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Thex Dagger era isn't correct (Should be October 1999 only)
I've stumbled across evidence of when the Thex Dagger quest was patched into the game, and when it was removed. Both seem to have happened in October 1999.
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Another newsgroup source for the October addition:
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I may be missing something, but it seems entirely possible (probable?) that the quest is only "newly added" to graffe's compendium of quests, and not to the game itself.
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Newsgroup post on October 13th 1999 also refers to it as "newly appearing", so it's not just Graffe's.
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At the very least your timeline is off by a week and possibly more.
EverLore_Item_Page one of the first comments: Quote:
The closest patch notes that mention general quests being added are from 6/7/99 so I'd put that as a more reasonable guess as to when the quest was added although it's pretty tough to rule out it being in game from the beginning given how broken it was. I've tried to find bestiary lists from before October but haven't really had any luck, I would think if you could find out when Tearon was added or if he was there all along that would give a better idea of when the quest came in. | |||
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Okay, yes it looks like I'm wrong about October then.
I'll dig some more, but everything still points to this being a "new" addition around September/October based on comments in your links and mine. Verant patched in new quests all the time without announcing them. | ||
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Has there been any updated research on this topic?
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A bit of a timeline on the gamestats HHP page that agrees that the quest/item had a very short lifetime. It seems to have released buffed, then was fixed sometime in September, I'm leaning towards the Sept 28 patch. Then changed to be the Silent Watch quest.
Possibly added on the July 27 Patch: https://web.archive.org/web/20001206...i/news.pl?id=5 Quote:
https://web.archive.org/web/20000107...pdate_0799.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20010208...pdate_0899.htm https://web.archive.org/web/19990908...s/Q_HHKeep.htm Snapshot date - Sept 8 1999 Quote:
Snapshot date - Oct 13 1999 Quote:
Snapshot date - Nov 11 1999 - Referring to the new Silent Watch Shield version. Quote:
Snapshot date - Nov 22 1999 https://web.archive.org/web/19991122...s/Q_HHKeep.htm
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