Sky Upgraded Items

[Lostfaction]

Should monks be able to get a 16/22 1hb and rogues a 12/19 dagger this early in era? Why trivializing content so long before Velious?

[Scalem]

Content on green is trivial the moment it releases.

[Kirdan]

Wu's fist is currently 16/27

[Keebz]

Not all the upgrades are in I don't think, so don't just go turning in your current item. Make sure you get the appropriate quest text about 'old trinkets' or what have you first.

[Xersius]

It's so far out it the predicted timeline that it feels like a developer mistake

[Izmael]

Has the ranger cloak been upgraded?

[YendorLootmonkey]

Has the ranger cloak been upgraded?

There's another series of upgrades (the ones where you turn in your old item to get the new item) that happens in Velious. Note that no one can find any evidence of those new items in game prior to March 2001:

https://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=114093

[Thulian]

the entire server is trivial when every single boss dies 10 seconds within spawning to a horde of unemployed 30 somethings

where is the challenge?

The server is 1 big line

[possiblyben]

confirmed that Darkwood Aegis => Aegis of the Wind works.

[Jibartik]

The trivial part of the game is knowing everything.

Everquest was never a hard game, unless you didn't know how everything worked!

[hewopepweow]

Has the ranger cloak been upgraded?

ranger cloak has been upgraded

[YendorLootmonkey]

Shouldn't have been until Velious. Need to know if devs are going to just roll with the oversight, or if these items will be removed and components reimbursed until the proper late March 2001 timeline.

http://web.archive.org/web/20010406154510/http://www.gameznet.com/eq/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?profileClassic

Post-Patch Goodness Posted Thursday, March 29, 2001 by jcsmith
It appears that some older zones were updated with Tuesday's patch. It also appears that some Plane of Air quests have had their rewards modified. Here's a taster...

More Plane of Air Rewards Posted Tuesday, April 3, 2001 by jcsmith
Today's update includes several new plane of air rewards as well as new items from Plane of Mischief, Dragon Necropolis and Siren's Grotto.

In other news I wanted to remind everyone that all servers go down at 3AM this morning for a patch. As always you can get your daily dose of Everquest related news in addition to item updates at our new site at mmo.gameznet.com. Lastly I figured some players might be interested in hearing that we have a contest going on over at our Atriarch site. This is a contest sanctioned by the official development team and will reward Atriarch points just for entry for all of you hoping to get in to the beta.

New 1HBlunts: Paebala Fetish.
New Piercers: Garduk(SHM).
New Missile Weapons: Windstriker(RNG).
New Breastplate: Spined Seahorse Hide Breastplate.
New Cloaks: Dark Cloak of the Sky(RNG).
New Shoulders: Fairy-Hide Mantle(SHM).
New Shields: Buckler of Doom.
New Held Items: Ervaj's Flute of Flight(BRD).
Updated Plane of Air Quests: POA Bard, POA Ranger, POA Shaman.

[Kirdan]

Haven't we gone over this before, those are "new" to the site, that's not evidence of them being new items in game... see: Garduk and Windstriker listed in the same update as "new" items, despite being items that were not upgraded rewards.

[DoodyLich666]

Gotta love that early 2000’s web page. Very nostalgic.

[YendorLootmonkey]

Haven't we gone over this before, those are "new" to the site, that's not evidence of them being new items in game... see: Garduk and Windstriker listed in the same update as "new" items, despite being items that were not upgraded rewards.

That doesn't explain this:

Post-Patch Goodness Posted Thursday, March 29, 2001 by jcsmith
It appears that some older zones were updated with Tuesday's patch. It also appears that some Plane of Air quests have had their rewards modified.

What other time were Plane of Sky items upgraded/modified after the new items were put in, then?

Post evidence of the upgraded items existing in game prior to March 2001.

Yes, we have gone over this before. The consensus and all of the evidence pointed towards March 2001. The only detractors in the thread were "C'mon man, just leave it as-is and work on Velious".

https://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=114093

[Kirdan]

http://www.tski.co.jp/baldio/patch/20000719.html

Increased stats on many Plane of Sky items.

[YendorLootmonkey]

http://www.tski.co.jp/baldio/patch/20000719.html

Yes, a few existing items had their stats tweaked during Kunark.

This was not the wholesale replacement of quest rewards with new items. You are assuming too much from "had their stats tweaked". Going from a Spiroc Healer's Cloak to the Dark Cloak of the Sky is not having its "stats tweaked". It is more in line with "quests had their rewards modified" from the March 2001 post I quoted.

[ewjax]

Can anyone confirm whether or not the Necro sky rewards have been updated? The quest givers don't mention anything about it.

[Thulian]

who cares

[ewjax]

Can anyone confirm whether or not the Necro sky rewards have been updated? The quest givers don't mention anything about it.

Confirmed the necro wrist and ring are yielding upgrades, even though the quest giver does not offer any text saying as much.

[Shimmerdark]

Yeah an VP isn't suppose to be out for 6 months. Progression server maybe, something trying to approximate a timeline of classic Everquest, not a chance. Going into Velious with 8 months of VP.....yeah that's classic.

[MelxDruid]

SK necklace upgrade is out.

[Mesocyclone]

Imagine how rare jboots would have been on live if drusella never dropped them only the ac rings

[Ashenden]

Yes, a few existing items had their stats tweaked during Kunark.

This was not the wholesale replacement of quest rewards with new items. You are assuming too much from "had their stats tweaked". Going from a Spiroc Healer's Cloak to the Dark Cloak of the Sky is not having its "stats tweaked". It is more in line with "quests had their rewards modified" from the March 2001 post I quoted.

Show us proof of these pre and post stat changes on the original Sky items, someone must have mentioned their items changing stats.

[zags]

Yeah an VP isn't suppose to be out for 6 months. Progression server maybe, something trying to approximate a timeline of classic Everquest, not a chance. Going into Velious with 8 months of VP.....yeah that's classic.

Do you have any data to back that up?