Was total BiS a thing during live?

[xeffo]

/gems

also on Povar I don't think anybody had full BiS; we (Rising Ascension) were also killing Vulak around the same time Triton was.

[Ligma]

No. But in luclin there were lots that would be considered BIS minus some AHR loot. There's just so much loot in VT and it was trivial for a lot of servers to completely cockblock emp.

[Daloon]

Aten Ha Ra's quest neck alone was like 8 months worth of DKP, so no. Maybe in PoP, that shit went on for awhile. Velious and Kunark no fuckin way.

[Ligma]

VT was like a 3 day spawn time though. With neck dropping everytime that's 100+ not even counting server resets. Problem with AHR was a huge loot table but even still there was plenty of great alternatives to AHR BiS. For instance, you could consider emp robe BiS over AHR. I know I never considered getting AHR after getting emp.

[fastboy21]

Still same problem, but luclin was more forgiving because there was were plenty of very nice very high-end alternatives to what might have been considered BiS for most classes in most slots.

Forgetting the problem of even knowing what is definitive BiS for each class in each slot in luclin (which gets a bit muddy) you still wind up with the reality of putting together a wish list of gear, raiding with a large guild where there are plenty with wish lists that have your items on it, a significant RNG luck of the draw to get the item to drop, etc.

Even for the highest end guilds you'd still have to pick and choose and probably run out of clears before PoP released before you got everything on your list. It was more about a handful of key items (focus effects, FT, clickies, etc.) for each class or player style than it was about some concept of max'ing out your toon with BiS items. To be honest, I'm not sure I even used the expression BiS in EQ until GoD.

This gap was also widened by the introduction of AA during luclin, etc.