EZ Server

prob not interesting to most, but if any p99 people are around, we're waking the sleeper and abandoning the #1 guild immediately after


 live stream right now

http://www.twitch.tv/hokushinp99


Edit: sleeper is now awoken.   Expect some new/returning faces to EZ Server soon.

TMO is forsaken/rampage now? Whaaa... when did this happen?

Lol - watching http://www.twitch.tv/famas1171 - "Oh Shit! Akkadius is here! --- I've found Akkadius"

Akkadius! Playing around on Kerafyrm's scripted rampage around EQ (in Western Wastes)
(http://i.imgur.com/WtXUZ4S.jpg)

TMO is now Forsaken
Ingloiurious Basterds is now Rampage, they have been the #1 guild for the last 2 years or so and do not get along with Forsaken, big rivals.

Rampage is now disbanding while on top after 6 months of domination since people want to move on after waking the sleeper.  It's a very different raid culture on P99.. waking up at 4am text messages with 30-140 people in teamspeak and a boss being pulled to camp 5 seconds within logging in, its very stressful at end game due to the raid scene.

Yeah the end-game is super overpopulated... but I guess that's what would happen when you re-create a game and give it's progression timeline a 10x slower than natural speed... with all of the knowledge of 15 years in wiki form. All on one server.

Instancing would simultaneously ruin p99 and solve all of its problems.

The P99 admins are the problem. They like the player strife. If they wanted to actually fix the server all they would need to do is increase the spawn rate to match their increased population. Mobs on classic were up far more often due to the population and the constant repops.

I never got to see the sleeper rampage...cause we killed dat bitch when we woke him....both times.....


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Yes, but in what era?

It was POP era as I remember it.


waking the sleeper is easy..

killing him takes a massive zerg

the era is irrelevent

Well the era is not irrelevant. zerging with level 65s PoP gear/spells/buffs is different than zerging with 60's Velious gear/spells/buffs. Also AA's.

RMT is going to skyrocket now that all these top-tier guys are quitting.

Bregan D'Aerth Twitch Capture Waking Sleeper (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9XnXnoErfo)

I remember on my server (Tunare) on live when they did that crap. Talk about pissing off the entire server population. I was so damn pissed that I was spitting blood out of my eyes for days. And of course they just wiped over and over, etc, then no more of the primal weapons or the scared mask, etc.

I have always thought that entire Sleeper storyline was a mistake on SOE's part. An event that can only be done once and changes the server forever afterwards, what a bunch of bullshit.

No, I'm still not spitting blood out of my eyes over it decade or so later......

The funny thing about it on p99... is that they woke the sleeper... and will literally NEVER be able to kill him. They just did it to do it (which i guess is understandable.) But now for the next forever... all of sleepers loot dropping guys are gone.

just for lulz I guess... that and e-peen

at least on live there were further expansions that trivialized or matched sleeper loot... now it's just gone forever

Nice I was part of that Zerg Balidet both times as well. Was fun thats for sure. What guild were you in?

I was Wudan

Afterlife woke it on Mith Marr, but they actually didnt want to, and tried preventing doing so for some time. Sadly a Euro guild leader had a mad hard on for doing ANYTHING before Afterlife could.....including a move that would make the server weaker and less interesting. When it finally looked like that Euroguild would pull it off, they stepped in and did it before they could. Heh....I remember it well, I was in NToV that night and that bastard ran through the zone and wiped everyone in it. Fortunately AL was nice about it and warned everyone when it was gonna happen, giving us a chance to camp out rezzers.

And I am of mixed thoughts on the mechanics of it.....on one hand I agree, sucks to basically completely, permanently crap up a zone just because you wanna see if you can do it. On the other....this was one of the last moves SOE did that one could respect: consequences for your actions, and motivated competition, even if just for bragging rights.

I was in the guild on Tunare that fucked it for everyone else by waking the Sleeper, and most of us vociferously opposed doing it but the super hardcore, on 18 hours a day types got what they wanted for drops and insisted we do it to keep other guilds from catching up.  It's a stupid fucking mechanic to have a once only event only be enjoyed by a fraction of the server population and subsequently end access to the gear that the zone offered.  I'd be okay with the event crap if obtaining the gear were still an option...like say next expansion comes out and the gear somehow made it into the entry level raids of that era.  Like when POP came out after Velious, the elemental planes would have the Sleeper's gear drops spread across the encounters...no stat increase, exact same gear, rename it if you must but at least then people could still acquire the stuff that the one time encounter otherwise would have shut off.  Then Plane of Time gear could be unique again and it could have a one time event tied into it while the next expansion would carry the unique Plane of Time gear forward to Velious entry level raids.

what pissed me off was when Tunare held the Best of the Best Ranger event.

Durg v Wine............

Wine had primal, Durg did not. Otherwise their gear at the time was almost identical. Both very good at their classes and PVP.

During the end of the fight, both had approx. 4% hps, we all saw the flash and text, Wine's primal proc'ed and Durg went down like a noodle..........

Now, Durg didn't have the benefit of obtaining that primal, why? Because Dim's guild F&*^ed everyone........

my eyes are bleeding again.......

I was in ascending dawn.

I was paying someones mage because I never keyed my necro and was having fun summoning random people that I knew who where not in WuD/AD/ or ...the other guild and watching people freak out in chat about the "invaders"

fun times..

I played on The Rathe, which hosted the first awakening of The Sleeper.  I was in Tindi'Losi, nipping at the heels of Blood of the Spider, who were No. 1 on the server and were the ones who triggered him.  It was chaos.  It was crazy seeing an NPC bounce from zone to zone, ripping apart everything in sight, killing other NPCs.  I was not present for the initial battle, but I was sent to Skyshrine to help.  I have never seen so many corpses glitched standing up, and then to notice a transparent foot come around the corner before getting DT'ed into oblivion.

Good times.

I was in bots on rathe server. We were the first to wake him not fully knowing what would happen. It caused alot of hate to anyone with the guildtag at the time. So many deaths and sleeper rampaging zones.

At least thats how i remember it.

Were you with BoTS when they were called Brotherhood of the Spider?  You guys trained the piss out of us in Plane of Fear during vanilla EQ which resulted in the guild getting dissolved. Tindi and Blood were forever at odds.

Yes it was brotherhood of the spider. I never rejoined bots. It was crazy the amount of people a raid took to do stuff back then.. And unless you were always on you only got old stuff noone wanted. That was prior to the dkp systems used later on in planes. Favoritism at its best.

yea its funny how that all works out sometimes..

I went from a nogeared newb who had a guild just trying to do velious raids to the absolute best geared necro on my server in less than 6 months joining up with AD on RZ and being the only active necro for like 2 years... it was insane...i got everything

Yea i was a top 10 geared serverwide rogue from luclin through planes. Then i started college.. Used to have a guy in the guild that would 5 box clerics for ch rotations. Tanks rarely died from anything other than a dt. Must have been almost as boring as playing a necro to mana battery clerics, i did that too for a while.

When people sent me a tell for mana i had a hotkey to target them and dot them up pretty good...

pvp server for the win..


after awhile they did not ask much...

unless of course it was a raid that it was absolutely required... then I would do my part..


thing is back in them days a necro was more dps than any class on them long drawn out fights...but know one seemed to care lol../shrug

lol i vaguely remember that, but I do remember the zone being so crowded. Musta been 300+ with AD/Wudan/MiM and then everyone going nuts in chat.

And now the current Wudan is crap, AD is gone and ASD TRIED to take AD as their abbreviation and now they are gone.

Were you on RZ as well Brannyn?

TZ, but I played on Zek until last year. AD disbanded shortly after the server merges, ASD slowly died off and their officers all got recruited into PDM and the remaining people left and have tried creating/recreating like 10 different guilds including Wudan. Last I checked the top guild is PDM and that's pretty much the only real raiding guild on zek.
I've been in KoS since about a year after the server merges.

The server merger was the worst thing ever for RZ.

I am not sure about the other servers but RZ was pretty healthy to that point with ad wudan and MIM all raiding and building... sure AD had a pretty heady lead in things but we all made it work.


after the merger I Just feel like we lost our sense of self.. not sure why.. I just stopped caring and left the game shortly after

I quit well before the merger, dont think it was long after Quarm. Things were pretty smooth. AD/Wudan/MiM all had a fairly good relationship. I quit just because I started hating the warrior class so much.
Still know a few who play on Zek in Wudan, a few of the old timers, tried to recruit me but I just cant get into it there again.

I quit because the population is too low now.
I used to go out and wreak havoc on all the raiding guilds with my rogue (in only group gear) and my guild would jump in on mass pvp all the time but the player base on zek has dropped so low that it's pretty much just down to 3 guilds and only one of them is capable of doing end game raids.

i used to beat rogues by just standing in one spot and spinning and dotting them up.....if that was going poorly or they got a lucky BS i would pop my lifedrain over time spell and HS up...and watch them cook...

dont think I ever lost to a rogue past velius...