Forced Spawning in HS South is a myth

[-Catherin-]

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

Supposedly, and no real evidence I've never looked into myself, but Verant claimed sometime during or post luclin that there were hundreds of quests in the game that hadn't been touched upon.

a lot of random mobs and things people don't know why or what for, the sphinx in rathe mountains? eventually for paladin epic but in classic?

how many people have read zone lores, a lot of the "useless" items you find tie into the zone's history which can be awesome!

The sphinx in Rathe Mountains were originally intended to be part of the fiery avenger quest in vanilla EQ. the quest was actually in game, but broken. GMs/Developers did not admit to this until much later on. The entire original quest was pretty much scrapped and redone with epics

[Rhambuk]

ahh gotcha knew it had something to do with that paladin garbage.

regardless there are still tons of broken/undiscovered quests(supposedly)

[Tecmos Deception]

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

You guys are so close to uncovering the secret of charasis.

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[Pint]

i still want to know what that random dark elf spawn that roams solb is for, i think seeing that guy is awesome

[Aaron]

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

Now people are going to spend hours trying to double spawn crypt spectres bc x2 crypt spectres forces drusella to spawn and roam the south wing if they are left up 2 full cycles while all other phs are trash spawns. You guys are so close to uncovering the secret of charasis.

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[Detoxx]

HS south is for nubs, step up your game and do some solo fungi kings bro, you're in the A-Team ffs!

[capco]

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

regardless there are still tons of broken/undiscovered quests(supposedly)

From what I've heard, a lot of these undiscovered/broken quest were designed by Verant. Due to finances and deadlines, I'm guessing that the game was released without being 100% complete (like most game releases these days) and as such these quests were meant to be a work in progress. But when Verant stopped being a part of EQ development, they were simply never finished.

Sony and the new coders were probably just playing it safe by never removing the incomplete code for the quests, lest some random server bug occur.

One such quest that comes to mind is the (full version of) the Gnoll Slayer.

There are also a ton of items that drop in the Hole which were probably meant for quests at some point.

[Rhambuk]

Thankfully our devs are better than sony's and may be able to fix/put some of this stuff to use post velious

[Frieza_Prexus]

The GBS / Varsoon's Black Heart mystery was recently answered. Apparently the GBS identifying as Varsoon's Black Heart was put in as a learning exercise by a newbie dev, and the quest was never meant to be anything. Dude was just learning to use the developer's tools.

[Rhambuk]

That's dirty, putting all those players through trying to complete an impossible quest haha