Did you model your EQ2 character after your EQ one?

[Vinyard]

This subject has always piqued my curiosity. I am just wondering how many players out there decided to model their EQ2 characters after there original EQ ones, assuming you played EQ1. I know I did, and I kind of regret it now. Human monks are kinda bland, I would probably find it more interesting if I was a troll, ogre, or dwarf monk!

[Dacies18]

My very first toon in EQ2 was a Wood Elf warden who was the great great great great whatever granddaughter of my Eq1 Druid....but I thought warden was boring as heck and deleted her. I remade her as a fae...years later as a Fury and i like her

[Namahr]

Loladen wrote:

This subject has always piqued my curiosity. I am just wondering how many players out there decided to model their EQ2 characters after there original EQ ones, assuming you played EQ1.I know I did, and I kind of regret it now. Human monks are kinda bland, I would probably find it more interesting if I was a troll, ogre, or dwarf monk!

Funny you should mention that...I find each time I make a High Elf, I always make her look as close to my EQ1 main, lol.

[Zorastiz]

I rolled a different class in EQ2 but the same race and same name. I recently re-upped my EQ-1 account for a diversion on the days when you just need something different, it's fun playing my old SK but what a different experience.

EQ-1 Iksar SK-Zorastiz

EQ-2 Iksar Necro-Zorastiz

[Sedenten]

I only really had two characters I played much in EQ1--a gnomish magician and wood elf bard (who was permanately in gnome form thanks to mask).  I still play those characters there, but I recreated them here, with the same exact names and all, as a gnomish conjuror and gnomish troubadour.  I even subconsciously set their appearance slots and basic look to closely resemble what I had them set with in EQ1. 

[Savanja]

Kinda.  At first I made a barbarian mystic after my EQ1 barb shaman which had been my fave character, but I couldn't stand the class so I ditched it not too long into beta.  After release I went through some identity crisis before I decided on the monk.EQ1 = Satinka, the barbarian shaman.EQ2 = Satinka, the barbarian monk.I tried to make them look as close as I could, but the model are pretty different so they look nothing alike.  lol.

[Suprchik407]

I would have made my kerran after my vah sher but -1- the female white tiger's nose looks horrible, its off alignment and just doesnt go well on the eq2 female mesh as well as the male mesh- ( I dont play guy toons), and I changed my looks in eq1 between white tiger, and the siamese look. We dont have siamese furs in eq2. If anyone has the powah to add this in the game and is reading this thread- Please! Bring in some new furs- like siamese from eq1 days! Thanks!

[Zwildstar]

Wildiris a high elf mage was born on Norrath but shortly after the shadow of Luclin was discovered a portal took her to a future Earth instead of returning her to Norrath.  She became Terran Tradeswoman for Infiniti Corp. and went Earth and Beyond for months until while exploring a remote sector of asteroid field she found a rip in time and space that showed a world not unlike Norrath.  The galaxy was in turmoil (idiot developers) so she jumped thru the rip and landed in a place the locals called Hibernia, but she discovered that it was a Dark Age of Camelot.  Going back to her magical roots, she joined the ranks of the enchanters and thought she would live out her elven days in Hibernia, but the world started to unravel around her (complete [Removed for Content] developers) so thankfully she found yet another rift in time and this time it was to Norrath again... but what happened? 

The world is alot different then she left it, Luclin is gone... the races are scattered, her homecity is in ruins, everyone she knew are gone.  But she shortly finds the Qeynos mage tower and once again practices her magical skills and this time discovers that Norrath has a excellent crafting and nothing like the "hobby for rich aristicrats" from Norrath of old.  But what is happening now.... the crafting it is disappearing... no!!!!!!  With beaker in hand, she went to the alchemcy table and mixed one last potion that opened a portal to a place she heard of called Azeroth.

Azeroth was the best place she has every found, this time she discovered that this world called people of her skill, warlocks, plus had to once again hide her ears to pass herself off as human.  The magic flowed like water, the crafters were happy, everything was right in the world.  Wildiris lived to quite a old age while exploring this wonderful world.  She had a daughter and named her Magik and even found that a dwarf named Aragi followed her from Midgard. 

Things were going so grand, but she wanted more, so using her innate sense to find open rifts she went on to visit places like:  Paragon City, where she used her magical talents to fight the neverending crime in a City of Heroes.   Arieki, where she fought The Bane for Tabula Rasa.  Naboo, where she took up the hobby of taming creatures for the alliance in a Star Wars Galaxies.  She even spent over a year as a Terran again after Earth was invaded, mutated and ultimately destroyed by a Auto Assault.

Currently Wildiris is again residing in Norrath's future?... present?... but is longing already to get away from the distorted world, maybe the Hyborian Age? or maybe the world of Warhammer? She has lived a long life but predicts that there are alot more worlds to explore.

Edit... So to answer your question... No, my EQ1 toon and my EQ2 toon are the SAME person.

[Gilasil]

My favorite toon from EQ1 was an Iksar monk.  I loved the Iksar lore and the monk fit my playing style.

My first character in EQ2 was a barbarian paladin though (inspired mainly from D&D paladins I've played over the years).  I tried Iksar but I HATED the male Iksar model and the Iksar lore is royally messed up in EQ2 (I LIKED being KoS everywhere, yea I'm wierd).

I just came back and this time I made a female Iksar bruiser.  I decided playing a female lizard wasn't all that bad and the female model actually looks pretty cool.  And yea, she's strongly inspired by my fond memories of my EQ1 Iksar.  They both even took up tailoring on the side.

[Vadja]

My main in EQ1 was a dark-elf enchanter. I found I liked the priest classes most in EQ2, so my main is a dark half-elf fury with the same surname as my enchanter. My enchanter was the last character I camped out in EQ1 (sniff). I left her in the monks guild in North Qeynos

[LordPazuzu]

My first EQ2 character was a barbarian guardian modeled after my EQ1 barbarian warrior.  I later rerolled her as a zerker because I felt that was more true to my EQ1 warrior than the guardian.  I could have just betrayed, but I wanted to keep her Qeynosian.

[KBern]

Loladen wrote:

This subject has always piqued my curiosity. I am just wondering how many players out there decided to model their EQ2 characters after there original EQ ones, assuming you played EQ1.I know I did, and I kind of regret it now. Human monks are kinda bland, I would probably find it more interesting if I was a troll, ogre, or dwarf monk!

I did name and race, but not class.

Saurakk was an iksar warrior in eq1, iksar necro in eq2.

Oaker was a halfling druid in eq1, was a halfling swashy until deleted.

Pykyor was a Vah Shir Beastlord in eq1, is a kerran Sk in eq2.

I think that was the only ones I sort of ported over.

[greenmantle]

Started couple of characters based on my eq1 characters that never really went any where, most ended up ts alts or barley played.

[TaleraRis]

Kinda. I was an enchanter and one of our spells was a frog form All my EQ2 characters roleplay wise are the children of my EQ1 characters, though.

[Kieram]

Actually I base all my mains off the first 3 I came up with for pen and paper in the 70's

[Rijacki]

I sometimes feel like an oddity in that I like to create completely different and unrelated characters for each game.My boyfriend has 2 characters in EQ2 which have the same name as his EQ1 character and are his descendent (and it's a name he's used for so many games and characters it's his usual nickname and the name with which he was first introduced to me and so, even near 5 years of relationship later, I am more prone to use it than his given name *laugh*).My primary EQ1 character walked off into the snows alone.. presumably to die.  Due to RP and real life stuff, that character was at a complete and utter dead end.  Nostalgically, I've considered bringing her back in a way, but then I realise I want to leave her in the past where my memories of her can be winnowed to just the good stuff leaving the bad to fly away like chaf.I do have ONE derivative character, though. R'jack is "kinda" derivative of Rijacki even though they're both around concurrently but on different servers... almost like a parallel universe thing.  R'jack is an arasai coercer, Rijacki is a gnome wizard/alchemist.  R'jack is vaguely like Rijacki looks when she's in dark elf form.  R'jack's name is devoid of "i". But, even though R'jack is "born" out of Rijacki (in a manner of speaking), R'jack has entirely her own personality.My other characters on various servers, even the 2 other coercers (the only class I have in active multi *laugh*) are very different than R'jack and not associated with her in any way.

[Todra_B]

My main, Todra, a dwarf Fury, derived from a character I had years ago playing Warhammer Fantasy paper rpg. He was a dwarf giant slayer (a fearless psychotic fighter). Back then his last name was Badaxe so I used it in eq2 for a while. Problem was as a Fury he never carried the double head axe that the giant slayer had. I later changed his last name to Belegost for the LoTR reference (I'm a big LoTR fan but I haven't played LoTRO yet). If I remember Belegost translated in Sindarin to "Mighty Fortress" and was a dwarven city which I liked. I never played EQ1.

[Shazzie]

When I found some old EQ1 guildies on Antonia Bayle, I re-made my EQ1 character there with them. Mentally, she IS my EQ1 character- she's a Dark Elf Necromancer, and I say it's quite possible she's been alive all this time! She's still not sure why she lost such wonderful knowledge as Dead Man Floating and most especially Zevfeer's Theft of Vitae, though. I miss Zev's so much. I loved being an atypical necro, and doing far more than the fear kiting everyone seemed to expect. Of course, having 'of Erollisi Marr' as a title for a Dark Elf Necromancer confuses people. I seem to be one of the few who uses those titles as they were originally intended!

[Wyrmypops]

I wouldn't have been able to get my EQ2 main looking like my EQ1 one, as I used to have a barbarian zerker in the old game and with the armour change from chain to plate, and no longer being limited to 2hander only the same class/race combo would look radically different.

I have though, made my EQ2 part of his family. Even worked out a tentative family tree, with union between barbarians, humans and high elves in the mix. They've kept the surname, which is a misspelt welsh swear word of the type alloted to hand-and-a-half swords. They've also retained the tradition of the first name being a welsh word for some appropriate aspect.

In EQ1 I had Llidiog Plenteyn whcih translated to Angry Mispelt-Rude-Word. When coming to EQ2 I wasn't sure I'd take to the berserkers here, with the plate armour an all. I have, but anticipated my main being a monk instead, so went with Mynach which related to monk albeit in a monastery way. Ensuing characters include Dynan, a high elf monk whose name relates to his la de dah poncey elf nature. Gwylliaid, is a nod to bandit, appropriate for my Brigand. And Anwar, barbarian paladin whose name describes his race. They all trace their line back to Llidiog, and his off screen relationship with one of the pretty elf girls that manned a Karanan Spire. 

[Trillien]

My high elf mage from EQ I is the ancestor of my high elf conjurer in EQ II. Her history tells the story.  

[Kellin]

Not really.

I played a gnome enchanter in EQ1, and I made a gnome illusionist in EQ2.  Different names.  That's about as close as I've come.

After all, EQ1 is still there, and so are my characters.  I don't need to try to recreate them in a different game.

(though my server was merged and my rogue got x'd!  boohoo!)

[Thantoes]

I did two of my EQ1 charactors that was - Thantoes Pettamer a Gnome mage in EQ1 is now Thantoes Pettamer Gnome Conjuror in EQ2 he was my second charactor I made in EQ1 and first here.

My first charactor in EQ1 was a Human Paladin Thor ? ( man it has been a LONG time since I thought about him) Had made him with NO knowledge of MMOs or EQ1, after I got him to about 11 or 12? he was running around Qeynos plains and fell down a hollow tree deep in a "scary place" never was able to get his body before it decayed. It was while I was trying to get his stuff back --VERY poor at that time and did not have the money get more armor/weapons and begging was not my style-- I made Thantoes..a pet class that was abit easier to "farm" money so I could get Thor more stuff... Back to the topic - my second charactor made in EQ2 was Thordom 0--Barbarian Paladin -- Great x3 grandson married a barbarian.. :-0

[Snowdonia]

Heck no! And the only things I brought over from that awful game is the first and last name of one of the characters there that I halfed up and put on two different ones. If I was to compare my characters to any characters from a game I previously played, then it would the ones I had in Horizons (now Istaria). Different things I took from there like names for a few characters and themes/races. I tried to make my dragon (ie Sarnak) like my dragon in HZ but I couldn't get the right color green and it never looks right, so I went with silver which was my pen and paper, Council of Wurms, dragon's color. So, first name, Esmari, from HZ, color from PnP, race from both.My Guardian Half Elf's first name, Silvatia, is from the above mentioned dragon from PnP and I also had a char in HZ with the same name. Last name, Bladethorn, is from the HZ character.Dark Elf Swashies first name, Snowdonia (which is a mountain in Wales and NOT named after some zone in DAoC which I've never played), and race are from my HZ beta char. Last name, Xi`Beth, one half of the remnant from EQ1.Wood Elf Ranger's full name, Merriweather Honeythorn (Merriweather = nice name I've always liked but also fairy in Sleeping Beauty and Honeythorn = Gump's last name in Legend), and race are from my HZ live, main char.Fae Inquisitor, Mabh Glyndwr (Mabh = fairy queen and Glyndwr = Welsh hero), is original to EQ2 .Arasai Shadowknight, Amorous Deathly`Kiss, is original to EQ2.And lastly, my High Elf Bruiser's first name, Zannah, is second half of remnant from EQ1 (and also a comic book character's name of a comic I use to favor when I was younger, although at the time I had no idea it's where I go the name from). Last name, Daae, is from Phantom of the Opera.I know you didn't want a history of our characters but you got one anyhow.

[Illmarr]

I wasn't really planning to be in EQ2 for the long haul, so when I made my Guardian here, I gave him the same name as EQ1 but spelled phonetically with a Boston accent. SInce it was just to drop in and say hi to the best friends from my old EQ1 raiding guild I goofed and made a Gnome Guardian instead of Barbarian. Since I stayed I tied the two together by having EQ1 Illmarr save EQ2 Ilmaaaaah's ancestors when they first arrived in Iceclad Ocean and they never knew how to spell his name so they did it like it sounded to them, and it became tradition that first born sons bore the name of the Barbarian that saves their ancestors.

Cisteros is a human in both games. My original Warrior in EQ1 and a Swashbuckler in EQ2.

Other than that, no real ties for characters between the two games

[Thuriel]

As far as I'm concerned, my EQ2 char IS my EQ1 char. I made up this story on how my char died on a raid in EQ1 then woke up on the Far Journey headed for the Isle of Refuge suffering from memory loss and inhabiting a different body.With the new appearance slots, I even manage to scrounge up armor to mimic the tinting I used back in EQ1.

[roces9]

My Dwarf Warden, Afif, is a descendant of my Dwarf Cleric, Sir Battering Ramn, from EQ1It isn't a direct lineage, not like father and son or anything like that, but sure enough they're related. I'll let you know when I draw up a family tree =-P

[Trellium]

In EQ1 they wouldn't let you make a dwarven druid who follows Bertox. Clearly, his genetics have now evolved into the perfect being.

[Off]

EQ1 my main is a Dark Elf ClericEQ2 my main is a Wood Elf RangerMy EQ2 alts on the other hand have some similarities...but they are still different from my EQ alts.

[Etumaru]

I deifnitely did, more or less because I knew that class the best. Ended up they were sooo different.

I played one of only Erudite Clerics on EMarr that worshipped Inny (there were only 2 of us) to max level and stayed with it for 7 years. I stayed with the same race/class combo and even kept my name - Etumaru. I don't regret the decision but definitely wish I would have taken a chance and tried a different class.