Ancient Wurm Hide Robe - Wrong Graphic
 

In 2015, Ele had proven that the look of the Ancient Wurm Hide Robe was incorrect for the timeline that we were at on Blue in 2015. Below is the closed thread with proofs.

It has been known that at some point during the classic timeline, the Ancient Wurm Hide Robe graphic was upgraded to the Miragul's Robe look from the basic Red Sr. Apprentice Robe look. I remember looting the this robe in my classic days, during velious, after it had already been changed - beautiful robe.

Below is evidence that will show beyond any reasonable doubt that the upgraded graphic of the Ancient Wurm Hide Robe starting with a patch sometime in early October of 2001 or sooner. (current to our timeline)
Date: October 12, 2001
Raid: Vulak

http://www.legacyofsteel.net/#/archives

High Elf Wizard sitting at the mouth of Vulak wearing the new graphic Ancient Wurm Hide Robe.

https://i.imgur.com/sSarAZw.png
Date: October 22, 2001
Raid: Ventani the Warder

http://www.legacyofsteel.net/#/archives

High elf wizard floating just right of midscreen wearing the new graphic robe on what is most definitely the updated graphic on the Ancient Wurm Hide Robe.

https://i.imgur.com/ZEboIOq.png

Date: November 1st, 2001
Raid: ToV - Kriezenn
http://www.legacyofsteel.net/#/archives

http://www.legacyofsteel.net/archive...iezen_dead.jpg

The Case again a possible Fashionquest Robe:

The only other robe that had this graphic during this era was the Miragul's robe. The reason's below why it is highly unlikely that said wizard put a Miragul's Robe for this screenshot is the following.

1) Miragul's Robe is a "no drop" robe, required for the paladin's Fiery Avenger epic quest which requires several other no drop dragon drop items to turn in in order to kill the mob that drops this robe, after which the robe is part of several turn ins for the paladin epic.
2) This wizard would have had to do the paladin epic quest (or someone very close to him would have) and then loot this robe for fashionquest purposes only.
3) "Fashionquest" for this type of item highly demanded by another class for their epic quest during this era was non-existent. Something that would not have been logical during the classic timeline given the amount of paladins that would have had a priority to loot all of the dragon "no drop" pieces ahead of this wizard during this era. (October 2001)

The robe had the new graphic for a couple months, but was changed to the plain red ~6 months after Velious came out on Blue.

Indeed! When this happened on blue in 2015, this was the correct move to correspond with the timeline on classic.

Now that we have moved passed the Chardok revamp era (October 2001) , the Ancient Wurm Hide Robe should be changed / upgraded back to the new graphic. (Miragul’s Robe)

Free the sexy!

#freethesexy
#helpshadowdinahnotlooklikealvl1

was there no patch notes about this change?

would make it really easy

I haven’t found any, but not a specialist in this sort of thing by any means. The evidence that Ele found in 2015 (referenced in my original post) pointed to the robe being the red newbie robe in August, 2001.

My new evidence shows that that the robe graphic upgrade on classic was implemented between August and October of 2001. Thus the robe should absolutely have the Miragul’s look again on blue server.

http://web.archive.org/web/200210260...ML/000309.html

This last patch was the 9/11/01 patch, so probably rule robe to a [Sep1999] era rule?

I never could find an image of what the new vindi boots should look like, I believe new Luclin graphics had a different texture / look than the non-Luclin models anyways.

Bumping this for all newb robe people needing this change!

I set a search to run overnight for "wurm hide robe", let's see what comes up.

Nothing definitive came up, sorry. :(