Shaman Epic: Iksar Broodling in PoF
 

I've been doing some research into the earliest implementation of the Shaman epic. Some of the sources I've found suggest that the Iksar Broodling spawn mechanic was different than the version we see here. Here's a link to a late 2000 walkthrough of the Shaman epic, it even lists the pre-upgrade spear stats with the effect as a proc.

http://web.archive.org/web/200012160...ar_of_Fate.htm

And here's a post on Allakhazam's page for the broodling:


http://eqbeastiary.allakhazam.com/search.html?id=5627

I haven't found anything that suggests the golems were part of the Shaman epic earlier than the 2001 revamp of the planes that made them more serious minibosses. I'd guess that's when the change happened.

Another link. This walkthrough has wayback archives from October 2000 and a few later dates, giving a pretty good hint at when this change happened. For some reason it's black text on black background, so highlight the text to read it.


http://web.archive.org/web/20001019025923/http://home.elp.rr.com/wolfclan/alchemy/spearfinal.html

http://web.archive.org/web/200101110...pearfinal.html

Would that make the shaman epic beat the rogue one as the easiest epic in game? oO? The only real fight you have to do then is Rak Ashiir, everything else could be skipped...

It would still be pretty tight even if you have nobody trying to get the mobs you were. If it were a race and you had a full team with you ready to go with you doing it the normal way would probably be faster than skipping it, considering you have to wait for respawns if you are redoing parts. If the rogue couldn't get all the pre-kunark stuff before the race started, Shaman might finish first in that case.

Sorry for being off track, I can't believe the Shaman epic was even easier. I guess you'd still have to piggyback off a fear clear or something anyways or make a sick train to get that 60 second spawn by yourself. Would be pretty fun to try!

Amusingly enough the walkthrough from here makes it sound like you didn't even have to kill Rak, you just turned in the tear to him and followed a bit of quest dialogue and he handed you the scale. If this was the case the Shaman epic as originally implemented was definitely even easier than the rogue epic.

This is likely why the stats were originally pretty terrabad.

Shaman epic was doable in two steps if you had max faction.

Counting turnin, killing & looting Rak as one, then final turnin as the 2nd? That is still possible - the "if" is a big if though as the whole epic is faction based :p

To the top! Would be nice to see some comment from the devs here.

Pretty sure a few people here have already skipped the hole and Neh'Ashiir by doing black dire and the CoM reports a lot