We're lucky to be playing 14 years later

[Stinkum]

sadly, (1) proper night vision and (2) no item linking will never happen here due to the limitations of the titanium client [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[SirAlvarex]

I agree we are lucky. Does anyone have the number on how many Epics were actually completed pre-Velious back in the day? Some of the hints you are given on the quests are so vague that it had to of been pure luck to complete it. And they only had 6 months or so before the next Expansion pack.

[trustandfall]

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

I agree we are lucky. Does anyone have the number on how many Epics were actually completed pre-Velious back in the day? Some of the hints you are given on the quests are so vague that it had to of been pure luck to complete it. And they only had 6 months or so before the next Expansion pack.

I always wonder who got the original vox and Naggy kills. Unfortunately googling brings up no results.. And epics were definitely becoming more common in velious.. I can't recall how many people had them in kunark.

[HawkMasterson1999]

Quests got figured out so fast I always figured it was the work of l33t guild hackers breaking down code and studying spawns with MQ/SEQ. Either that or it got leaked from the dev team (probably that).

[Soandso]

Any wizards here remember the epic back in the day? How the hell were they supposed to know to talk to that npc in halas with no given information?

[hatelore]

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

I liked it when night time was pitch black even for DE's

Funny you mention this. When i first started in 1999 I played a pvp paladin on innoruuk. I still remember venturing into nektulos woods on accident and running into a group of dark elves with lanterns. Man it was so awesome, them asking me if I was crazy venturing into dark elf territory at night, and telling me no, I could not sit at there fire since I was a pale face. I don't think I will ever forget how much fun I had back then.

[koros]

There were hundreds if not thousands of epics completed server-wide by Velious release. Most were solved around early October 2000, by collaborative effort of the respective class boards.

Warrior and Mage epics took the longest to complete. The queen in Chardok was almost never killed, anywhere, and therefor the quest piece from her was a bottleneck.

FoH killed the original Naggy/Vox.

People shared information on boards then just as they do now, some things were kept semi-secret, but not most.

[trustandfall]

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

FoH killed the original Naggy/Vox.

Do you have any proof of this? And they were the first ever to do both? Would love to see some sources [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[jijii]

after starting up on p99 several years back i was out to dinner with some friends and told them about p99 (they used to play on live) and one of them recanted this recollection of everquest, which i think might be the best description of "the everquest experience" ive ever heard:

"all i remember is i logged in, i couldn't see anything, i heard bear noises, and then i was dead."

that's... classic everquest, right there.

[SirAlvarex]

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

There were hundreds if not thousands of epics completed server-wide by Velious release. Most were solved around early October 2000, by collaborative effort of the respective class boards.

Warrior and Mage epics took the longest to complete. The queen in Chardok was almost never killed, anywhere, and therefor the quest piece from her was a bottleneck.

FoH killed the original Naggy/Vox.

People shared information on boards then just as they do now, some things were kept semi-secret, but not most.

I'm curious on the Epic count. Even if we say 1000, there were what, 30 servers back in the day? If so that'd average out to 33 per server. And with 14 classes, that'd average out to a little over 2 per class per server. That doesn't even take into account top-heavy servers.

Of course you were just picking a number to emphasize that Epics were common-ish, so it's not to be taken literally. Just kind of weird to think about considering some classes aren't even considered for some raids unless they have their epics here (clerics/rogues/enchanters). And that in the last two years there might have been just as many Rogue Epic MQ's on P99 as there were Epics completed in total during that 4 month Epics -> Velious time frame.