We're lucky to be playing 14 years later

[SirAlvarex]

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

There were hundreds if not thousands of epics completed server-wide by Velious release. Most were solved around early October 2000, by collaborative effort of the respective class boards.

Warrior and Mage epics took the longest to complete. The queen in Chardok was almost never killed, anywhere, and therefor the quest piece from her was a bottleneck.

FoH killed the original Naggy/Vox.

People shared information on boards then just as they do now, some things were kept semi-secret, but not most.

I'm curious on the Epic count. Even if we say 1000, there were what, 30 servers back in the day? If so that'd average out to 33 per server. And with 14 classes, that'd average out to a little over 2 per class per server. That doesn't even take into account top-heavy servers.

Of course you were just picking a number to emphasize that Epics were common-ish, so it's not to be taken literally. Just kind of weird to think about considering some classes aren't even considered for some raids unless they have their epics here (clerics/rogues/enchanters). And that in the last two years there might have been just as many Rogue Epic MQ's on P99 as there were Epics completed in total during that 4 month Epics -> Velious time frame.

[webrunner5]

Imagine all the work it took to make all the damn Maps back then. Somebody had to do a shit pot full of exploring and getting data from people. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Nirgon]

Good on you for admitting that. Can't say I was ever scared but.

I definitely had too many "FUCK!" moments of panic back in the day. Then again, maybe not enough.

[LordSterben]

Funny....I always thought the game was more fun when I had just started and had no idea what I was doing. When people still had tons of misconceptions and it wasn't possible to min/Max the hell out of everything. And when getting lost in GFay scared the crap out of me because i assumed that some random Balrog would find me and eat me. I used to follow the paths with laser precision, meeting every curve and jag step for step, after my friend told me it was safer to stick to the paths.

[Ahldagor]

first char was half elf ranger and i got killed by a bat at night. never found the corpse. so good....

[Stinkum]

sadly, (1) proper night vision and (2) no item linking will never happen here due to the limitations of the titanium client [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[SirAlvarex]

I agree we are lucky. Does anyone have the number on how many Epics were actually completed pre-Velious back in the day? Some of the hints you are given on the quests are so vague that it had to of been pure luck to complete it. And they only had 6 months or so before the next Expansion pack.

[trustandfall]

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

I agree we are lucky. Does anyone have the number on how many Epics were actually completed pre-Velious back in the day? Some of the hints you are given on the quests are so vague that it had to of been pure luck to complete it. And they only had 6 months or so before the next Expansion pack.

I always wonder who got the original vox and Naggy kills. Unfortunately googling brings up no results.. And epics were definitely becoming more common in velious.. I can't recall how many people had them in kunark.

[HawkMasterson1999]

Quests got figured out so fast I always figured it was the work of l33t guild hackers breaking down code and studying spawns with MQ/SEQ. Either that or it got leaked from the dev team (probably that).

[Soandso]

Any wizards here remember the epic back in the day? How the hell were they supposed to know to talk to that npc in halas with no given information?