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Originally Posted by Ciderpress
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The immense knowledge of every aspect of the game is what makes the experience different now. I remember my first char on live was a barbarian warrior, rolled like a week after the game was released. I vividly remember joining a full group of newbie barbs, and we worked together to take down wooly mammoths, cause it just seemed like an obvious thing to do. Today, you'd never, ever see that in a million years because it's a moronically slow and inefficient way to attain both xp and money, but damn it was fun. No clue what we were doing, but killing those big scary mammoths felt so epic.
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I think about this all of the time. Especially since I have friends who play P99, but never played EQ back in the day. It’s hard to explain to them that there were groups of players EVERYWHERE. Like I remember Qeynos and Qeynos Hills as a really populated area. Same with GFAY. It’s always surreal to me how they are ghost zones on these types of projects ��
Also part of the hunting random things like Mammoth back in the day.. I literally never logged into the game with the intention of grinding, every time I logged in it was a new adventure and I’d usually end up getting some loot and exp along the way because we would just try killing random things in random areas. We didn’t even know where loot dropped, so in my mind it was totally possible that an FBSS may drop in West Karana �� and there were all kinds of rumors. I remember the first time I saw an Ishva robe in game I freaked out and wanted it so bad, but the dude who had it straight up refused to tell anyone where he got it (not that it would have been an easy camp either way, 36 hours respawn and rare drop).
Edit I just remembered when I thought exe axe and oracle robes were among the best items in the entire game ��