Don’t Try to Go Back

Posted on May 19, 2006 One Comment

Got a bee in my bonnet earlier this week. World of Warcraft just wasn’t holding my interest so I figured I’d reload Everquest and see what’s new in that world. Why those sorts of thoughts don’t set off internal alarms is something I’ll just never understand.

Spent some hours Wednesday night getting EQ installed and patched. Spent a little bit of time last night reactivating one of my old accounts and logging in. It was good to see some old “faces”. In fact, I was a bit surprised at how many names I recognized. I wonder how many of those are being piloted by the player that I once knew though?

Things were not good though. I had cobbled together a UI skin over the years that made life easy for me. When I deleted all my EQ junk last year, that skin was deleted too. I had also rather heavily tweaked the key bindings over the years. All my old spellsets are gone too. And, after playing a bit of EQ2 and WoW I’m more into the left-hand WASD movement as opposed to the right hand cursor arrows.

Ugh. I spent an hour or so finding some UI skins that were close to what I’m used to. That wasn’t so rough. Figuring out spellsets and keymappings, however, is just about too much to bear. I was on for 45 minutes tonight just tweaking UI. Then I get to spellsets… that’s a bitch for old characters with tons of spells. Seriously, I just plain don’t remember what spells I used in what situations and the thought of researching them all to figure it out again is enough to make me cry “Uncle!” You got your buff sets (buff1, buff2, travel, etc) then perhaps an indoor fighting spell set and an outdoor set. Maybe the raid set vs the grouping sets. The solo set, the pet create/buff set, etc etc.

Ugh Ugh Ugh. I logged off pretty much figuring I won’t be back. We’ll see how ambitious I feel this weekend I guess.

Tags: Everquest, games, WoW