EverCrack: NoNoNoNo!!!

My god. They really ARE using the “Street Dealer” buisness model. I just got this email-- late at night, of course…

Just a taste, it’s free. ARGH!!

So, would Ultima Online have been a gateway drug?

After 8 months, I fell off the wagon last week and reinstalled EQ AND bought the LoY expansion.

I then proceeded to die twice in an hour with my 52 mage. The first was my own fault, I was wandering around and I forgot to put up invis and got wacked by greenies. The second is when I was grouped, we got some adds and one started beating on me. Being the good played, I just /y and wait for the cleric to heal me and the tank to get that critter off my back. 4/5 3/5 2/5 1/5 health. At this point no heal and no tank. I try to gate but I’m getting beat on too hard. So I die. In group chat I hear…

“wait, what happened to the mage?”
“Did she die?”
“How did that happen?”

Heh. Oh well. I’ve been thinking about starting a cleric anyways. Being a mage is ok for soloing, but finding a group is a real bitch.

I’m really starting to miss my warrior (check out my location to figure his race).

I recently bought SWG, and I’m going to check it out for a while first, though.

Anonymous Coward - I didn’t understand a single word of that.

Smeghead, Anonymous was complaining that he didn’t get proper support from his adventuring party, who apparently don’t understand the care and feeding of walking artillery platforms. Mages don’t do well in melee; without cover from a front-line fighter (a tank) and healing magic from a cleric, they get smacked around so badly that they can’t cast their spells, and then they die. If they get protection and healing, they can be devastating.

Mages can adventure alone (soloing) with some success by being sneaky–using invisibility to gain the element of surprise, for example, allowing them to rain death down from afar. Such tactics don’t translate well to group adventuring, however.

BTW, I don’t even play Evercrack. I just have too many friends who do.

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiight. And I suppose you just read Playboy for the articles, too.

Without a good cleric, you just can’t get the job done. Actually, often found TWO clerics were far better than one. Two clerics, a druid, a mage or a wizard, a warrior and a melee-heavy hybrid and you were ready to rock.

Mmm… EQ…

Who gets Playboy anymore? There’s plenty of, ah, “articles” on the web. :smiley:

I really don’t play EQ, though. Neverwinter Nights is my game of choice. A lot of my LARP/pen & paper gaming friends are or have been hooked on EQ, though.

I’m tempted to fall off the wagon too on occasion, especially since a friend of mine inadvertantly has become the heir to an account with some higher level characters. He keeps tempting me with promises of twink equipment and money galore but every time I find myself about to give in and say yes I remember the reason I stopped playing to begin with: a goodly portion of the players I meet were jerks.

If you love jerks come play some Shadowbane! It’s a jerk breeding ground :stuck_out_tongue:

Never played the ECrack and I’ve vowed to never start playing…although EQ 2 is looking preetttty good.
It’s strange how friends who play EQ are always tempting you to play? I’ve been tempted with free accounts, free gear, free characters…they oughtta teach resistance to that kind of peer pressure in school!

:eek: You mean it’s possible to play a role-playing game without a computer?! Say it isn’t so!

Holy Crap! I changed email adresses! Ack, goodbye, I will be gone for about 7 days…

Everquest!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo…oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo…oooooooooooooooooooooo