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

[etchazz]

i remember the one day on a raid in pon (i think) me and all the other wizards in our guild decided we were going to use AE on the raid. i can't recall the exact reason but AE's in that zone caused multiple mobs to spawn. i think there were 7 or 8 wizards on that raid...i wish i still had the picks of how many mobs we spawned. yeah we wiped our entire guild and got shit from the officers...but it was so fucking worth it.

[Nendyen]

I remember seeing some weird stuff happen right after Luclin came out. Like people dueling near the Nexus Scions when all of a sudden...

'Nexus Scion says 'Take this, Pain and suffering. You must stay inside the circle of the Spires, and keep this shard on your person. Should you need another, simply ask me. I do not think we will run out of shards any time soon! If you do NOT wish to travel to Luclin, destroy that which I gave you, or step well away from the Spires lest you be caught up in the portal. It will open soon.'

[Goltana_R-Zek]

Don't think I saw it mentioned.. but in the Qeynos sewers, I would watch my friend solo a bunch of the SK/Necro gm's and whatnot, or their guards (I think there was skelly guards down there), you'd just need to levitate over the water and they couldn't attack you. The only difficult part for him was surviving some of the HT's on initial pull, haha.

Definitely used the /target_mobname trick to check spawns a bunch of times - and used to use the SG camp trick to get through before I just started to make the run, still remember the path. IDK if you'd consider it an exploit or whatnot.. but a few people lost manastones and other nice items in their hands when they were disarmed w/full inventory, it would go to their mouse spot which would then act as another inventory space when they died, able to be looted..

People mentioned it before, but yeah, fearing into the wall in the OT - had a grp that lvl'd a lot there, AoE'ing pofire w/Earthshaker & Rampage. Unfortunately playing a warrior I didn't really do much exploiting, but I'd always see wizards and whatnot in HHK standing on some ledge near the bank killing those prisoners and others, couldn't be attacked on it.

[TrooperEbonblade]

Originally Posted by nustabut

Not really an exploit. but i remember reading about a GM that summoned a bunch of people into VP and bound them there in the early kunark days, haha.

That was actually Sanya Thomas, from DAoC fame.

On a side now how was the Dain meant to be killed? On his throne while he punted people down the well and his guards and crap respawned?

[Lenas]

I don't know if it's been mentioned because this thread is huge, but here's the one I had the most fun doing:

Pulling out your modem cable when you started to zone out from an area, would crash/reset the zone. Used it a lot for multiple farms of the Va'Dyn in Luclin, etc. This was sometime during PoP if I recall.

[Sabyn]

Originally Posted by Nendyen

I remember seeing some weird stuff happen right after Luclin came out. Like people dueling near the Nexus Scions when all of a sudden...

'Nexus Scion says 'Take this, Pain and suffering. You must stay inside the circle of the Spires, and keep this shard on your person. Should you need another, simply ask me. I do not think we will run out of shards any time soon! If you do NOT wish to travel to Luclin, destroy that which I gave you, or step well away from the Spires lest you be caught up in the portal. It will open soon.'

There was a lot of weird stuff with Pain and Suffering. There was something with it in Lavastorm and Paineel. Think a targetable thing that didn't have a name, and when you attacked it you got something about Pain and Suffering.

What was the deal with P&S killing people?

[Genjiro]

We had a necro who would get people to duel him he wouldnt like, get them to low hp and put them into the purple with a lvl 1 dot or something then hit them with disease cloud so they wouldnt regen hp, and just lay there in the feign death pose forever.

[Lenas]

Just thought of another one that involved the use of EQWindows.

Before EQ had it's own official windowed mode, just about everyone used EQW. Using the program allowed you to make use of an exploit with blind effects. If EQW wasn't the main focus (say, you hit the windows key and bring up the start bar) any blind effect would disappear and you could see normally.

I used this on my ranger a lot to tank mobs like The Itraer Vius or Grieg.

[truncks1]

My favorite item was circlet of shadows. Insta invis and if you recasted it, it wouldnt aggro any nearby mobs. Made so many things much easier, mostly reaching your group or traveling, since regular invis could wear off at very annoying spots.

My friend farmed a ton before it got nerfed and just gave me one, because he couldnt use anymore. Got nerfed to have a casting time, but the originals stayed the same. Prices for them became insane, though I never sold mine.

[Wash]

Originally Posted by Zehn - Vhex

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.

Gravity Flux was so awesome. A lot of people didn't know about it, even wizards. I would freak out my guild by doing it to raid mobs, then one time in ST a mob went up and, for some reason, didn't come down for about 10 seconds. I was terrified, I thought it was stuck in the ceiling, and at the time ST was a huge deal to us.

I never did use it much on myself, though, except to do that part of the Concussion quest in Karnor's. It wasn't nerfed for many years (at least through Velios; I think it was nerfed sometime in Luclin).

[Genjiro]

Prenerf circlets of shadows were great. Our necro used to solo pull every named dragon in Veeshans Peak easily. Made that shitty zone 100x less painful.

[WillzZz]

I remember my first "exploit" in beta. Running around killing that troll bartender (or whatever) inside neriak. Anytime another necro would pop inside I would get all concerned, thinking I'd get banned for life lol. Then I started to learn some other stuff...

Manastones broke root and other movement effects for a time, had one on my warrior just for that reason (on RZ). You could /target ppl, and for a short time (maybe a weekend?) you could cast across the zone on them. There was a variant of that which surfaced later which only had something to do with invis.. I don't recall specifics anymore but it only worked for a handful of hours as well. Used to know a guy who had the ability to click debuffs off on their screen, claimed he wrote the program himself (pretty sure this is the same prog a guy mentioned 4 or 5 pages back, though) Tactics bug was fun on my ench, lots of easy cheesey XP to be made there. Blanket of forgetfulness (and to a lesser extent the single target versions) was probably the most fun spell in the game. The things I've done with that spell, oh god. You could train ANYTHING in that game with that spell as an enchanter and a little patience.

I remember the day kobolds were dropping CoFs and other items from the entire loot table. Nobody I knew got anything good, but my brother foraged something or another that isn't coming to mind. An orb or something? Meh. Everyone got rolled back and we were sad.

Buffing the bajeesus out of lowlevel mobs in gfay was fun, too. I remember when I hit 60 on my druid I spent a good 3 hours running around in newbie zones buffing newbie mobs with the highest level thorns, SLN, regen, etc.

Mostly the exploiting was the most fun in PvP. Dotting ppl, charming NPC's or using pets to kill ppl for xp loss. Snaring anyone who was kiting was probably my favorite. My brother (a ranger) used to live by that. No matter where he went he would try to snare anyone. My friend (A pally) would try to blind them just to freak them out. On RZ getting blinded was the WORST! All of the numerous faction bugs which allowed you to have multiple 'friends' when you used charm. Disarming ppl at the bank, disconnecting and timewarping and all of the versions of that which duped corpses. I remember sitting at the zoneline to unrest for an entire day writing down every way which I could try to timewarp using just myself. I came up with 0 at the end of that day but tons of ideas which worked later with friends, mostly involving high latency.

Oddly enough I never tried the rezzing one that Req mentioned. Probably because I didn't have access to multiple clerics.

Charm in general was broken especially PoP era before they nerfed it. God I abused the shit out of that spell. My friend and I could duo almost everything in BoT (well, trio with his SK+Druid). Having a 4k quadding shiss'd pet was good times.

Oh, I remember this little corner in Velk's lab where you could park a bard. Dozens of levels in a few hours. It only took like level 24 or so (I forget why) and you could level so fast on the spiders. Only thing that sucked is people were always there for so long you couldn't make much use of it cuz mobs were hard to find.

[Nendyen]

Originally Posted by Sabyn

There was a lot of weird stuff with Pain and Suffering. There was something with it in Lavastorm and Paineel. Think a targetable thing that didn't have a name, and when you attacked it you got something about Pain and Suffering.

What was the deal with P&S killing people?

I had seen it before Luclin, plenty of times. It's supposedly what happens when Dots tick your health down far enough, pain and suffering takes over.

It was just amusing to see pain and suffering take a trip up to Luclin one day.

[Cinge]

G-flux ruled. Used it to get up multiple walls/corners to avoid shit.

SG camp thing was very common on The Rathe, retard couldn't avoid seahorses.

Not much exploiting zones/pops/boss to stop other guilds, as the Rathe had a server wide rotation calendar.

I miss games with pure levitation, running across the entire DL from the cave opening to FV zone without coming even close to the ground, just running in the sky

Oh using a druid in FV to group wolf form newbs just coming in to lvl in DL and them promptly getting tore up by the guards.

There was a tree on the raptor island in TD(quad kiting wizard) that the raptors would stick on and wouldn't move, i stayed up as long as i could doing that shit in the middle of the night(avoiding other wizards/druids).

Monks/sk's/necros used to train alot of shit to the SS/CS zone in SS and FD and most of the time there was always a druid/wizard sitting there as they just zoned in from CS from a fail kite or aggroing that gay ass named that roamed.

There was a Gnome mage in Lfay called Happ Dremble something, you could stand on a certain spot behind her house and kill her, without aggroing the pet and she should chain cast her spell and then just stop before it finished, chaining it from inside the house. Was a decent spot with fairly fast respawn.

Same spot in Lfay that cogspinner or w/e his name was, you could fear against the back walls and he would stand still. Was great at low lvls for necros.

[JerleMinara]

Originally Posted by gnomad

Knowing now about Brad's drug problems I would take that with a VERY LARGE grain of salt. No telling if he even had any touch with reality for the last several years.

Not to derail too much but. .Eh? What's the story here?