Well, as I wrote a couple of weeks ago, SOE was trying to lure me back into EQ2.  I put the postcard on my desk, and there it sat for a few days.  Then a week.  Then it started to talk to me:  “Hey man…you’re not playing an MMO at the moment, right?  So why not come back and try an old friend?  You know you want to!!” 

We had a good conversation, but I declined and went to watch some college football.  Sometime during a commercial I wandered in to surf a bit and lo and behold, somehow I was downloading the game!  How did that happen??  I tried to remember.  I figured heck, as long as it’s downloading I might as well let it finish, right? 

So I did.  And I patched.  And I found a UI I like (ProfitUI Reborn).  And I logged in and found my old characters waiting for me.  So now I’m at that decision point of, “Do I really want to get back into playing EQII?”  You have to understand, I created my original character in EQ2 on the first day you could, on the Guk server.  I played for three months while leading a guild, and the game at the time just wasn’t for me.  I tried, I really did.  Fast forward 18 months after that - I jump back into the game during the summer of 2006 with a few friends.  Man - the game had totally changed, and for the better!   We played for another three months and had a lot of fun, then RL got ahold of me and I fell off the wagon again.

So here we are today, another 14 months or so after I last stopped playing.  And I’m staring at two mid-level characters on Guk (lvl 40 and 50), and have just created a couple of new characters on Kithicor (Fae Wizard and Gnome Illusionist).  So the inevitable questions - how much am I going to play this?  Casual?  Hardcore?  Do I want to play through the new content or go back to my higher level characters?  What about people to play with - join a guild?  Am I planning to stick with this long enough to raid?  What server do I play on?

Decisions decisions…but I am having fun with my lowbie characters at the moment.  The Fae are pretty cool and I love the Greater Faydark zone so far.  I think I’ll probably get into Kelethin a bit tonight.  It’s definitely bringing back a lot of memories from a year ago - everything from the level sound and effects, to the “bloop” sound of getting a new spell, to the character and monster models.  And man…how can I ever forget the sheer amount of quests!  Tons of em. 

So if you see a Gnome Illusionist or Fae Wizard running around on Kithicor, give them a wave.  It may just be me out there playing.

P.S.  I actually did see “Pixiestyx” in chat last night hehe. 

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