If Sony reset the servers tomorrow.

All your plat, all your characters, everything was gone, and you had to start over, would you:

a) Stay or Leave

b) If you stayed, would you do anything differently?

and

c) If you left, where would you go?

Hehe, was just thinking if there ever was a major server crash at Sony EQ, what would happen

i'd quit, 4 years of time down the drain would be enough to force me to find something else to spend my time on.

I'd stay on EQ. Still love the game and find interesting things to see and do.

Might even create another druid, but probably would create ... a Bard. Yes, you heard it right, a bard. Human, Veeshan diety (love the RP opportunities).

Would depend entirely if my friends stayed or moved on.

I'd probably quit.

If my guildmates and friends stayed, I would as well. I might make a wizzy this time, just to do something different. Been toying with playing a caster in EQ2.

An even more interesting question would be how to return a guild to power? My guess would be that the diety-based tradeskill armor would be the best way to start, along with doing "cash camps" like HGs. Try to be the first to level into CT range, the drops there are nice and could be "raided" by a guild that was in their 50s. With Tae Ew weapons/armor and some of the CT drops, groups could start moving into the tier 1 planes and valor/storms. Level to 65 with crappy gear and only 61-62 spells (remember, you wouldn't have the kunark or luclin era dropped spells either, unless you went and farmed them) then go back to Ssra and quick-raid old world targets, burrower/KT/AoW/Vindi... I doubt any top end guild would want to redo gearing up in NTOV but that is a possibility... in particular Eash and Iki...

Wow, would anyone want to re-key for ST? Probably not. And Emp/VT keying would be out of the question. It would be damn hard going to get back to the eles without VT... are the lower tier loots enough? Is ornate readily enough available to farm like you would in ToV?

Hell, maybe I would quit.

I'd stay.

Switching to a new MMOG would require me to start from scratch anyway and there aren't any RTS or FPS games that could entertain me as long or consistently as EQ has.

I'd like to say I'd do things differently and only focus on one character at a time but I'd only be fooling myself. Anyone who knows me knows I couldn't possibly do that. :\

quit for sure, dont have time to get near anywhere where i am now

If I would quit I would probably go play the FF online game, since some of my friends do, but like other people have stated I would probably depend on if my friends have played.

All in all though I would probably stay, and would start another wizard because I love the class that much. It wouldn't take as long(comparitively) to level up, because there would be tons of people your level and knowing good spots would make leveling very quick. Restoring equipment would be an absolute nightmare however.

I'd quit. Err...

Heh, well I would be sorry that 3 years of work was gone and there was nothing to show for it, but then again I'm done with EQ, so it wouldn't be a huge loss.

You'd see a lot more people doing LDoN. One of them would be my Human Rogue.

Santerre's post definately makes one think. That sure would be interesting to see how it plays out.

If the majority of my friends stayed, I'd reroll, definitely as a high elf paladin again.

If not, more reading time for me!

I would definately quit. Spent 4 years playing the game, and during those four years i spend a lot more time dedicated to EQ than i would have liked to do.

On another note, VI prob has atleast one or two backups of all server information on seperate hard drives, so it is unlikely to happen. But the question is an interesting one.

As far as how to avance a guild rapidly...cultural armor is not really a valid option until the guild has progressed to BOT level, need those blue diamonds. I think you would prob see a combination of several things happening.

First, you would see a massive push to get level 65 as fast as possible. This would be accomplished most likely in ldon, although you would see a lot of duel boxers monk/sham, quadding wizzys and druids, etc, in non ldon zones.

After getting the needed levels... Kael + hot farming would probabily ensue until the guild's main tanks were equipped in a baseline level of gear. LDON would also be an excelent source of gear.

Begin SSRA farming, work on targets such as KT, AOW mid way through SSRA farming.

SSRA mobs would now be prime targets, they are trivial mobs at level 65, even with inferior gear. NTOV could now be done when no SSRA/luclin mobs are up, and no pop targets exist which the guilds are capible of killing, to help fill out the gear with the rest of the guild. More likely, when no lucllin mobs are up, emp key/VT key farming would be done, as well as ldon adventures. Remember, you are trying to build a guild to power as rapidly as possible here. With players with a lot of play time, VT is an excelent path to take. Key farming can be done when no targets exist to kill, and the sheer number of drops in VT per clearing is amazing.


Pop targets would be taken out whenever possible, depending on the capibilities of the guild. Flagging would begin with the goal of not having to backflag after 3 kills of each mob. Mobs would be farmed as available for loot, as well as VT farming for loot, as you build the guilds capibilities to prepare for bert and rallos.

After RZ, you have backflagging, which hopefully would be limited, elemental farming, VT farming as needed. Sol ro is trivial after RZ so he is not mentioned.


When looking to build a guild to power as fast as possible, you will not be gearing up a guild as throughly as you do normally do. You would equip your key personal first inorder to push to be able to kill the hardest mobs possible. After you get your key personal equipped to the levels needed for your hardest targets, you would farm any other mobs to fill out your guild's gear as time permits.



At least that is how i would push to restore a guild to power, although i would be curious to hear other peoples paths

I would more than likely stay if the majority of my friends/guildmates were to return.

AoR would Rule the server!

I would want to quit.
However I love the game, so in all honesty I would likely gravitate to playing again. I know I would if my friends where doing same thing. I would hope that Sony would change some stuff slightly just so that leveling up and obtaining certain things would not be so redundant.

Starrla