The most ridiculous quest
 

https://wiki.project1999.com/Behead_...eeport_Militia

Kill a warrior GM mob and get a... level 34 cleric spell as a reward? Is anything else more ridiculous than this?

Do you guys think this quest has ever even been done on P99?

It might give you a good chunk of faction for Knights of Truth and Priests of Marr, which would be the primary reason for doing the quest. It wouldn't suprise me if you get a good chunk of faction, since Lucan also provides a good chunk of faction when killed.


Never done the quest myself though, so can't confirm the faction hits.

https://wiki.project1999.com/Solvedi_Scimitar_Quest is pretty crap as well.

Yeah the reward for the effort on a lot of quests is very silly but the itemization in general in classic is terrible. Like the rare on the stone spider is Brown chitin protector which is overall terrible for a druid and it drops from a mob still considered very annoying even to this day. Lots of pure caster stuff loaded with dex and agi. It seems like the guys who designed the classes never talked to the guys who created the items. Lots of stuff is basically useless to anyone.

The actual story behind the name Everquest is quite interesting, it's actually an example of mismanagement. The first, and original title was Neverquest.

IIRC there weren't teams working on quests vs items. It was just like a bunch of people all working on both individually. So you'd have one person working on a quest and the item it gave, and another person working on a different quest/item, and they all just get added to the game.

I would imagine that this being the first real DND style MMO also had something to do with the stats on the items. Like "AGI gives you avoidance so that might be good for a caster right? Since they're squishy and all." In theory, makes sense right? But then in practice AGI doesn't make enough of a difference for a squishy char with a low HP pool so those +AGI items don't actual matter. At least that would be my theory for how some of these items ended up with the stats they did...a bunch of theory that never worked in practice.

According to Allakhazam posts, it looks like the dude has high hp regen as well.
Even assuming the quest was pre-Kunark quest, and that he hit for 156, had 16khp and no regen, vs hitting for 356, with 32khp, and regen, it still is a ridiculous quest. It seems like you get about -500 faction hit, while getting a couple of +50 faction hit for the quest givers.

Regarding AGI, it was basically 9AGI = 1AC regardless of your class, and the below 75agi penalty, and that it helped with raising defensive abilities faster, and that it had hard cap of 255 like any other skills, I dunno if it had any softcap, so yes, pretty useless. Even less effective on P99 as AC isn't as effective here compared to live.

I have never laid eyes on the tiny giant in NK. I sometimes suspect he doesn't exist.

You say that, but I just saw him a few days ago, either Thursday or Friday afternoon.

My level 24 Gnome Necro was selling loot from Aviak city at the Gypsy camp, and while vendoring, I heard the foot steps of a hill giant coming up behind me. When I turned to run, it was Timbur the Tiny passing on the north edge of the camp. Conned blue to me. I let him pass, and continued selling.

And I will add, that was the first time I have ever seen him, and I have played this game on and off since March 1999.