Why no pre-fear capped server?

[Namsaknoi]

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

I vaguely remember this too, but there's no https://wiki.project1999.com/Patch%20Notes mentioning it ... although Verant liked to keep tradeskill recipes a big secret, so that doesn't prove anything.

I did find an old Wayback Machine cut of EQ Traders, supposedly from 1999, that shows both gems existing: https://web.archive.org/web/19991128...eqtraders.com/. Interestingly, they claim that there was no recipes for blue diamonds ... but also, that page mentions enchanted velium, which clearly didn't exist in 1999 ... so I think it's actually a later archive, and Wayback is just confused about dates.

But the fact that (by Velious) the tradeskill addicts on that site (and on Caster's Realm, the Enchanter site) hadn't yet figured out the recipes for Blue Diamonds at least strongly suggests that they were added in late Kunark.

Originally Posted by cd288 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Got it maybe I misread your post. I'd also note that the planes were in development well before Vox/Naggy were first killed. It wasn't their deaths that prompted the devs to think more "raid" type content was needed.

Originally Posted by cd288 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Meaning could people craft things with them? unsure about blue diamond but certain black sapphire jewelry is craftable pre-Kunark.

Nice, thanks for these, yes I think so too, I just did a quick search and looks like black sapphire is also used for that Vox white scale cloak quest, and yes I just can't find that patch note regarding blue diamond, I will try to post the link if I manage to find it somewhere