What crazy things did EQ make you do back in the day?

[John Stark]

I don't know if it qualifies as a "crazy thing EQ made me do back in the day," but here goes.

My first and main character until PoP was a wizard (when I switched to an SK and my wife switched to Shammy). I wanted Jboots some something fierce so I could kite more effectively (was still too low level for quad kiting), and had camped the ancient cyclops numerous times, and no luck after weeks and weeks of trying.

One night I got the ancient cyclops camp to myself, but it was hairy because I was at knife's edge of being able to kill him solo due to my level and gear. A guild mate had nothing better to do and offered to camp it with me, and we got to chatting.

We stayed up all night (both of us being on Eastern time) talking about this and that under the sun, but still no drop for the boot quest. I was probably camped there for 20 hours at that point.

We had decided that we were going to call it a night, but then changed our minds and waited for one last ancient cyclops kill. Sure enough, he dropped the ring and I was the proud owner of jboots to go with my clicky pull stick (Staff of Temperate Flux).

Not the longest camp I'm sure in EQ history, but it was rewarding as hell back in the day!