Cultural armor?

[Nocte]

Velious was the huge tradeskill expansion. Also, I believe that the imbue [gem] spells for clerics were what were required for the cultural stuff, check the dates on those spells and you'll have it. I think they were Kunark.

[Weekapaug]

I think some of you guys are confusing "cultural armor" with several different things.

There was the first round of cultural armor that went in sometime during, I think, Kunark, but might have been velious. It involved imbued gems, the spells for which could be purchased at the appropriate local guilds.

I specificly remember this because I was a smith with my Shadow Knight main at the time and was the first to make a piece of the Bertoxxulous armor...It required Black Sapphires and a cleric of Bertoxxulous to do the imbue, which made it expensive to experiment with and nearly impossible to find casters to do the imbues, because among the few gnome and human clerics around anyway, very few were Bertoxx followers. Several friends of mine who helped me with this quite a bit and that I played that character with promptly quit EQ when DAOC came out....which was about the time of Luclin.....So it was definately in the scope of this server, although I cannot remember if it was during Kunark or Velious, off hand.

THEN, later, the newer cultural armor, the really good stuff, went in sometime during Luclin or PoP.....That would include the Heraldric armors that everyone knows and loves.

Not sure how the other trades fit into all of this, though, because I pretty much did smithing back then.

I remember posting on EQ traders about the earlier stuff at the time.....I will see if I can find some links to serve as a timestamp.

[MiRo2]

It required Black Sapphires and a cleric of Bertoxxulous to do the imbue

Initial entry for this spell in lucy is 2002

http://lucy.allakhazam.com/spellhist...97&source=Live

[Weekapaug]

As it happens, I have my live accounts active right now so I could get them ready for the merges tomorrow. I logged on and looked on my SK for the piece I smithed way back.

This is the item I made:

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=15616

At the time, it was the first known piece of the Bertoxx armor to be made and initially the stats and classes were wrong. After petitioning about it, they fixed it.

[Weekapaug]

Originally Posted by MiRo2 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Initial entry for this spell in lucy is 2002

http://lucy.allakhazam.com/spellhist...97&source=Live

And?

Didn't Lucy just come live around that time? In relation to early EQ, Lucy is new.

I can tell you for a fact that I did cultural smithing prior to Luclin....Pretty sure it was during Velious. I stopped playing that character sometime during Luclin and the people who helped me quite a bit with my smithing quit literally the week it released.

I'm going to keep searching for something to support this. EQ Traders, unfortunately, has a "new" forum sometime as of '03, so I'm not able to find my earlier posts there.

[guineapig]

Originally Posted by MiRo2 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Initial entry for this spell in lucy is 2002

http://lucy.allakhazam.com/spellhist...97&source=Live

As well as for everything that was released in game before 2002.
That's when the database went live.

[astarothel]

The Imbued (stuff with black sapphs) you are referring to is part of a collection of "old cultural".
LoY had some cultural stuff, but not a lot.
LDoN had its own cultural.

What has to happen is the "old cultural" has to be separated out into when it was added.

For example, Cultural (ie Enchanted Full Plate) was in before Deity Cultural (ie Imbued). Just have to figure out when.

[Weekapaug]

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

Just have to figure out when.

Indeed. This stuff made my head spin THEN, which is why I didn't stick with it. Now trying to find this ancient info is just mind boggling.

I find it infinately annoying that EQ Traders' Forums don't go back past '02. That would go a long way to answering these questions.

[guineapig]

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

Indeed. This stuff made my head spin THEN, which is why I didn't stick with it. Now trying to find this ancient info is just mind boggling.

I find it infinately annoying that EQ Traders' Forums don't go back past '02. That would go a long way to answering these questions.

This thread also contains a lot of internet archive digging in hopes of finding answers.

http://www.eqclassic.org/forums/view...&t=910&p=23794

I am currently looking for archived versions of Everquest fashion sites for info just because it's something nobody else has mentioned yet.

[Smuuglie]

Mmmm... This is all very complicated. I hope some of the cultural deity armor were in during Velious... (I stopped before Luclin and somehow remember some of those... But then, I could be wrong)
I just like the idea of full sets of deity armor roleplay wise ^^