My first introduction to MQ2 was late in 2004 around Christmas time... I remember it quite well. I was farming Anguish parts, and a good paladin friend of mine came to help me out. We were running a mission (something with a large Bee) is all I can remember and a wipe happened... but my good friend made it out alive. I was like "AIN'T NO WAY IN HELL YOU LIVED" and sure enough he did. He said he "warped out" and I was like bullshit your lying, and sure enough he showed me right then and there... Boom he was here, then there, then in another zone. He then explained he used a program called "MacroQuest 2" and it had magical plugins that allowed him to do all kinds of stuff.
I immediately said you must give me this program... to which he sent me a copy of a copy that a friend made. I was blown away by all the stuff you could now do. I remember making my first macro to kill that guy that drops the shrink wand in The Deep and due to a misconfiguration on my part I actually messed up the loot part, but luckily came back to the PC in time to see a corpse with the wand of impeccability. So a couple weeks passed and my buddy and some guides I think I was on bertox in the top guild on the server "Prophecy" decided to do Vex Thal with only about 9 people. Most were boxes, but all decked out with the best gear in the game. So we did Vex Thal... and FAST! (well fast for VT so like 8 hours lol). My buddies friend had a plugin that allowed us to zone into Vex Thal without a key. So, he logged me in and zoned me in. I was over the moon with excitement. We finished all of VT which I think I got like 10 loots or something crazy and immediately wanted this cool plugin... called mq2zone.
So I spent the next couple weeks scouring the forums and grabbing all the source code for mq2warp, and a variety of other plugins that could. However, MQ2Zone's source code was not to be found and the plugin very obscure, until I ran across a website called www.RedGuides.com. I remember it like it was yesterday, a guy name "Makaveli" or something like that published MQ2Zone's source code. (Here is the original thread https://www.redguides.com/forums/threads/55-MQ2Zone-Plugin?highlight=MQ2Zone) and I was hooked on RedGuides, what a fantastic site to share code and actually ask questions without being called a Noob. Funny enough, it still happens to me given my username
So over the next couple years, I published a couple macros here and there and even kept MQ2Warp going after a couple blocks were put in place until I went on a hiatus and a large crackdown happened in my absence. Due to my contributions, I only have ever paid for 1 month of Redguides over the past 12+ years. I have so many fond memories of EQ, MQ2, and RedGuides and I forgot what post got me started thinking about all this, but thought what the hell, I'll share it.
I immediately said you must give me this program... to which he sent me a copy of a copy that a friend made. I was blown away by all the stuff you could now do. I remember making my first macro to kill that guy that drops the shrink wand in The Deep and due to a misconfiguration on my part I actually messed up the loot part, but luckily came back to the PC in time to see a corpse with the wand of impeccability. So a couple weeks passed and my buddy and some guides I think I was on bertox in the top guild on the server "Prophecy" decided to do Vex Thal with only about 9 people. Most were boxes, but all decked out with the best gear in the game. So we did Vex Thal... and FAST! (well fast for VT so like 8 hours lol). My buddies friend had a plugin that allowed us to zone into Vex Thal without a key. So, he logged me in and zoned me in. I was over the moon with excitement. We finished all of VT which I think I got like 10 loots or something crazy and immediately wanted this cool plugin... called mq2zone.
So I spent the next couple weeks scouring the forums and grabbing all the source code for mq2warp, and a variety of other plugins that could. However, MQ2Zone's source code was not to be found and the plugin very obscure, until I ran across a website called www.RedGuides.com. I remember it like it was yesterday, a guy name "Makaveli" or something like that published MQ2Zone's source code. (Here is the original thread https://www.redguides.com/forums/threads/55-MQ2Zone-Plugin?highlight=MQ2Zone) and I was hooked on RedGuides, what a fantastic site to share code and actually ask questions without being called a Noob. Funny enough, it still happens to me given my username
So over the next couple years, I published a couple macros here and there and even kept MQ2Warp going after a couple blocks were put in place until I went on a hiatus and a large crackdown happened in my absence. Due to my contributions, I only have ever paid for 1 month of Redguides over the past 12+ years. I have so many fond memories of EQ, MQ2, and RedGuides and I forgot what post got me started thinking about all this, but thought what the hell, I'll share it.