EverQuest turned 7 years old last week.

EQ celebrated by offering a double experience weekend for all current players, which is available until noon pacific today. My secret EQ contacts told me they were knocking down about 3 AA points every 45 minutes. That was in a best-case scenario experience group with a botted cleric — mine, on loan to the secret contacts.

Best EQ Cleric memory: Level 1 dark elf cleric fresh out of Neriak the second day of live (because if you will recall, there wasn’t a whole lot of playing going on that first live day — crash, crash, BOOM!). I was lost in Nektulos Forest, again, and it began to rain. Even with dark elf vision, I couldn’t see a damn thing and ran right into the skeletons and mummies. I could see then. I saw I was getting the shit kicked out of me.

Thus began the first corpse run of many to follow.

Congrats EQ. You are legend.