when I first started out on Ralos Zek PVP server - the enchanters were able to charm other players - - they had me attacking my friends - lol - it was pretty cut throat - - Player killers running trains on people in Black Burrow - - it sucked but it was awesome - you really had to keep your wits about you - - sadly these days the Quenos Hills are mostly abandoned by all but Fippy Darkpaw

Overall helpful information if not a little outdated. Like has been said before in other comments most classes are neutral as of August 18, 2010, in GU 57. With the alignment based being Pally/SK for Fighter, Swashy/Brig for Scout, Conjy/Necro for mage, and Mystic/ Defiler for Priest. Also, I would like to point out that at this point all of the classes are free to play and a little annoyed that you skipped over in my Opinion one of the best classes in the game being Channeler, but included info about the Beastlord, which was also a class added later on by the way. Overall, very helpful but please get the facts right, and as another creator in the Niche I hope to see you grow and flourish the game really is under rated and deserves more credit in the genre😄

People had Palm Pilots in 1999, but nobody really had cell phones yet. The world really transformed after that.

I got to Beta test EQ I remember getting on my uncles PC when he went to his friends for Dnd night. and I played all night till he came home in the morning

Plane of knowledge not portal and that wasnt in original eq, neither was the bazaar

I started playing just before Kunark was released. It was so much fun and alive. I remember creating a bard in Freeport and was amazed at how vibrant and teeming with people who were also playing the game. The city resembled a real city; there were hundreds of people moving about, talking, questing, selling and buying, and just living life. You had to use your entire computer with the original client. For example, I had a druid that would have to open the book to meditate and regain mana. I would pull with a snare, cast a dot, run just far enough to keep aggro and then sit down and meditate by opening the spell book, which took up the entire screen. I would then have to listen to the footsteps of the mob as it approached and guess when the best time would be to stand up and cast again. It was definitely trial and error. I remember meeting my first friend, Ben, and his wife, while grouping in Befallen. We died a horrible death by falling down the well and it took hours to get our corpses and gear back. Eventually, a large "raid" team of high levels (back then, they were 25-30ish) had to go down and retrieve not only our corpses, but the corpses of level 20-25s that tried to help us; there were a couple dozen of us waiting for our corpses. Our group received a stern talking to about being responsible and that next time, people might not help. I definitely have lost a bit of gear over the years. You could buff not only players, but random mobs. Just for fun, in the East Commonlands, we would buff a low-level skeleton with level 30+ cleric buffs and watch it tear through people. Inevitably, a player would run into the tunnel where people were selling and the skeleton, now uber buffed, would tear through a bunch of players before being killed. Also, you could drop coin on the ground and people could pick it up. This lead us to drop like 10,000 copper on the ground, which would make it almost impossible to move without strength and/or speed buffs. Some low level character would pick it up and be stuck as the mobs got closer. You would hear panicked shouts asking for help, which most people would, but a lot of times not in time. We also used coins to draw arrows in dungeons to mark where we had been or mark the way for group members who would join us. We had to be creative without maps. Good memories!

I visited my cousin in the Summer of 99, he had the game and I needed it, I was 17. I went home and talked my Mom into selling my instruments to get a PC to play this game. Bad choices were made.

I could give you real gameplay in any zone from the original 1999 client from disk. I have an old version of EQEmulator that was modified to support it. Then, you could see all the fantastic bugs in the client we used to exploit as well back then. I used to GM rez, port, haste, and heal as a level 4 magician, it was glorious.

Why no scouts?

thanks for this - microsoft made themselves OVERLORDS over peoples' PCs (give no choice) My Win 10 doesn't give RESTORE POINTS this is July21, 2024 & s.o.b.'s NOT allowing what you did Jan 9, 2024 !!! communism !!!

If you solo, or rather molo (solo with a merc), there is hardly any difference between classes. It breaks down to what graphics you like. First, on LIVE, with a merc, you can almost 1 shot most mobs, regardless of level. As long as they don't one shot you or the mobs are too high, you'll do okay. For example, my 43 bruiser just (like 10 seconds ago) wandered into Unrest and was attacked by two level 72 mobs and survived the run to the zone. The only thing that matters is that you push the buttons when they are not grey to do damage. I've NEVER had to use Feign Death on my monks or bruisers, ever, on LIVE. The fights are too short. Second, again, on LIVE, death has elaborately no meaning. If you die, you get a death exp penalty that you have to pay back. It's not a lot and you will easily get it back within a few kills. Third, no fight lasts long on LIVE servers. None. Root does nothing, as the mob dies too quickly for that to matter. DoTs don't matter, the fight doesn't last long enough for the damage to matter. Fourth, on LIVE you will NOT find groups until level 130 (as of July 2024, with the latest expansion). I've paid for a subscription for the last 3 years and the ONLY groups I have found have been on the recent Origins server. On LIVE, I have not had one group. Ever. Fifth, on LIVE, you will be WAAAAAY behind the curve if you want to raid and haven't been playing forever or you're not willing to pay a lot of real-life money. The top raiders, let alone the top tier of raiders, have been a part of the game for 2 decades! EQ2 Origins could be fun, but it's gimped by a half-ass attempt to recapture 2004/2006-ish, but with corporate greed running it. At least it's not a gimme' like LIVE is, but it's completely, 180 degrees opposite in that it's too tough

These steps don't work in my Windows 10 on my PC but I am so untechnical when something goes wrong it's me ha! Also this tutorial is 5 months old so could that be the problem? I went to MicroSoft Edge and it said something like "We can't help you removed Copilot from your system" when they were the ones who put it in. I remember I'd get notices like add their wonderful Copilot to your system with a button to "accept" but no button to not accept and you couldn't close the window. Twice I got out of it only by shutting down. This time they went a step further. I had an update notice and clicked for that at shut-down but when I restarted suddenly there was Copilot with a white vertical bar taking space on my desktop. I can't find any simple uninstall. I have Windows 10 and I use FireFox or Duck Duck Go so should I just uninstall MicroSoft Edge or will that cause problems with various functions in my computer? Big corps have their ways and I wonder how this is a similar scenario with the future of AI and a parallel to George Orwell's famous novel.

Hey Daralon my mom she got me this new game

Surprised you didn't mention Illusionist Personae pet. Nice overview though

Damm this video brought back memories 😊

Looks like this tutorial isn’t for Windows 10, Can you do another or advise how to do the restore point please?

I remember... I played when you died you had to run back to your corpse with nothing and loot it and it took time to recover. And you just hoped to god there was a cleric or necromancer around. Now when you die you respawn with all your stuff... kinda lame lol...

The bazaar? Old schoolers did the East Common tunnel. Pre- PoK. Only way of getting around was a Druid/Wizard teleport.

The good old days =) I was a barbarian warrior and i remember how cool i felt to just have a set of bronze armor back then lol

Sucks you don’t discuss channeler. What I came to the video for. 😢

Thanks brother, this was very helpful!

I was down with this video till you said wow copied paladins…. Paladins and death knights were in wc2 before eq1 even came out

There's some good info in this video, and I hate to be that guy, but you missed out on something big here - every Archetype has always had one Neutral Class. Fighters -> Warriors -> Both Guardian and Berserker have always been Neutral (can play as good or evil) Scouts -> Bards -> Troubadours and Dirges are Neutral. Priests -> Druids -> Warden and Fury are Neutral, and Mage -> Wizards/Warlocks are Neutral These classes have been neutral since launch. Later in the game's life, they made even more classes into neutral classes. In Origins, these will be neutral classes. I want to expand a little bit more too on a few Wizards are a little more Single Target Direct Damage based, Warlocks have a little more AoE and use more Damage over time spells. Warden is generally more defensive while Fury is generally more offense (which is basically what he said). Monk is also more defensive and monk skills do a little less damage but have lower cooldown where Bruiser is more offensive and bigger burst/single hits. Brigand generally makes the group do more damage to the mob where Swashbucklers can reduce the damage output of mobs a bit better. Dirges have better melee buffs and tank buffs where troubadours have better caster buffs, but they both buff everyone at least some.

Liked and subcsribed! Glad I found your channel!

Lost a lot of sleep playing EQ.

Awesome. I found an alternative that worked marvels for me I nuked windowez and switched to Linux Mint.

Man, life in the 90s was so good. Great video covering my childhood! Also, where did you get such clear footage of the Everquest trailer?! All the ones I've seen on youtube are blurry.

Modern MMOs place too much emphasis on player convenience. Nothing feels earned anymore.

Thanks for the great video, one more question. I’ve never played EQ2 but EQ1 monk was my favorite from 20 years ago. What I found with monk at level 110 plus was that they were not viable solo and they weren’t optimal in a group. SK was better in every way. Does EQ2 give monk a better high level experience?

I went back to EQ1 and had a great time going from 1-110ish, at that point mercenaries started to be ineffective. I tried boxing a full group and did so for a while but kinda burned out negotiating six accounts. Question: does EQ2 truly allow a monk or SK to solo with a mercenary to whatever max level is or is it more like EQ1 where it’s pretty good but not okay once you get toward max level.?

EQ wasn't the first 3D MMORPG though, that was Meridian 59, beat EQ out by just a couple years, 1996. Successful, yes but not as successful as Everquest by a long margin.

If everyone was like you we wouldn't have these independent studios building games and we'd just get more rinse/repeat triple A titles (like Diablo IV *yawn*). There's currently a massive funding crisis for smaller studios and many are shutting down (largely due to Microsoft and the Embracer Group buying up studios and then running out of money to support them), leaving only the Blizzard/Activisions to keep pumping out the same tripe year after year. Some of us want to support these studios in early development if the game is interesting and starting to look good, and Pax Dei is. And to prove just how wrong a whiney twat you are, Pax Dei enters early access this month. It won't be perfect, but I'll be paying and playing. I hope they do well.

Ok, you restore your computer. Why I will not be installed again tomorrow?

Who cares about console game history? PC gaming goes back to first PCs in early 80s, like Atari 400, then C64, Amiga, early MSDOS and WfW. I played this progression right into Everquest in 1999. Few realized how pioneering Everquest was. It demonstrated how connectivity could be used to create virtual communities and economies. An early example of a Metaverse! Today's metaverse efforts would do well to study the history of the development and dynamics of Everquest.

Bazar was Shadows of Luclin, quite a while before Planes of Power and that was way way way after 1999.

Choosing a class like the magician or necro at launch was so broken lol (pets did INSANE dps!), i remember farming dwarves in butcher block, they dropped axes that sold for 25 plat each, and you could get them so quickly. But as quickly as you could get them, eventually SOE nerfed it, but still, good times.

and u wonder why people crack tha LTSC IoT versions so they won't have to deal with these things

Cupping OG EQ players ears when he repeats “Portal of Knowledge”. 🎉😂

Why the hell are you telling people this? There is absolutely NO reason for it. And you should not be telling people to play in the Registry. Crazy telling people to remove good, useful, helpful stuff❕ If you want to hate a good thing, then just shut it off & don't use it.

ORIGINS!!!!! 😁

I remember it was year 2001 or 2002 when the new expansion Shadow of Luclin was out, I was spent many days in my University library doing online research for EverQuest, while everyone busy working on their school project :)

Lfg rep. HH

Wow, this brings back some memories. Addiction to EQ pretty much killed my college grades. I was kinda "on the scene" doing a lot of stuff back then with MMO's. They were "the next big thing". Personally, I think MMO's really started with Meridian59. It was made/published by 3DO interactive I think. I don't remember how I got into it, but it was a pretty brutal game. It wasn't true 3D, most of a simulated 3D with sprites, kinda like Doom. But, it had servers, guilds, zones, shops, and intergrated PVP system, which made it brutal. You hand random PK's (player killers), it was an interesting dynamic cause they were usually hunted down and killed enough to force them to reroll. EQ came after this. Alot of the people I met playing M59, went to EQ. As I recall, I think I played on Povar. I had a wood elf ranger, and we all played pretty much from launch. The launch itself was ugly in terms of server performance. Having been there from the beginning, EVERYTHING was new. It was like being an explorer in a new frontier. I was, I think, one of the first people to start pulling Mistmore, (aka "Trainmore"). I figured out how to pull it without causing a train. In hindsight, EQ was hideous in it's rare spawn/rare drop form of gameplay. Whichever character class you were playing needed specific items in order to improve. Said items only existed on a mob that rarely spawned, so you had to sit there, and camp the area that mob spawned in. For every 1 time that mob spawned, you probably had to kill 50 place holders. I remember we had the spawn cycle timed. It could be every 20 minutes i think, or 30, i forget. And for every 10 times that mob spawned, it might have the item you wanted, just one of those times. No sir, I've not the rose tinted glasses of nostalgia on this one. I think my /played time was probably 300+ or so DAYs, i think, pretty sure it wasn't measured in hours. No, EQ can be buried in the dustheap of history. I'll never get back the time I wasted on it. Did I mention it killed my grades in college?

widows 10 home edition?

the era of MMOs that included EQ, UO, Asheron's Call, and Dark Age of Camelot, was absolutely magical. unfortunately, MMOs seem to have gotten worse as time progressed, instead of better.

Why was the trading zone on Xegony server Greater Faydark? Everywhere else it was East Commons. Was it because of "Jiggystuff" selling there?

The smell of my new Celeron computer. I bought just to play EQ. The smell of my potted plants in the early sunlight. I got up early to play EQ.

imagine coding a game like gw2, with all the events, nodes, npcs, and voice acting lol, gw2 is the craziest mmo ever created!

Human Guardian lvl 95. Coming back after many years away. Interested in seeing how Guard still holds up after newer level caps.

It is wild how much EQ has actually changed over the years. I have to give it credit, it is doing something right for having been around for 25 years!