Friends are the most important part of EverQuest, they will be very helpful to your EQ Powerleveling. But if you have never played a Massively Multi-Player Game before, a game such as EverQuest can be a very daunting task. Friends will determine whether you enjoy the game or not. There are exceptions obviously as there are to any rule, but 90% of people will find a MMOG type game much more enjoyable if they have friends to play it with. The best times that I ever had in game were late at night when I was trying to hunt something with a group of friends. We’d sit and talk during the downtime and just have a general good time with each other. It made no difference whether what we killed gave us the best experience or loot, what mattered was the time spent with friends. However, the experience and loot was always nice. :) I can’t stress this enough, a MMOG will be much more enjoyable, for most people, if you have a group of good friends to enjoy it with.

Now, here are a few basic pointers and advice on how to go out and start making friends in a virtual setting. The first thing to note however that is it is very similar to real life. If you are nice to people, they will generally be nice to you. However, and this is a big however. There will always be the bad eggs out there that are just out to ruin other people’s game play experience. Which is just another similarity to the real world; gaming isn’t a complete escape from those types of people. Although, you will find that the majority of people will be more than willing to help you out by way of giving advice and by sending a smile your way.

One common way that people make friends, just as in the real world, is to go out to social events and participate in them. Guilds often host events that people of all levels of playing ability are welcome to attend. If you take the time to go to some of these events and meet the people there you will almost be guaranteed a spot in that particular guild when you meet the other requirements that the particular guild may have set forth for their members. A guild is often the best way to meet people and make friends, but is obviously not the only way.

One thing to be wary of is being obnoxious towards other players as it will not help you in the way of making friends at all. Using what is known as “dewd speak” in a MMOG is widely looked down upon and will generally turn mature players off from you. "Dewd" speak is using words such as l3wt for the word “loot” and other such combinations that involve alternating caps and numbers in a word. There is also many other words that can fall into this category, but it is generally easy to use common sense to avoid bother others. Another thing that is highly looked down upon is the simple art of begging. People don’t like random strangers coming up to them and begging for either a buff spell or item of some sort. It’s considered rude, and is one very quick way to turn people off from you.

Often while playing the game, especially at lower levels, you will come across what is known as a ‘pick up group.’ Basically, all this means is a group of people who meet each other for the first time and decide to go on a hunt or camp a spawn together. You can often meet some wonderful people playing this way, and often they will share the same feelings about you. If you do happen to enjoy that particular persons company you should always ask if you could add them to your friends list, done by typing in /friend (name of the person you are trying to add) without the parenthesis. After this you will be able to type in anytime /who all friends to see if any of the people you have added to your list are on at any particular time. You will eventually form friendships just by general association with people who enjoy the same type of play style that you do.

Basically as a general rule, if you want to make friends just be active in server events. You can find out about them right here on Stratics under our news section. It will take some time, just as making friends in the real world does, but the first few months you’ll be so absorbed in the game that it won’t matter. When the newness of the game wears off though you’ll be glad to have friends, as that is what makes the true content of the game enjoyable.

Just like in the real world, friend is also necessary in your game life, they will help you, protect you, etc. Your process of EQ Power Level will be fluent with them. In addition, we also can help you to do the EQ Power Leveling.

Enjoy your game life!