February 18 2001
There's not much to this story... just an example of how you can waste your day in the game of Everquest. ^_^ With pictures!
The Elvish outpost on the continent of Kunark is known as Firiona Vie. This is also the name of the entire zone the city is in (the city itself is a small part of the South West corner).
In the North East corner of the zone there is a place where the ground turns from a light green to a dark green, signifying the borderland between Firiona Vie and the Swamp of No Hope. Nearby is a small camp with three giants in it, which can easily be pulled one at a time. No wanderers venture onto the dark green swamp land, so this makes an excellent place to pull to.
This particular Sunday I logged on as Jalia (36th level Shaman) and immediately grouped with Heinykin Draft, a 37th level wizard. We started kiting giants. Soon my guildmate Roncor (34th level Shaman) joined us, then my roommate/guildmate Ivannia (26th level Shadowknight).
And we killed giants all day and all night. I started at around 3:00 pm PST I think. I finished aroud 3:00 am PST. ^_^
To begin with we were kiting (a term used when you run ahead of the monster while it chases you -- following like a kite). As a shaman I could sow people (cast the spell Spirit Of Wolf on them so that they could run faster), and Heinykin the wizard could Snare the giants so they wouldn't run too fast. They usually chased her while my wolf pet and Ivannia's skeleton pet (and Ivannia herself) beat on it from behind.
Later Roncor logged to go to work, and Shayde joined us. Shayde was a 37th level Enchanter (also in our guild) and he could fear the giants so we started fear kiting (which is reverse kiting -- the monster is running away from you ^_^ ). Heinykin or I would pull, I'd root (spell that stops the monster in it's tracks), Heinykin would snare (slows the monster), then Shayde would fear. By the time my root spell broke or wore off the giant was snared and feared and trying to run from us. Shayde got his pet into the action too, most of the time (in EQ an Enchanter's pet can't be commanded to attack, it only attacks when something attacks you). ^_^
Much later, Roncor came back and joined us again. For a while Heinykin's roommate Heiniken Draft (do you detect a pattern here?) pulled for us (he's a 58th level barb warrior). Then they both had to log for the night.
After this we had a 35th level Shadowknight named Zilisth join us (don't you love those Iksar names?) We continued to fear kite for a short time but it wasn't really necessary because Zilisth could easily tank the giants. So we switched to a more conventional mano-a-mano style of fighting, and I or Roncor kept Zilisth and Ivannia healed.
Later Shayde had to leave as well, but a 40th level wizard named Kildare joined us (I should mention, aside from Zilisth these are all people I've grouped with before). Zilisth had to log a half hour later, and we went back to kiting.
For a short time we were joined by Reveal, a Magician and guildmate, but then she and Kildare got knocked offline and didn't come back. It was very late by this time and Ivannia and I decided to log off. However, when all was said and done I got to level 37 and halfway through it, Ivannia got to level 28, and nearly everyone I grouped with gained a level at some point. The loot was good, so this is what you'd call a very successful day. ^_^ Even if it's all I did.
I do have to admit, the novelty of being able to kill things as big and mean as giants is still a big thing to me. ^_^ For my roommate, it's an even bigger thrill, as Ivannia (newly 28 mind you) is his highest character ever (and Jalia at 37 is my highest). And Roncor at 34th level is playing his first character ever, so I know this is all pretty cool to him too.