Raincaller... ?

[Taluvill]

Anyone know if the bow is in the game? i swear it should be.

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?quest=92

Says classic there.

Edit: Looks like everything in it that you need is classic, except for the gorrillas in feerrott?

Dbl Edit: Original was a proc, not a clicky... would be sweet to get it now while its classic and not a clicky.

[Virtuosos]

is kedge keep open o.O?? i havnt tried going there yet, and dont think ive heard anyone mention it in OOC

[Dac321]

I think I remember it still being down due to aggro issues. Don't hold my word entirely though.

[Jify]

Golden Haired mermaid spawns. Haven't tried the gorillas. I assume everything is in for this quest.

[Jify]

I take it back. Clumps of hair are a common drop in classic. Just killed 4 gorillas, nothing. Will continue to slaughter apes and report back!

Update: 12 Gorillas dead. No hair. Gonna stop wasting my Saturday! Appears the quest is not working, or not in game.

[doacleric]

This quest is currently not working. Thank you for bringing it to our attention. Since it does seem to be a classic quest, it will eventually be implemented.

[Taluvill]

Thank god.

Pleaqse make sure its a PROC firestrike, rather than the nerfed charge. Im very excited to get my bow

[Somekid123]

I cant find any info saying this use to be a proc at one time? Even if it was the nerf sounds reasonable to being a charge, 300DD proc? Come on..

[Crone]

I cant find any info saying this use to be a proc at one time? Even if it was the nerf sounds reasonable to being a charge, 300DD proc? Come on..

Not the essensce of the server. There'd be no point to the server if everything was how it is now, rather than going through the nerf cycles just as it did in classic.

[Sparkin]

Archery was worthless until Velious, so a 300 DD proc on a bow in classic is not a big deal.

[Taluvill]

Quoted from the allakhazam posts under rain caller:

RE: comparison shopping
Posted: Jul 10th 2006 11:43am | Edited: Jul 10th 2006 12:02pm | IP: Logged | Reply to this
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Gindorn wrote:
They create Quests that are great at first then they nerf them so most people won't bother with them....That's just stupid.


Technically, they didn't nerf anything. The Rain Caller quest, in its inception, was an epic weapon quest, after a sort. It was the best bow available to rangers, at the time.

However, as new expansions were released, new items that were bigger and better came about, and obviously replaced previous items. Hell, end-game gear from the original world isn't even considered good enough to be called twink gear for a fresh character, anymore (as is evident with this bow, even). The point of the matter is that at one point in time, not only was this "the sh*t", but it was what was available. That's like hitting max level, and then complaining Rusty weapons are taking up valuable item space because they're worthless. The problem is that in creating new, valid content, old content will become...dismissable. It's still a great quest, and maybe the reward isn't worth it since you can just toss a bit of plat at someone in the Bazaar for something that's exponentially better, stat-wise, but the real reward of doing a quest is the feeling of accomplishment you get when you hold the item, knowing you worked for it. Whether holding it is to stuff it in your bank, or to equip it is up to you. :P

Everything has its place...before you bash an item, you should consider the era it came from...talking about it 6 years after the fact doesn't mean it was ALWAYS a "stupid piece of junk."

Yes, they did nerf the bow itself (by changing the proc to a charged clicky)...beyond lacking sufficient reason for doing so, technically, it wasn't a nerf to anyone but those on the progression servers, anyway (since, obviously no one is going to use this on any other server). Maybe they felt the bow was too powerful in its original design, but never bothered changing it by the time they decided it should be, since it had already become outdated because it was a "stupid piece of junk".

The Thunderbolt is a great bow, yes, but...apples and oranges, my friend.
Apples and oranges.

Edited, Jul 10th 2006 at 12:02pm EDT by AmerilDannodel

It was a proc. And a 300DD proc is NOTHING compared to the bow rangers get in sky. Wind Striker, procs an unresistable stun.

[Isildur]

Bring back The Rain Caller in it's original form.

Thank you.

[Ferok]

Archery was worthless until Velious, so a 300 DD proc on a bow in classic is not a big deal.

I thought it was useless until Luclin.

[guineapig]

I am so doing this quest IF we give it back the original proc instead of the stupid clicky.

So bump!

[Sparkin]

I thought it was useless until Luclin.

Mostly. Velious though is when I "believe" (either then or Kunark, but I have recollection that it was Velious) hybrids were given their first disciplines, so rangers got the trueshot discipline. Depending on what your weapons were and the fact that it was easy to get decent dmg / delay (Velium) bows, trueshot could still be a boost in DPS even without AM3.

[Taluvill]

Bump.

[Cheps]

Bumping this. Any word from devs? Will the effect on raincaller be changed to a proc?