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

Like Shay I have lots of EQ moments, but there are three that for very different reasons stand out:

1) 1) I sat for hours, so many that they all blurred together with Phil “Ralph” Comeau and two other gents from work camping "The Preacher". Our victim was on a 30 minute timer, but we could kill everything in the room in about 20 seconds. That meant that we had to find other ways to amuse ourselves. Our night consisted of listening to Phil's jokes and watching our bard dance on "the stage" where the Preacher spawned. It was one of the most memorable nights of EQ not because we actually accomplished anything amazing, but because four friends sat around in an office, drinking beer and enjoying the downtime in a MMOG. I still believe that the downtime in EQ was one of the biggest reasons that people played it as long as they did.

2) Being the first monk on my server to get the sparkly epic fists.   

3) Soloing Vox - I had been in so many raids of 40+ people who wiped that when at 52, tricked out in the best gear that the game could provide and loaded to the teeth in buffs and potions, I stepped into her lair and showed her what a monk could do.  Good times.

- John “Boomjack” Hoskin