I think some of you guys are confusing "cultural armor" with several different things.
There was the first round of cultural armor that went in sometime during, I think, Kunark, but might have been velious. It involved imbued gems, the spells for which could be purchased at the appropriate local guilds.
I specificly remember this because I was a smith with my Shadow Knight main at the time and was the first to make a piece of the Bertoxxulous armor...It required Black Sapphires and a cleric of Bertoxxulous to do the imbue, which made it expensive to experiment with and nearly impossible to find casters to do the imbues, because among the few gnome and human clerics around anyway, very few were Bertoxx followers. Several friends of mine who helped me with this quite a bit and that I played that character with promptly quit EQ when DAOC came out....which was about the time of Luclin.....So it was definately in the scope of this server, although I cannot remember if it was during Kunark or Velious, off hand.
THEN, later, the newer cultural armor, the really good stuff, went in sometime during Luclin or PoP.....That would include the Heraldric armors that everyone knows and loves.
Not sure how the other trades fit into all of this, though, because I pretty much did smithing back then.
I remember posting on EQ traders about the earlier stuff at the time.....I will see if I can find some links to serve as a timestamp.
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