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[Aborath]

Man, I'd play an emulated EQOA in a second.

Surprisingly, I hear a lot of mention of EQOA on P99. Really great game that I played starting at release (quit before the first expansion). I can't remember much at all about the game
in the way of details, but I did have the first lvl 50 enchanter on Diren's Hold. Can't recall the name, heh.

Oh wait, I do remember one thing: certain items hadn't had their graphic implemented yet but were lootable and wearable in-game, so when worn they'd appear to be giant, spinning (yes, animated) question marks. It was just as awesome as it sounds.

Edit: pretty sure the name was Ninikbik.

[skorge]

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

Man, I'd play an emulated EQOA in a second.

Surprisingly, I hear a lot of mention of EQOA on P99. Really great game that I played starting at release (quit before the first expansion). I can't remember much at all about the game
in the way of details, but I did have the first lvl 50 enchanter on Diren's Hold. Can't recall the name, heh.

Oh wait, I do remember one thing: certain items hadn't had their graphic implemented yet but were lootable and wearable in-game, so when worn they'd appear to be giant, spinning (yes, animated) question marks. It was just as awesome as it sounds.

Edit: pretty sure the name was Ninikbik.

yea, another cool thing EQOA did was allow any class to wear a robe over your armor...so there was a chest piece & a robe piece...there were only 1 or 2 robes for melees that were in the game and they were so rare that only less than ten were on each server (they got removed too); but it was cool being a shaman rolling around in a dope robe, lol

[Hollywood]

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

Also, there were no direct heals, there were only HoT heals, so in a way it was more challenging. There was only one expansion and it added a lot of cool additions to the game, making it better.

This is incorrect. Clerics always had direct heals alongside the HoT and one of their speciality lines(at level twenty when you chose your path) was what we used to call 'stitch' healing. It gave you a near instant cast heal for those split second moments. This was the more popular cleric spell line until later on when higher level pet classes starting camping certain zones where the mobs and bosses did high disease/poison/magic. The other cleric line just happen to be a super high resistance buff(s) and everyone rolled another cleric to accommodate that requirement. You had your adventure cleric/normal groups and you had your raid cleric/obscure groups.

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

yea, another cool thing EQOA did was allow any class to wear a robe over your armor...so there was a chest piece & a robe piece...there were only 1 or 2 robes for melees that were in the game and they were so rare that only less than ten were on each server (they got removed too); but it was cool being a shaman rolling around in a dope robe, lol

You must be confused with another game. The Ceremonial Vestment a.k.a. "CV" was a limited drop that was wearable by casters and some melee. Shadow Knights had their own robes, one was a low (30s?) level from Orcs at the Deathfist camps, and one was a black high level. Both were taken out before Frontiers launched.

[skorge]

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

This is incorrect. Clerics always had direct heals alongside the HoT and one of their speciality lines(at level twenty when you chose your path) was what we used to call 'stitch' healing. It gave you a near instant cast heal for those split second moments. This was the more popular cleric spell line until later on when higher level pet classes starting camping certain zones where the mobs and bosses did high disease/poison/magic. The other cleric line just happen to be a super high resistance buff(s) and everyone rolled another cleric to accommodate that requirement. You had your adventure cleric/normal groups and you had your raid cleric/obscure groups.

You must be confused with another game. The Ceremonial Vestment a.k.a. "CV" was a limited drop that was wearable by casters and some melee. Shadow Knights had their own robes, one was a low (30s?) level from Orcs at the Deathfist camps, and one was a black high level. Both were taken out before Frontiers launched.

Well I never played a cleric and it was 10+ years ago when I last played, lol...I see the stack heals are on a 19 second recast time, so it's WAY different than regular Everquest, which is the point I was trying to make. Link: http://eqoa.wikia.com/wiki/Cleric

CV's (robe) were dropped as a rare item in the game for awhile. It was all/all (link: http://eqoa.wikia.com/wiki/Ceremonial_Vestment). There was another robe that was all/all was WAY more rare than the CV (CV is comparable to the manastones here). I owned one of the very few on Hodstock. My friend gave me one to buy a new Playstation 2 so I could keep playing, because mine messed up. I sold it to a guild mate for $400 cash back in 2002/2003. According to this post it was known as the "spectre" robe although I believe it was called something differently but that might be right, lol. Here's a link showing the write-up somebody did, and it references me and another guy named Dean. Link: https://eqoa.wordpress.com/2010/10/1...o-60-hodstock/

Another rare all/all robe was the Spiritmaster robe (same rarity as the CV). It was in the game for 1-2 weeks: Link: https://eqoa.wordpress.com/2010/10/20/sm-robe-phantoms/

Never heard of the SK robes?

[Thebeast]

Can't wait to see this game release shall be fun!

[Hollywood]

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

Well I never played a cleric and it was 10+ years ago when I last played, lol...I see the stack heals are on a 19 second recast time, so it's WAY different than regular Everquest, which is the point I was trying to make. Link: http://eqoa.wikia.com/wiki/Cleric

CV's (robe) were dropped as a rare item in the game for awhile. It was all/all (link: http://eqoa.wikia.com/wiki/Ceremonial_Vestment). There was another robe that was all/all was WAY more rare than the CV (CV is comparable to the manastones here). I owned one of the very few on Hodstock. My friend gave me one to buy a new Playstation 2 so I could keep playing, because mine messed up. I sold it to a guild mate for $400 cash back in 2002/2003. According to this post it was known as the "spectre" robe although I believe it was called something differently but that might be right, lol. Here's a link showing the write-up somebody did, and it references me and another guy named Dean. Link: https://eqoa.wordpress.com/2010/10/1...o-60-hodstock/

Another rare all/all robe was the Spiritmaster robe (same rarity as the CV). It was in the game for 1-2 weeks: Link: https://eqoa.wordpress.com/2010/10/20/sm-robe-phantoms/

Never heard of the SK robes?

Yes, Spectre robes, I did mention it just without the name.
SM robe wasn't too rare on CLW server but rare enough - I had a laugh about the timer issue on corpses though.

What was the name of that light blue plate armor that dropped in Permafrost. That stuff was super good for clerics before Frontiers.

[skorge]

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

Yes, Spectre robes, I did mention it just without the name.

There was only like 2-3 on each server it was so rare. I sold it for $400 cash to a guild-mate instantly pretty much. I probably could have gotten more by putting it up on eBay. In the article the guy says it was the "rarest item in the game." Most people never even saw one on a character, since there were only a couple on the server and the chances are that person isn't playing, haha.

[Hollywood]

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

There was only like 2-3 on each server it was so rare. I sold it for $400 cash to a guild-mate instantly pretty much. I probably could have gotten more by putting it up on eBay. In the article the guy says it was the "rarest item in the game." Most people never even saw one on a character, since there were only a couple on the server and the chances are that person isn't playing, haha.

I meant to respond to your comment about real money, that's no joke. Spectre robes alone fetched $300. What idiots! Did they really think it would last that long? They weren't even good stats.

I'm fairly certain at least five SM dropped on CLW as it was the highest population server for some years, though I cannot remember where I was when it happened. Wasn't that robe from Tomb of Kings?

I wasn't a big fun of the faster paced game play at first, but at the same time it was refreshing and the gamepad controls were done very well. It wasn't as in-depth as FFXI but never the less it worked. And the pace did work well with the mechanics as spoke about earlier, casting while moving, plate wearing battle clerics, fast respawning mobs and such good xp camps in the most obscure out of the way places. People would travel to all kinds of nooks and crannies and setup shop for hours of near constant slam action - mobs that died in twenty seconds and respawned in forty - there was no time to sleep!

It was the first game with a seameless world and speaking of nooks and crannies, the amount of underwater stuff was great too. Adventure and exploration was not just a tagline.

The game could only have been better if they'd had some type of voice communications. When we were able to finally emulate it, it was super fun to play with others and have voice chat. So if this EMU actually works, I am definitely playing it on the PC again!

[Tongpow]

i remember alot of tanks in Cosa Nostra had a robe on CLW server(grey looking one iirc), only thing i ever farmed forever for was that caster useable giant sword in Sol B that was soloable by Mag/Nec and i had to be coth'd to the camp and stayed for a couple days to get it

the raid dropped spells were cool , i remember having to kill that Chinese dragon in plane of disease for some Nec pet buff spell that turned it from that floating red cloud everyone had into a swirling pile of bones shit was rare as fuck from what i remember Source : Poxathixius

i quit after frontiers, but way before the servers were shutdown

[Mesenkomaha]

Incredible. It might sound stupid but I think about EQoA a lot. It was my first MMO and I miss it. I'd do anything just to be able to play again! Anything.... hehehehe