[EQ1] Hall Of Fame

[Cybsled]

I remember fire giants utterly raping us until we figured out you had to stand under their nuts to land a spell. Such a stupid mechanic.

[lumberjack]

didnt you get the hint when they summoned you with the "YOU WILL NOT EVADE ME XXX"?

[KianwanCT]

Think most people other than tanks where franticly trying to move away / lose agro to them at that point lumberjack... atleast to begin with

[Ferr]

Disregard as its no longer relevant.

[Northerner]

Originally Posted by Genjiro

Wtf you talkin about Willis. We used ONE giant that fight, simply with weapons, hasted and with avatar he outagrod everyone else. We tested giant after giant and found the named guy near the bank had the highest hit point total and used him to tank AoW from 100--->0. Your source of info is highly suspect. There were lots of weird ways that agro worked back then, including getting clerics and necros to da/ds/harmshield and sit under a mobs sack which made them insta attack whoever was immune.

Respect to Frozen Moses!

I honestly always figured the SoS/LoS kill was legit and frankly still do. While obviously it was trashed, there wasn't anything done that was not common practice later in EQ's lifecycle. These were the days when anything (non line-of-sight exploiting) goes though and not so much what newer games employ. Hell, by 'modern' standards almost every kill in EQ was exploited.

[Kreugen]

If its never changed, an exploit just becomes a strat. See Dain. Who do you think killed him first and then posted a SS of him at the bottom of the well? ;p If it does get changed, then people are going to shit all over what you did no matter what. Like AoW. I'd say Seru but I'm pretty sure we widely advertised that it wasn't legit, much like with Tormax and AL poking fun at themselves for dying ten times each. Sometimes the design is just dumb and it takes a wake up call to get it changed. Allow bind in a raid zone, brilliant!

Heh was kinda funny - I was looking at a pretty recent EQ website (yeah they exist) and it had this blurb about past guilds and such. And in every case where a mob was killed in a sketchy fashion, they had replaced whatever guild was involved with FoH. Funny, I don't recall sploiting RZ and getting all my flags removed, when did that happen? Laugh. And apparently, Afterlife got every first kill ever. Its so fun being the bad guy.

[Lyenae]

The 'sketchy' fashions behind EQ's early raid kills is what made the game so interesting.

[Vishnu]

Originally Posted by Lyenae

The 'sketchy' fashions behind EQ's early raid kills is what made the game so interesting.

Amen to that. Made the game more real than anything out there.

[Adrain]

That early MC action where some guild got in trouble (Conquest? you naughty people) for pulling bosses through trash and without their adds was pretty awesome. What would have been allowed in EQ gets you shit on in WoW. Probably my only real gripe about WoW. Beat the boss the way the Devs want you to or get the hell out. etc

[Sabyn]

Originally Posted by Goliath

Speaking of VP. Does anyone remmeber the lead GM that went cookoo for fun and summoned a ton of people to VP and bound them there? Lol the hilarity that ensued after that for the next few days on the web was great. Those fools should have considered it an honor to be summoned to such a greatness that they'd have probably never seen.

That was on Karana or Terris Thule (I transfered from Karana to TT, but I don't remember if it happened before or after the movelog). And I am pretty sure he was summoning people from Valon, but I'm not completely sure.

[James]

I thought for sure BotS had the first Ventani kill, right after Conquest got banned.

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Originally Posted by Genjiro

Wtf you talkin about Willis. We used ONE giant that fight, simply with weapons, hasted and with avatar he outagrod everyone else. We tested giant after giant and found the named guy near the bank had the highest hit point total and used him to tank AoW from 100--->0. Your source of info is highly suspect. There were lots of weird ways that agro worked back then, including getting clerics and necros to da/ds/harmshield and sit under a mobs sack which made them insta attack whoever was immune.

Yo I find that a little hard to believe, personally, since I distinctly recall the kill happening *right after* the patch to pet aggro was made and then the hotfix incoming *right after* the kill. Not doubting the single giant on a 45 second charm rotation, but still. Something happened that patch that made it possible for that short amount of time, and there's a reason no one else did that strat after the hotfix.

[Genjiro]

Originally Posted by James

I thought for sure BotS had the first Ventani kill, right after Conquest got banned.

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Yo I find that a little hard to believe, personally, since I distinctly recall the kill happening *right after* the patch to pet aggro was made and then the hotfix incoming *right after* the kill. Not doubting the single giant on a 45 second charm rotation, but still. Something happened that patch that made it possible for that short amount of time, and there's a reason no one else did that strat after the hotfix.

The reason nobody did that strat after the hotfix, was because the hotfix to that was they flagged every giant in Kael Drakkal as immune to all forms of charm. Most melee in the fight died at least 5-10x as he would occasionally turn and just 1 shot my monk. /hidecorpse all was pretty much required from the amount of lag with that many people, especially melee dying constantly.

[kasey]

The Avatar kill with the charmed pet was one of the most if not the most impressive killings I've ever heard off ( several reasons really, one it being a good example for fun creative and out of the box thinking and me being an enchanter who loved to screw with the environment in the most freakish ways)and we in Mortalis did quite a few crazy things ( and killed AoW as one of the first as well lol @ 15 cleric no gap chain. Was right when luclin came out i remember).

Not to give sony and verant any credit, they surely would have tried to stop this fun way instantly and they actually did later on but Kael'drakkel ( was that the zones name?)in its first incarnation owned really. This is just another "i want more freedom you useless devs" post, chance.... strike!

/rude sony_andother_numbercrunchers

[Froofy-D]

Originally Posted by Algrinon

And who can EVER forget this gem from CiH. Why this isn't in the hall of fame, I will never know.

Haha that thread is classic and definitely hall of fame worthy. Too bad the guy that posted the wall of Ogres pic didn't attach them.

[Mithrull]

Originally Posted by Emrok

dont you *EVER*

EVER

say he was the greatest melee dueler ever, when he came to drinal he got his ass handed to him PROPERLY by jorply, of cats in hats.

everyone that moved to drinal got pwned by mith marr transfers, im pretty sure our guild is still active and pwning in eq, yep

Cats In Hats - www.CatsInHats.net

Wouldn't Jorply have been geared to the gills? As I recall transfers came naked. At any rate, he won the Tunare botb and was severely out-geared in the server-wide and still almost won despite not having his defensive up after the previous fight.