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Excellent comments! That thing about how boss mobs would debuff your buffs in order is why Shrunken Goblin Skull Earring that dropped in WW was so in-demand. The buff it provided was minor but being insta-click made it invaluable for raiders. I remember there were raiding guilds which made owning this, or something similar (and there weren't many) a requirement to join. A friend of mine camped the goblin fort for 3 days before he got his drop because he couldn't join one of the premiere raiding guilds until he had it.

Yther - I was thinking of the one time Dragon in Lake of Ill Omen.

Yes, it was one of the little salamander type dragons and it slaughtered scores of people. Difficult to see from a distance and by the time one was able to catch sight of it... LOADING. If memory serves, the FM zone line to loio was the makeshift res and raid rally point. I dragged quite a few corpses from the shore where the dragon was camped to the res-medics at the zone line. Brell server.

Did you know druids get a spell that can turn off the rain in an entire zone? I don't know of any other spell which can impact every single player in a zone. Wake of Karana is the spell an it consumes and opal when cast. Won't shut off snow, alas, so not much use in Velious. ;)

Edited, Apr 8th 2012 3:07pm by Sippin

Plane of Mischief used to be an awesomely fun zone. It was hard to get to, and had some really fun mobs/quests! I had so much fun there, and was very disappointed when they revamped it.

you can still

/gem and play the game

Edited, Jul 30th 2012 6:02pm by Eubedyen

When I first started playing, my far clip plane was somehow set to 5%. I didn't know anything about what the far clip plane setting did, I ended up playing like that for about an entire year! I lost my corpse going through the zone just before the zone where druids hunted for their Elysian gear one time. You think corpse runs were bad, try doing them with seriously short visibility! Give it a try for kicks, set your FCP at 5% and play for a bit, that's what I dealt with for a full year thinking that was normal! When someone finally figured out that I could barely see in the distance and told me what setting to change, it was like a whole new game! But man did I feel stupid! =P

One other serious newb moment I had back then was when I decided to transfer some gear to an alt by dropping it on the ground and logging back in with the alt. I got back online just in time to see one of those rats in Qeynos eat my gear, had no idea that rats could pick up my stuff. ><

I used to do the quick drop - log out - log in - pickup for what seemed like years. Beings as I played mornings, I had little competition, and never had a drop KSed. What i do miss though was dropping coin (for a variety of reasons) and planting weapons on NPC's. I used to totally deck out the orcs in EC for the group valiant enough to take them down. Totally unexpected loots from afar. Good times.

Wow now that's really cool and I never heard that before. Anyone else remember this? That would be a fun role to play. I wonder if you could spawn as Emperor Crushbone or D'Vinn and really give players a shock!

I remember when you could have Guild Wars, the 2 leaders would have to agree and it was game on PVP, My guild at the time was in 2 before they took it out . I had a blast running with a pack looking for kills. Even you were the target it was still fun

Bracer of the Hidden was another one.



The people who whined and got it changed were probably happy. Or, more likely, once it was changed, they just didn't go (some people just don't like to see other people have access to stuff they can't get). I remember in the middle of NToV raids, half the raid force clicking on the castle and going to PoM before we had cleared the zone ("I'm just going to bind!").



Project M

That was the "event" that preceded (and helped justify) the Discord server. Because it wasn't like EQ's PvP was critically acclaimed (that was DAoC's schtick back then). If I remember right, you actually got xp for killing n00bs as a mob. You only spawned as newbie mobs though, from what I recall. Like skellies in LOIO/FoB and such.


Did you know that early in EQ's life, it was riddled with "perches"? These were spots in various zones where you could attack and kill mobs but they couldn't fight back or get to you. There was one in (old) Freeport on the crosswalk across the entrance to West FP. If you stood on the little catwalk above the entry arch, you could attack guards and they'd run back and forth until they died. I remember watching wizards nuking guards down, untouched. There was one inside the stone bridge in North Karana too. Many people used it to kill Watchman Dexlin. Since he was on a different faction from the guards (and from what I was told, occasionally dropped the boots he gave the quest for), they wouldn't assist him.

Here's something some might not know, regarding progress. In the years since defiant armor was introduced, there are mobs that are no longer nearly as frightening as they once were, even at their intended level. One that comes to mind is Queen Velazul Di'Zok. As a warrior in one of the few guilds at the time who could do Chardok Royals successfully (consistently), I remember her AE (Flamesong of Ro) essentially requiring a zerg strat. Back then, getting well over 200 in any resist was somewhat rare and since that AE essentially subtracts 100 from your FR before the resist check is done, it was brutal. Also remember, at that time, the best tanks in the game buffed to about 7k hp (and I was not even close to being among the best tanks in the game. I was only level 54!!!). I died for my Ancient Blade (and quickly!). Nowadays, she's a pushover because her AE barely hits people in today's gear, even at her level. Another example is Trakanon. I remember much of the (non-tanks in) guild farming the Tower of Frozen Shadow for Gnomeskin armor just to have a chance against his Poison Breath. I did Trak a few days ago on my 65 wizard and saw a lot of 'You resist the Poison Breath spell!' and she's in defiant with some period pieces (Grieg range, XTC shield, etc).

Wow Sippin, your memory is on point.

The highest level person was a cleric who got into the mid 40s but was killed the day before the contest ended. The eventual winner was a level 37 cleric.

Here are the rules: http://www.vgln.com/pc/107186172465029.shtml

And a related thread on FoH.org: http://www.fohguild.org/forums/mmorpg-general-discussion/9987-discord-server-ruined-exploit.html

A thread here too: https://everquest.allakhazam.com/forum.html?forum=1&mid=107292483049765139&h=50

Rangers could heal themselves using "Skin like XXXX" due to the added HP. So each cast was worth the amount of HP the spell added to your total. Ghetto heals

Enchanters could charm the Priest of Discord and use him to kill guards in Faydark (probably in other areas but only saw it in Fay)

There once was a program that ran in Linux that would display a map of the zone you were in complete with all the MOBs, NPCs. Characters and their level in relation to yours (green, blue, white.. etc)

There used to be a trick where you could steal something from a vendor by clicking on it and backing away until the vendor window closed. Then the item would appear on your cursor (can't remember if you had to be inspecting it or what)

Swimming could be raised by swimming into a corner. With your head above water you could swim there for hours (while you slept) and raise swimming to max quickly.

High level toons could be sold on Ebay for serious money.