I Took 2 Huge Risks in Classic EverQuest

A thrill packed adventure through EverQuest's Project 1999 server. I team up with several popular personalities in the EQ space & overcome the harsh challenges that Old-School EverQuest brings.
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[@camelz45]

Can’t wait for this vid! This man is hands down one of the most talented bards of our generation!!

[@IonBlaze1]

Thank you :) , really nice of you to say.

[@erikhendrickson59]

The EverQuest Bard is quite possibly my favorite MMO class of all time. The flexibility and versatility of the class, as it fits into the game design of EQ specifically, is absolutely perfect.

[@KegstandOG]

Preech!

[@americanpurge]

It also causes permanent carpal tunnel.

[@KegstandOG]

@@americanpurge Amen to that, I ain't gonna lie my hands loved the auto song stuff even if I hated it lol. I also feel the same, the only class I can never find again in any mmo and I miss it so much I play emu to get a taste here and there.

[@chaseking9048]

Glad to see new videos, it brings me so much joy to see EQ players of all varieties step foot on p99. What is taken for granted in other versions is daily life.

[@IonBlaze1]

Oh you're right about it. This has no hand holding. Hard!

[@korruu]

As a 21 year old who grew up playing WoW but appreciates classic gaming, your videos are always a window into a period of time I never got to enjoy myself--I'm a little too impatient for EQ (especially P99) myself, but I have watched pretty much all of your videos over the past few months. Thanks again for the great narration and content!

[@Flatts]

Thanks for the shout out

[@IonBlaze1]

Holy smokes it's you. Thank you so much Flatts. Your videos inspired what I do. Gotta give credit where it's due.

[@VanisMiscThings]

Roll up a permadeath Reptox and come join us :D

[@faverodefavero]

Just started on Green. I come from FFXI Classic (Horizon, basically the P1999 of FFXI, with ~1000~3000 players online usually, currently) and played a little bit of EQ1 back in 2001 too. Very similar games, really, both last bastions of the classic MMO experience not found anywhere else, from the long time it takes to level up, to the total group focus (in FFXI Classic grouping starts after level10~15, so a bit later than in EQ1, but still), to danger of the world and difficulty of monsters, down to having support classes and crowd control spells... very similar games indeed. Even many of the the comon terms used (NM is one that always comes to mind). There is even a version of the EC Tunnel in FFXI Classic: the Rollanberry Fields Player's Bazaar (what you call Bazaar in EQ1 is called Auction House in FFXI, and Bazaar in FFXI is the direct player seeling/trading. There is a considerable Auction House tax which is huge for more expensive items and many item can't be Auctionhoused but can be player Bazaared and/or traded, hance both the Auction House and player informal trading, as well as WTB/WTS/WTT shouts/yells coexist). Oh, and Bard in FFXI is an advanced job you have to unlock, one that at higher levels require a lot of skill to play (the player has to maintain different "spheres" of area buffs usually, one for casters and another for tanks and damage dealers, and has to keep refreshing them up back and forth as well using other spells, pulling and giving occasional help with heals and sometimes sleep mobs). Anyways, I stared a Dwarf Paladin, level10, just took the boat to Freeport, Lortheron is my name, if you ever want to say hi. : ) I just wanted to say thank you for all the tips and amazing series of videos you did here. Both your videos and my time in FFXI Classic inspired me to play EQ1 Classic on P1999 and I'm really loving it. Thank you. Much love dude. PS: please, if you have some time, check this video out, kzbin.info/www/bejne/g4ake2CZf8eCfLs , I do think you'll be intrigued by the similarities and would to hear back from you about this.

[@landogarner2007]

Love you vids man. You're really good at telling stories with your adventures in EQ. Keep them coming!

[@IonBlaze1]

Thank you for the compliments Landogarner :)

[@PyroEmbrace]

Always look forward to your uploads. EQ content always scratches an itch. good luck on your adventures

[@IonBlaze1]

Ah thank you so much jarghen :)

[@Fickled_65]

Thanks for inspiring me to play p99- been having a blast and meeting good people. My 1st EQ experience has been a blast!

[@IonBlaze1]

Oh I'm glad it's going well for you. Good luck :)

[@FrontlineFinds]

I love re-living EQ through your videos. Thank you for the content and storytimes!!!

[@darczee1]

I'm so excited seeing another ionblaze upload! As always, great content, keep smashing it mate.

[@vclxrr]

16:12 (sings) "It's business... it's business time. Ya'll know what time it is. It's business time."

[@boltz8609]

Great video, and really enjoyed watching it live on KZbin. Hope we see more from you soon!

[@IonBlaze1]

Yeah definitely. Thank you for the support :)

[@dollypupu]

Great video, started to play after watching reptox videos, made a necro and got it to 32 ish but irl grinding started so havent been on for a few months. This video reminded me why p99 was so awesome playing, make more of these !

[@christopherfoley8322]

I loved Dalnir, i especially loved tjhe boss, since for the longest time, only mage water pets could tank him because he had an ice proc on his attacks that would cut through people

[@soulure]

I remember living at the Sarnak fort. Bringing back so many memories. I love this channel

[@richardandrews3045]

hahaha welcome back to 99...never played 99 but im on every server in eq...great job!! love ur content

[@astockalypse7500]

Another great video! Bards are so much fun. EQ did a good job of making the classes so interesting, with such a simple overall concept. It is truly a special piece of history. But corpse runs definitely made you hate life!! Haha

[@LOLjerel]

Ion man. You make such great quality videos with your own unique twist!

[@Tomanator73]

Wish I had the time for EQ again!! Great video

[@Forevergames-vn6gd]

Our game moves crowd control back front and center and we believe you will love our bard!

[@IonBlaze1]

Oh that's sweet. Nice to hear about it coming back :)

[@lttibbles]

New video celebration!!! 🎉🎉🎉 Best EQ vids around!

[@blake33x]

Cool vid. When I played in Kunark I played Iksar that traveled to Antonica in my 20s, so kinda reverse of the video (iksar trying to survive in Antonica cities). But I'm so familiar with Kunark zones to this day and could traverse them by loc and zone walls; spent a lot of time in warsilks at giant fort soloing and loved dalnir. It was a lonely zone but I was kind of a loner. Swamp of no hope was cool too, but I found it more difficult solo than a lot of others

[@RianD-xp3kk]

I played a Iksar war and a friend convinced me to do the same thing. We were in our 20s at the giant fort in warslick when he convinced me. What a run. Going through OT was terrifying. Killing the guards in EC to get xp and NFreeport faction ahh that was something I'll never forget

[@IonBlaze1]

Last Episode: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gauzpKiXh96MisU Special thanks to LevelupLarry, Barthorn, & Wackystreamz. You can find them all on Twitch.

[@kimmykimko]

Dude, I'm in unrest now and grouped with Oyuun that shaman last night. Crazy. Lots of good players. Falconpuunch was killing it, shout out him Inyoback, Phreedo, Absinthium, Erin, Nivera and many more.

[@Popsculpture]

every time i watch your videos it makes me want to start playing again; i just know i shouldn't lol

[@Popsculpture]

I'm just going to live though you on this

[@IonBlaze1]

I get what you mean. The game sucks you in & it's not always good :)

[@noodles2459]

Classic everquest is one of the bestt online 3d roleplaying games ever made due to needing to team up with people and the sense of discovery the game has

[@TristanTucker05]

I have played with several of these folks you were grouped with down in the basement, lol. Love how tight knit and small the P99 community is

[@randyle1006]

Yoo explains the dark elf bard. And man still feel bad about some of those deaths at unrest. This we2low btw. Funniest thing about all of that some how we lived through all those big pulls hahaha, you saw just like last night

[@IonBlaze1]

Hehe, keep an eye out :)

[@GadoukenRising]

10 seconds in and I realized you must have done the same thing I did. Back in summer of 2000, I reached the Field of Bone as a lv5 dark elf cleric, and around lv20, my guild helped me with invis and SoW to make the run through Cabilis to get to LoIO. I'll never forget how tense it felt the whole time.

[@kurticusmaximus]

5 hours taking the boat around to get spells is why Norrath reminds me of America; hardly anyone takes the bus. People pay for porting, basically cars lol

[@FalconKyule1]

A boat? Aint nobody got time for that! I always keep a list of druids to force....i mean pay for ports

[@papasears1982]

wanted to welcome Ayonic to over on green server, glad to have you in the guild dooder ¤Bigbuff

[@gioelecarratelli4593]

Ehi, i remember catching the stream that night! The high risk more earned reward mentality is what the Soulslike genre is all about, so I totally get how good earning stuff can be after a hard day's work. But the first two hours of playing for me were learning to navigate the wiki, dieing from fall damage in tge starting city, and trying to find my body. Probably more like two and a half tbh. What I'm saying is that there's difficulty, and there's deliberate obtusiness

[@IonBlaze1]

It is hard to pick up. You definitely are right. Not for everyone

[@maxpower2511]

Dalnir is VERY fun once you break in and camp near the exit...but everything is just an undercon there.

[@walterwalker2978]

running thru cabilis is 0 danger. nothing is going to see invis unless you start going into buildings and shit. the frogs only spawn in middle of zone, so hug the outside of zone if you need to go to FV and get back to the mainland. pretty sure he knew this, but wanted to make it more dramatic. ppl dont avoide dalnir because of danger, but because the mob concentration is trash and theres just better zones

[@demonicar]

I remember when I played I used to think players that started during the Kunark era were noobs. I loved being an OG EverQuest player. I even fought in the Ranger best of the best tournament. This game gave me some of the best memories and friendships of my life. But it had to end for me to be where I am now with a beautiful wife and daughter. Gates of Discord put my obsession to rest. Thank you GoD :)

[@IonBlaze1]

Thank you for the nice comment Bradley. Ranger was pretty sweet once archery became viable. That was great while it lasted

[@demonicar]

@@IonBlaze1 I used to love impressing people with a giant Trueshot crit :)

[@azurebreeze.]

You're kidding LOL I was just leveling through Unrest, stopped at having a 23 Rogue and a 22 Cleric like a few days ago, I've played with so many people from that area. Firedeez and Wetoolow are a duo, Oyuun is great and Inyoback is a really good Rogue. To think I could have said hi if I stuck it out just a little bit longer. =P Great video!!

[@IonBlaze1]

What a coincidence. Yeah grouped with all those guys. Wetoolow & firedeez are beasts

[@kimmykimko]

I been playing with inyoback amd Oyuun last 2 nights.

[@jdspencer60]

I picked this up for the first time in 2021 and I am SO glad I didn't play it back in the day. Even if I had internet and a computer to run it, this would have been the end of my life, never to be seen again. This game is so fuckin hard and it was the only thing and the best thing at the time. I would have been a problem player, I only got my paladin to 33 because I had a baton and a badass armor kit from my buddy that was showing me the ropes

[@MetalDave92]

The only place I remember having trouble with cabilis was near the shaman guild, but man that first run through without really knowing is a clencher for sure

[@IonBlaze1]

Oh the big old castle? The ladders don't work well there

[@wolfdar2009]

If I had known I would have logged the druid on and got those spells for ya haha.

[@IonBlaze1]

That would have been nice haha. Nice to see you again Wolfdar

[@ClassicEverQuest]

Haha you "got Everquested"

[@IonBlaze1]

I just had to. Saw that short you did of getting screwed over epically

[@macrc2129]

Hey we just grouped in MM! ggs man and great vids!

[@GES1985]

Pro tip, even a bad dual analog stick is better than any keyboard/mouse for bard kiting in circles.

[@GES1985]

But a good controller can make a lot of things possible nowadays. Scripting macros for the buttons goes a long way

[@VanisMiscThings]

Syriex and Grazo (after dying and releveling) of Legacy of Ik are still kickin it hardcore! Grazo is level 41 now and Syriex just hit 39!

[@IonBlaze1]

I gotta get closer in level for us to team up again :)

[@doctormox93]

Love your edits! Hopefully we can play on green someday!

[@IonBlaze1]

Thank you for watching. Yeah maybe someday we'll team up

[@tren380]

If it’s Oakwynd we’re talking about, yea it’s a terrible idea. Jenn Chan is losing it.

[@IonBlaze1]

Oh no, just good old P99 here

[@BOOSTEDLASER]

I MISS THE MISERY OF EQ...BUT IT MADE ME A MUCH BETTER MMO PLAYER.SAME FOR D A O C REASON I AM #1 HEALER WORLD WIDE IN GUILD WARS 2 AND HAVE THE BEST KDR EVER FACT

[@MrSqutsslo]

Like your vids man, ,keep playing green

[@riolume]

Anyone that plays iksar learns not to walk across that board. Sometimes I wonder if the devs did that on purpose

[@CudpudQC]

I really would like more of these your vids are amazin.

[@frankrussum7107]

could you make some guides on skills like Baking etc Im sure you can show us an easy way to level up.

[@Tked-]

I thought CHA affecting charm was a myth? Didn't a dev debunk that? Btw, I've watched a few of your videos and loved every single one. You sir have a new subscriber 😉!

[@frankgarc84]

If I decide to play project1999 are there enough people playing that I would be able to find a group as I lvl up

[@johnhaddenham3189]

I guess that really was you in the Unrest basement that night. When I asked and you said it was I wasn't sure lol.

[@alanmeadows4056]

Makes me really want to hop back onto p99 green.

[@IonBlaze1]

It's definitely a fun time :)

[@MrShakee13]

Pre Plains of Knowledge, ouch travel so bad

[@IonBlaze1]

Yeah it was brutal but the world felt bigger cause of it

[@tinfoilhat6343]

Really good video.

[@IonBlaze1]

Hey nice to see you again Tinfoil Hat. Thank you :)

[@whateverppl1229]

4:48 I use to play classic when it was the main game, I got to level 35 as a kid. (I think max level at that time was around 40) checked zek: I've got a level 14 necro there

[@christopherregan2924]

Back on blue use to play with a pick up ikky shm, war mnk trio some high lvl took us to Dalnir .. we didnt know about the boss by zone out that AOE nukes… three hour CR got like 3hrs sleep that nite before work.. ugh. But did rockthat crecent armor till end game

[@Dre_Santi]

👍 enjoyed the video!

[@IonBlaze1]

Thank you man :)

[@Klein-Morretti]

A bad idea, but a great video. Thanks!

[@funkycowsx2]

Cool.

[@googleifyouseekayu]

Option C would of been better just run through Swamp to FoB to WW. Way safer!

[@trevorvanderwal3864]

im buddies with syriex in the vid! main is Necrosh 58 iksar necro

[@dbb1064]

So you saw him online at sarnak fort, you got on spent 5 hours to get songs and he was still there lol

[@randyle1006]

Haha gee dee, that makes a lot of sense meow

[@eddrm4685]

Great video...all the black screen sucks tho.

[@IonBlaze1]

Ah my bad but thank you for bearing through it

[@palto567]

p99 short on warriors or what?

[@jayp7936]

Can i still play this game????

[@KegstandOG]

Eq2 still populated?

[@Forevergames-vn6gd]

you invis and swim through

[@IonBlaze1]

Oh ok I got to try that out next time

[@novyxl9672]

Making me want to reinstall p99

[@sabra401]

I'm sorry but I just cannot understand why people would play on p99 except that its free?

[@IonBlaze1]

It's not for everybody but for some the difficulty is gratifying when you do succeed.

[@trevorfelix2095]

That was a fun group I'm penowe

[@craigjmulvey]

Larry grouped with a softskin?

[@devonmoreau]

what kind of sadist plays eq classic with permadeath?! 😅

[@boot-strapper]

xp loss isnt bad, if you just dont die. Have you tried getting gud?

[@IonBlaze1]

Nah I suck haha...

[@KSechrist]

Enough f'n blackscreen.

[@Laber77]

Zerg guild ? You were one of the last ''static set up groups '' to level to 50 in classic and you didn't even make it 6 weeks in the expansion- You're a casual player that enjoys the slow pace , there's plenty of guilds that play one expansion behind in TLP's - you should probably stick to that