Erud's Tonic

[Arakash]

I'm finally getting around to doing the Stein of Moggok quest.

While doing this quest, I remembered what really bothered me about old school EQ quests. It's the very particular verbiage for some quests. I didn't use the wiki and I have never done this quest before so I ended up going to all the vendors in Erudin looking for Erud's Tonic and asking about it. Nothing.

Finally, I cheated and used the wiki. It's a very particular way of asking that gets a response.

My question is; who figured this quest out first? Does anyone know if the GM's helped out on some of these quests in the early days?
Are there still some obscure quests in the game that no one has done because of this type of specific wording?