First EverQuest, 3 screenshots

Nirgon said:

Some of the epics took a lot longer than others to figure out. Everything now is day 1 spoiled.

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I got the mage epic in the same time frame a majority of other people were first completing the epics. There would have been zero way I would ever have been able to accomplish that during the relevant time period without allakhazam, evermore, eqatlas, and the mage tower website. I do remember it taking months and months of relevant information to be released so that the progression could continue

Having said all that, there is no way in remote hell I would do It again in this day and time. Sitting at a spawn point for sometimes up to 12 to 16 hrs is nothing I would ever do again. It certainly wasn't immersive game play, as all I'd do is turn the Playstation on the other TV while waiting.

Epics were ezpz what's everybody complaining aboot?
--Rogue

In the spirit of this threads origins I think we should refer to them by their original name, FA Quests.

Thinking I have two images left so going to throw out this one.

Grizzlebeard said:

Thinking I have two images left so going to throw out this one.

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This is one of my favorite encounters for so many reasons. It was different than most other fights, Emperor was a beast and that 4K DD was such a pain. The room was so cool to go inside and see for the first time. It took SO MUCH work to get a guild fully keyed for that encounter, and it felt awesome to finally get to to go inside and beat Emp.

Went through a pile of old burned CDs since disc drives are becoming a thing of the past and found some old screenshots.

Ukerric said:

I remember the massive raids down in the basement tunnels to pull and aoe to get nameds for the Shissarbane metal components.

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It just so happens...

To think this is a board helmed by Brad haters. A ray of hope.

I never hated him. The guy was flawed like most of us but he gave me some of the best gaming memories of my life so far.

The crushing disappointment in Vanguard was very real though.

I was so happy that as a monk I didn’t need shissar bane (monk epic was shissar bane if I recall, but you used to snap aggro so fucking fast if you went all out)

Did this turn into a dig-up-your-old-screenshots thread?

Kharzette said:

Did this turn into a dig-up-your-old-screenshots thread?

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Was it ever anything else?

Cybsled said:

I was so happy that as a monk I didn’t need shissar bane (monk epic was shissar bane if I recall, but you used to snap aggro so fucking fast if you went all out)

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You must be thinking of SK's Greenmist (not THE epic, but AN epic Iksar Kunark quest), which had Shissar bane. Monk epic was a glove slot item that made your fists a better ratio (invisibly). It also had clicky haste/attack.

Monk epic also modified your bare fists. If you had no weapon equipped, then it modified your bare fist attacks and also gave them special attributes. This modifier didn’t work if you had weapons. I’m almost positive that they functioned as bane modifiers, because I remember the monks and SKs being glad we didn’t have to do basement farm.

The Iksar armor-set/epic class-item quests are some of the best quests in EQ. Super uneven in usefulness of their end-item, but great fun to figure out, and made the race feel like something special.

Ukerric said:

I remember the massive raids down in the basement tunnels to pull and aoe to get nameds for the Shissarbane metal components. Tide-Tunare was among the first guilds to guess how that stuff worked, I think, so none of the competing Asian and US guild had a clue about what we were doing there.

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Tide was the EU guild, yes? Stars was the Zerg Asian guild. And Talisman/Vae Inimicus were the two US guilds fighting for server firsts on Tunare.

Cybsled said:

Monk epic also modified your bare fists. If you had no weapon equipped, then it modified your bare fist attacks and also gave them special attributes. This modifier didn’t work if you had weapons. I’m almost positive that they functioned as bane modifiers, because I remember the monks and SKs being glad we didn’t have to do basement farm.

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It changed the ratio of bare fists. There were no other hidden effects.

And, I've done this content recently. Every monk got bane weapons. There was no innate bane modifier.

From Monkly business, the well known eq monk site, in 2003:


No talk of epic bane whatsoever.

Well if you did it recently, then i'll go with that. I'm going off a 19 year old memory lol. I just remember us not needing to do much in the way of basement camp. Maybe we only did an off hand or something?