What are some of the exploits that you guys remember from back in the day?

[RecondoJoe]

I remember there was this item that you could buy in Kaladim for like 4pp, and then re-sale it to a merchant 15 feet away for 11pp, and printing a ton of money by doing this. In my defense, there was a ton of people doing it at the time. But it came out to like thousands of plat an hour and I never got in trouble for doing it.

I also remember one of the guys who rode my school bus going to High Pass and standing up on a high ledge and nuking high level NPCs and guards for insane exp/loot. They couldn't attack him. He gained 15 levels off of this, then suddenly got hit with a 24 hour ban, and there was patch note warning players not to do this anymore.

He ultimately said the ban was worth it because of how crazy fast the exp was.

When I first came back to P99 I was sitting on a ledge near Orc Hill in Crushbone and was genuinely scared that I might get banned for healing my group from there since the Orcs below couldn't easily reach me.

I also heard of a portal in the Karana river that could teleport players to North Freeport, but IDK if that was actually real or not.

[Snortles Chortles]

Drugs

[nostalgiaquest]

nobody believes anything you say

[Jimjam]

Making a big deal about going to bed then sneaking down to the study to play more eq.

[Snortles Chortles]

https://i.imgur.com/0IyidOJ.gif

[Aadill]

Go to Qeynos Hills.
Summon an Eye of Zomm and kill it
Loot for money.

[arsenalpow]

Hole had a ton of spots
Qeynos on the walls
Erudin walls and teleporters
Akanon had a ton of spots
Freeport on the walls

[Jibartik]

I saw this well known PKer on rallos zek killing trolls with direct damages.

At first I noticed trolls were running around town spamming their agro dialogue. It was cool looking and funny.. I was like wtf is going on?

So I start looking around and I see (pkers name i forget) casting messages, so I get a bit worried but keep looking around.

Then low and behold I see him WAAAAAAAY up somewhere on some geometry along a wall, idk how he got there, lev trick maybe? Shadowstepping? I could never reproduce it..

Anyway the creatures couldn't get up there so they just ran around and he killed them 1 by 1.

I petitioned him because he was a PKER and I hated him and watched him get arrested and disappear and it was glorious.

[Tunabros]

RMT

[Nocht]

Spending a week telling all my friends and co workers about the game and then calling in sick on Monday. Then dodging my boss when they wanted a doctors note.

Managers knew firing me would only allow me to play more so they just gave me more hours to spite me.

[nyclin]

you could easily transfer nodrop gear via the legends server (stormhammer)

1) transfer char to SH
2) die in bazaar or somewhere easy to get to
3) request transfer off of SH (they wouldn't verify whether you had a corpse, or delete that corpse)
4) create char with same name as the char you want to transfer items to
5) transfer in target char, you'll get an 'x' appended to your name
6) petition for rename, request name of the char from step 1
6) loot corpse of original char

for the low, low price of $80 (2 months of legends sub) you too can have your retired friend's bis items

[Dolalin]

I discovered one myself, as far as I know I was the only one to figure it out.

If you targetted an npc, any npc, and typed 'dono', up until mid-Velious, the NPC would stop, turn to face you, and not move for about 2 minutes.

This worked on the boats, too.

Teenage me had a lot of fun griefing people on the boats by stopping it randomly in the middle of the ocean. All you had to do was walk down to the belly and type 'dono'.

They patched it out a few weeks later, never got in trouble for it or heard from a GM or anything.

[Dolalin]

I spent a lot of time trying to figure out what 'dono' was supposed to do.

I tried longer phrases like 'donot' etc to see if it was part of some longer phrase.

But all that ever worked was 'dono'.

Maybe a broken regex in the global npc script or something.

[Jimjam]

It was dono evil

[Jibartik]

we need this classic dono exploit on green 2

[DisbeAsos]

I remember one not many people knew about. There was an exploit where you could change some UI settings and be able to click clickies while they were in a bag. There was an issue where if you changed bag slots or something of that nature it would delete the items in the bag so there was some big risk to it. I clicked my flux staff from a bag for over a year before it was patched out.

[Ligma]

Green pet pulling, pet canni, pet tracking

There was a time where a horse + lev + invisible would move you up and through walls. So as a mage I could use earthen boots to glitch through walls to Rathe council, CoTH a raid and solo pet pull them all.

[Jimjam]

Green pet pulling was awesome. Send in green pet and target one rounds it, before calling assist, and will then run to you without attracting any unwanted attention!

[Jimjam]

(Pet needed to be invis if doing this against kos)

[Jungleberry]

Some spot in Akanon castle thing...NPCs would get stuck and make for easy exp...

[UrkTheSlayer]

How to get through locked doors without a rogue, I’m pretty sure it still works.

[starkind]

Standing on the big firepyramid smithy thing in akanon and killing a lvl 20 bard npc with lifetaps at lvl 5.

#1 She wouldnt run to u
#2 the lifetaps landed pretty much every time if I remember correctly could not be resisted at all - I think this was the biggest selling point of being a necro.

[galach]

In Luclin, you could stand on the lifted ledge near a zone line and the mobs would not move or attack. I would get KEI and blow up all the mobs on my Wizard. I ended up doing this for a couple days until I had a guide suspend me for 24 hours.

[Bardp1999]

P99 GM is a self proclaim CHEATER, burn the witch

[Snortles Chortles]

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

[starkind]

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

He's not really god created the universe and it is perfect! <3 :p :o :cool:

[DMN]

Hmm. Where to begin. There were a lot of places you could get NPCs stuck. They cleaned up a most of these towards the end of the open beta and introduced the NPC "teleport" like ability as well. The first level 50 in the beta was a wizard who was notorious for abusing these. In the closed and much of the open beta they still had no caps on AoE spells so if he could pull a train of mobs and get them stuck in one of these spots he could just AoE dozens at the same time.

I knew at least 3 different dupes, one of which is the only one I'll share because it's one I know doesn't currently work on p99 and it very easy and quick to explain.

So you had to go to a zone that had a boat in it. Make sure you were NOT bound n the zone. You had to wait at least 10 or 15 mins in the zone. My guess is the server was making some kind of "backup" save of all characters every 10-15 mins. Once you have waited a good 10-15 mins and the boat is now docked, you simply ran onto the boat at that point and then you needed to die somehow .Simply aggroing an NPC before you jump on the boat would work.

So you'd die but instead of being naked you would have all of your stuff and additionally you would have another corpse waiting for you at the docks that had a complete second set of all your stuff.

There all the "safe spot" teleports, even people who knew about them usually only knew one or two of the more useful ones, like the ones in the keranas that could save you a lot of walking tine. The truth is virtually every zone in the game had one or more spots where you could invoke one of these safe spot telelports. essentially they implemented some kind of code where if you went past a certain limit on the Z, X, or Y axes the game would assume you were "out of bounds" and teleport you to a safe spot. They had hoped this would also prevent the problem of people falling through the world but they had tested this code purely in-house which meant everyone testing it had nearly perfect connections to the server -- not the incredibly awful ping many people had back in the day dialing up throw AoHell. So people with bad connections would often still fall trough the earth and go splat before the "out of bounds" code kicked in.

you could lull some NPCs and pull their pets without the aggroing them it was combination of timing, level difference, and strength of the lull. Some of the pathing was so buggy you would find NPCs you could kill their pet without even needing lull at all because the pet would be out of the "assist range" of pet owner. The goblin shamans in lake rathe and oasis would commonly glitch out of the water and were examples of this, but by far the most notorious one one was the sphinx on the hill in rathe mountains. you'd have entire groups of people camping out his animations non-stop.

In classic time period when you were charmed by an NPC, they would buff you with whatever buff s they had. Now, shaman actually had charm for ahilw and classic, not only that but the level caps on spells do not apply to NPCs .. so a shaman mob using charm could charm someone else the way up to 50 at that time. Some peeople would purposely let themselves get charmed so the shamans would give them SoW -- even SoW in dungeons since npcs also do not obey the limitations on outdoor only spells either. I used this a ton with chief goonda whenever I had to make the long ass trip out to everfrost and couldn't find a SoW from a player.


maybe ill add some more later if have the time(motivation) but this is a pretty good start, I think..

[Snortles Chortles]

https://i.imgur.com/2fHgCXC.jpg

[UrkTheSlayer]

In Luclin, you could stand on the lifted ledge near a zone line and the mobs would not move or attack. I would get KEI and blow up all the mobs on my Wizard. I ended up doing this for a couple days until I had a guide suspend me for 24 hours.

You could also do this on certain boulders all across luclin. The mobs wouldn’t register a path and just stand there right at the base of the Boulder.

Don’t worry I won’t tell anyone how to get through locked doors.

[Snortles Chortles]

ok

[DMN]

Ahh, now I'm properly caffeinated. Some other fun bugs/glitches/exploits.

The old pulling your phone/ethernet cord out of the modem and using it to bypass doors was a pretty well known one, but most people didn't appreciate the true usefulness of this trick. You could use it to entirely bypass rooms filled with mobs you couldn't or didn't want to deal with and just plug the modem back in when you walked through the areas.

Getting past locked doors want that hard anyway. There were tons of ways you could do that: aggro a mob on the other side of the door or you could aggro a mob and pull it near the door on the side you are stuck on and you could often get it to open the door as well if you could get it close enough to the door. If you had the fear spell you could often fear yourself through the door, too, though that waa pretty dangerous a lot of places. You could use the illusion cancelling trick to get through all doors. It probably still works on p99 as I don't think they ever fixed it. Anyone with a guise of the deceiver or could do it.. Actually that's not true and its a funny aside. Dark elves couldn't use the illusion cancelling trick to bypass doors via the guise. LOL. Man were dark elves ever fucked over back in vanilla, eh?

One cool trick was to send mobs in zone a /tell. If you sent them a tell and they were in the zone you would actually send them a tell. So you could use it to check for named mob spawns. You needed to know the exact mob name to send the tell correctly but that name was rarely ever te name they had over their head, but it was easy enough to find by trying to trade the mob in question an item from far away. it would then tell you that soandso was too far away, and this message would contain the exact proper name you need to correctly send the tell.

The old dueling to replenish your mana was a fun one that worked for a decent while. Was a great trick for a duo of druid/wizards quad kiting stuff. Burn up all your mana and then you kill each other while bound nearby to get all your mana back then you are right back to quad kiting instead of medding for 10 mins.

They eventually sort of nerfed it You no longer would send them a message, however it wasn't a complete nerf because when you send the tell you would NOT get an error. If ou get an error player cannot be found the mob wasnt up, and if it was up it wouldn't say anything. Nice try verant but big F.

[Snortles Chortles]

i remember a GM on live summoning manastones for the promise of elf tiddies
(LOL)

[loserofgame]

most of the good ones are mentioned, but:

-the great fish fillet cooking bonanza to print money in the early days of Sullon Zek that caused the servers to come down for a hotfix.
-looting weapons off of players who went LD on Rallos Zek after they changed it so you couldn't loot player weapons.

[UrkTheSlayer]

ok

I’ll explain to you very quickly how it worked at a location that was fixed, since I want to have frwiends and not enemies.

In the high side of echo caverns, there is a room to the right, and then another room beyond that: the back wall recedes beyond the zone line in one corner. You could stand up on the Boulder in the corner and the bugs would just sit there.

I don’t know if they pulled the zone line back a few feet or took the script out of the bugs there or how they fixed it but it still works in a few other places from when I was playing on aradune tlp a few weeks ago. The spot needs to recede behind the zone line and have a certain lateral difference between you and the mob.

Remember that zone lines arnt just where the tunnel is they stretch the entire zone: think Karanas, ro & oasis and commons.

[Kaveh]

i remember a GM on live summoning manastones for the promise of elf tiddies
(LOL)

Which GM?

[myrddraal]

i remember using illusions to get through locked doors.

[UrkTheSlayer]

Lol smooth

[Trexller]

Which GM?

Sirken did something like that.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

[mcoy]

I accidentally duped my items once by dying just as the world went down for patching. I was around level 10 and playing a wizard. I figured I could kill whatever mob I was fighting before the shutdown timer expired. I was wrong, and it killed me. After the servers came back up I logged in at my bind point with all my items. I figured it had just reloaded the last <Charname Saved> point, but when I ran back to EC by inn 3 I saw my corpse lying there so I looted it. I was so excited to suddenly have TWO greater lightstones and more bags.

I /petitioned about it but never heard anything and never tried to reproduce it again. Oh well.

-Mcoy

[starkind]

I accidentally duped my items once by dying just as the world went down for patching. I was around level 10 and playing a wizard. I figured I could kill whatever mob I was fighting before the shutdown timer expired. I was wrong, and it killed me. After the servers came back up I logged in at my bind point with all my items. I figured it had just reloaded the last <Charname Saved> point, but when I ran back to EC by inn 3 I saw my corpse lying there so I looted it. I was so excited to suddenly have TWO greater lightstones and more bags.

I /petitioned about it but never heard anything and never tried to reproduce it again. Oh well.

-Mcoy

b& 4 share dupe exploit poblikly

[RecondoJoe]

Making a big deal about going to bed then sneaking down to the study to play more eq.

This is how I ended up having to drop out of high school. The computer was in my room. Once I heard my dad go to sleep I would sneak up and get on the computer.. at first I was managing it fine. I was staying up late, but still making it to school.

Eventually I stopped going altogether. I would actually sneak out of the house about an hour before my dad got home, and would walk through the door after the school bus drove by. One day he got a letter in the mail saying I had 100 absences and he didn't believe it.

Once he found out he was really furious, and physical violence naturally ensued, I ended up dropping out and moving about an hour away where I was finally able to get my life on track.

I really blame my dad for the entire thing to this day.

[RecondoJoe]

I petitioned him because he was a PKER and I hated him and watched him get arrested and disappear and it was glorious.

I ended up in jail cell in Qeynos Catacombs as a kid... yes it's real. There's no way to get out of it. My friends and I were scamming other players into giving us items or platinum and then saying we would log on to another character to give them the other item that they wanted. Eventually it caught up to us.

I ended up with a really bad reputation, and I guess I really pissed off a GM... so when I moved to another server to start over new... without doing anything bad... a GM actually tracked me down to that server and cursed me out and even made threats towards me in real life... I'm not kidding. I know it had to be a GM because this person didn't appear online even though he was messaging me, and how else would he have found me on another server? Even my real life friends didn't know where I had gone at the time.

[RecondoJoe]

Spending a week telling all my friends and co workers about the game and then calling in sick on Monday. Then dodging my boss when they wanted a doctors note.

Managers knew firing me would only allow me to play more so they just gave me more hours to spite me.

This reminds me of the time I called in sick to go see the midnight showing of Lord of the Rings, but made no attempt to hide it. Young people gonna' young.

[RecondoJoe]

you could easily transfer nodrop gear via the legends server (stormhammer)

1) transfer char to SH
2) die in bazaar or somewhere easy to get to
3) request transfer off of SH (they wouldn't verify whether you had a corpse, or delete that corpse)
4) create char with same name as the char you want to transfer items to
5) transfer in target char, you'll get an 'x' appended to your name
6) petition for rename, request name of the char from step 1
6) loot corpse of original char

for the low, low price of $80 (2 months of legends sub) you too can have your retired friend's bis items
That's actually interesting, I didn't know about that... and $80 really is nothing for some of the no drop items in EQ.. People spend hundreds of dollars on WoW tokens to get a BOE that will be replaced in a couple of months.

[Snortles Chortles]

so are you on coke or meth

[starkind]

https://i.imgur.com/Yfl0tRx.jpeg

[OuterChimp]

I remember when Greater Faydark was called FayMart because of all the selling going on there back in the day.

[Snortles Chortles]

I wonder what FayLord thought that one up
(LOL)

[Jimjam]

I just remembered one - killing the red con Qeynos Sewers sharks from land. Could hit them, they couldn't hit me. Great xp

[starkind]

I just remembered one - killing the red con Qeynos Sewers sharks from land. Could hit them, they couldn't hit me. Great xp

Rogues only should be allowed to do this.

[shuklak]

I just remembered one - killing the red con Qeynos Sewers sharks from land. Could hit them, they couldn't hit me. Great xp

Oh yea, I think eroding sharks were like that too.

Definitely remember you could stand on qeynos rooftops and nuke without recourse... until the gm shows up.

[bubur]

charm causing social agro even after it expired. remember stumbling across a lot of priest of discord v. guard battles. apparently you could do this in bastion of thunder or some other zone in PoP and cause an all-out war between the factions

having edited zonefiles on your computer

sharing no drop items in ovens and forges

going LD as a mage basically anywhere and causing vobeker to go on a separation-anxiety fueled murderfest

typing ||||||||||||| to people and crashing them

you could 'cancel' a banned account and turn it into a closed account in good standing by logging into a non-banned, active account and going to the cancel prompt all the way to confirmation and logging into the banned account, then pressing cancel on the good acct

didnt the banker in befallen that just straight up dupe platinum or something ridiculous?

[bubur]

if anyone remembers the url or exact name of the old fires of heaven forum thread on eq1 nostalgia/exploits, it was something like 100 pages of players sharing exploits

it is still accessible on wayback if someone has it squirreled away

[bubur]

found it. 56 pages it turns out

http://web.archive.org/web/20080912091102/http://www.fohguild.org/forums/mmorpg-general-discussion/35658-eq-cheaters-nostalgia-eq1s-greatest-exploits-rumors.html

[Darksinga]

In Planes of Power up until around DoN (quite a few expansions,) there was a pretty crazy exploit. I ended up finding about it a few months before it got nerfed, wishing I had known about it years prior.

If you hit Mass Group Buff, then an instant cast AA, cast a spell and duck, it would immediately refresh the instant cast AA. I had access to my cousin's cleric, and using this exploit, you could summon an unlimited amount of instant cast pet hammers. You could also spam something like cleric 100% AA rez.

[roks1]

Guk and it's firepots of immortality got ... a few people in trouble back in the old days.

[cd288]

Ahh, now I'm properly caffeinated. Some other fun bugs/glitches/exploits.

The old pulling your phone/ethernet cord out of the modem and using it to bypass doors was a pretty well known one, but most people didn't appreciate the true usefulness of this trick. You could use it to entirely bypass rooms filled with mobs you couldn't or didn't want to deal with and just plug the modem back in when you walked through the areas.

Getting past locked doors want that hard anyway. There were tons of ways you could do that: aggro a mob on the other side of the door or you could aggro a mob and pull it near the door on the side you are stuck on and you could often get it to open the door as well if you could get it close enough to the door. If you had the fear spell you could often fear yourself through the door, too, though that waa pretty dangerous a lot of places. You could use the illusion cancelling trick to get through all doors. It probably still works on p99 as I don't think they ever fixed it. Anyone with a guise of the deceiver or could do it.. Actually that's not true and its a funny aside. Dark elves couldn't use the illusion cancelling trick to bypass doors via the guise. LOL. Man were dark elves ever fucked over back in vanilla, eh?

One cool trick was to send mobs in zone a /tell. If you sent them a tell and they were in the zone you would actually send them a tell. So you could use it to check for named mob spawns. You needed to know the exact mob name to send the tell correctly but that name was rarely ever te name they had over their head, but it was easy enough to find by trying to trade the mob in question an item from far away. it would then tell you that soandso was too far away, and this message would contain the exact proper name you need to correctly send the tell.

The old dueling to replenish your mana was a fun one that worked for a decent while. Was a great trick for a duo of druid/wizards quad kiting stuff. Burn up all your mana and then you kill each other while bound nearby to get all your mana back then you are right back to quad kiting instead of medding for 10 mins.

They eventually sort of nerfed it You no longer would send them a message, however it wasn't a complete nerf because when you send the tell you would NOT get an error. If ou get an error player cannot be found the mob wasnt up, and if it was up it wouldn't say anything. Nice try verant but big F.

Wouldn’t dying after each quad end up netting you less exp than just medding? I guess maybe not if you were in a zone with tons of trash mobs on low spawn timers, but were there that many of those post mid 30s that were really viable to quad in?

[cd288]

charm causing social agro even after it expired. remember stumbling across a lot of priest of discord v. guard battles. apparently you could do this in bastion of thunder or some other zone in PoP and cause an all-out war between the factions

having edited zonefiles on your computer

sharing no drop items in ovens and forges

going LD as a mage basically anywhere and causing vobeker to go on a separation-anxiety fueled murderfest

typing ||||||||||||| to people and crashing them

you could 'cancel' a banned account and turn it into a closed account in good standing by logging into a non-banned, active account and going to the cancel prompt all the way to confirmation and logging into the banned account, then pressing cancel on the good acct

didnt the banker in befallen that just straight up dupe platinum or something ridiculous?

I think the charm thing was actually that NPCs had factions but maybe I’m wrong (and they eventually deleted the faction thing, but once an NPC was kos to another NPC in town they’d battle immediately upon respawning - a guy did an AMA on this on Reddit a couple years back)

[cd288]

I ended up in jail cell in Qeynos Catacombs as a kid... yes it's real. There's no way to get out of it. My friends and I were scamming other players into giving us items or platinum and then saying we would log on to another character to give them the other item that they wanted. Eventually it caught up to us.

I ended up with a really bad reputation, and I guess I really pissed off a GM... so when I moved to another server to start over new... without doing anything bad... a GM actually tracked me down to that server and cursed me out and even made threats towards me in real life... I'm not kidding. I know it had to be a GM because this person didn't appear online even though he was messaging me, and how else would he have found me on another server? Even my real life friends didn't know where I had gone at the time.

Uh huh, sure. A GM made threats to you in real life. Would’ve heard about this one on the staff at the time if that had happened and I never did

[Croco]

didnt the banker in befallen that just straight up dupe platinum or something ridiculous?

it was the banker in runnyeye

you could turn any amount of coin into copper then take the copper and place it directly into the plat spot in the bank and it would become plat in a 1 to 1 ratio, infinite plat

[beargryllz]

Not EQ but I remember one day in WoW when someone discovered you could sell the key to Maraudon for like 5 gp and then get another one from an NPC inside the dungeon

So naturally we set up repair bots at the NPC and used a macro to blow through the process thousands of times before they hotfixed