I was too much envolved with EQ, one of those guys who ate, slept, and talked EQ all day. I remember one time, when JBoots dropped in Najena, it was a waiting line in the dungeon entrance, just to get into the JBoot group camp /room. The boots only dropped 2-3 times a day, so once you got close or into the group, you then could not sleep tell you got the boots (else risk loosing your turn and starting over). Loosing three nights sleep was common. And I wasnt the only crazy-ass that did this, there were a lot of players in there. The first time I finally got into the group, the server went down for "patch", and I had to start over. But I did get my Jboots! (I think my wife thought I finally lost my marbles that time).
There where 3-4 of us that played together for years, to a point where if they wern't on , I'd go solo, or not play that night. One became a special friend and was like I knew him in all my life RL. We still email and pass stuff back and forth to each other. He doesn't play anymore but I built him a little "shrine" , he's one of the buff-bots I made in PoK.
I did a lot of solo camping, I sort of started a collection of drops: I wanted every drop each named mob I camped had, sometimes one drop took weeks (plenty of time to memorize everything in the zone). A few drops like the Bilge Farfathom drop or Quillmane , took me a lot longer. Sort of like a hobby (stamp-collecting or something).
I've had a ton fun putting all that stuff into the database and watching it come alive. I like this as much as I liked to play EQ (maybe more).
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