How did people figure out quest back in the day?

[syztem]

Must admit doing the quests are fun especially considering how bad a lot of them suck. After doing 2 epics recently(using wiki) it's still fun, some parts are annoying every quest in eq has that annoyingly long possibility. I did the monk robe twice again from scratch which is great fun(circle not WF) getting the sashes headband etc only to fail the trivial combine of 41 the times with a skill of 140+.... But yeah doing targin and raster again lots of fun. On live I did a 29hr stint with a 2hr nap only to login and find him spawned the next day. Monks who remember raster on live I don't think they can ever forget that

[Lagaidh]

As a paladin who got his epic when it was useless...

I remember the Ragefire camps in SolB for guild clerics. We'd be there so long we'd get pissy with each other.

Ugh. I can't believe I allowed a video game to subject me to such torture that I was more than willing to accept.

Heh. Maybe camping vanilla Ragefire could be made into an enhanced interrogation technique.

[syztem]

How many did the paw of opolla on live? farming the degenerate guk weed? that was just amazingly fun

[Yasi]

I find it even more fascinating that People went through the epic quest shit without knowing what's in for them at the end. I mean: some random dude on a pyramid telling you to gather some items doesn't really translate into "figure this out and get a best-in-Slot-item" - especially if you consider non-epic quest rewards that were often rather shitty.

[Bummey]

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

I find it even more fascinating that People went through the epic quest shit without knowing what's in for them at the end. I mean: some random dude on a pyramid telling you to gather some items doesn't really translate into "figure this out and get a best-in-Slot-item" - especially if you consider non-epic quest rewards that were often rather shitty.

The patch notes said this:

EPIC QUESTS - We are pleased to announce that we have implemented new "Fiery Avenger" style quests for every class in the game (including paladins). The ultimate reward for each quest boasts a custom model with unique particle effects. We think that you will be pleased.

You can bet your ass that everyone read that and dropped everything to run around the world, look for new mobs, hail every NPC looking for new text, and jump on anything that popped up. "If Paladins get a flaming sword, what will <my class> get?!"

[koros]

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

Packet sniffers? There's absolutely no reason to give the wooden painting to the human skeleton in FM for the druid epic, but somehow we know to do that.

I was working on/following this very closely when it was being solved on live back in the day. This made me curious so I actually looked it up:

Josia
Registered User
(10/26/00 6:22:01 am)
Re: Epic Quest - Teldin Quest with Logs

my apologies if this is somewhere else. I looked through some other threads, but couldn't locate my answer.


In the part where you take the old painting to the human skeleton in the Frontier Mountains, where does this skeleton appear?

I looked all over the Mountains last night, but could not find him. Is it always there, or is it something that only appears every so often?


Also, as I was doing this part, I wondered what clue that Niera gave to prompt one to go to the Frontier Mountains? Did someone just happen upon this?


thanks,
Josia

Ungar Raventhorn
Registered User
(10/26/00 6:49:04 am)
Re: Epic Quest - Teldin Quest with Logs
She is always up I think unless someone has given her a painting then she needs to respawn.

It's almost impossible to find it on tracking with all the trash in the zone. Easier if you get a SK, Necro or Cleric and have them cast Sense Undead.

As for giving the painting.. It was a pretty good educated guess. Niera has powder and won't give it up because it reminds her of her mother. Her mom is dead and you have a painting of Niera, so you gotta give the painting to her dead mom somewhere..

I gave the painting to Jarnel Marfury a ghost in FoB first who wasn't KoS.. Human skele in Frontier worked..


Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20010111...cID=2788.topic

[kagrobb]

For all the quests that were found and solved there were many that were found and never solved, and there there were many many quests never found at all and are rumored to be in the game still.

[Danth]

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

You can bet your ass that everyone read that and dropped everything to run around the world, look for new mobs, hail every NPC looking for new text, and jump on anything that popped up. "If Paladins get a flaming sword, what will <my class> get?!"

My recollection--hazy after so many years--is that solving the epic questlines was very much a race followed closely by much of the Everquest community at-large.

Danth

[Neno]

Everything got posted to the various forums/sites back then. New NPCs, new conversations, new drops, and anything that seemed out of the ordinary. It was like they took a dozen puzzles and dropped the pieces all over the world when it came to the epic quests. People just kept trying things until something worked and brain storming ideas in between. It does seem like a massive undertaking to figure it out and that is exactly what it was, 1000s of players across all of the servers working together and sharing what they found.

[Baadan]

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

and there were many many quests never found at all and are rumored to be in the game still.

This is the coolest thing, to me. I wish there was a way to know. I wonder if these quests made it to P99.