I have been playing this game for this long and still have no idea what this thing is

[Jibartik]

https://i.imgur.com/PKWywHb.png

That is all.

[loramin]

It's a skull with a wrench for a body, purple arms, and giant shoulderplates ... duh ;)

[Cen]

A dying heart over black lungs over a cold metalic spine. Rock on with Satan, and Ka Zick Tool Ay

[GinnasP99]

Its an overlord

[menadwen]

Its a heretic's fork. A dark heart. A vampires skull.

[Jibartik]

Its a heretic's fork. A dark heart. A vampires skull.

http://torturemuseum.net/en/the-heretics-fork/

Holy crap, TIL!

Whoever chose that for the icon though is a idiot just saying :P

Shit should be a bubbly cauldron with bones in it!

[Chortles Snort|eS]

duh

[Jibartik]

duh

Thats the last time a troll says duh to me!

If we were NPC's that'd be my aggro message to you.

[Sonderbeast]

It's the necromancer symbol. When you play a necromancer that is the symbol on the equipment screen. It sometimes animates and was scary to 12 year olds in 1999.

[Jibartik]

It's the necromancer symbol. When you play a necromancer that is the symbol on the equipment screen. It sometimes animates and was scary to 12 year olds in 1999.

This guy posts on forums :cool:

And I still am not convinced on the purple things and the pink thing ;_;

[Jibartik]

Ok hotshots, what the heck is this?? :cool:

https://i.imgur.com/d9Z9UsA.png

[Sorn]

cursed

[Chortles Snort|eS]

👀

[menadwen]

Might be part of the cover from the necronomicon.

[Sonderbeast]

It's the enchanter counterpart to the necromancer symbol you posted earlier, OP. Same deal.

[Chortles Snort|eS]

https://i.imgur.com/uK1VkKe.gif

[Madbad]

Ok hotshots, what the heck is this?? :cool:

https://i.imgur.com/d9Z9UsA.png

A question I have asked my self off and on for 20 years

[Shrubwise]

Ok hotshots, what the heck is this?? :cool:

https://i.imgur.com/d9Z9UsA.png

Actually a legitimate question I have also wondered over the years. It looks like some type of parchment, covered in leather, enchanted with an eyeball.
Duh, enchanter. Get it.

[zodium]

Ok hotshots, what the heck is this?? :cool:

https://i.imgur.com/d9Z9UsA.png

that's pretty clearly a mask with a third eye open

[Izmael]

I see a pair of boobs..

[redhorse]

Enchanter was the first class I took to any significant level back on live. I always thought he was a friendly little magical leather guy, with a big kind eye that blinked sympathetically at me while I stared back at him as I re-memed my spells from dying yet again...

[Jibartik]

I always thought he was a friendly little magical leather guy, with a big kind eye that blinked sympathetically at me while I stared back at him as I re-memed my spells from dying yet again...

:D

[Jibartik]

that's pretty clearly a mask with a third eye open

ok this is a terrible mask but this is a good theory. The enchanter does look with their minds eye into yours. :eek:

[fadetree]

It's an interesting question. I tried to do some google research on the design and meaning of the class icons, but didn't find much. You'd think that there would be some historical design notes, but knowing how dev shops usually work there may not be. Finding out who were the graphics designers for original EQ by name would help, but I'm not sure how to do that. The guess that the necro one is basically a heretic's fork is a really good guess, I think.

I would guess that the chanter icon is based on the idea of an 'evil eye'. Why it's embedded on a leather covered paddle thingy might be to try and look like something tribal, but that's all I can come up with. There is a history of things called nazars that are protective against the evil eye, and they are usually circular or oval and have an eye embedded on them, the idea being that they can turn the 'evil eye' back on itself and thus protect the wearer. The action of the 'evil eye' attack would be to bring misfortune or to control the victim in some way, so this might reference either the enchanter's protective ability or also the ability to cast 'evil eye' type effects.

The 'third eye' that has mystical powers is a good guess too, but it's not clear that there are two otehr eyes involved and it doesn't look like much of a head or face. Both ideas may be in play here, or else the designer just thought it looked cool /shrug.

[Jibartik]

https://i.imgur.com/QgGZRp4.png

Well now (3rd)I've seen everything.

[Jibartik]

Could you imagine enchanters walkn around with that thing??

*baritone voice. * "hello, I have very high charisma"

[Chortles Snort|eS]

https://i.imgur.com/xfDKElh.jpg

[Sonderbeast]

There is an eyeball in your ice cream cone lulz

[zodium]

The 'third eye' that has mystical powers is a good guess too, but it's not clear that there are two otehr eyes involved and it doesn't look like much of a head or face. Both ideas may be in play here, or else the designer just thought it looked cool /shrug.

this guy doesnt even know what the third eye is, smdh, please align ur chakras ppl

https://www.wikihow.com/Open-Your-Third-Eye

[zodium]

it's probably not a nazar because

1) it doesn't look anything like a nazar
2) nazars are amulets and that's a mask

[Jimjam]

Honestly the enchanter logo feels phoned in.

The class controls and it deceives. Okay, lets put a third (evil!) eye on a mask; job done.

[Ennewi]

A medieval wheel of fortune superimposed onto an old chronoscope. A piece of parchment blackened with a recurring inkblot. Even a perpetual motion machine of some sort. Any of these would have better represented the class at first glance. But the original always had unsettling look to it and that it is still the subject of intrigue twenty years later ties in really well with the class. We don't know what it is and maybe were never meant to.

[a_gnome_collector]

A dying heart over black lungs over a cold metalic spine. Rock on with Satan, and Ka Zick Tool Ay

Sounds like Satan vapes and his evil spirit is exploding through his lungs?

[fadetree]

It's not a mask, it looks like a paddle or something. Some dude pasted it over his chars face on imgur, but I'm not seeing the mask.

[fadetree]

it's probably not a nazar because

1) it doesn't look anything like a nazar
2) nazars are amulets and that's a mask

Yeah, I agree its probably not, it's just all I could find. It does look like a nazar because it has a big eye on it, and so do nazars. I don't think the enchanter thingy is a mask.

[Jibartik]

Honestly the enchanter logo feels phoned in.

The class controls and it deceives. Okay, lets put a third (evil!) eye on a mask; job done.

It definitely should have been this instead:

https://i.imgur.com/C3f1AVG.gif