Truth. Let's not forget good ol' Rae.Vae really died in PoP when pena took over after heep left the game. Luclin certainly didn't help though.
It's a GM item. I only know of the one in existence, back then.Where the hell is Oily Black Vial from? Never seen that one before.
The Froglok wasn't mine technically, and it was named "Faahy". Basically my main was a Monk named "Fawy" and we had a Necro in guild named "Faah". So Faah had this idea to PL a froglok and did most of the work, he also named it "Faahy" I guess as a joke, but I had no input initially. Once Faah started PL'ing and doing so quite successfully, myself and another guild member joined in and aided the PL'ing.If I remember correctly you powerleved the first Froglok Cleric to lv 70 or 60 whatever the cap was at the time in like less than a day right? Fawy or something like that was the name. I remember following Harm
I played Xev as well, but I was nothing but a peon.
When Stasis pulled their mage past our raid in Vex Thal, I ran toward Aten Ha Ra's chamber(I think we were fighting mini-Aten when it happened) and ended up triggering the warders and trained both of our guilds, wiping out the entire zone. It was hilarious and frustrating at the same time. I loved EQ during those days, but looking back I'm not sure how the hell I had the passion to put up with all the late night/early morning raids to either cockblock or progress.I think I've covered enough, I'll let Soy share some if he wants.
They weren't at first, but they changed many of the quests to have a hidden level 46 flag. I did the SK epic during the end of Velious for my lvl 32 SK alt and it worked. A year or so later I tried it again with another SK alt that was lvl 11 and the final npc ate my items.There were so many rumors like epics were restricted to certain levels etc etc... All false.
Doing fine I guess. I don't talk to any of them since AO.DACH! You motha fucka. How are you doing? Haven't heard from you since you transferred to Drinal. Do you still talk to Team Kindred from AO?
When I quit VZ for WoW, there were two main alliances who'd fight it out for mobs: Defiant, Zephyros, Aerist vs. Ancient Dawn, Aduentus, Dark Defiant Warriors. What made it great were the player enforced rules. If you zoned out of a zone where pvp was occuring, you were on LnS for 1 hour, no battle rezzing, and if you died, no rushing, just grab your body and LnS for an hour. If pathers aggro, people would help each other inter-guild to kill 'em before resuming pvp. Yes, people violated the rules, but for the most part, rules were adhered to in zerg vs zerg fight.Yah, I think people tend to forget over time what led to a lot of people wanting to jump to WoW (and there was a lot). I'm still not sure complete instancing is the way to go, or even phasing, but I never really got the hardon for the nonstop dicksmashing either. I have always wondered if it was less of an issue on the Zeks, or at least, if having a means to directly duke it out had any effect of the cockblocking or if it just added fuel to the fire. That's probably one of the few things that would make me even consider a server like that, if my only other option was the throttled content PVE server clusterfucks.
slayer / no delay were fucking godly. we had a little crew and did coa, omm included, sverag stuff, daosheen, hell we even did demiplane and frostcrypt. i was able to kite hatchet around with bard DA while the sk used nodelay and dpsing him down with 2.0 click. it was so much fun. that period of time i think it was in spring-fall of 2007 ruined eq for awhile for me. after they permanently fixed that code i couldnt play eq until recently. i had a fucking great time exploiting alot of that content. i heard some people eve nodelayed solteris raids. we never tried that, but i saw solt geared chars for sale left and right on playerauctions for a time.Doing fine I guess. I don't talk to any of them since AO.
I played EQ from release until PoP. Luclin was the expansion that killed EQ, and PoP was just boring. I sold all my stuff and made thousands of dollars.
A couple of years later I started playing again, and eventually got banned so many times for trash talking and training people that they permanently banned my account.
Not too long after that I started another account purely to use ghost kill and other hacks. There was a group of us in Cats in Hats that all used these hacks, just not at raids. The hack Gestapo guys in the guild were morons as they never figured out how a lvl 20 SK had loot from Vex Thal. Or how you can go from lvl 1 to 70 with a thousand plus AA in less than a days playing time. Eventually, they figured out how to stop the fun hacks so I quit.
Edit: forgot to add that the best part about using hacks was that GMs knew all about it and used it on their own accounts. They would warp into zones all the time using the GM "invisible" mode and just watch.
I can't say as I'm entirely surprised. If you were to compare the features of Kunark versus Velious, Velious would look absolutely sparse. No level cap increase, no new race, fewer zones, content focused on a narrower level range, etc. Not to mention, it came out so soon after Kunark, that most people were still busy playing there. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely loved the expansion, but I can see where a person who hadn't been playing the game for long wouldn't really see the point in getting Velious.No,really. Best acclaimed, playerbase loved it, made them the least money. This just goes to show something, although I'm sure I don't know what
It was more like Defiant vs Zeph vs Aduentus + DDW, vs AD vs Torrent, and then Defiant started letting darkies in and took a few Torrent members. But, VZ was a fun place to PVP and fight over zone / mob camps.When I quit VZ for WoW, there were two main alliances who'd fight it out for mobs: Defiant, Zephyros, Aerist vs. Ancient Dawn, Aduentus, Dark Defiant Warriors. What made it great were the player enforced rules. If you zoned out of a zone where pvp was occuring, you were on LnS for 1 hour, no battle rezzing, and if you died, no rushing, just grab your body and LnS for an hour. If pathers aggro, people would help each other inter-guild to kill 'em before resuming pvp. Yes, people violated the rules, but for the most part, rules were adhered to in zerg vs zerg fight.
To this day, my experiences on VZ have colored me to thinking pvp is the best resolution for finite camps.
Kunark was great but for end-game it was really sparse.. you had VS, Trak and VP... The outdoor dragons were good, too.I can't say as I'm entirely surprised. If you were to compare the features of Kunark versus Velious, Velious would look absolutely sparse. No level cap increase, no new race, fewer zones, content focused on a narrower level range, etc. Not to mention, it came out so soon after Kunark, that most people were still busy playing there. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely loved the expansion, but I can see where a person who hadn't been playing the game for long wouldn't really see the point in getting Velious.
lol dude wtf, I'm your Michael Jordan right here, who were you? were you also in AN?That'd be AN right? Your name sounds vaguely familiar. I remember going to a guild meet up in Sydney, some ranger hosted it but I can't remember his name. I was like 17 or 18 at the time, I've still got pics around here somewhere on an old HDD. I'm pretty sure I was a total dork and didn't say more than 2 words. I can't remember the guild leaders name.. someone told me to call him skeletor or some shit. Anyway, he and a bunch of others were gonna go drinking afterwards but I bailed to go home and play EQ. I can't believe what a social misfit I was..
You played a magician or wizard, right?
Anyway..
Before I transferred to The Tribunal, I played on Ayonae Ro. That server had some great drama. I use to team up with another druid (forget his name) and train Palimax's guild all the time. I joined his guild for a short time before being kicked out. This is before they merged into Vallis Aspectus or Vision? I can't remember, it's such a long time ago. I got kicked out of another guild, the GM was a member on the old FoH forum. Forget his name.. Gray something? guild name was Steel something or something Steel. I joined and complained they never did shit, I'm pretty sure I got booted for that.
There was also an enchanter I use to think of as Michael Jordan.. rimidalv.. took me ages to realise what it was backwards. I remember him abruptly quitting because of his parents and his play time or some shit and his account was ebayed/PA'd. Pretty sure he was a member of the old FoH forum as well.
My friends beat solteris serverwide first on Drinal with ghost kill and got the one time only titles. They then went into the guild lobby to piss off Cats in Hats. Epic butthurt ensued.i heard some people eve nodelayed solteris raids.
Some guys on FV killed the final event in Solteris with hacks about 1 week before we were able to kill it legit with Fire and Fury. Took the first kill titles and everything. I had to email SKlug to get the event reset so we could get our titles.slayer / no delay were fucking godly. we had a little crew and did coa, omm included, sverag stuff, daosheen, hell we even did demiplane and frostcrypt. i was able to kite hatchet around with bard DA while the sk used nodelay and dpsing him down with 2.0 click. it was so much fun. that period of time i think it was in spring-fall of 2007 ruined eq for awhile for me. after they permanently fixed that code i couldnt play eq until recently. i had a fucking great time exploiting alot of that content. i heard some people eve nodelayed solteris raids. we never tried that, but i saw solt geared chars for sale left and right on playerauctions for a time.
hell i remember when corruption serverwide broadcasted on the eqlive servers to to check out corruptionplugins.com. that era of eq was rife with fucking hacks lol. free versions of the $250 lifetime-issued nodelay or slayer circulated for free
Kind of random for me I wasn't involved with Tunare at all but way after the fact EQ got brought up around some friends up here in Mpls and turns out a pretty close one was at least at one point the Talisman guild leader. He played a monk named Southern and then a wizard named Redrover. Anyway he and I get drunk and rehash old EQ stories all the time. Really cool dude. He grew up and has zero interest in games these days though.We had the normal cybering of officers and wives that was prevalent in EQ, some of which spilled over into the real world. There was Thogg who should of won the Warrior BotB but the GM's wouldn't give him time to let his disciplines reset. The Talisman / Vae Inimicus split wasn't the friendliest. We fought for top dog though Luclin to include attempts to KS Ssra Blood to claim rights to Emp as well as some VT shenanigans. Though Talisman won in the end when Vae folded around PoP timeframe I still believe the core of Vae were better players. Plenty of US / Euro / Asian timezone hate to go around. As well as infighting and prick waiving for all the second and third tier guilds, Cynosure, Pia Fidelis, Divine Crusade?. Was fun all in all, just looking to see if I could bait some people I may know out into the open.
Edit: O, and I think we had the necro responsible for the level limit on old world dragons when he solo'd Nagafen to prove he could in front of a GM.
While all that content was there, and you are right that Kunark had less pure raid content, some of the stuff you list for Velious isnt as much as it sounds. For example ToV, 3 wings of raid content is true but what exactlly was in the west and east wing? One dragon each and a ton of trash to grind through that dropped some quest items. Although I gotta say this might be the nostalgia glasses talking but I see high points in every expansion I played (up to GoD), even if I cursed at the low points while drudging through them.Kunark was great but for end-game it was really sparse.. you had VS, Trak and VP... The outdoor dragons were good, too.
Velious had sooo much more... Dain, Tormax, Yelinak, Sleepers, ToV (3 wings of raid content), Plane of Mischief and Plane of Growth, Avatar of War, the Ring War, Zlandicar, the WW dragons, etc.
Also Velious with 3 factions, eventually every high end guild became Giant aligned due to NToV, but I know my guild initially befriended the Dragons.