Your Luckiest p1999 experiences!

[Jimjam]

Sometimes it feels like the 'Random Number Generator' is out to get us in eq... however on the very rare occasion it can feel like the RNG is our best friend, helping us get rare drops without having to camp or resisting that one spell at exactly the right time.

This thread is for you to post some of your favourite good luck stories. I look forward to reading what you have to offer!

[Droxx]

One time back in kunark before Tranix was insta killed, I found him up without any guards. Killed him and he dropped a crown.

[Jauna]

Few days ago I was on my druid and someone tipped me more than 20p for a port.

It was a day of days.

[Victorio]

The story of my first fungi: I won the last casino in EC before it got banned. Spent 37k on rolls and won fungi and cof. Sold cof back to the guy for 90 or 95k, kept the fungi. Soon thereafter, someone else won the roll with the same guy. He didn't pay up, there was a big thread about it, and casinos for got banned.

[Trungep99]

When i was in Asgard around the time Velious was released we were contesting a Vindi pop. I was lvl 55 at the time surrounded by lvl 60 competition. I went up to the spawn point with everyone else. as Vindi spawned, i grabbed FTE and clicked my DA idol. ran him to my raid like the road runner and feigned. We got our first Vindi kill that night and i was thrilled to have helped in the accomplishment.

I know Vindi is easy to many of us now and i have seen many more kills since that date, but when your guild is coming out of kunark with weaker gear, it was a challenge.

[Loke]

I was awarded DA's first major raid loot (Rakusha Cloak) because Bronson ran his mouth to Rogean and got booted from the server / suspended for a short time. Cloak definitely would have gone to Bronson over me since he was an officer and contributing a lot more than I was at the time.

Also won a pre-nerf fungi staff while I was tracking Tal because I was the first person to answer some trivia question. I had asked for a Ton Po's, but got denied. Pre-nerf fungi was a pretty decent consolation prize tho.

More recently we got a Torpor off our first kill when we specifically went to try and farm Torpor for a friend.

Sure there are others, but those are the three that come to mind.

[Legday]

When i was in Asgard around the time Velious was released we were contesting a Vindi pop. I was lvl 55 at the time surrounded by lvl 60 competition. I went up to the spawn point with everyone else. as Vindi spawned, i grabbed FTE and clicked my DA idol. ran him to my raid like the road runner and feigned. We got our first Vindi kill that night and i was thrilled to have helped in the accomplishment.

I know Vindi is easy to many of us now and i have seen many more kills since that date, but when your guild is coming out of kunark with weaker gear, it was a challenge.

Your FTE was legendary. That was one of the more intense fights!

[Jotei]

I am not really sure I understand what you are talking about beyond luck, but I am pleased to say the fates have smiled kindly upon me of late. Not but three days prior did I get lucky with a certain Warlord during a stay in the northeast wing of the Castle Karnor.

My companions and I were engaged in an intense and thoroughly rewarding session and had just finished with our hands when I set out to check the cells. Thus far the experience had been fantastic and we'd been generously showered by the fashion faeires with an assortment of brand garments (Cobalt™, Bloodforge™, etc.).

Anyway I left the room to cool down and grab a breath of fresh air while rounding up some more locals to join us. The cells down the hall were scheduled to be re-occupied soon. I wrapped one of my sticks on the first door and it swung open! There he stood, tall, lithe and hard and white as diamonds with one fist wrapped tightly around what I instinctively knew to be his legendary staff. It was a bit intimidating when he thrust at me! My heart leaped with joy though as I dashed back to our room with him in tow.

It was intense, but he wore well before the rest of us and I cast my magical die. It could have been any number from 0 to 100, but this time it was 100! I squealed with joy and almost fainted. I stood nervously chewing my lip, trying to calm my racing heart as each of my companions rolled in turn and then I fell face first into the placid waters of ecstasy as my win was confirmed when the last roll failed to tie my glorious 100. I knelt and relieved the weary warlord of his great staff and have enjoyed every minute I've had with it since.

In retrospect I find it all the more fitting that fate should award unto me the stave of 100 blows with nothing less than a roll of 100.

[Swish]

The story of my first fungi: I won the last casino in EC before it got banned. Spent 37k on rolls and won fungi and cof. Sold cof back to the guy for 90 or 95k, kept the fungi. Soon thereafter, someone else won the roll with the same guy. He didn't pay up, there was a big thread about it, and casinos for got banned.

That's great going, and I remember that guy.

It's the same guy who was spam randoming 1000 in the tunnel with nobody around at the death hours of the server to fabricate a winner. People are assholes.

[Varren]

Logged in once to find Pyzjyn right in front of me carrying her stone. Also got an earring from Grachnist immediately upon arriving at the fort a couple of days ago.

[Victorio]

That's great going, and I remember that guy.

It's the same guy who was spam randoming 1000 in the tunnel with nobody around at the death hours of the server to fabricate a winner. People are assholes.
The guy was just retarded. He was offering 300p per roll, you roll 0 to 1000 and win with 666, 777, or 888. With CoF at 95k and fungi at 75k, I don't know how he expected to make money. I decided to take a stab at it with 110 rolls, then traded in an SBS and SoS for more rolls.

[Erati]

I rolled a 1000 to beat Daldaen's monk alt for a Scout Bracer for my monk

that is a footnote from the Ledger of Luck I have had versus Dald- the rest remains unwritten....

"cue the music"

[Pheer]

Came back from being ghosted for like 1.5 years, logged in and happened to be camped at the seb orb in TT. As I was running back up top I peeked around the corner at the pained soul camp and he was sitting up with no other player in sight.

[Jimjam]

I managed to spend under 100pp and make a full set of banded, didn't get my skill any higher than 89 either.

The guy was just retarded. He was offering 300p per roll, you roll 0 to 1000 and win with 666, 777, or 888. With CoF at 95k and fungi at 75k, I don't know how he expected to make money. I decided to take a stab at it with 110 rolls, then traded in an SBS and SoS for more rolls.

Expected profit per roll ((998*300)-(3*9500))/1001=14.385 plat

[Victorio]

Came back from being ghosted for like 1.5 years, logged in and happened to be camped at the seb orb in TT. As I was running back up top I peeked around the corner at the pained soul camp and he was sitting up with no other player in sight.
Happened to me too once, minus the ghosting.

[Laugher]

Once got a free fungi along with a couple other items from a quitting epicd rogue in OT about 3-4 years ago. Loaned to rl friend who got banned on a false third party program positive. Got it back later when he was proven innocent (phew). Sold it, became an altoholic and rode the plat out through a few alts and my main's 50s spells

[Vallanor]

Pained Soul spawned in the first 30 minutes on my first attempt. I ended up selling that piece when someone made an offer I couldn't refuse. My second attempt took about 11 hours but resulted in back-to-back Pained Soul spawns. I hope I never have to go back there because I think I'm due for a nightmare of a camp!

[Triangle]

I was about to go to bed but decided to log in real quick. Sirken broadcasted a gm event about faeries having a special technology. I was bound at TD pots so I quickly ported to GFay and ran to LFay.

Even though I got there quick there were a ton of people in zone. I ran to the faeries camp and killed like 1 and of it had nothing. Then some lvl 20 runs by with like 10 of them and promptly dies. I assume he was in the area already. Anyway one of the mobs was a named faerie. Killed it and .... Nothing!

5 minutes go by and everyone realizes no more are left. Sirken appears in front of me an asks me if I got the guise. I said no and he told me it should have dropped from the Named faerie. guess he confirmed it in the logs that I had not looted, because after a few more minutes all of the sudden a guise appears on my cursor.

Luckiest moment by far. I had been wanting one for ages and assumed it would never happen.

Second is that I figured out a way to solo shimmering sea spirit ph in SG. I was able to hold down 2 camps. in about 20 hours total, camping off and on, I got 3 wavecrasher and 1 drum (roughly 800k in a bad market). I found out later from other people that I got very lucky on the spawn rate. Nice thing was that it was kind of an afk camp and very fun

[azeth]

Roamed Seb solo and assassinated a Kor Shaman for a Sebilisian Berserker Cloak

[Subidoo]

Someone gave me 20pp since i'm new, lol.

[Amirite]

i got a group once.. was the best moment of my p99 life.

[Swish]

Someone gave me 20pp since i'm new, lol.

That's a decent start ^^

[-Catherin-]

Was camping Frenzy in Guk a lot a long time ago. One time all three spawns in the room were Frenzied and all three of them had a sash. I dont know how statistically rare that is but im sure it was pretty astronomical.

[Menemas]

On my chanter, duoing with a cleric in the crypt, the Heriophant spawned twice in first 3 cycles we were there and dropped cloak both times.

[Jmcwrestling]

Lucked up an won an RBG in a late night seb group once!

[clacbec]

Once i said "Malo dont agro" back on live, on luclin emp crew inc

[quido]

I won at Everquest on both servers.

[Sorn]

Got sucked into a KC group hoping for a no drop bracer, won T-staff instead on first kill.

Gave T-staff to monk friend (who was in the group but rolled a 9), got Efreeti Ice Staff in return.

That was a good night.

[chromis]

387PP and a spell scroll succor for a poor mans evac. Someone said in oot that they were done with the ac. I just zoned in from fp and ran over to find the ac up!

[LGraves]

Logged in before work to try for Dylin Starshine. About 20 minutes later he spawned. I was lvl 18 at the time I think, so it was an epic battle! Barely killed him but the smugglers killed me. I was happy.

[Transylvania]

On my shaman soloing in Sebilis, a light blue Froglok Bok Shaman at the entrance hall doorway dropped a Seblisian Berserker Cloak.

[mr_jon3s]

I decided to run to lower guk from EC instead of getting a port. In SRO see a giant target it and its the ancient cyclops. Summoned my pet and killed it.

[Othniel626]

Have two:

1) Camping Hadden and see Pyzjin pop on track with no one in zone. Ran over and saw the flashing red orb in her hand!

2) Logged in a few weeks ago into SRo on like a Tuesday at 3 PM EST. Was camping AC at the time (one spawn at 9 PM gametime will pop him (or not) once per day, that's it). Checked game time, it was 8 AM and figured someone killed the PH/him the night before. Decided to hit EC and pick up some ports until 9 PM rolls around, but check Track out of compulsion. See a blue "an ancient cyclops" up on track in the far corner of the map, at 8 AM!! Ended up snagging it for a family member's chanter that I had been camping him for!

[Crashking]

Well my luckiest happenings on P99 haven't involved the RNG, but at Velious Launch. I managed to win a Ring of the Ancients and also a Driftwood Treasure Chest from the event turn-ins. Not bad for a mid 30 level toon at the time (I believe).

[JayDee]

http://www.rngsus.nl/images/rngsus.jpg

[Sebekkha]

Zoning into nektulous full of 280 players during a Sirken GM event at 4.30am UK time after being woken by my toddler, all those 280 were hunting down a neriak thief! I zoned from EC , thought the halfling raiders may be hiding the thief, negative. Ran around aimlessly , found the thief which resulted in a massive adrenaline rush I forget to auto attack.

Needless to say, I got FTE, the kill, and the elusive Guise of the Deceiver.

Thank you Sirken!

[Swish]

Getting a JBB on the first clear of a crypt run, that's about as good as its got :)

[Laugher]

Oh yeah another one: Was running around with Faked the monk a couple years back, ported him over to Sro to sit on AC. First spawn within 2 minutes of getting there and its the AC with the ring, as if he had waited for us to show up lol.

[Spyder73]

When i was in Asgard around the time Velious was released we were contesting a Vindi pop. I was lvl 55 at the time surrounded by lvl 60 competition. I went up to the spawn point with everyone else. as Vindi spawned, i grabbed FTE and clicked my DA idol. ran him to my raid like the road runner and feigned. We got our first Vindi kill that night and i was thrilled to have helped in the accomplishment.

I know Vindi is easy to many of us now and i have seen many more kills since that date, but when your guild is coming out of kunark with weaker gear, it was a challenge.

Florid and I were the other 2 people on the 3 man FTE crew. Chest was continuously pulling giants past us trying to get one of us to tab the giant and burn our clickies... Was one of the first times I realized how scummy BDA really is (I already knew, but this helped cement it - Picking on Asgard once again, big surprise). Anyways, this trick worked on Florid and he/she was going to get a new net or mallet or whatever he/she was using and Vindi poped and Trunge high stepped to glory. This is directly when BDA started to fall off, so Trunge could technically be responsible for the BDA implosion to mediocrity

[xexbis0]

There was a fun event set up by an old veteran of the server that was overseen by the GMs and ended in a massive pvp battle royal. I was Team Captain and secured Theya with my 2nd pick overall. I think Zanderr went first. We ended up finishing 2nd to a mostly Team Taken including Eratani. Each team got to pick an item and roll off. Of the 12 or so players on my team, I rolled the highest and ended up snagging a Manastone. Taken itself at the time went ES Greaves (think eventually went to Eratani?) -> Manastone (Xexbis) -> Shield of the Water Dragon (Bitchking) clean sweep of the rolls. The EQ gods favored us that day.

[Erati]

Praise Apeople Person

[Trungep99]

This is directly when BDA started to fall off, so Trunge could technically be responsible for the BDA implosion to mediocrity

which possibly the most important part of the event =)

[Victorio]

Expected profit per roll ((998*300)-(3*9500))/1001=14.385 plat
He takes an expected loss...

Value of prize items = 95k + 75k = 170k
Chance of winning per roll = 3/1001
Value of each roll = 170k * 3/1001 = 509p
Price he's selling rolls for = 300p
Expected loss for him = 209p per roll

[mlefurge]

I was camping Groi one night in SK when I randomly turned around and saw Quil flying. I quickly OOC'd but no one was claiming Quil. I run over, killed Quil and looted a cloak.

[Jimjam]

He takes an expected loss...

Value of prize items = 95k + 75k = 170k
Chance of winning per roll = 3/1001
Value of each roll = 170k * 3/1001 = 509p
Price he's selling rolls for = 300p
Expected loss for him = 209p per roll

oh wow, I thought he was giving away the choice of item, not both :S

Edit: also just noticed, I missed out a zero in the notation of my previous calculation, but the result was correct.

[Vorkon]

Had an awesome Tormax story that got ate when I edited it.

EQ RNG is either completely awesome, or sucks. there is no inbetween.

[Atmas]

I was on my wizard in his 30s and I came across the very elusive, very rare, later removed Ancient Cyclops spawn in South Karana. I fought him for a long time nuking him, rooting him, and medding before a friendly higher lvl druid showed up to help me finish him off.

I got jboots way before I could afford them or have a shot at camping one of the other AC spawns which were higher level than the SK one.

[Erati]

early on here one of my fav cash camps was the HBC in Mistmoore - easy quick 4k -5K sale, nearly instant.

This one time I remember gating to my bind point above the PH on the wall, seeing him up - bam - looted the HBC.

Brought that baby to EC, sold it, gated back and low and behold he is up again with another cloak!

That time along with this magical 2 hours in Droga where I got X2 Gauntlets of Potence and Idol of the Thorned was some of my best luck solo farming.

Have also ran down to Chief before - always checking Soothsayer - who this one time was up with earring. That was nice surprise.

[Oleris]

see 3 torpors, win 3 torpors.

[fahlen]

Winning a hiero with a 100 they day before duo'ing with a friend, him letting me have a JBB that dropped for my 40shm at the time. The next night I'm in a group and this happens. The roll was cropped out for my tumblr (had some 100 rolls on a WoW server played on, but you can read the chat)
http://i.imgur.com/DKnmTyH.jpg

[zanderklocke]

I won a Cloak of Flames once off Ragefire. Never really had any other luck on the server and pretty much farmed platinum ad nauseam to get all other upgrades. I suppose I've had some interesting Quillmane luck, but considering how much time I spent in South Karana in total, I don't know if I would consider it lucky.

[Cecily]

Praise Apeople Person

That guy was still mad at me for leaving Forceful Entry... in Velious. Real glad he gave his stuff away.
I guess you could call someone you couldn't stand quitting permanently lucky.

[Raev]

I was playing basketball on Wednesday nights pretty consistently in Dec/Jan or so, but I wasn't quite feeling up to it so I logged on and ended up going to Sleeper's and getting a Shroud of Longevity. I didn't think much of it at the time, but Ventani failed to cough one up for the next month and it ended up being the last one on the server.

I was also amazingly lucky rolling on A-Team Chardok raids. IIRC I won (against like 10-15 people) first an Insignia Protector, then Torpor, then another Insignia protector (gave to Xoquil because at that point I was just feeling embarrassed) and then a Jagged Blade of Mourning (to Lavarian for the same reasons).

On the other hand, I lost my first 17 fungi tunic rolls . . . .

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

I had been on the server just a couple weeks, and a nice person gave me a ruby.

Well, what does one do with a ruby? Why, go to Innothule Swamp and see if Lynuga is up, of course! So for the first time since 1999, I make a trip to the land of Trolls, Lynuga is there, I hand in the ruby, and wouldn't ya know it, an Ivandyr's Hoop :)

[Cecily]

^ Nice!

[fahlen]

I won a Cloak of Flames once off Ragefire. Never really had any other luck on the server and pretty much farmed platinum ad nauseam to get all other upgrades. I suppose I've had some interesting Quillmane luck, but considering how much time I spent in South Karana in total, I don't know if I would consider it lucky.

We had some pretty good lucky streaks when we were selling them. And when I wanted one for my third toon (the one that needed it the most) I went 1/23.

[zanderklocke]

There was a fun event set up by an old veteran of the server that was overseen by the GMs and ended in a massive pvp battle royal. I was Team Captain and secured Theya with my 2nd pick overall. I think Zanderr went first. We ended up finishing 2nd to a mostly Team Taken including Eratani. Each team got to pick an item and roll off. Of the 12 or so players on my team, I rolled the highest and ended up snagging a Manastone. Taken itself at the time went ES Greaves (think eventually went to Eratani?) -> Manastone (Xexbis) -> Shield of the Water Dragon (Bitchking) clean sweep of the rolls. The EQ gods favored us that day.

To this day, I don't know why I was the first person picked. I don't know anything about PVP on a bard. I just ran around with my group playing selos and resist songs. I think it worked pretty well when I was with a monk.

Honestly, the people that probably did the best in that brawl were the people who just sat, waited, and watched everyone else kill each other first.

[Durothil Skyreaver]

I won my Ghoulbane back in 2011 with a roll of 100 in a pickup group. Was pretty sweet getting it at the appropriate level.

[khanable]

I won a Cloak of Flames once off Ragefire. Never really had any other luck on the server and pretty much farmed platinum ad nauseam to get all other upgrades. I suppose I've had some interesting Quillmane luck, but considering how much time I spent in South Karana in total, I don't know if I would consider it lucky.

Do you remember spending something like 10 or 13 hours doing my cloak?

[Erati]

I picked you first Zander bc I had a vision of success and it involved you

[zanderklocke]

Do you remember spending something like 10 or 13 hours doing my cloak?

Of course. That's how I met you.

Doing cloaks for platinum was always more fun than power leveling because there wasn't any chance of really butting heads with people, unless people were killing Quillmane every time you spawned her.

However, getting 4K out of 1-4+ hours of constant work was pretty bad payout.

[-Catherin-]

There was a fun event set up by an old veteran of the server that was overseen by the GMs and ended in a massive pvp battle royal. I was Team Captain and secured Theya with my 2nd pick overall. I think Zanderr went first. We ended up finishing 2nd to a mostly Team Taken including Eratani. Each team got to pick an item and roll off. Of the 12 or so players on my team, I rolled the highest and ended up snagging a Manastone. Taken itself at the time went ES Greaves (think eventually went to Eratani?) -> Manastone (Xexbis) -> Shield of the Water Dragon (Bitchking) clean sweep of the rolls. The EQ gods favored us that day.

Yes, luckiest p1999 experiences ;)

[fiveeauxfour]

the monk ahead of me in dkp ragequit the guild the day before our first pair of brass knuckles dropped and i got them for virtually free.

oooh and that time i got a robe and a crown off the same PD
[Mon Nov 02 11:07:32 2015] --You have looted a Robe of the Azure Sky.--
[Mon Nov 02 11:08:17 2015] --You have looted a Crown of Rile.--

[Oleris]

the monk ahead of me in dkp ragequit the guild the day before our first pair of brass knuckles dropped and i got them for virtually free.

oooh and that time i got a robe and a crown off the same PD
[Mon Nov 02 11:07:32 2015] --You have looted a Robe of the Azure Sky.--
[Mon Nov 02 11:08:17 2015] --You have looted a Crown of Rile.--

my robe :*(

[fiveeauxfour]

... Florid and he/she was going ...

How many times do i need to tell you that im a man

[Morbo the Annihilator]

on 12th December 2012, i spent 4 hours camping inner LCY mobs in KC for a tstaff for my monk.

Warlord popped in one of the rooms holding a staff, and Naladinu happened to be wandering through and was first to engage it.

this is the story about naladinu's luckiest stroll through KC.


PS. my monk still doesn't have a tstaff

[bspa0700]

How many times do i need to tell you that im a man

Men who roll female toons leave the door open for question marks. You brought it upon yourself

[Evia]

Men who roll female toons leave the door open for question marks. You brought it upon yourself

[Safon]

Men who roll female toons leave the door open for question marks. You brought it upon yourself

[Jimjam]

Humans who roll gnome toons leave the door open for question marks.

[Hagglebaron]

Men who roll female toons leave the door open for question marks. You brought it upon yourself

[coki]

winning roll on torp in seb and also winning roll on rbg in seb , prolly the most luck iv had, rando groups

[GinnasP99]

Logged in to Iceclad one morning after work. Basically the only one in zone and staring at stormfeather just chilling in front of me