The EverQuest TLP server Agnarr launches in less than two days! We're looking at a 5pm EST launch on May 24 according to the recent announcement.The EQ team released an Agnarr / Timel...
https://www.keenandgraev.com/2017/05/22/everquest-agnarr-hype
Unfortunately, this day has been coming for a long, long time. To Our Daybreak Community, I’m writing today to let you know that, after much review and consideration, Daybreak is discontinuing ...
https://www.keenandgraev.com/2016/03/11/everquest-next-officially-cancelled
Had an interesting experience in EverQuest last night. I was healing the Unrest Fireplace on my Halfling Cleric and everything was going as you might expect. We had two rangers, a rogue, a mage, ...
My wife has been on a roll with these video game arrangements. This time she arranged a version of my absolute all-time favorite song from any video game: EverQuest’s Main Theme. I told her to...
https://www.keenandgraev.com/2016/02/16/everquest-main-theme-piano-cover-arranged-by-my-wife
I’m slacking hard on blogging. Honest truth here is that I have a lot of games I’m enjoying right now. So let’s dive into an adventure log update! Keen’s Adventure Log, stardate 2/10/2016...
https://www.keenandgraev.com/2016/02/10/adventure-log-update-games-im-playing
Daybreak announced the details of the upcoming February EverQUest update. Most notably, experience rates are going to improve. So, Experience Is Better? Yes. After this patch, the overall experie...
https://www.keenandgraev.com/2016/02/06/everquest-upping-exp-rates-for-progression-servers
The bulk of EverQuest’s current population has to be 30+. EQ originally came out in 1999, and I was 15 years old. I’m now 31 years old, and I can remember even back then that most players wer...
https://www.keenandgraev.com/2016/01/11/effects-aging-player-population
We are coming up on the 30 day monthiversary of Phinigel’s launch! Time flies when you’re having fun, and I have certainly enjoyed myself while playing two characters and grouping regularl...
https://www.keenandgraev.com/2016/01/07/phinigel-servers-first-month
Unlike most years, 2015 was jam-packed with amazing games. In fact, there were simply too many amazing games for the average gamer to play them all. What a marvelous problem to have after so many...
https://www.keenandgraev.com/2015/12/23/the-best-games-of-2015
We had a really fun weekend on the Phinigel EverQuest “True Box” Progression Server this weekend. Daybreak turned on double experience, even on progression servers, allowing us to propel ours...
https://www.keenandgraev.com/2015/12/21/double-xp-weekend-on-phinigel
I was crushed by sickness for 9999 points of damage over the past few days and completely unable to even think straight. I somehow managed to reach level 14 in EverQuest with a foggy head. My reg...
https://www.keenandgraev.com/2015/12/15/phinigel-progress-report
My friends and I are having a lot of fun on Phinigel server. We struggled getting from 1-4 which took entirely too long, but now we really found our stride once we went to Crushbone around level ...
https://www.keenandgraev.com/2015/12/12/crushbone-belts-potions-galore
Playing EverQuest always brings the same thoughts to my mind about why I can find so much enjoyment in a game that is 17 years old. I just keep going back. I seemingly never tire of the adventure...
Phinigel is live! Surprisingly it came up exactly when they said it would! I rolled a Necromancer named Fragglemancer, and my friend Ursus made a Druid. We’re currently leveling up in Steamfont...
Phinigel server launches in exactly one week! We do not have a time yet, but according to the official EverQuest Twitter account we can expect them to release that information sometime before lau...
https://www.keenandgraev.com/2015/12/02/everquest-phinigel-server-no-box-launch-plans
Daybreak is launching a NEW EverQuest Progression Server. That’s right, the rumors are true! And it’s better than I expected. Phinigel will be a “True Box” Progression Server. This means ...
https://www.keenandgraev.com/2015/11/23/new-eq-progression-server-phinigel-coming-december-9th
I played both EverQuest and World of Warcraft today.  These two games have worlds which are quite disparate, but one key difference kept coming into focus: I’m not afraid of monsters or t...
https://www.keenandgraev.com/2015/11/11/musing-on-the-dangers-of-wow-and-eq
I’m a little grumbly tonight. Daybreak decided they could do what was originally deemed impossible because the TLP/TLE servers are pulling from the same code as the live servers: Nerf Mage pets...
https://www.keenandgraev.com/2015/08/12/daybreak-does-the-impossible
Continuing the ride the wave, Daybreak opened up two more progression servers last week, but this time the servers are for EverQuest 2. I chose to play on the PvE version rather than subject myse...
https://www.keenandgraev.com/2015/07/31/having-fun-on-everquest-2s-progression-server
When MMOs were still in their infancy — actually, before they were even called MMOs — I used to have a serious problem making multiple characters and struggling to choose which one to play. P...
I’m having a blast on Ragefire. I still play every day, and I am leveling my Magician with plans for multiple alts in the works. I’m stocking up gear for those alts and preparing a plan that ...
https://www.keenandgraev.com/2015/06/30/daybreaks-horrible-kunark-poll-decisions
MMOs can bore me. In fact, they can bore me quite easily. I get bored of MMOs all the time. What MMOs typically can not do is frustrate me or give me that moment of pure grief where I’m literal...
Yesterday I wrote about why I like the instancing in EverQuest. I think Daybreak did a nice job of meeting the average player’s needs quite well. After yesterday’s post went up, Daybreak anno...
https://www.keenandgraev.com/2015/06/19/everquest-ragefire-raids-instancing
Instancing has so many different connotations these days. I usually hate all of them, but for some reason I’m really enjoying their implementation in EverQuest. The instancing in EverQuest is d...
https://www.keenandgraev.com/2015/06/18/i-like-everquests-instancing
I’m seeing this sentiment all over EverQuest both in-game and on the forums. People are complaining that there are just too many other people playing the game with them. I never thought I would...
https://www.keenandgraev.com/2015/06/10/there-are-too-many-people-playing-my-mmo
My weekend was filled with great gaming. I played Assassin’s Creed Unity and Splatoon with my wife, then spent a good deal of time leveling up my characters in EverQuest. I’ll write more o...
https://www.keenandgraev.com/2015/06/08/great-weekend-in-eq-some-good-grouping-lessons
Join them! EverQuest Ragefire server is the game I’m dedicated to right now, and although it’s enormously fun (I have 80+ hours in it already) it’s not without its faults. One of the big...
https://www.keenandgraev.com/2015/06/04/if-you-cant-beat-them
Every session of EQ brings a set of new realizations. The latest realization is that we’ve lost the importance of levels. We went from every level mattering to every 5 or 10 levels bri...
https://www.keenandgraev.com/2015/06/01/every-level-should-matter
I was more social these last few days in EverQuest than I have been in the past 10 years of MMOs combined. There are so many different social dynamics in EverQuest that have happened to me ...
https://www.keenandgraev.com/2015/05/28/people-are-actually-talking-playing-together
I need to come up for a breath of air and actually post something! Sorry for the slow posts, but I’ve been having a blast in EverQuest on the Ragirefire server. I have a lot of stuff to write a...