Multiquesting was absolutely a known mechanic. It's too bad EZboard took a giant shit and never got a good backup, but people absolutely knew how to MQ epic items. I won the nagafen book at an open raid and went to the Paladins of Norrath ezboard to read how to MQ the frost book from a friend in the strategy library section. I know there was a popular monk epic guide that referenced MQing the pipes. Velious armor MQs, mostly thurg, got sold somewhat commonly or passed between guildmates. "everyone needs faction, person to get the reward goes last".
Charming and faction were also well known. I know Concert Hall explained flat out how to get the OT hammer with charm. I can't believe if the bards had this in their guide section, necros and enchanters just had no idea. Puppet strings weren't a secret item, put 2+2 together.
The only thing that you could make an argument for that wasn't super common knowledge was recharging. Even then, if you were in a halfway serious raiding guild you knew at least something was up. But it was kept kinda hush compared to multiquesting.
The other part was that on live, if you handed an item to someone you better god damn well trust them to give it back. Now, I'm sure there were exceptions here and there, but overall the widespread stance was if you traded something to someone the GMs weren't going to give back an item if they ran off with it. If you handed some stranger your strings and they ran off you were most likely shit out of luck, it didn't matter what screenshots or logs you had of whatever agreement, the trade button was final.
That, and not wanting recharging to be widely known, is what stopped the widespread sale of and everyone having OT hammers like here, lol, it wasn't that people didn't know how faction, charm, and quests worked, that's absurd.
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