Darkpact Wrathful

Player Entry into EQ: March 99 1 week after release (approx the 22nd) Player Age: 31 Additional Player Info: Psychology student, Hopeless Romantic, Currently Single Email Approximate character level: 60 th Realtime June 24 th, 99 - Birth 2 am, Monday, March 2 nd, 3187 - 50 th (Realtime Fri, 28 th of Jan, 2000, 2:15) June 24th, 3191 - Vicar (51 st) (Realtime 24 th of April, 2000, 6:00) 5 am, Sunday, January 22 nd, 3201 - Templar (55 th) (Realtime Sat, 7 th of Oct, 2000, 5:30) 7 pm, November 23 rd, 3202 - 56 th (Revivscence) (Realtime Mon, 13 th of Nov, 2000, 6:30) Noon, February 2 nd, 3174 - High Priest (60 th) I think due to server crashes the clock was reset, the date is correct. (Realtime Sun, 8 th of Jan, 2001, 8:30) Character Race / Class: Dark Elf Cleric Favorite thing to do: Buff / Flirt with women, Rescue friends in distress, Harvest souls for Innoruuk by rezing Other current lives: None Other previous lives: Barbarian Shaman (to 3rd), Dark Elf Warrior (to 15 th), Half Elf Paladin (to 12 th), Half Elf Rogue (to 5 th), High Elf Cleric (to 14 th), Human Paladin (to 12 th), Human Warrior (to 15 th), Ogre Warrior (to 3rd), Troll Warrior (to 18 th)

Unswerving Hammer of Faith - 11 / 19 / 00
We Clerics finally have a pet. But is it worth the wait?

My Other Character - 11 / 14 / 00
... does not exist. I don't have one, but others do. Does this make one more or less worthy of loot?

Stagnation - 11 / 9 / 00
EQ is stagnating, but is that a bad thing? I say yes.

Bad - 10 / 15 / 00
What makes you a bad person, and when it's all in the imagination of the accuser.

Misfit - 10 / 12 / 00
Does being a Misfit out of world mean you will be a Misfit in world?

Culture and Heritage - 9 / 18 / 00
The one thing greatly lacking in EQ and what it means to us as a society.

Change - 9 / 5 / 00
What makes us accept it? What influences us to seek it out? What causes us to fight it?

Home - 8 / 12 / 00
What is home?

Straying Thoughts - 6 / 26 / 00
My thoughts of late stray to other games. The failure of EQ to be a true Role Playing game, now very apparent.

Trust - 6 / 8 / 00
Trust, in games and in life. A balance of all things.

World of Darkness - 6 / 6 / 00
The sun has set on the world for the last time as you know it. With tomorrows moonrise opens a World of Darkness never known before. Will the Vampire game live up to it's promise?

Watching - 5 / 28 / 00
Watching, waiting, he waits for her to come along, make him whole, and bring him into the light.

Player Despawn - 5 / 23 / 00
Since the settling of the Kunark expansion a lot have started to leave EQ. Will they find what they seek?

Way Too Serious - 5 / 8 / 00
Comments about people I've noticed who are playing way too seriously. Are the d00ds outnumbering those here for fun?

Kunark Early Impressions - 4 / 27 / 00
My impressions and views after peeking into Kunark zones for a few days.

Real Life Revival - 4 / 24 / 00
Perspective and reminder; remove the greed and loot bickering and EQ is a very fun place.

The Adventure, is it gone? - 4 / 14 / 00
Theories and ramblings about where has the adventure in life in EQ gone. Will Kunark revive it?

Hate Resistance - 4 / 7 / 00
A look again at how 'evil' races are more resistant to hate, and how the 'good' races are so easily corrupted by it.

Cave Paintings - 4 / 1 / 00
An in-depth comparative study of the Cave Paintings done by the Kobolds of Firepit in Sol B, to that of Earth. Comparisons to the Altamira Cave in Spain, The Chauvet and Lascaux Caves in France, Rock Art in Valtellina in Italy, and many many others found at the Creative Impulse site for World History under the Art and Architecture listings.

Appreciate - 3 / 28 / 00
It's a beautiful spring day, and a simple reminder to Appreciate the person who loves you.

Steps Towards Protection - 3 / 27 / 00
Views and comments about Sonys post on the changes to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.

Role playing - 3 / 23 / 00
Is there any role playing left in EQ at all?

Star Wars RPG - 3 / 16 / 00
Today EQ Vault announced that Lucas Arts and Verant are indeed working on a Star Wars RPG set for release in 2001.

Reward Structure - 3 / 14 / 00
A look at the way players are rewarded over their lives, by items, and how it will destroy Verant in the end.

Pain, and it's Clarity - 3 / 6 / 00
A look how times of trouble can be our most clear, and how to retain your self worth.

Plane Loot, a Solution - 2 / 28 / 00
A simple solution to a complex, and ever growing problem.

Lone Wolf Syndrome - 2 / 28 / 00
How popularity affects life.

Greed - 2 / 19 / 00
More on greed, in relation to plane gear specifically.

Planes, The Biggest Camp of All - 2 / 16 / 00
My experience with Planes, and how I think they should be changed. High level players are wasting away waiting days for a single piece of their gear.

Bitterness With Age - 2 / 7 / 00
Hows and Whys I think some become bitter with age.

Younger Target Audience - 2 / 7 / 00
I don't think the upcoming movie and action figures are going to help the growth of EQ, but in fact hurt it.

Dark Tides - 2 / 3 / 00
Life as a Dark Elf.

Is This All There Is? - 2 / 3 / 00
A look at how I feel now that I'm 50 th.

EQ as Phobia Therapy - 1 / 26 / 00
How EQ can be a tool to reduce certain phobias.

Kill Stealing - 1 / 19 / 00
What is Kill Stealing? A list of terms that are understood unspoken in the EQ society, and examples to specify what is Kill Stealing, and what is helping.

Women of EverQuest - 1 / 13 / 00
How you can expect to be treated as the fairer sex while in the world of Norrath.

The Economy - 1 / 12 / 00
How Verants ideal of a Player based Economy doesn't quite work and why. A suggestion on how to fix it.

Holding Service - 1 / 11 / 00
What does it mean, and am I the only one?

A True Cleric - 1 / 6 / 00
How to be a True Cleric, not just a Healer.

Fair Loot - 1 / 1 / 00
A method to fairly work out who gets what special loot.

Kithicor Revisited - 12 / 29 / 99
Where did everybody go? Is it still a failed zone?

Some Great Reward - 12 / 22 / 99
Where is the great reward at the end of the journey (hitting 50 th)?

The Responsibility of Kiters - 12 / 19 / 99
A look at how kiters should act.

Fire Giant Assault - 12 / 19 / 99
Not a rant, but report of a Fire Giant Assault in which I took part.

Pillage and Conquering of new lands - 12 / 16 / 99
A little conjecture on what could happen to all new ares as they become active.

Prayer to Innoruuk - 12 / 14 / 99
A prayer to my, and other, dark gods.

Rare Drop - 12 / 14 / 99
A look at why Rare Drop items just delays a problem that needs fixing.

Soloing vs Grouping - 12 / 14 / 99
A look at the differences between soloing and fighting in groups.

Protecting the online society - 12 / 9 / 99
Companies need to protect those in the society they create.

Multi player Online Environments - 12 / 9 / 99
Will we ever go back to solo play?

Group Roles and Tactics - 12 / 8 / 99
A few pointers on group roles and group tactics.

The Imbalance of Good and Evil - 12 / 6 / 99
A debate on how the rating of 'highly difficult' should be changed to 'next to impossible'.

Why do you play the game? - 11 / 30 / 99
A discussion on the probable reasons why we choose this, or any, escape.

The Future of EQ - 11 / 22 / 99
With the recent news of PS3 having 1,000x the power of PS2, and PS2 having roughly 3x the power of the current EQ graphical model; What is the possibility we can continue in the lives we have today for future versions of EQ?

You try to speak, but MISS! - 11 / 17 / 99
A complaint on how voices audio cues seem to have been left out of a game where audio cues are so critical.

Perception, Imagination and Performance (aka Warm Fuzzy Blanket) - 11 / 15 / 99
How our perceptions of things on Earth affect things in Norrath.

How a bad trade cost - 11 / 15 / 99
The tale of how a trade for something I was wearing prevented experience gain for 36+ hrs.

Must high level = Harvesting - 11 / 4 / 99
Theories and views on what high levels do with their time.

GM Events, Harvesting & Greed, Kindness & Compassion - 11 / 1 / 99
A look at GM run events I have attended, and the possible effect they may have in the future.

Careful, you might learn something - 10 / 27 / 99
An explination of how we learn by playing games.

The Definition of Evil - 10 / 22 / 99
An in-depth look at the misconception of what Evil really means to most people.

Temple of Solusek Ro Quests - 10 / 18 / 99
My experience with a quest from the Temple of Soulsek Ro, and why I will never do another.

Panic, Fear and Death - 10 / 15 / 99
A rant on how panic causes the needless death of others, and that we must learn to overcome the fear.

Specialization, How I wasted 24 hours of game time - 10 / 10 / 99
A look at how specialization ate up a lot of my time, and how it really works.

Idiots and Dungeons, Abuse of the zone line- 10 / 10 / 99
A rant on dungeons, idiots, and the zone line. We Clerics finally have a pet. But is it worth the wait?