TALLON ZEK - Shout Out

i hope it includes a lack of instances so people can't hide =)

Grickus here from Rallos-Zek / Zek, whatup.

I see a few familiar names!

Btw no game has ever matched everquest for one simple fact.

Everything you did in that game had consequences for your actions.
You kill a random monster? suddenly 2 NPC factions hate you and attack you on sight.
You stand around talking smack for 2 hours? Guess what, you're gonna end the day naked buddy after we kill the crap out of you all day.

And for some of us, the biggest part of the fun of that game was...that it wasnt an easy game to play..learning curve was steep...exploration was scary, I mean you dont exactly know where you are atm...so what happens if you die and have to come back and find your body?... Guess you better actually FOCUS and try hard huh? instead of saying well...it doesnt matter if i die, so....

Same thing goes for PvP..you lost a piece of gear if you are defeated, sure that sucks but....it also makes you try a hell of a lot harder to NOT die...now doesnt it? And has the added bonus of making PvP both meaningful and heart-pounding.

Too bad those days are probably gone forever, too bad.

Agree 100% with you Grickus.

EQ had a lot of great things going for it. I guess we are showing our age, but I miss the feeling of accomplishment. Yes it was a grind to hit 50 in the original game but it meant something. I have found memories when members of Caterva finished their no-drop set. We would all kill the person to "break" their armor in.

I also miss the factions with the NPC's. The time spent sitting in a hut in East Commons when the sun went down. Being a human monk, there was nothing worse than being out after dark.

What I really miss though is being able to attack anyone. It was the best method of dealing with the stupid factor of the player base.

By the way , I also find it sort of mind-boggling that the same thing that killed pvp in everquest 10 years ago is still killing all forms of it today...Instancing.

Although most of that is the faults of the current generation of mmo players. Thier tears is what created that approach in the first place.

I feel a little sorry for all the people that started with WoW as thier first mmo...cause they'll never know what a really good one is supposed to be.

Played on Zek name is Shadowsith and I owned everyone. EQ was and always will be the best mmo.

Started on TZ on day 1

Played in alot of the major guilds as several different toons.

The Highland Army (Sylvanar, Kurdon, Azzuno, Azdon)

Stature of the Gods/Indignation (Azdon, Azzuno, Knat, Pazzi)

Knights of the White Rose

Alliance of the Light

Legion of Little Folk

Pandemonium

I still have 1k+ screenshots saved including my favorite which is Cuick showing off his new epic rogue weapon while telling me how if Patryns decided to x-team nobody would be able to do **** about it. I got a guild invite for Pandemonium from Sarsharek less than a week later and the server was changed forever.

Tallon Zek Times community > anything I've experienced in any MMO since.

Lex Invictus was it? =) Synnovea ...... noob dragon raids...ugh

Played mostly Sieben, Bard (SWG Solon / Father). In a casual guild with some old Tallon Zek players. Dwerzy (Mage), Hallis (Monk), Tanthul? (Ranger), Znail (Wizard or Monk?).

Pande.... owned us quite alot early on, we gave em a good fight once or twice when we made our own guild later on though =) (Vengful Hand / Xanadu).


You know it's a hardcore MMORPG when it takes 20mins to cast teh buffs you need to raid!

Vallon Zek was fun. Alot of depth with 4 factions with 3 of them having an uneasy truce and alot of renegade guilds that were KoS to everyone else.

I did nothing but PvP, so I actually stopped leveling at 55 in order to be able to hit a larger range of players. Think it was a 5 levels up and down. But sure killed my share of 60s Wiping out full groups of level 50 ******s with a Wizard friend.

Fun times.

Menthal, Woodelf druid.

We had a necromancer named Imabriss who killed tons of the freeport guards and raised her faction with the goblins in High Hold Keep (corrupt guards were same faction as HHK guards). She'd go PvPing there and bind herself in the rooms where the goblins spawned. Since she wasn't KoS to them, whenever she got in trouble she'd run back into the goblins. It was amazing how many times people would go chasing after her and get killed by goblins, even after they'd seen it just happen to everyone else. Ah, faction. It was a two edged sword.