I was curious about this, so I pulled out my classic EQ CD, installed it and took an hour or so writing a server I could connect too. I got it up to the character creation screen, the background (especially on the dark races) was very dark. So much so that you could not see the walls on some of them in the screen where the character spins around.

I then went into the Titanium version and lowered the gamma, not really the same, but it is close.

You know they did it right when you finally want to suck someone off for giving you a Greater Lightstone.

getting a beetle eye was one of the most important thing u have to do as a newbie.

Getting a light stone or greater light stone was :D:D:D:D:D

lol..beetle eyes. I remember on my human monk back in release, I messaged a friend looking for a lightstone, he told me to go kill a wisp. He did not tell me that I needed a magic weapon, or in my case, magic gloves.

So after a quick visit to the froglocks in the Qeynos sewers I got some netted. Needless to say I slaughtered EVERY wisp I saw from that day on....lol.

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