Ekard Angst

I'm still finishing my write-up about Ekard and I wanted to see if Google had indexed/archived any of my old SOE forum posts. I was also curious if this blog had made its way on to the Google index.

At any rate, a search for Ekard "highest melee hit" turned up an entertaining post on the EQ2flames.com Assassin forum:

Wish they would reset the melee hit boards...fuckin ekard, bastard dosen't even play anymore.

Heh, I just had to register for that forum and say hello. I noticed that Vaanir and a Skratt as well as a couple of other Assassins are still kicking around, that's awesome, I have fond memories of our discussions on the assassin channel.

I noticed a post on that forum from November 2007 about the guk.assassin channel and it makes me smile to think that this channel might still be in use by the assassin community. When cross-channel linking became available I thought that things could easily go either way, either the channel would continue to be popular or players would move to a channel preferred by one of the more dominant raiding assassins. I certainly wasn't in the running for top assassin at that point, dare I say I had become more infamous for my exploited Highest Melee Hit record than respected for my role in the assassin community.

I don't recall how many of the current scores on the EQ2 Highest Melee Hit board existed when I left (I do recall a few like Sparkimus, Silvaro, and Kalyr) and how many are new and valid scores. Because some of the level 80 Assassins seem to be approaching the 70k mark my score may soon be only a memory. As such, I've preserved this memory of my time in EQ2.