Paw of Oppola (sp?) - Not using classic quest

[xblade724]

What's up with using the revamped quest involving the guk weeds instead of the classic quest?

[Tsuken]

what was the classic quest?

[snifs]

last i checked, thought we needed the 3 rings or whatever?

[Auvdar]

You use the weed to turn into a cat in kerra island to get the rings.

[Lukile]

The original quest also required 4 rings (copper, silver, gold, platinum).

The platinum ring dropped off Gynok Moltor in Befallen (as he does with the current quest). I believe he had a rare chance of dropping the copper ring, and a very, very rare chance of dropping gold.

The silver ring was a spawned item in Blackburrow at the bottom of the 'lake.' I don't know if this is the case now.

The copper and gold rings dropped from High Priestess Mitty in Kerra Ridge. Mitty was in her high-teens. I don't recall for sure what class, either a cleric or shaman.

The Severed Paw container was obtained in the same manner as with the current quest.

Most of this is from my 11-year-old memory and I used the following link to check some details.

http://www.eqclerics.org/forums/archive/index.php/t-7030.html

[xblade724]

The original quest also required 4 rings (copper, silver, gold, platinum).

The platinum ring dropped off Gynok Moltor in Befallen (as he does with the current quest). I believe he had a rare chance of dropping the copper ring, and a very, very rare chance of dropping gold.

The silver ring was a spawned item in Blackburrow at the bottom of the 'lake.' I don't know if this is the case now.

The copper and gold rings dropped from High Priestess Mitty in Kerra Ridge. Mitty was in her high-teens. I don't recall for sure what class, either a cleric or shaman.

The Severed Paw container was obtained in the same manner as with the current quest.

Most of this is from my 11-year-old memory and I used the following link to check some details.

http://www.eqclerics.org/forums/archive/index.php/t-7030.html

Yes! That's the one. Hence the storyline being items from around the world.

High Priest Mitty in Kerra Ridge also had a -chance- of dropping the silver and gold iirc, but was mostly intended for 1 ring. Eh, this was a reallyyy long time ago .. but you seem to remember better than i

[Scrubby McGee]

Even before the dropping weed, the fungus mutant dropped rings. I remember camping it and was able to get the gold, silver, and copper just from the mutant itself.

Rat ear pie was added much later too. I'm not entirely sure of that, though.

[Aeolwind]

Most likely, by now, the quest would have been as it is now anyway. When I ran the quest, I had to snag guk weed, and I started the day after guise and such left. So a couple weeks later for sure it was weed.

[Flicka]

Even before the dropping weed, the fungus mutant dropped rings. I remember camping it and was able to get the gold, silver, and copper just from the mutant itself.

Rat ear pie was added much later too. I'm not entirely sure of that, though.
That was before my time I guess I don't ever remember the muntant dropping rings, just weeds.

[Lukile]

On Allakhazam, the 'entered date' for the current paw of Opolla quest is December 2000, but posts exist as early as June 30, 2000 in regards to the quest.

I know the change occurred before velious, but I don't remember if it happened before or after kunark. The posts suggest it happened just after Kunark's release.

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?quest=386

[Hasbinbad]

On Allakhazam, the 'entered date'
That's the date the quest was ENTERED into alla..
Notice how you say "ENTERED date" ?

[Lukile]

You are correct in insinuating that it is not an accurate estimate for when the quest was changed. However, it narrows down the the time frame when the quest was changed.

[xblade724]

They changed it way later, I'm confident. What era was 2002?

I was level 35 when I did the quest (the oldschool way - the only method I knew of until a few years ago). I was level 28 when velious first came out on my druid, to give that some time when I did it the old way - so it was definitely classic during start of velious era.

I'm cool with this new quest - less overcamp and more groups =p

[doacleric]

The quest was probably changed the same time that Kerra Ridge was revamped in April of 2000 (Around the time of Kunark's release) to a higher level dungeon to attract more players. At the time, Kerra Ridge was meant to be a low level dungeon similar to Crushbone for Erudites. But since most Erudites preferred to just travel to Blackburrow to hunt, it went underused. It was changed to a higher level dungeon with better loot to try to attract more players.