Anybody remember Issued Footman Armor?

[Afterburner]

Just for shits and giggles, I logged on to my oldest character on Live last night. A level 22 Erudite Magician that I rolled on the Innoruuk server three weeks after EQ first hit the shelves back in 1999.

He's wearing nearly a full suit of Issued Footman armor. The pieces are listed on Zam, but not on the Wiki, so I am guessing that particular set got removed from Live (and thus from P99) at some point.

I have no idea how I got it, whether it was a quest or a drop. It's all no-drop stuff, so I would've had to have gotten it via one of those two methods. Any of the really old-school old-schoolers remember this stuff and where it came from?

[Clark]

I think that's stuff from future expansions that won't be released here.

[Afterburner]

Originally Posted by Clark [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I think that's stuff from future expansions that won't be released here.

Can't be. I stopped playing this particular character in June 1999 when the Brell Serilis server opened, and haven't leveled him since. That was well before Kunark.

[myriverse]

Yeah. Issued Footman armor was newbie "no drop" armor at the very classic beginning. The chest slot had like 3-4ac. I don't think I ever knew what it was for. It was basically the same as cloth.

[Thulghor]

Here's a fun little guide on removed items.

https://www.scribd.com/doc/148034342...m-Guide#scribd

[nilbog]

The "issued" set of gear was given by GMs on live when someone lost their corpse and/or returned playing. I only saw a couple sets of it personally, and that is what the players told me happened.

Also I never saw any more after 1999. Maybe it was a policy removed by the time Kunark was released.

[tristantio]

I remember it as well (it was GM/Guide given armor).

Do your pieces have the cloth graphic when worn as well as their icons?

[Afterburner]

Originally Posted by tristantio [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I remember it as well (it was GM/Guide given armor).

Do your pieces have the cloth graphic when worn as well as their icons?

Yeah, cloth graphic. But I can promise you they weren't given to me by a GM, because I never interacted with a GM in any capacity on Innoruuk aside from getting my last name, which still required a /petition at the time this character hit 20. (The /surname command wasn't put in until July or August of 1999, as I recall.)

The link provided by Thulghor upthread suggests that they were part of a quest that was removed in the earliest days of the game: turn in 4 ruined wolf pelts to a quest NPC. That actually sounds about right, so I'm gonna go with that.

[webrunner5]

Wow, new one to me also. And to think I thought I knew everything. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] Well at least a hell of a lot for a old turd.