[EQ] Cheaters Nostalgia; EQ1's Greatest Exploits/Rumors.

[Man0warr]

The best was being a Bard or Enchanter and doing /duel in town, charming your opponent, then making them attack a guard.

Used to be an enchanter back in the early days of Rallos Zek who hung out in Southern Karana, he would charm people, take them up the aviak tower, then make them jump off and die. Kerrygetz was his name I think

[Frax]

Originally Posted by Menion

There was a bug with the Icewell zone line that caused agro mobs to stand still without attacking you. We pulled the Dain to the zone line one day and took him to 50% with 3 people before the crowd became too big and we had to abandon the kill.

I was there!

[Zehn - Vhex]

Originally Posted by Jimmy Carter wuwu

Speaking of asshole things to do, I remember on the rathe when Knights of eternal good pissed me off, they needed a wizard to port them to North Ro. However, they got a great surprise, they ended up with 3 warriors and 1 rogue in the plane of hate then i ported out.

When /targetgroupbuff went into the game for a few days you could use that for ports. Ran around porting rangers into PoHate for a few hours before I ran out of stones.

There was that NPC in Qeynos that would Complete heal you for like 4 gold. That + manastone + lvl 50 guild masters = lvl 58 on day 2 of Kunark going live.

Gravity Flux was a wizards best friend as well. Wish I had kept screenshots of all the area's I got into. Amon Ra got banned on CT I think for abusing that and Karnor's Castle.

Farming Cyndrela or whatever that chick outside of fear was always fun. She'd spawn, start buffing herself, you wait 4 seconds, cast ice comet, comet would land just as she started summoning her pet, you could get another ice comet off before the pet spawned. 99% of the time, dead chick. Then you go jerk off for 5 minutes.

I think I still have my two egg timers from timing the Beholders that dropped the PBB's in Gorge of King Xorbb. So many pathing sploits in that room. Was blissful. Though to be honest, I don't think there was a zone in the game that didn't have pathing sploits worth abusing.

Acrylia caverns was another one. Was a spot at the base of the ramp leading to ring of fire event where mobs would just stand still. Used to pull like 30 mobs to that spot then AE them down. <3

Not necessarily an exploit but Necromancers could get into the tongue event in plane of torment solo, then farm the dudes in there for blood of torment which could be used to make the shackles which were the only DoT focus item in the game outside of raid bosses. I think I made something like 10 million plat selling those since I was the only one on our server that knew how to get in there. Sold the 'secret' to some other necro when I quit for 100 bucks even though it was posted on the necro forums. <3

Early on you could kill yourself, delete your character, then make a new character with the same name and go loot all the shit off your old corpse.

Only zone crash exploit I knew about was where if you dueled someone and then pulled the plug while running into a zone line it would crash the zone. Or something to that effect.

I do remember however when you could force yourself to go "LD" and then put the cable back in before you dropped connection. When you reconnected you'd be in your new spot. Could skip large amounts of shit that way.

If you visually lagged the shit out of yourself when summoning your mount you'd get a mount with no speed up/slow down effect, just instant max speed. <3

Abusing afk people with DMF. Used to push people into the arena all the time from the bazaar and kill them when it was at the 500 person limit. Used to drown afk people in plane of tranquility that way as well.

[Usha Starchild]

The best bug ever was "Fansy the Bard"

Fansy THE FAMOUS BARD

[Digits]

Originally Posted by Usha Starchild

The best bug ever was "Fansy the Bard"

Fansy THE FAMOUS BARD

That's always a great read once every few months. That guy knew how to piss people off like only a youngest child of a large family could ever do.

[Sajko]

You could make a certain arrow with Fletching made with components bought from NPCs and the finished arrow would sell(to the NPC) for more than the components cost.
I had macroquest set up with a script to buy components and make arrows and sell them back while I was asleep. Only used it for a little while and made a couple of hundred k.
A friend had 2-3 accounts set up and running this thing and made lots and lots of plat.

[TrooperEbonblade]

Originally Posted by Chaotic

There was a guy who would always pull velk to zoneline - i wonder if he did it like that as well.

I did this all the time, you didn't need a bugged zone file, just using a rogue's super stealth you could go back to his room, chuck a dagger at him and then run through the one way door (The bugged one other dude was talking about) and he'd come to the zone.

Also if you sat up and down a lot in the icewall in Velks eventually you'd clip in just enough to aggro the entire palace area which would train to entrance and kill everyone.

[thepacifist]

I started playing on the 3rd day of release. The first toon I rolled was a human necro with all my points put in strength (yea, total nub). I was in the Qeynos aquaducts and when I went to summon my pet, bam! I summoned Bait Masterson as my pet! He would kill shit in a hurry, but being a dumb nub I thought I'd speed things up by helping him melee. Well, I died and lost him, although I did end up summoning him one more time that day, but nothing after that. I leveled to 10 awful quick but dropped the necro and rolled a troll shaman. good times, full of mystery cause no one knew what the hell was going on in that game.

[TrooperEbonblade]

Bards always seemed to be on the cutting edge of cheating.

What was the deal with castable damage shield items and bards? They ignored stacking rules so could make crazy high DS's with them or something.

Also what was the trick with Fading Memories and bard pulling? Our bards would pull the stone ring in PoE, they'd aggro a huge clump, fade then pull again and only a single would come.

[Nehrak]

Originally Posted by Troll

Not completely on-topic, but I just got reminded of the best event I got to help with.

A bunch of us guides were transformed into completely naked, female wood elves and ported down to LOIO and basically started partying. Had a fairly good size group of people show up. We'd pass out free booze and cookies and stuff, but once in a while someone would get bored and wander off. Little did they know that there was a GM, disguised as a zombie invised nearby who would /kill off a few wanderers at random. And the zombie's name was "Nosaj." Eventually he stopped invising, someone killed him and got some kind of sword. But it was hilarious because people really started panicking.



Awesome story, I know.

I miss doing Guide events. That was probably the major reason I signed up to be one back in the day. Doing trivia events and coming up with arcane riddles (obscure references to raid bosses) was a nice way to vent. We were usually GM-buffed so we could gib people who got it wrong; watching everyone try to get people to not try to kill us was the major lolz of being a Guide. Took the little gaggle of players I accured about 30 minutes to get the vague lore reference to (I think it was) Trakanon once. Was as fun as harassing the raid guilds on Vazaelle when they wiped in the non-forbidden ("CS Restricted") zones though. I seem to recall giving Quarken and several others a hard time about The Itraer Vius.

[thepacifist]

Rumors...some old church guy was in beta and told me the main quest point of EQ was to find some undead like lich king or so in everfrost, that he caused all sorts of bad mojo..when I first got into the game I searcherd all around seeking lore for it- there was some but nothing came to frutition- for years I thought he wall full of BS...then lo and behold lol it was there! beta was crazys

Are you talking about Miragul?

[Suineg]

One of the fingers that dropped in Kurn's Castle (the tower by FoB) or whatever it was called would crash zones when linked in chat. Something to do with it having too many " since it said "2"Finger".

Of course at the time resetting a zone = new boss. I passed this info along to the local super guild and they went on a farm spree for like 3 days before it was fixed iirc.

[GrobbeeTrull2.0]

Fading Memories was so good it probably should have been a bug/exploit anyway.

I did some crazy-ass pulling with FM. And some naaasty trains!

[Fuya]

When EQ first came out you could loot all player corpses on the pvp server even if you didn't kill them, including all their items. You would watch someone die by a large bat and see about five players jump all over the corpse.

One way to scout a zone was by having someone log into your account while you were online. That game didn't give any warnings and would just let you roam around the zone seeing all the mobs up. It was a good way to scout for bosses since the trick wouldn't show roaming mobs, only stationary ones.

Myself and a few friends were playing on the test server for a while. One of my friends loved to spam in chat with all the languages he knows. He wasn't trying to level our skills, just annoy the fuck out of us by saying "Fuck You" in his 50 something languages all at once. I put his ass on ignore so he decides to spam emotes which at the time of the patch build would cause you to go LD. We found out that ignore was bugged in this patch so we sent out a petition to Blizzar... I mean EQ devs. The devs ignore the bugged and it went live anyway. The days that followed after the patch were my friends logging on trying to get on peoples ignore list only to follow them doing /fart emotes while they were fighting bosses. Get a entire raid to ignore you and do a /burp emote... 50 plus people just went LD.

[Giant_Flying_Head]

In the timeframe slightly post release I ran into Aradune in the E. Commons tunnel. He was wearing green plate armor and had a Fiery Avenger. Supposedly there was a set of Green splint mail that Rangers could find and equip. Not sure what ever happened to that.

I want to echo that if any of the old devs, or Brad, could shed light on some of the old unsolved quests it would be awesome.