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Lenas_sl said:

Whether they have you slotting enchants onto armor or getting tattoos on your character, they could find a way to put the mechanic in the game. It's just semantics.

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Caliel_sl said:

I thought they implied there were armor tiers. Like needing to collect certain tier 2 armor to go up to the next tier in a class.

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Celebrindal_sl said:

I don't think I've ever been more afraid of a game than the first time I entered the Plane of Fear.

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rolx_sl said:

Haha true that +1 to you my friend I didn't even want to go through the portal I was a monk and everyone was like go in that shit and I responded.. fuck no I don't care if I got fd or not we are all going in at once LOL.

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Celebrindal_sl said:

Shit... I was a Ranger. That was like an instant "CELEBRINDAL_CORPSE01!!!!!"

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Teekey_sl said:

Just go in man, what you afraid of?!?!

I somehow became the unofficial Fear raid savior on my server. This basically consisted of me attempting to kite the entire zone while people scooped up their corpses and ported out. It was a rush every single time, and nothing I've experienced in any MMO since.

I'm not sure how they can recreate that without a meaningful death penalty.

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You say, 'Hail, Council Aide Mystrana'

Council Aide Mystrana says 'Well, well ______ you are persistent. I like that! You show a genuine interest in how our fine city is being put together. As you can clearly see for yourself this city is not of drakkin origins. I would like you to [learn more] about this city's history before we speak any further.'

You say, 'Learn more?'

You have been assigned the task 'Getting to Know You: For Those Gone Before Us'.

Council Aide Mystrana says 'There is a book in a hidden room that you should study. Enter Gekkdar's Haunt on the third level and locate the hidden room. Once you have read the book you will find there return to me and I will have more to say to you. Good day to you, ______.'

Head up to the third floor. The book is called "The Ogres Come of Age," and may be found on top of a crate in a nook to the left after you go through the curtain, at -1453, -1193, 116. It reads:

The Ogres Come of Age

Rallos Zek, in his wisdom, created the ogres -- a race that embodied the best of all of his other races, including the giants, goblins, and orcs. We are, and shall always be, a reflection of what the Warlord sees as perfection. Our intelligence and brawn make us a deadly force as we have continued to prove.

After being set upon these great lands, we quickly found a place that would be a perfect home -- both strategically and in its beauty. Most creatures would look upon the great rock face rising from a deep crevice as impossible and inhospitable, but we saw its great potential and our knowledge gave us the tools we needed to carve a great city in the stone.

A great architect emerged from among us, named Nokk Stonechipper. He scribed great plans not just for the city itself, but the tools and contraptions needed to build it. And so we did. Within five years the city was complete. It became clear as we prospered that we had made the right choice. The city was well defended against all creatures who attacked.

It did not take too many years for our ogres to begin to outgrow this city and rather than compromise Nokk, the decision was made to expand our empire to the north. And so a great caravan of ogres left to build it. And they did.

From then until now, these days when Rallos Zek has called us to battle in the Plane of Earth, our Chief Dronuk Rockjaw has led us to greatness -- the heads of the Rallosian Empire that I dare believe will someday rule over Norrath.

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You say, 'Hail, Yuvill the Spirithunter'

Yuvill the Spirithunter says 'Ah, yes, Heshyrr sends you. I have learned much in my time here. Luckily most are not too willing to endure the spirit who haunts this area. The spirit that cannot rest is named Gekkdar. I believe he is [bound] here.'

You say, 'bound?'

Yuvill the Spirithunter says 'Indeed, bound. There is a great and powerful trinket here called the Amulet of Gekkdar as I ascertained from a tome that was buried in the rubble here. It tells a tale of a great amulet that was handed down from one ogre chief to another in the long lost [past].'

You say, 'past?'

Yuvill the Spirithunter says 'Yes, in the years long before the ogres were cursed by the gods for Rallos Zek's actions -- the ogre and giant god who betrayed all the gods by invading the Plane of Earth. Then the ogres were intelligent as evidenced by this beautiful stone city they built here. They called it, Nokk. The amulet is said to have very unique [properties].'

You say, 'what properties?'

Yuvill the Spirithunter says 'It was once thought that it was simply a symbolic trinket of office, but it is not. Upon being handed to a new chief, it was bound to his soul by the ogre heyokahs, the high shamans, and the amulet then took the chief's name. And so, the amulet is named after Gekkdar, the [ogre] chief who haunts these halls.'

You say, 'ogre?'

Yuvill the Spirithunter says 'From the history I've been piecing together, Gekkdar remained even as he watched all of his ogre kin turned from proud, intelligent war beasts to slovenly and stupid fools. The ogres were overcome by the power of a god, Cazic-Thule, who many of them worshipped. That power was fear. The ogres fled the city . . . all but one . . . Gekkdar. It is thought that in some way the amulet [protected] him.'

You say, 'protected him?'

Yuvill the Spirithunter says 'I believe the amulet contained a strong shaman protective ward that slowed the curse of the gods very much in him. He was tortured by the slow creep of idiocy that began to overtake him. And, as the honorable chief he was, I believe he took his life while he still had control over his faculties. I believe he wanted to remain here as a [symbol] of what the ogres once were.'

You say, 'a symbol?'

Your task 'Heshyrr's Wisdom' has been updated.

Yuvill the Spirithunter says 'As long as he remains here, he is a reminder of the glory of the ogres. What allows him to remain here, I believe, is the Amulet of Gekkdar. As long as that exists, I believe Gekkdar will reside here. Please tell Heshyrr I will not retrieve the great amulet. I will not disturb the purpose of Gekkdar. That is not our place. Hurry along now before we are seen.'

Head back to Heshyrr

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Muligan_sl said:

Remember how Plane of Hate zone in was a big deal too. I remember just hoping to make it to the wall while a rogue patrolled the area, checking mobs, dragging corpses, etc.

I loved it...

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Muligan_sl said:

Remember how Plane of Hate zone in was a big deal too. I remember just hoping to make it to the wall while a rogue patrolled the area, checking mobs, dragging corpses, etc.

I loved it...

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Lemmiwinks_sl said:

Here's a nice, true, heartwarming story of PoF.

I played on the Tribunal server from Kunark-OoW with an RL buddy of mine who was a cleric, I was a necro. I introduced him to the game right about the time velious released. I did the good ole buddy thing, hooked him up with the best gear I could get him, and plvled him a bit. Although I powerleveled him some, he really did do most of his leveling on his own, making his own groups and such. He got himself most of the way to 46. Oh yeah, its worth mentioning we were both guildless. One night, we were lanning it up, and when he dinged level 46 we decided to call it a night. The next morning comes around and he was up before I was, for about an hour. Only problem was, he was red-faced, stark raving lunatic pissed off.

According to him, he was excited about dinging 46 and was stoked to be able to finally enter the planes. He'd heard a lot about epic lewts and such. But he had never done any research on PoF, its mobs or anything. He decides, while waiting for me to wake up, to go do a little bit of exploring. No harm in that, right?

He got gate memmed up before he zoned in, just in case. But not divine aura for some stupid reason. So he zones in, by himself, and immediately gets jumped by a scareling. He tried to cast gate, but not only did it interrupt him, the scareling ported him to some random spot in the zone. As anyone who has been in PoF before, the aggro range on mobs there is fucking huge.He gets ported to some random spot, and is killed. And when he dies, he gets de-leveled to 45. Uh oh. Not that he'd want to, but he couldnt even zone back in.

He tried for a week to get his corpse back. Tried paying guilds, getting friends, petitioning ect. Nobody was willing to break fear just to get his corpse. The GMs wouldnt help him. He canceled his account after his corpse rotted.

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