Ten Ton Hammer - Taking MMO Gamers to the Next Level!

My first "OH WOW!" moment in EQ1 was very early on in 99, I was in a party who decided to explore Castle Mistmoore. It was our first foray into the zone. We had a paladin, cleric, druid, wizard, rogue and myself the necromancer. We had pretty decent success clearing the entrance and were quite proud of ourselves. Emboldened by this new found power we thought we had, we moved deeper into the zone. It was a time before custom UI's and the like so most non group chat i completely missed, maybe if I had we wouldn't have made that climb. We started the ascent up to the castle entrance and noticed a few folks running past us, in retrospect they were fleeing for their lives lol. As we finally got up near the door out pops a HUGE mob. It was a GM playing Mayong Mistmoore and plowing down everything in his way. It was a-holes and elbows as we tried to get back out of the zone, we never made it. After all the carnage he was kind enough to rez us all with no penalty and thank everyone for their unwitting participation! I really miss this sort of interaction in current gen mmo's, GM events pushed me into joining the guide program and eventually becoming a senior guide.

I too have made some pretty amazing friends thanks to EQ. I took several breaks from EQ that usually seemed to happen at xpac time. I had come back to explore Shadows Of Luclin and rolled a beastlord, I was instantly hooked (I'm still looking for this class to come back in eq2) and leveled quickly. One day as I was two boxing in a velious zone I came across a lone paladin who asked me if I could help him on a quest, I switched to my cleric and helped TTH's own Machail finish up a quest and we have been friends ever since. While I have made a lot of friends in each MMO I have played the ones I made in EQ seem to be the longest lasting. I suppose spending years of our lives xp'ing or waiting for a rare spawn together forge strong bonds.

A quick final memory - finishing my first full bronze set on my warrior and watching him spin around the login screen "sweeeeeet"

- Jason “Medawky” Bolton