyHalo Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 Seriously. One of my first memories on Sullon Zek was a huge battle in Sol A/Sol B over a cleric epic quest NPC. Could you even imagine that happening in an MMO today? A guild battling another guild over a quest NPC? Or stealing a raid boss? There'd be a torrent of tears large enough to wipe Australia off the map if things like that happened today. That is the reason PVP was so fun on SZ with 3 factions. Instances is why open world PVP sucks so bad now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jrovak Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 I never played EQ I played Anarchy online and Aion but I am curious as how yu hardcore MMO vets are coping in this game? I personaly can't and quit.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MightyHalo Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 Most renown name of Sullon Zek would be Fansy the bard I guess. The only character on the no-rule server to be told by a GM to stop abusing the game. Didn't fancy have a sleep problem and he got corpse camped after falling asleep, and they took him down like 30 levels? For those that don't know you lost exp dying, one of the primary reasons death hurt so bad, because it took hours to make that experience back up, and you could lose levels, so they corpse camped the narcoleptic for hours taking him down from level 50 to 30 or something crazy like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narenekapcazic Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 That is the reason PVP was so fun on SZ with 3 factions. Instances is why open world PVP sucks so bad now. Agree I massively miss this type of thing. EQ Pvp worked because it wasn't based on two factions, all quests and bosses were world based so if you didn't get them you had to wait for respawn (certainly in the case of bosses). EQ has been improved on mechanics wise but I'm not sure it's gameplay has been matched. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GamleFenris Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 Vallon Zek here, 6-7 years of it, cant remember. Ramza i had a short visit in The Twelve Prophets whas a darky =) I play w Mathlas if you remember him? we play at Basilisk Droid. EU pvp server. Nothing can compere to EQ, this is just easy entertainment! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaklain Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 (edited) Representing <Defiant> Vallon Zek <3 Vaklain Kinvva, Iksar Monk. Edited March 27, 2012 by Vaklain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuzzDog Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 I quit playing EQ shortly after RoK was released. I was a first day RZ player. Rolled my Human Monk in Freeport about 30 minutes after the server went live. I don't know what happened after I left, but I can tell you there was no agreements between guilds to have the planes no pvp zones. I was a non guilded member of a coalition of players that did farm the planes for no-drop gear named Caterva. We had a running fight against other guilds that would try to interrupt us in the planes. Some of the more colorful people I remember from EQ. Angryjimmy Gsam Praxx Ruhi Brolly Chia And a ton more that I can't remember off of the top of my head. Sdar Rallos Zek Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shazariahl Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 I played Xaline from Human Retribution (and later Scorched Norath) on Tallon Zek. We were almost exclusively PvP as HR, though as SN we did do some dragon kills etc. I mostly remember us being hated before Pandamonium showed up since we killed any non-humans and people complained we went "against the light team". When PDM showed up, then people had bigger things to complain about than us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shazariahl Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 Agree I massively miss this type of thing. EQ Pvp worked because it wasn't based on two factions, all quests and bosses were world based so if you didn't get them you had to wait for respawn (certainly in the case of bosses). EQ has been improved on mechanics wise but I'm not sure it's gameplay has been matched. Agreed. EQ was a battle for resources. If you wanted to hunt in a certain dungeon, you went in, killed whoever was there, and took their spawn away by force. If you wanted certain bosses like the dragons, you had to mobilize before your competition did. Since everything was world PvP, there was none of the instances you have now, which basically just guarantee that everyone has access to the same content. This is great for PvE servers, but for PvP it really causes a game where the PvP is meaningless. Warzones are fun. Objective bases mini-games are great in that I can just que up, and in minutes I'm teamed with like-minded people who want to play the same games. But there's no REAL value to them. 15 minutes later we can just do the same mini-game again. If we won, great. If we lost, oh well, better luck next time. There's no actual consequences. I think of all my favorite PvP stories, and 95% of them were from my time playing EQ. The other 5% are WoW, WH and SWTOR combined. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mangarrage Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 Ah the memories and to think people who raided and pvped in these lesser games of today have the audacity to call themselves hardcore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beefmiller Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 Played on TZ and Zek: Beefusmaximus. Was in various guilds on TZ (blood runners, lex, incursion) but mainly Ascending Dawn on Zek. Now I'm just Beef on Vulkars Highway~ BTW, a new EQ (called Next) is in the works. More like EQ1 than 2/wow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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