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Originally Posted by baalzy
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PoM was a huge f'd up mess on live and nobody ever fully understood it.
Hard to recreate something that nobody understands.
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and thurgadin
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It doesn't suck. I completed a full or almost full set of the stuff back in velious and there probably are only a few dozen people that spent more time in the zone than me (Irontail and the other PoM.com crew, etc).
I actually got to talk to smedley at the dallas fan faire in 2001 or 2002 about PoM. At first he tried to coyly play it off like "you having figured out the mysteries!" but I finally got another dev to admit that the guy who did PoM was either fired or quit before he finished it and smedley hated the zone or something and wouldn't let anyone else work on it with that guys plans, just finish up what was almost done and move on to Luclin. It's not that no one understood it, the problem is it never got finished.
The original design of the zone was to be the 5th choice of velious armor (beyond kael, skyshrine, thurgadin and PoG). Bristlebane was suppossed to be a triggered ring event that never got tuned or fully completed, so they never itemized the event, they just left the script in "as is" and let you kill bristlebane for fun (a matter of opinion as he has an insane amount of HP and is a bitch to fight).
It makes me super sad that there's no rogue PoM armor since bristlebane was the king of thieves, but i can't wait to help folks get their armor in there this go around.