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'Classic' Splitpaw
tl;dr - I tried to remake original Splitpaw on my personal emu server, and here's a short video of mediocre quality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J58H...ature=youtu.be
For reasons that remain obscure to me, I've developed an unhealthy fascination with the original version of Lair of the Splitpaw, i.e., the low-level version from EQ's launch. As you may know, Paw was originally populated with the white-furred Splitpaw gnolls and designed for players roughly level 6-25. Some of the trash mobs were later moved out to Lake Rathetear, while the original bosses included Ghanex Drah, the gnoll shamans that figure in the Qeynos monk quests, and Kurrpok Splitpaw, who would later be repeatedly beheaded by his brown-furred conquerors in the mid-level revamped version of the zone. Somewhat predictably, a newb dungeon situated in the middle of South Karana didn't see much traffic in the early days. Apparently, the promise of such phat lewtz as the https://wiki.project1999.com/Runed_Totem_Staff wasn't quite enough to lure groups of level 8-10s halfway across Antonica. For this reason, it was revamped before much specific information found its way onto everlore.com, leaving would-be reconstructionists little to work with. But just for fun, I took a stab at reverting the zone on my personal emu server. Take a gander if you want, let me know what you think, what you remember from the very old days, etc. /salute | ||
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Cool stuff!
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When P99 was new, I seem to recollect the project admins saying they didn't revert splitpaw to its original form because they lacked sufficient information to accurately rebuild it, as the original poster postulates might be a problem. Considering he was around back then too, given his join date, perhaps he recalls those types of comments.
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I remember bringing a group out there back in the day. We were level 12-14, went and bound in Arena. It took an hour just to set up and definitely wasn't worth it. It's how I found the Aviak camp outside Arena though and I ended up doing that for a level or two before running back to Qeynos
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Engineer of Things and Stuff, Wearer of Many Hats
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I have a bug thread in Bugs about the gnoll shamans with links to old splitpaw newsgroup posts that might be of interest to you. IDK.
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I remember going there. As I recall one of the original monk belt quests required something from there. My regular group would make the trek out because it was usually empty, but if you died, it was a long run! Definitely a weird spot for a lower level dungeon.
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