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Wow, I remember you all! So many memories. Life had taken many twists and turns for me, I'm a father now with a 2nd on the way. My son is 4 in a few days, and I'll be having my 10th anniversary a day later. I managed to get roped into leaving Software for a bit and got my teaching Credential for mathematics. When my sanity returned I left and went back to software and have been at a company now for a bit over a year. Since joining I've been to Helsinki, Taipei, Tokyo, and Hasselt (Belgium), and las stop before the new baby is Hawaii with the family for vacation and work.

Solarianne is doing very well. Married and they have a house walking distance from mine. We're both playing WoW at the moment. I've been constant, but Solar left and came back for burning crusade.Neither of us is in the raiding category anymore, just casual really.

For those that knew her, Moline is also well and married Mokin (a Triune member) in real life a few years back. Although they are living far away we still speak sometimes and fondly when we do.

Others have slipped away over time, many at once when I joined Triune, more still when I left Morell Thule for Stromm. Still bad blood if you can believe it with people over all that. We chose Earthen Ring (Solar and I) when WoW first came out because CdL was going to play here, and some old names showed up -- Nazriel among the oldest. Demani still plays a character on this server but she lost her love a while back and I think playing reminds her so she has cooled a bit. The rest of CdL has moved on to other games and servers so it's quiet. If I could stand to play EQ after WoW (I tried a few times but it was absolutely unplayable for me.) I might have returned. Maybe if they give me a free acount for life.

Anyone spending time in WoW?

All this got me to thinking... http://www.potolsky.com/webhazard/ToV-site/

MoD didn't last long after the events that lead to Solar and I leaving to form Tears of Veeshan. In fact, it was just after the formation of the Gathering of Banners. ToV spent many a time in the Lake of Ill Manners buffing and helping the lowbies in order to find new membership while the new people joining the game were dropping. The remnants of the MoD scattered to a number of guilds. Faevo, ToV, Champions of the Light, and various GoB member guilds. ToV itself shatteed once as well when Danadur, Wifey, and others left to form another guild whose name eludes me at the moment.

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WoW is a totally different game from EQ and it gets more obvious as you level up. The point of the game is to be able to solo to near the top end of the game, and/or group, and or raid. The first raid zone is for levels below 20 in fact. Everything is instanced, and there are no camps. For the most part (99% of encoutners) guarantee the named and that they will drop one of their valuable items. The will always drop quest stuff, and enough for everyone who helps. (Group or raid connected as appropriate.)trade skill skillups are guaranteed and no failures to make stuff. (you can rarely fail to collect something like herbs or mining...) Grinding is purely optional and only to earn gold.

It's not supposed to be hard, if it is, you're doing it wrong. The high end raiding game is a bit more like EQ -- Furor and Tigole designed most of it after all... I'm waiting for something else to come along. Honestly, I would rather play WoW engine in the EQ world.

I remember clearly why I quit EQ, after having a level 56 rogue with a better tanking breastplate than my level 62 warrior, and better taunting weapons with no hope of improving what I had it became silly to continue. I've hears things have gotten better since, but when I've tried to play since the engine was painful to play with, and the interface worse...

How much work for a level 62 warrior to get good taunting weapons these days?

Last time I checked, augments still meant farming in LDoN or for rare drops. Has that changed?

Gotcha. I can't imagine playing WoW the way I played EQ when I was a hardcore raider (GoB then Triune) as there simply isn't enough game to play. Now, however, the opposite is true if EQ still plays as it did when I last tried. Wow group zones are all instances (for the most part) and generally do not re-pop till long after the instance is done -- and even then bosses do not spawn again. There is even code that prevents rare named from re-popping once the have spawned once. So if a group members needs to leave partway through you can invite someone quickly to the zone and finish up. No longer am I a group (or raid) killer when I have to leave due to RL issues. Also every class can solo effectively with every build from 1 to 70th level and they can expect to have very good gear doing it without having to spend gold on it. I dont know about now but can you imagine that in EQ? I played a wizard and Soloing that whole range was doable, but much of the time I had only one place in one zone to choose from. and I can't even imagine it without J-Boots. (Summoning made it impossible post 65 except for one mob type in one location in Plane of Fire.)

Heh, I even remember when I transferred to Stromm and zoned into PoF to solo and I got all kinds of cross-eyed looked from the only guild that had access. Because a RP-oriented guild member had Fire access...