EverQuest Hoaxes

[myriverse]

I still believe the angle your facing affects your chance to hit a mob. And you'll see me constantly turn back and forth slightly, just to find that sweet spot.

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What?

[Aabdel]

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

I still believe the angle your facing affects your chance to hit a mob. And you'll see me constantly turn back and forth slightly, just to find that sweet spot

haha definitely did this too, but it was more about distance to/from the mob. and i still do it out of habit. i always look like i'm humping my target's leg

[Lagaidh]

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

haha definitely did this too, but it was more about distance to/from the mob. and i still do it out of habit. i always look like i'm humping my target's leg

Here on P99 the effect is alive and well. It's max melee distance. As a paladin, I can root a mob and if I place myself just at the point where I can hit a mob, but I'm too far a way to attempt a disarm, then I connect a lot more often, and for a higher average damage.

I was in some other thread about old misconceptions and I mentioned that I always wanted to be uphill of the mob I fought and this topic came up. I tried it and have had more fun with my 2h weapon!

[Rhambuk]

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

I still believe the angle your facing affects your chance to hit a mob. And you'll see me constantly turn back and forth slightly, just to find that sweet spot.

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What?

I swear this is true! Anytime im meleeing and get a few bad rounds of quad miss's i figure im in a dead spot, strafe and turn and start hitting again.

[t0lkien]

BTW, this is probably not what you were looking for, but it was still a quite famous "hoax":

http://www.salon.com/2000/11/21/virtual_suicide/

[Meiva]

Originally Posted by t0lkien [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

BTW, this is probably not what you were looking for, but it was still a quite famous "hoax":

http://www.salon.com/2000/11/21/virtual_suicide/

You are awesome! This inspired me to post. I first watched a vid on console game hoaxes, and then googled EQ hoaxes. This is pretty much the only thing that showed up [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

*Edit* Cnt' taalk twsingt... Probably my favorite sig (yes I get it).

[Jeffari]

Originally Posted by t0lkien [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

BTW, this is probably not what you were looking for, but it was still a quite famous "hoax":

http://www.salon.com/2000/11/21/virtual_suicide/

Haha in that article when it explains marriage in everquest it says, "an actual wedding ceremony after which the two characters’ game assets — gold, armor, weaponry and the like — can even be combined into one bank account, if they so desire." Ha was that really true about stuff being combined into one bank account? All I recall about eq weddings was the shared surname, I don't recall any type of shared banking system until, what was it, LoY? LDoN? Ah well it is an old article and that's typical with these weird outside articles trying to explain aspects of eq. "You can be a dwarf, swordsman, elf, even an enchantress!" Haha.

[Meiva]

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

Haha in that article when it explains marriage in everquest it says, "an actual wedding ceremony after which the two characters’ game assets — gold, armor, weaponry and the like — can even be combined into one bank account, if they so desire." Ha was that really true about stuff being combined into one bank account? All I recall about eq weddings was the shared surname, I don't recall any type of shared banking system until, what was it, LoY? LDoN? Ah well it is an old article and that's typical with these weird outside articles trying to explain aspects of eq. "You can be a dwarf, swordsman, elf, even an enchantress!" Haha.

You're very much correct. Simply a surname change that required a GM. EQ weddings were simply a celebration with the community.

I'm still curious what the necro I knew was wielding. It was a dagger. Black blade, red hieroglyphs, and the only blade of the like that I had ever seen. PoP era, but had had the blade since at least Luclin. It was beautiful!

[Messie]

this thread is very cool. loving it . never heard the kelethin tree one...thank god, would have been running into trees all day.

My favorite was definitely the ToFS secret floor. I used to camp that place on all floors on live. it was my favorite zone because it was the first time i heard about a "unsolved secret" of EQ that I could make an effort to crack. Although ive read places that they say it doesnt exist in the code or whatever, i still believe, man.

[uygi]

The idea that new mobs couldn't pop unless you looted the old corpses.

Then there were the early days when the passages through the sewers of Qeynos and Freeport were virtually unknown. I couldn't convince people there was a back way to North Freeport that bypassed the Freeport Militia.

I remember doing jewelcraft very early on... I had to actually explain what the stats did or people wouldn't buy. This one guy in GFay very loudly kept proclaiming that increased INT/WIS wouldn't increase your mana pool because only starting INT/WIS gave mana. The idiots believed him and I couldn't sell any more that day.

I started playing live in beta and don't really remember exactly when these were really believed.

While not a hoax/confusion/misconception, also have to remember the days of /corpse giving loot permission- it's probably the single biggest classic element of the game that P99 missed. I think I only got scammed out of all my shit one time.