plane of growth/mischief

[baalzy]

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

care to elaborate?

PoM was a huge f'd up mess on live and nobody ever fully understood it.

Hard to recreate something that nobody understands.

[falkun]

I would imagine Mischief as SOE's version of "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" I had very little experience with the zone on live, but everything I've seen and heard about the zone was that it was awesome, but in an out-of-the-box way that did not fit the mold used for the rest of the game.

[SupaflyIRL]

PoM was on the fringe, weird, and potentially lethal if you misstep. It's like the illegal drugs of zones.

[Nirgon]

Uh it was pretty easy to figure out. Bind in treasure chest room, farm shit, get cards to drop, learn way out of maze if you screwed up/pvp -> profit.

[falkun]

Pardon the ignorance, but what are these "cards" you speak of? Any good info on the 'net about the traditional PoM?

[Shiftin]

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

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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to skyshrine
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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.

[Shiftin]

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

Pardon the ignorance, but what are these "cards" you speak of? Any good info on the 'net about the traditional PoM?

http://planeofmischief.com/items.htm

crazy cleric BP btw. So cool.
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[Versus]

I never really got to fully experience PoM as a Paladin back on Povar, but I always was in awe of Irontaail and Triton up there. Monk+Druid duo'd his ass on Povar I do believe. I can't wait to Locket of Escape bind there, lol.


Also one of my fondest EQ memories...

I was over at a friends house who was a halfling druid and thus non-kos in PoG. He found Tunare's tree and wanted to explore a little. So he approached some goat looking dude at the bottom of Tunare's tree and hailed him. He gave some shpiel and asked something to the effect of, "why are you here?" My buddy typed out, "i've come for your phat lewtz."

Next thing you know, BAM 25k DT! "You will find no phat lewtz here Newmer!"