Stupid things you believed about EQ way back then

[quenyar]

Changing melee position during fights could end a bad row of misses! lol...

Sitting at exact spawn spot of a mob would prevent the mob from spawning...

Thinking that you could actually forget memmed spells (turns out I accidently right clicked the spell icons once in a while [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] )

[Brut]

Higher values in dmg/delay means better, even on delay. Someone had given me FS morning star, I vendored it and bought a rusty morning star and was like "great deal ho-ho-ho!".

Threateningly-conning mobs do not attack you unless you do something to "provoke" them.

Getting banned means banded armor. No, rly.

Crypt mummies are lvl50.

Others can loot my corpse. I'd run to weird places in Feerrott to die where no one else could find my body and loot it.

[Rasterburn]

The stupidest thing that I believed about EQ back in its early days was that it was a nearly perfect MMO. Well... lemme expound a bit...

I believed that I had found a wonderful artificial world, filled with all sorts of fascinating challenges and like-minded comrades. I believed that the "magic" of EQ would endure, because anything as good as EQ was would be respected and preserved by its developers and players alike. Only a crazy person would mess with success, right..?

But then along came SOE in late 2002, and everything went straight into the shitter. By the time the GoD expansion was rolled out by SOE only a few months later (SOE released something like FIVE expansions within a six-month time frame after assuming control), I just couldn't take it anymore. Everything that I had loved about the core of this game had devolved into a dumbed-down, ez-mode craptastic for "casuals" and kids. The community became less cohesive, the game itself became incredibly marginalized and an increasingly large percentage of EQ players were of the "Gimmee gimmee gimmee NOW!" variety. All because of the influence of SOE.

I did learn something from that experience, though. I learned that whenever a publisher uses the phrase "We're working hard to make this game be more accessible," what that actually translates into is "We're dumbing this game down and adding tons of fast food rewards -- because we want those kiddie dollars."

Long live the emulated servers. I'll never play on "live" again... not even for free. The EQ that I fell in love with no longer exists, thanks to John Smedley and his ass-raping marketing staff.

[Kuizzat]

I believed there was not Prince Kyrmit in Lake Raithe in the early days because I never saw him no matter how many times i killed gnolls there. Guess I was wrong.

[Seeatee]

on my very first toon ( a barb sham ) I was ready to make the run to the freeport area from the halas / qeynos area, soon as i zone into WK I see that monk that paths around there, and my buddy I am with decides we should kill it, as he dies he fires off some line about his friends or brothers finding me and avenging his death.

I thought for a solid 2 weeks that a mob of pissed off monks were going to show up out of no where and kill me to avenge their fallen friend and everywhere I went I was super careful and always on the look out for them.

[Lagaidh]

I always believed that if I were in melee combat that I had a better chance to hit if I were on the higher ground than my target. I still rotate around to be uphill if I'm not fighting in a flat area.

Heh.

[azeth]

On my very first toon I busted my balls I'd say for 2 weeks to get a Gnoll Slayer thinking it was carnage incarnate. Found out once I actually got it that my PGT and Short Sword of Morin were far better.

[Extunarian]

Even though I now KNOW it has no bearing on miss rates, I still swing around to get on higher ground when I melee.

Conversely, I always click off levitate before entering melee. I guess I'm superstitious.

[Crash]

If you kept the first cabbage you foraged from the Karanas in an inventory slot (not bag) you would have better luck.

Long after I knew better I continued to keep it with me "just in case". The cabbage traveled with me through just about every raid zone until the end of PoP.

[bufferofnewbies]

Originally Posted by Crash [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

If you kept the first cabbage you foraged from the Karanas in an inventory slot (not bag) you would have better luck.

Long after I knew better I continued to keep it with me "just in case". The cabbage traveled with me through just about every raid zone until the end of PoP.

Did you know later this old player's tale was used tongue-in-cheek by the developers (some of whom played back then) to decide on a name for 'Protection of the Cabbage'? [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]