Worst EQ Camp Ever

[Loto]

I'm sure this has been done before, but let's do it again!

On Live, I once camped the Overseer Dal'guur for a month, every 20 mins for 20ish hours a day for a solid month. Got the mask eventually, but an awful experience waking up every half hour to rush to your computer to see... another veteran overseer.

[Swish]

I definitely can't compare to that :(

Recently the absence of a ghoul assassin in Lower Guk for 6 hours straight made me wonder if the spawn was broken, all I wanted was the mask for my parked rogue. Got it eventually, but damn... the game makes it hard sometimes :p

[Somekid123]

wtf is overseer dal blah. sounds non classic

[susvain0362]

In vanilla wow i ran inner maraudon 16 or 17 times straight in two days to get my inventors focal sword. You know the caster SWORD with +1 crit on it. I wanted it so bad because in everquest you cant be a mage with a sword. So i wanted it bad in WoW. Does that count?

Otherwise it would have to be idk...never did much camping. Kills the dwarfs in GD to turn in their heads for kael faction!

[Grubbz]

Quillmane during early eq when no one knew anything about it. yeah theres no beating this.

[Rhambuk]

wtf is overseer dal blah. sounds non classic

I think it was in one of the last updates before luclin release, the chardok revamp comes near the end of velious. Overseer Dargul is awful Didn't time how long it took me but i did it off and on for a loooong time on my rog main and never got it. my bard alt got it in like 5 overseers.

ive heard of people doing what you did for 2-3 months and still didn't get one.

After oversser the worst classic is probably stormfeather, huge respawn time with a chance to skip spawning, tricky to get the timer down and its sitting in 1 spot in IC for hours upon hours doing nothing hoping it spawns.

[Sularus Oth Mithas]

Quillmane during early eq when no one knew anything about it. yeah theres no beating this.

This, so much this!

[dhoushi]

My worst camp was for the Sensei Robe on EQOA, I farmed that thing for weeks and finally gave up on the camp.

[Rhambuk]

Emperor Crush. Took me forever to get my Dwarven Ringmail Tunic

[Swish]

Emperor Crush. Took me forever to get my Dwarven Ringmail Tunic

On my first character there was nothing more fear inspiring than seeing Ambassador D'Vinn among a train of orcs :D

[Versch]

Pained Soul took me 16 hours for my first VP key. So much hate for that guy and the endless spectrals that spawned in place of him.

[Bessy]

My worst camp was for the Sensei Robe on EQOA, I farmed that thing for weeks and finally gave up on the camp.

EQOA =/

Ive always wanted to play this game when i finally found out about it, bought the eu disc on tradera(Similar to ebay) just to find out when i was trying to register an account that the eu servers doesnt exists anymore.

[Kika Maslyaka]

I despise rare item camping in general.
occasionally I happen to Xp at the same camp for 6-8 hours at a time (very rarely however), but it was for just general XP/loot.

The longest on purpose item camp I participated in was for Fabled SSOY which lasted about 4 hours, which is like nothing by classic EQ standards. I never want to do that again :D
I prefered to obtain cash through EC/bazaar and just buy what I need.

[Rhambuk]

Pained Soul took me 16 hours for my first VP key. So much hate for that guy and the endless spectrals that spawned in place of him.

pained soul sucked, not as bad as the DL skeleton though.

Surprised no one has mentioned, Akheva ruins VT key shard piece. that whole key was awful

[JackFlash]

Raster

[Versch]

pained soul sucked, not as bad as the DL skeleton though.

Surprised no one has mentioned, Akheva ruins VT key shard piece. that whole key was awful

I was a guild officer during the Luclin days. I remember carrying people kicking and screaming around the moon getting all the shards and emp key pieces. I usually had pretty good luck from the stone guys on that shard. The Maiden's Eye shard on the other hand...

[Rhambuk]

I was a guild officer during the Luclin days. I remember carrying people kicking and screaming around the moon getting all the shards and emp key pieces. I usually had pretty good luck from the stone guys on that shard. The Maiden's Eye shard on the other hand...

Thats what I meant was ME.

There was a bard in our guild that knew how to get it almost instantly, all of had the ME shard in a few days.

ar was just my personal worst because my friend (savarin the jerk) Ninja looted it from me because I went afk and they rolled without me, 10 hours into camp I take a 2 minute piss break and he takes it.

He is a jerk!

[Something'Witty]

Quillmane during early eq when no one knew anything about it. yeah theres no beating this.

My father in law would agree. He was one of the first epic mages on his server (forget which one), and still talks about begging trackers to help him. Also he would include camping jboots in Najena, and the 48 hours he waited for his turn to loot.

Personally, I would say the worst camp was Shield of Striding (http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=10471). Took me a couple of weeks of daily camping to finally get one.


Some other shitty camps, minus epic drops and in no particular order, are:

VT Shards (I always had decent luck, but other players not so much)
The various rare Tears from HoT in ToV (damn you Dozekar!)
Seru's Torque (I waited forever for the damn thing to drop)
Some PoP melee pet weapons (War and bard were PITAs)
Quest pieces for the Bangle of Disease Warding (mobs would spawn underground and I had no idea as a necro without track)

[Something'Witty]

Oh snap, I forgot about Stormfeather (http://wiki.project1999.com/Stormfeather). While I have never camped him (only melee I have played is a bst), I know plenty of players who would say this is the worst camp since the spawn time is so long, it has variance, and can skip spawns with no warning (no PH).

One RL friend from work spent an exorbitant amount of time camping SF, I am talking multiple days over several weeks with little to no sleep. He even started to force his GF and brother to camp it for him while he was at work. A week after he got his eye patch, my wife camped it on her War, and it took her just under 4 hours to get both SF and Lodi (the map was rotting). My wife still makes fun of him to this day.

[Sidelle]

On my first character there was nothing more fear inspiring than seeing Ambassador D'Vinn among a train of orcs :D

Lol, I still remember that feeling. Those were the days.

[susvain0362]

On my first character there was nothing more fear inspiring than seeing Ambassador D'Vinn among a train of orcs :D

Fact.

Throw in Rentlon Brenclog for the WTF? moment. How did the train pickup the gnome in his hole in the back corner? He would cast big nukes on you i think hes level 14. Some people dont even know about Brenclog

[citizen1080]

Oh snap, I forgot about Stormfeather (http://wiki.project1999.com/Stormfeather). While I have never camped him (only melee I have played is a bst), I know plenty of players who would say this is the worst camp since the spawn time is so long, it has variance, and can skip spawns with no warning (no PH).

One RL friend from work spent an exorbitant amount of time camping SF, I am talking multiple days over several weeks with little to no sleep. He even started to force his GF and brother to camp it for him while he was at work. A week after he got his eye patch, my wife camped it on her War, and it took her just under 4 hours to get both SF and Lodi (the map was rotting). My wife still makes fun of him to this day.

~54 hours straight to get my map piece off Stormfeather. Fuck that birdthing

[mtb tripper]

something tells me roman Catholicism is amidst tha ruins

[Clark]

~54 hours straight to get my map piece off Stormfeather. Fuck that birdthing

Eyepatch of Plunder!! Good memories; loved that item.

[Rhambuk]

Eyepatch of Plunder!! Good memories; loved that item.

I made savarin camp it for me =p

[Rust1d?]

Fact.

Throw in Rentlon Brenclog for the WTF? moment. How did the train pickup the gnome in his hole in the back corner? He would cast big nukes on you i think hes level 14. Some people dont even know about Brenclog

When I was a 14 druid, me and this warrior would train Dvinn to the trainer camp, cast a DoT and just use the bad pathing to kill him. We sold the daggers for 75pp and split the profits. Was fun because it basically cleared the whole zone for just us and we had it all to ourselves. Did it in MM to, trained whole zone, rooted mob we wanted, zoned out, zoned in and got an easy kill...So much fun!

[fishingme]

Quillmane on my mage while doing epic quest, was in karana for 3 days camping him for 10-12 hours a day. He finally pops, I get a message saying that he was up from a few people I had made friends with in the zone. (camps were heavily respected on my server) I went to the location I was given and 2 groups ended up killing quillmane for a mage that wasn't in zone at the time. Clock ticks down to 20seconds on the body before the mage shows up. A druid in one of the groups was saving corpse by keeping his char in the "looted" position. Mean while I was telling them all that I had been camping quillmane for days and that anyone in karana can back me up on that claim. Mage shows up and i just start spamming my right click and i looted that peggy cloak. They freaked out and ended up getting a GM to come down, luckily the GM was on my side due to the body having been rotting for so long (under the 5 minute timer so anyone can loot it) and he checked out the logs to see how long I was there. Ended up getting my epic about 4-5 weeks later.

[pasi]

I used to think that the RM nameds were stupid rare, but I didn't bother learning them on live. Seem to be a ton of Mithril Plated Girdles here. Bilge was ridiculously rare on live, but got figured out here.

Getting specific Efreeti Sky Drops is a huge pain in the ass if you don't have 3 years to do such.

Kunark - luckily most of the good items aren't horrible camps. The really shitty camps seem to be confined to useless quests - Failed Crypt Raider comes to mind. Pained Soul and Rotting Skeleton also suck, but they are worth the effort.

Velious Wise - aiming for a particular Skyshrine Wyvern/Cube drop was awful. Vaniki is a horrible camp when you take out server resets even if Prathun dropped all the details on spawning her. Revamped Chardok's 3 drop system blows for mobs that aren't easy to farm (Chokidai Vocal Cords easily being the worst offender). Some of the Kael quests require obtaining incredibly rare drops (I'm looking at you, Coldain Books), but you can usually just kill the quest giver.

Luclin was probably the worst offender with tons of ridiculously rare items on long respawn mobs.

Ridiculous Luclin Camps:
Medic's Pouch (zone wide iirc, I got mine the second day of Luclin, no idea if it was removed. Either way, dumb rare)
Various Umbral Drops like Yellow Fang Ear or Dathor Hammer (Rare drops off rare spawns)
Lcea Katta's Mask (~5% drop off long 5 day respawn)
Wand of Casual Blessings (~5% drop off long respawn)
Heart of Fungus (Good luck)

PoP Wise - the fucking Immobilize Shield from Air. I came back to EQ in 2007 and a shaman in the guild since PoP was still trying to get one.

Anyhow, I'd say Preserved Chokidai Vocal Cords and Heart of Fungus might be the two worst camps in the game.

[Nuggie]

friend of mine stayed up for 68 hours camping for the damn glowing black stone. I never nerded out that hard back then.

[Arclyte]

Fact.

Throw in Rentlon Brenclog for the WTF? moment. How did the train pickup the gnome in his hole in the back corner? He would cast big nukes on you i think hes level 14. Some people dont even know about Brenclog

never understood why that fucker helped orcs

this is probably where my hatred of gnomes began

[Rhambuk]

Anyhow, I'd say Preserved Chokidai Vocal Cords and Heart of Fungus might be the two worst camps in the game.

Vocal Cords were awful

[Arteker]

maiden eye shard .

[Grahm]

In vanilla wow i ran inner maraudon 16 or 17 times straight in two days to get my inventors focal sword. You know the caster SWORD with +1 crit on it. I wanted it so bad because in everquest you cant be a mage with a sword. So i wanted it bad in WoW. Does that count?

Otherwise it would have to be idk...never did much camping. Kills the dwarfs in GD to turn in their heads for kael faction!

There was a caster wep with a scimitar graphic on it. Looked bad ass.

Think they changed it to a glowing fist in PoP tho.

[Loto]

In Vanilla WoW there was some brilliant chromatic carapace thng off the Warlord in UBRS. Supposedly 1/1,000,000 chance to drop, for Breastplate of the Chromatic BP.

Never intentionally farmed that, but when it drops, the group gets real quiet, and the greedy ninja rolls start the party. Hope you brought friends...

[Melbane]

I once camped the Avatar of Fear in Cazic Thule for 4 days for the Mithril Two-Handed Sword. Yeah, you read it right....

[Rhambuk]

I once camped the Avatar of Fear in Cazic Thule for 4 days for the Mithril Two-Handed Sword. Yeah, you read it right....

lol that might be the rarest drop in game

[Melbane]

lol that might be the rarest drop in game
That it was!!! Lol....

[skorge]

friend of mine stayed up for 68 hours camping for the damn glowing black stone. I never nerded out that hard back then.

lol damn now that's crazy....i wish i could meet your friend IRL, anyone who has that much devotion to a video game is A+ material

my personal longest is 19 straight hours to get a rubicite bp back in 1999 the last weekend before it got removed from the game..

[Buellen]

This by far was my longest camp in eq ever

Never got 2nd eye.

Camp time: 6hrs non stop killing per day for 9 days straight

to this day i hate the that firkin forager!!! only ever saw him 4 times in the 54hrs span over 9 days.


Garue 49th Level Half Elf Warrior // Buskier 34th Level Human cleric // Shoul Der 37th level human monk.

[Buriedpast]

Yellow fang earring. Fuck that, never ever again. Rog sk shaman 3 box. About 3 weeks 12-18hrs a day with a few random days off in middle.