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The idea that new mobs couldn't pop unless you looted the old corpses.

Then there were the early days when the passages through the sewers of Qeynos and Freeport were virtually unknown. I couldn't convince people there was a back way to North Freeport that bypassed the Freeport Militia.

I remember doing jewelcraft very early on... I had to actually explain what the stats did or people wouldn't buy. This one guy in GFay very loudly kept proclaiming that increased INT/WIS wouldn't increase your mana pool because only starting INT/WIS gave mana. The idiots believed him and I couldn't sell any more that day.

I started playing live in beta and don't really remember exactly when these were really believed.

While not a hoax/confusion/misconception, also have to remember the days of /corpse giving loot permission- it's probably the single biggest classic element of the game that P99 missed. I think I only got scammed out of all my shit one time.