Has the staff reached a decision on the following issues?

[Colgate]

-once the sleeper is awakened, will they be restoring it or will it be classic?

-will sleeper's tomb keys be soulbound or will they stay on your corpse when you die?

-will post-revamp item stats be in at launch or will they follow the classic timeline?

-will red99 have the ability to duck/sit interrupt spell casts?

-will any zones remove the level restriction in PvP for red99, similar to how it works in the planes, sebilis, and veeshan's peak?

[Erati]

Staff already said they plan on following the time line and that they will have it as 'dynamic' style changes where as far as I understand, if something was added 2 months into Velious, it will get added 2 months into our velious

same with Sleepr's tomb keys - the answer is how they were implemented classically will be how they are in at launch

[Sweetbaby Jesus]

They also said in the announcement that the sleeper waking will be kept classic

[Ele]

ST key should always stay on corpse. Good luck! (http://www.tski.co.jp/baldio/patch/20020319.html)

[kaev]

ST key should always stay on corpse. Good luck! (http://www.tski.co.jp/baldio/patch/20020319.html)

looks like we might be missing one of those lovely :classic: bugs here...
Levitation spells now check to see if you have a second Levitation type spell when it wears off before hurling you to the ground.
:eek::o:p

[Daldaen]

How many servers actually awakened the sleeper before Luclin was out?

[evilkorn]

Brell Serillis - Silent Redemption - October 13, 2001 (Tunare Nov 18 , Killed AoW Jan 10 2002)
Erollisi Marr - Magister (reported) - November 3, 2001
Povar - Triton - November 3, 2001
The Nameless - Legacy of Steel - October 25, 2001
Tunare - Talisman - November 1, 2001

Those are the confirmed ones at least.

[krazyGlue]

The first chance Azrael gets we will awake the sleeper

[Oleris]

I remember quadding some wyverns on my wizard when the sleeper was awakened. I totally freaked out and was wondering what the hell just happened.

[Supaskillz]

How many servers actually awakened the sleeper before Luclin was out?

A source: http://www.albrandes.com/skden/articles/sleeper.asp

[Daldaen]

I kinda of hope this server just keeps the sleeper zone in its 1.0 state for purposes of classic. As it sounds like most every server had a sleeping sleeper until the tail end of Velious. I'd wager a decent number had him sleeping through Velious. Very few experienced sleeper 2.0 during Velious.

[Littlegyno 13.0]

I kinda of hope this server just keeps the sleeper zone in its 1.0 state for purposes of classic. As it sounds like most every server had a sleeping sleeper until the tail end of Velious. I'd wager a decent number had him sleeping through Velious. Very few experienced sleeper 2.0 during Velious.

it won't happen. red99 prolly going to be only place with a more extended sleepers tomb due to the invisible <empire> restricting access to sleepers.

[Coffee]

Brell Serillis - Silent Redemption - October 13, 2001 (Tunare Nov 18 , Killed AoW Jan 10 2002)
Erollisi Marr - Magister (reported) - November 3, 2001
Povar - Triton - November 3, 2001
The Nameless - Legacy of Steel - October 25, 2001
Tunare - Talisman - November 1, 2001

Those are the confirmed ones at least.

they woke sleeper before killing tunare/aow? gat dayum

[Littlegyno 13.0]

Waking the sleep easy compared to AOW/Tunare.

Also several top servers woke the sleeper in attempts to see if there were any questlines that activate upon his release.

[evilkorn]

What really blows my mind is they "cleared" VP July 29, 2001 (assume this means all 6 dead). This really shows the gravity of the quest and the difference our extended timeline made on this zone. These are server firsts for Brell so I guess it was a slow guild or they were really trying to have fun with the game.

It took Afterlife, arguably the most hardcore guild in the game, till Nov 11, 2000 to kill PD. Afterlife also woke the Sleeper before killing Tunare.

Friday September 14, 2001 Afterlife Awakens The Sleeper!
Saturday October 13, 2001 Afterlife Slays Tunare!

Wednesday November 15, 2000 Druid Epic Weapon Discovered!

[Littlegyno 13.0]

What really blows my mind is they "cleared" VP July 29, 2001 (assume this means all 6 dead). This really shows the gravity of the quest and the difference our extended timeline made on this zone. These are server firsts for Brell so I guess it was a slow guild or they were really trying to have fun with the game.

It took Afterlife, arguably the most hardcore guild in the game, till Nov 11, 2000 to kill PD. Afterlife also woke the Sleeper before killing Tunare.

Friday September 14, 2001 Afterlife Awakens The Sleeper!
Saturday October 13, 2001 Afterlife Slays Tunare!

Wednesday November 15, 2000 Druid Epic Weapon Discovered!

shrug, that's the difference between a new game and a fucking game i've played for the past gat dayum 15 years dog.

[Daldaen]

Cause no one knew shit about Faydedar and his classic Pathing suicided him into the Iksar master.

Once he was discovered as a component to the epic druids had to track for him (lol 50 track), and kite him around for hours while a kill team assembled.

[wycca]

Cause no one knew shit about Faydedar and his classic Pathing suicided him into the Iksar master.

Once he was discovered as a component to the epic druids had to track for him (lol 50 track), and kite him around for hours while a kill team assembled.

I had a druid friend - a few friends played his account alot too when he wasn't on. I distinctly remember being on his druid and kiting faydedar for about 3-4hrs twice, once for his epic and once for another friend's. It was ridiculous.

Also, as far as VP - I don't believe it was finished when launched. Also, it wasn't launched right away, which meant that keys took awhile to get going. I remember reading some posts about broken raid mobs in there while searching for some other stuff recently. Also, Sleepers wasn't finished for a long while either. Tunare wasn't working well. There were just lots of things totally broken/buggy even significant lengths of time after an expansion went live. Here's an example - http://www.legacyofsteel.net/Archives/Post/2001-06-16 - June 2001 ST wasn't done - Velious Launched 7 months prior!!

My personal primetime in EQ was from DoDH -> SoF. Having been at the cutting edge in those expansions, and seeing stuff that wasn't finished, was downright broken/buggy - I certainly can sympathize what sort of frustrations and shit the early uber guilds had to face. No wonder Tigole and Furor had so many rants.

[Man0warr]

Tunare was bugged for a long time, too.

[Rushmore]

-will any zones remove the level restriction in PvP for red99, similar to how it works in the planes, sebilis, and veeshan's peak?

I think it would be cool if they pretty much made all the zones FFA in velious. Level 1 spies isn't good for anyone

[Colgate]

i don't think all zones should be, just those with raid mobs in them

[Nirgon]

The first chance Azrael gets we will awake the sleeper

Settle down now you still haven't been able to kill Nexona or Hoshkar

Dont want to be going too hard on those training wheels

[krazyGlue]

Have slain nexona . Hoshkar no

[Slathar]

Settle down now you still haven't been able to kill Nexona or Hoshkar

Dont want to be going too hard on those training wheels

we killed nexona multiple times over the summer while chain wiping to hoshkar

[Littlegyno 13.0]

we killed nexona multiple times over the summer while chain wiping to hoshkar

u got a 15 sec nexona kill tho?

[LostCause]

it won't happen. red99 prolly going to be only place with a more extended sleepers tomb due to the invisible <empire> restricting access to sleepers.

thought you were going right for ntov ? can't be everywhere at once gl.

[Littlegyno 13.0]

thought you were going right for ntov ? can't be everywhere at once gl.

luckily sleepers is key restricted.

[Tiggles]

u got a 15 sec nexona kill tho?

Pras dat

[Littlegyno 13.0]

Pras dat

http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2012/080/a/2/darth_vader___thank_you__my_master_by_hollyeddy-d4tit9l.jpg

[krazyGlue]

Ffa zones are not classic and I voted no

[Buhbuh]

luckily sleepers is key restricted.

KEKKLING IN MY MAX STATS KHAKIS?

[Buellen]

Anyone who thinks sleeper will remain unwoken is smoking something.

Seriously as crazy as the guilds here on p1999 get, Whatever guild gets the keys etc etc to do it WILL DO IT. The cut throat mentality on p1999 raiding guilds will see to that.

[Daldaen]

Basically what I imagine will happen is, Rampage will key up first and do their best to lockdown key mobs. TMO will eventually key up and they will make an agreement to not kill Nanzata (cause his loot blows).

Then given no cataclysmic nerdgasm happens, this will work fine, allowing them to farm decent loot from the other three until BDA/Chest gets keyed. Then once they attempt to contest one of the three dragons, the Class C folk who despise Chest will conspire to slay Nanzata and wake the sleeper so that chest may never get a Shroud of Longevity.

[Fanguru]

If Sontalak is classic, I don't see class C guilds foregoing loot targets to keep him dead all the time.
Maybe I'm underestimating their neckbeardism.

[Luniz]

I was under the impression nilbog would be "resetting" any awoken sleepers so that content isn't griefed away from lesser guilds.

[Guide.Chroma]

I was under the impression nilbog would be "resetting" any awoken sleepers so that content isn't griefed away from lesser guilds.

I know two things for sure: Nilbog loves classic. Resetting the Sleeper isn't classic.

[Littlegyno 13.0]

I know two things for sure: Nilbog loves classic. Resetting the Sleeper isn't classic.

aint dat da gat dayum troof.

pras 2 u chroma.

pras classic eq.

but most of all, pras lady angel nilberg and emperor rogean.

[Man0warr]

Yeah but Velious/Sleeper's also wasn't the final endgame content on Live either, so it would be nice for everyone to have the chance to experience it.

[Littlegyno 13.0]

Yeah but Velious/Sleeper's also wasn't the final endgame content on Live either, so it would be nice for everyone to have the chance to experience it.

Sleepers was open during the Velious era on live. What on earth are you talking about? Multiple servers woke the sleeper before Luclin.

Please take your custom content requests elsewhere.

[Ella`Ella]

Basically what I imagine will happen is, TMO will key up first and do their best to lockdown key mobs. Rampage will eventually key up and they will make an agreement to not kill Nanzata (cause his loot blows).

Then given no cataclysmic nerdgasm happens, this will work fine, allowing them to farm decent loot from the other three until BDA/Chest gets keyed. Then once they attempt to contest one of the three dragons, the Class C folk who despise Chest will conspire to slay Nanzata and wake the sleeper so that chest may never get a Shroud of Longevity.

Except for a slight edit, this is spot on. Sleeper's is off limits to Chest.

[Daldaen]

I'm afraid Rampage has more Zerglings than you do right now Unbrella.

And in the current state of things, Zerglings is what matters.

[Lazie]

I'm afraid Rampage has more Zerglings than you do right now Unbrella.

And in the current state of things, Zerglings is what matters.

Naw we had 73 at PD yesterday. And that wasn't everyone.

[Daldaen]

Oh wow I didn't realize the VP Keyed Dynamic of Zerg-Rush-Quest.

[Man0warr]

Sleepers was open during the Velious era on live. What on earth are you talking about? Multiple servers woke the sleeper before Luclin.

Please take your custom content requests elsewhere.

Yes, but there was Luclin after it, and PoP, etc etc.

There is literally nothing after Sleepers on P99, is what I'm saying.

[Littlegyno 13.0]

Yes, but there was Luclin after it, and PoP, etc etc.

There is literally nothing after Sleepers on P99, is what I'm saying.

So Velious end game encounters need to change because there's no expansion upcoming?

Lady Angel Nilberg already said he may consider doing custom content and multiple servers with progression style gameplay.

[pink grapefruit]

-will red99 have the ability to duck/sit interrupt spell casts?

Interested in know this, too. So annoying not being able to duck cancel spells.

[Brocode]

Interested in know this, too. So annoying not being able to duck cancel spells.

/stopcast hotkey it to duck key?

[XiakenjaTZ]

It is kind of a big deal for cleric rotations and other things for Velious raid mobs. Not being able to duck a cast.

[Daldaen]

7 months into Velious ducking to interrupt will be added I would imagine.

Just be glad your clerics can grab med ticks during CHs like classic.

[Man0warr]

So Velious end game encounters need to change because there's no expansion upcoming?

Lady Angel Nilberg already said he may consider doing custom content and multiple servers with progression style gameplay.

I don't consider resetting Warders as custom content.

[Clark]

-will red99 have the ability to duck/sit interrupt spell casts?

Always thought that was the dumbest thing ever.

[dafier]

Brell Serillis - Silent Redemption - October 13, 2001 (Tunare Nov 18 , Killed AoW Jan 10 2002)
Erollisi Marr - Magister (reported) - November 3, 2001
Povar - Triton - November 3, 2001
The Nameless - Legacy of Steel - October 25, 2001
Tunare - Talisman - November 1, 2001

Those are the confirmed ones at least.

I know where I was on November 3rd 2001 on Povar server when this happened.

An emote occurred. After reading it I thought, 'Oh crap, wth is that?'. In EW at the time....next thing I know I die. Flat out. DEAD! I saw nothing and heard nothing.

I took AE dmg of like 7k. I wasn't exactly the best geared at the time. I went back to get my corpse.....there were shouts all over Norrath in zones everywhere. People in Thurg were saying "WTF WAS THAT!?" and "HA! Triton did it!!"

Running back in GD, /ooc and /shout were flooding my chat box. Yep sure enough I knew before zoning back to EW what was up. So I zoned back.....started running back to my corpse. I had a quick glimpse of this enormous dragon that was clearish with colors before a AE wave hit and 1 shot me again. Eventually I got rezzed....I think the next day.