@@Treklosopher I totally agree, I have a 60 ench and 60 mage on Blue...Thought about going back but everyone turned to green. Blue pop looks high now though?
My EQ Story: I was a Qeynosian Shadow Knight who used to love wandering around in the catacombs beneath the city. There was sometimes a mob who would pop near the mercenaries that would drop the Ivory-Handled Falchion. I figured, "Perfect! A proc'ing weapon for my class!" I used the thing over and over, but when I would receive the message saying the weapon was proc'ing, nothing would actually happen. I read nothing in notes or update patches or anything from any dev saying that the weapon was bugged or problematic. So I left a bunch of /bug reports. Many of which were responded to directly in-game by the GM's. After a few months of telling them the weapon (which some of them didn't even know about) was screwy, my wish was granted and an update patch's notes listed the item as being fully functional as intended. I strongly feel that my persistance with telling them the weapon was screwy was the push that finally brought justice for the weapon. lol
@@blackwaltz3135 Qeynos Aqueducts: a rotting sentry / Azibelle Spavin can drop it. the weapon proc is Heat Blood: Heats the blood of your target, causing 17 damage every six seconds for 6 ticks at level 12 to 10 ticks at level 20.
@@JohnDoe-qf1ur Wow, I saw that mob so many times back in the day, Never thought he was worth the time. Might of killed it but if i did never dropped anything. Thanks for charing
I remember rushing home from work each night to login to EQ to group up with friends that I had never met from all over the country. It was a giant chat room that also happened to be the best (and most addictive) game in the world. I'd browse Allakhazam and drool over raid loot I'd probably never see, but I was having so much fun I didn't care.
1304 people playing on a few server even right now. This game was so much fun. Just wish it wasn't such a horrible time sink or would jump in for nostalgia.
Moas covered twig originally was not restricted to offhand and as such was by far the best dps due to mainland bonus , offhand only IS the nerfed version
Ah you are correct! I just dug through some old Alla posts. It seems the twig got a double tap with the nerf bat. Replaced with the Branch but then also the existing Twigs were made to be offhand only. Thanks for letting me know.
@@Yizee They follow the exact patches/nerfs of the original EQ. So if something existed for the first 30 days in original EQ and was then nerfed it will exist for the first thirty days before being nerfed in green too.
@@Flatts @Flatts, Couple things. First of all you missed out the Runed Fighters Staff! Or RFS as they called it. It dropped from a Frenzied Pox Scarab in Old Sebilis for about 10 months before being nerfed and replaced by the Imbued Fighters Staff. Couple years ago they were being sold anywhere from 40kpp to about 70kpp. Now I see on forums being sold for 125 or some ridiculous number. Secondly, #3's Fungus Covered Great Staff isn't around 2 million. There was some merchant in ec tunnels saying that there was a forum post where one owner turned down an 8 million plat offer for one. A Sceptre of Destruction goes for 2 million plat, I mean is it that much worth it? And lastly, another 'mention-able' should have been Box of Abu-Kar which was a 100% weight reduction LORE item that held 10 slots but weighed 2.0 stones. It was removed I think a full year or two after Kunark and it was a rare item that dropped off any monster greater than level 35. Cheers~
I remember way back when, leveling as a monk in crystal caverns...another monk comes rolling in with a fungi tunic and dual-wielding sceptres of destruction. Some people man, some people.
This game freaking OWNED my life for 5 years+ My characters and the adventure and friend I made still last in my memories til this day. I'd go back in time in a heartbeat!! Ancient Darkness/Indigo Void/Crusaders Reborn and all the others along the way.
You can still play for free. p99 is great, Kunark expansion coming out in Nov, so it still the first one. I play every now and then but not like before, holy shit dude, i had friends putting in 15-17 hours playing....bad addiction type shit, i pulled 10+ hours day when i was really in it.
started p99 red and it's low pop but that means free camps while still grouping with guildies, I havent slept since im.lv 44 now (not exactly have not slept but ive been playing 24/7 and forced myself not to play today)
I've been playing this off and on for the last 22 years lol My dad actually got so hooked that in his off work hours he actually bought FIVE accounts, just so he could group himself, Man this guy was devoted lol unfortunately he passed away in 2017 but I still have his account with the level 60 druid Glassman. Lately I've been playing more and more as something has drawn me back to the game, where I continued leveling up the level 15 Necromancer i started 20 years ago. Its level 39 now within a few months. went back to Karnors castle.
BFG in Velious from gnome tinkerer quest started on one of the islands. I forget. One of the many steps I’ll never forget... I camped the damn bird for days and turned my volume up to wake me so I could hear the bird screech. It was a clicky with knockback effect which interrupted mobs’ casting. We also used it to move stationary named mobs to fight them at zone in. Some bosses were “rooted” like that one guy in Luclin. TRL SK Rept, Innoruuk.
Twinks were one of the best parts of EQ for the first few years. None of the items had level restrictions so you could give the best items in the game that werent no trade to a level 1. Good times
@MaTeOWaNnA CoMeDy ReMaStErZ I knew a guy that had one. But Time Spinner, & Time Hammer (or Earth whip) made it inferior as a lvl 25 ranger ganking the gaskets. Could get it via Shadowhaven Casino, same as Guise, Beads, etc.
There was a clicky faction adjuster that dropped from one of the court members near the Coldain king, it wasn't in the game long before it got removed. It did something like clicking to add +1000 faction for the target's faction, really nice.
@@ladyabaxa Yes, it was only around for one or two patches after launch. But luckily the original items weren't deleted from characters that earned them. Extremely rare and valuable.
Is this the final video from Flatts? Or will there be more EQ content in the future? I have watched every video, and really miss the cool content from the greatest game ever :)
Abashi’s Rod of Disempowerment pre nerf was an awesome monk wep, specially for pulling since it was insta cast, unlimited and removed buffs on the pulled mob.
A small part of me misses EQ. I poured thousands of hours into it in 00/01. I could never dedicate that much time to a video game ever again, but I have fond memories of the vastness and complexity of the world, all the mystery and places to explore, and the chills I got as limits were pushed.
Boogoog also accidentally dropped a 10AC ring called the "Gem Encrested Ring" (later renamed to Gem "encrusted" ring and moved) during the first week of Kunark. I managed to snag one of these as a caster, with no idea of the significance of a ring with 10AC in those days - i think i sold it for 1200pp when it was probably worth 10x at the time.
@@Cody1JZ Most of the ones in my guild were warriors for the purpose described. This didn't really start getting used by twink monks until it was changed to the moss covered branch when, as a 2HB (the second version) it was generally useless for warriors. two 1HB hitting as fast as the MCT did generated at least the minimum aggro per hit, and it held aggro exceptionally well on most raid targets.
I... think he just stopped uploading one day without explaination? I wouldn't hold out for an upload, seems like he quit just as the whole roner garbage began.
You're the only youtuber I have clicked the bell icon for. The moment I see something from you, I get all giddy. Thanks endlessly for introducing me to this utter masterpiece of a game, and all of the cool adventures along the way. Long live AG as well
My 1999-2001 rogue got her JourneymanBoots off Drelzna. Took me 3 days of staying awake to get to my turn to kill her when camping them. One of the best moves I made in my EQ career.
I was a guide in Fennin Ro from 1999 to 2001. So many memories, really miss my guildmates. I've been in many guilds on many mmorpgs since EQ but for some reason that first guild me and four other people I played with made is the one I miss the most. Here's to you Eternal Crusaders of Norrath (Amuka, Izz, Max, Haldolek, and Ash.)
The music makes me all mushy on the inside.... Have some of the best memories from this game. Made a ton of friends. And no matter how "old fashioned" the game got it was always this game I compared other games with after leaving EQ.
Holy moly.... I owned the majority of these items or created twinks with them back in 2002 - 2005. I never would have thought they'd become rare, nerfed, or non-existent. I had a monk/shadow knight with fungi tunic + twig if I recall correctly. My druid had the manastone. My shaman had the fungi staff which helped with cannibalism. I camped the ghoul assassin for over 48 hours for the guise of the deceiver for my bard. And all the #1 items on the list I'm pretty sure I had only ever seen on various Afterlife members on the Mithaniel Marr server when Thott the Bard was my icon as a 13 year old kid. This game basically ruined my life - You can't get back over 600 days of your life... Nor make up for a destroyed high school career that directly impacted your college progression. But, there was something magical about this game that will never be able to be replicated again. This was so impressive to watch knowing I at least owned and/or obtained some of the rarest items in the game at some point.
Man I really want to see this guy come back to RUclips EQ was the best thing ever and my favorite class is a monk made my week when I saw a new vid of this guy sure do miss him
Thanks for bringing me back on memory lane. Still have a lot of fond memories and a game that did it right before succumbing to business and player pressure.
Blade of the Black Dragon Eye! I have one of these on the Rathe server. The damage/ delay ratio of 14/24 gets this weapon replaced as the game moves on but for agro pull that sword served my warrior well into the Planes of Power expansion. The weapon proc envenomed breath generated a LOT of mob hate for some reason, and the weapon proc went off a lot. I could easily out agro warriors using Blade of carnage/ Bloodfrenzy combinations, and even warriors using the Blade of War that was 2H Slashing Atk Delay: 32, DMG: 48 Dmg Bonus: 104 AC: 50.
This might be the best Everquest video I've ever seen. Congrats! The list is great, it's really close to what I would pick (except I might add Soulfire).
Dude. I stumbled upon this and then went over to classic adventures. THANK YOU! IM SO HYPED WATCHING THESE. SO MUCH NOSTALGIA! I was younger when I started playing eq, so I'm learning alot!
Earthshaker! 12+ AA per pull during the PoP era pulling half of Plane of Fire using the Earthshaker and the warrior rampage ability as a soloing warrior was insane.
the actual nerf to the moss covered twig, and several other low delay weapons was the fact that they were made offhand only, at 1st they were useable primary hand. They also removed, and or changed them from dropping in game.
I played classic EQ for only a week just so i could say i've played it but I really love your videos. That number 1 story was really interesting, thank you.
Hey man I just discovered your channel and am slowly working through all your videos! I was an original EQ player way back in the day, and this is seriously making me want to come back and try this P99. I hope you keep doing what you are doing, your videos are great.
Glad to see Classic EQ is still going strong, but I played P99 to death already (started on the initial server 5 days after launch). Eventually the raiding just turned me off due to the number of guilds all competing for the same targets. While very similar to contested raid bosses on live, some people/guilds raided without regard for anyone else on the server in order to gear not just their main, but their primary alt, secondary alt, tertiary alt, and so on. That mindset, instances of early cheating (cough Nagafen first kill cough), and other problems like plat duping just ruined the experience in the end.
Played this game for 8 years and my first and biggest memory always drifts back to being a n00b paladin furiously clicking a deepwater helm with its 10 second cast time for those sweet 100 hp heals while I tried to solo in Dreadlands lol.
lol reminds me of my early monk days using binding wound skill. People would ask me what I was doing (it makes the loot sound/crouch animation) and almost no other monks used it. Once the skill cap lifted, it was an amazing heal for monks and bandages were fairly cheap. While the healer meditated I'd also heal the group and people always laughed. It sucked but it was better than sitting on my thumb and roating.
There were quite a few insta-click items where they added casting times. I had the Pegasus Feather Cloak (mage epic item) on my ranger for a long time, it was insta-click (cast Levitate) at first and you could use it to climb straight up, took a long time but you could use it to get to high ledges that you otherwise could not reach. it was also clickable on anyone, didn't have to be grouped. I levitated literally everyone I ran across. lol
I've still got my raid notebooks with loot note, raid points, hundreds of pages. Guild bank notes for necro coffin fees. Emergency phone numbers for monks and Necros in case of a planar raid wipe on a work night when we needed emergency corpse recovery assistance. Ahh the good old days.
Hey Flatts I really enjoyed your Robe of The Whistling Fists video and all the work you put into it. It's crazy to think it came out 2 years ago. I appreciate your content and I think if you could make at least 1 video a month you would see your viewer count go through the roof.
Mage epic originally had unlimited charges I believe and you could reclaim the pet for mana. The Fungi staff was castable on anyone, not just yourself originally and the person didn't have to be in your group either. It murdered on PVP servers as it instantly snared people. You missed Lustrous armor too.
Lustrous Russet, was plate armor that chain classes could wear (like Rubi), it dropped in Plane of Fear and had no level requirement, so guilds would bring their level 1 twinks in to loot rots. This is why they added the level 46 req to zone into the alter planes, and I believe they also removed Lustrous.
Don't forget Bladestorm, Katana of Steel Sleet. Warrior only 2hander that procs a strong rain spell. Drops either off Inny or CT I don't remember, until Temple SolRo patch IIRC
wow, the nostalgia in this video is for real. I remember several of these back when we played when EQ was new back in the day. EQ was the best game of this type and original still i think. It really captured the essence of an MMO. If i was a young lad still, id def be on project 99 for memories. lol some good times and some good friends.
This video reminded me of all the shenanigans you had to do as a monk. I remember farming a bunch of clicky items to have to get by. Like getting myself a pair of Jboots to travel faster, farming balls of burlap yarn to be able to snare, and I'd always go to Cabilis to fight the non trainer version of Master Glox and apply intimidate to him, just so he could summon me outside of his locked room, so I could get away with his gate potion.
Monks had the most insane farms. I remember guys spending like 9 months on Treant Fists, and years farming for their Robe of the Lost Circle. I personally spent 4+ days straight without sleep to get my Gator-Scale leggings, and that seemed mild comparatively.
Great video, brings back good memories. I remember back in original EQ twinking a new Cleric with a manastone and a fungi tunic and powerleveling himself in Befallen using undead nukes. Great times. Really wish I had never traded the Manastone though, would love to still have that.
11:50 When I was in highschool the dark elf custom helm with old style graphics was such an intimidating and awesome look. I played on vallon zek red server, any whenever I saw that face I knew I was going to die. Fun times.
Found your channel like 3 weeks ago and wasnt sure if you were still active. Been making my way through your monk videos, awesome stuff man, really really enjoy watching your episodes! Was thrilled to see you posted a new one, great job on this one as well!!
I played this for many years from around 1998 to around 2005 and still miss it from time to time. No other game has come close to the depth of engagement this had despite its many flaws and chunky graphics.
Great video Flatts as always. The pre nerf terror forged mask combined with manastone was indeed very game breaking both were quickly nerfed. What about the quest for thex mallet / ring of the dead? A human monk (as could other race and class combos) very early on faction himself and acquire the ring from the dark elf necro&sk guild it also had the bind affinity charge and could be combined with a locket of escape. This was also available pre kunark whereas the locket was not.
One other perk of the pre-nerfed Circlet of shadow, that still make it more valuable then the AA introduced later with instant invis cast is the lack of re-use time. The trick you can do with the no re-cast time is it allow you to pull 1 mob from a point of a zone to another passing trought various mobs without aggroing them as long as they not see trought invis. Its nice to pull some named in tight area where it is impossible to kite them to a zone were you can.
You forgot a very important item: The Vox Res stick (I forget the real name). Used from drop from Vox very early in Vanilla EQ (they had removed it well before the Plane of Fear revamp/Plane of Hate from what I recall), had 10 charges but you could do the vendor recharge trick. It was usable from inventory and allowed any player to cast resurrection. This item was -CRUCIAL- for high end raiding back in the day and even helped us snag some server/world firsts. You could use it to cheese past tons of trash by having a monk or SK drag some corpses of necromancers and clerics to a safe spot, then have them summon corpses of the raid and res (or use mages and summon living people). You would literally save hours of raid time doing this in some instances. Moss Covered twig was a damage beast, at least during Kunark era. A friend of mine let me borrow it in Selebis (the Trakanon dungeon). I was out-damaging an entire full party on my monk and stealing the XP from kills when we tested it. Runed Bolster Staff was removed for a similar reason. It was a 20/20 2 hander from what I recall during Kunark. I lent mine to another monk I knew and never saw it again when he quit lol I had the only Shroud of Longevity on the server, because we woke the Sleeper after it dropped from Ventari or whatever her name was. The server was so mad at us, accusing us of "war crimes" by shutting off the primal candy spout/warden loot. We were so farmed we used to give primal weapons to random NPCs in front of people to get the "thanks for the primal greatsword!" etc and make people mad we were basically tossing them away. So troll ;p
Deepwater helm would've been my number 1. Originally it was instant cast symbol. Self only but still, instant cast heal was amazing. I remember a paladin soloing fire giants and probably could have taken naggy if he'd been up. Unfortunately this was nerfed and given a cast time shortly after devs realized their mistake.
I remember camping all of this stuff on the official servers. I played on E'ci and was lucky enough to be on many of the server firsts. To say that this game was a part of my life that is an understatement. I would love to go back and have the same social community. That is what made it worth it for me. Have a few of these on my account.
I am surprised Rod of Annihilation didn't even make the mentions... it was a game breaking caster item that basically turned a caster into top tier melee in pre-luclin exps.
I played for 9 years after it was released. One item you didn't mention was the Longsword of Ethreal Energy. I don't remember the stats for the sword but the quest for it was with the Luclin release and was soon taken out. I had it as a dark elf SK and was helping my paladin friend get it. It was late at night and we had the quest all finished except for the final turn in. He was dead tired and said we can turn it in tomorrow. Unfortunately they took the quest out that night and he never got to tun in. I may still have it but I haven't logged for quite a while.
I just want to say even if flatts don't play anymore and his content is dead he's what got me into project 99. I know I'm late to the party, but hey... better late than never. Currently level 13 farming caimans in oasis and yeah this game is nothing like playing WoW when growing up. I think above all the player interactions are the best thing of this game. I'm generally fairly antisocial but considering this game is tough and how the mechanics work I've become quite friendly. Either way... godspeed. Not to sound like a nonce but your voice along with the background music is a perfect everquest nostalgia vibe - for someone who never played it growing up ^^
glad there's people like you getting a new experience. These days people do lower guk and unrest on the pathway to lvl 50, but you can also do those caimens up to about lvl 18 then go to mistmoore and then the frontier mountains. caimans were amazing times...
Cazic Thule gate potion was removed some time after the first expansion. Even though they didn't stack you could still own more than one so I kept a bag full of them on my character. It allowed you gate to cazic thule but with the added effect of being instant cast. It great for when you needed a quick escape because you fell down a hole in a dungeon or stuck in plane of hate as a melee because you disconnected in a raid and couldn't log back in to catch a ride out.
One big ass nerf was the one performed on the lvl 49 necro pet dual wielding daggers pre-Kunark. So powerful it could solo full exp frogs in Lower Guk and it would destroy any lvl 50 warrior in a duel, regardless of gear. It was absurdely overpowered :)
Good ol' EQ... Degenerated to the Time-Lock Progression servers of late. Lots of dirty tactics from people--kill stealing, training, more training, spamming zones with bots, farming with bots to flood the market... good times to relive it all if you have the time and money to spare as there are still lots of great people to meet in game.
@@judgeparker2767 Daybreak and whoever else they split the company into is complete garbage how they handle any of the complaints, too. They moderate forums more than in-game issues.
I'm disappointed that we didn't get the explanation that the mosscovered twig USED to be useable in the main hand meaning the delay actually did matter.
People who didn't get to experience this game truly missed out.
Agreed
Youre right but i farmed Sleepers Tomb for Months until every single Member of us had every Item he wanted and our Guild DARKWIND was 70+ Members =D
P99 Green is thriving right now if you want to experience real classic EQ. 1000+ players pretty much 24hours a day. Still in classic.
@@mokdis00 yeah but the community isn't that great. The community on Blue is way better, and the community makes the game.
@@Treklosopher I totally agree, I have a 60 ench and 60 mage on Blue...Thought about going back but everyone turned to green. Blue pop looks high now though?
We miss you flats :(
My EQ Story: I was a Qeynosian Shadow Knight who used to love wandering around in the catacombs beneath the city. There was sometimes a mob who would pop near the mercenaries that would drop the Ivory-Handled Falchion. I figured, "Perfect! A proc'ing weapon for my class!" I used the thing over and over, but when I would receive the message saying the weapon was proc'ing, nothing would actually happen. I read nothing in notes or update patches or anything from any dev saying that the weapon was bugged or problematic. So I left a bunch of /bug reports. Many of which were responded to directly in-game by the GM's. After a few months of telling them the weapon (which some of them didn't even know about) was screwy, my wish was granted and an update patch's notes listed the item as being fully functional as intended. I strongly feel that my persistance with telling them the weapon was screwy was the push that finally brought justice for the weapon. lol
What was the mobs name? The one thing down there I remember was the gelatinous cube lol
@@blackwaltz3135 Qeynos Aqueducts: a rotting sentry / Azibelle Spavin can drop it. the weapon proc is Heat Blood: Heats the blood of your target, causing 17 damage every six seconds for 6 ticks at level 12 to 10 ticks at level 20.
@@JohnDoe-qf1ur Wow, I saw that mob so many times back in the day, Never thought he was worth the time. Might of killed it but if i did never dropped anything. Thanks for charing
I wish youtube was around during EQ's prime. there's not nearly enough EQ content on here
u mean u dont miss lookin stuff up on allakhazam for quests lol
It honestly would have ruined the mystery though. Thats whaat made it so magical
@@curtisleeyork1978 that's very true actually
I remember rushing home from work each night to login to EQ to group up with friends that I had never met from all over the country. It was a giant chat room that also happened to be the best (and most addictive) game in the world. I'd browse Allakhazam and drool over raid loot I'd probably never see, but I was having so much fun I didn't care.
Think I'm having flashbacks to college just watching this. 16 hours+ a day of brotherhood and fun. Nothing has matched it since.
1304 people playing on a few server even right now. This game was so much fun. Just wish it wasn't such a horrible time sink or would jump in for nostalgia.
Moas covered twig originally was not restricted to offhand and as such was by far the best dps due to mainland bonus , offhand only IS the nerfed version
Ah you are correct! I just dug through some old Alla posts. It seems the twig got a double tap with the nerf bat. Replaced with the Branch but then also the existing Twigs were made to be offhand only. Thanks for letting me know.
Does it drop on the green server as well as the other stuff in this video?
@@Yizee They follow the exact patches/nerfs of the original EQ. So if something existed for the first 30 days in original EQ and was then nerfed it will exist for the first thirty days before being nerfed in green too.
@@samuelrs5138 That's cool thanks for the info.
@@Flatts @Flatts, Couple things. First of all you missed out the Runed Fighters Staff! Or RFS as they called it. It dropped from a Frenzied Pox Scarab in Old Sebilis for about 10 months before being nerfed and replaced by the Imbued Fighters Staff. Couple years ago they were being sold anywhere from 40kpp to about 70kpp. Now I see on forums being sold for 125 or some ridiculous number.
Secondly, #3's Fungus Covered Great Staff isn't around 2 million. There was some merchant in ec tunnels saying that there was a forum post where one owner turned down an 8 million plat offer for one. A Sceptre of Destruction goes for 2 million plat, I mean is it that much worth it?
And lastly, another 'mention-able' should have been Box of Abu-Kar which was a 100% weight reduction LORE item that held 10 slots but weighed 2.0 stones. It was removed I think a full year or two after Kunark and it was a rare item that dropped off any monster greater than level 35. Cheers~
I remember way back when, leveling as a monk in crystal caverns...another monk comes rolling in with a fungi tunic and dual-wielding sceptres of destruction. Some people man, some people.
This game freaking OWNED my life for 5 years+ My characters and the adventure and friend I made still last in my memories til this day. I'd go back in time in a heartbeat!! Ancient Darkness/Indigo Void/Crusaders Reborn and all the others along the way.
You can still play for free. p99 is great, Kunark expansion coming out in Nov, so it still the first one. I play every now and then but not like before, holy shit dude, i had friends putting in 15-17 hours playing....bad addiction type shit, i pulled 10+ hours day when i was really in it.
started p99 red and it's low pop but that means free camps while still grouping with guildies, I havent slept since im.lv 44 now (not exactly have not slept but ive been playing 24/7 and forced myself not to play today)
I've been playing this off and on for the last 22 years lol My dad actually got so hooked that in his off work hours he actually bought FIVE accounts, just so he could group himself, Man this guy was devoted lol unfortunately he passed away in 2017 but I still have his account with the level 60 druid Glassman. Lately I've been playing more and more as something has drawn me back to the game, where I continued leveling up the level 15 Necromancer i started 20 years ago. Its level 39 now within a few months. went back to Karnors castle.
Hope you're doing well Flatts, miss your videos!
WHERE ARE YOU FLATTS!?!?!?!?!
Its been 3 years,and we are all hoping everything is Okay Flatts,and we want you back
Where did you go?
BFG in Velious from gnome tinkerer quest started on one of the islands. I forget. One of the many steps I’ll never forget... I camped the damn bird for days and turned my volume up to wake me so I could hear the bird screech. It was a clicky with knockback effect which interrupted mobs’ casting. We also used it to move stationary named mobs to fight them at zone in. Some bosses were “rooted” like that one guy in Luclin. TRL SK Rept, Innoruuk.
Itzlegend of Conquest had this. On lanys.
Twinks were one of the best parts of EQ for the first few years. None of the items had level restrictions so you could give the best items in the game that werent no trade to a level 1. Good times
wurmslayer and regen tunic skeleton neclace
Amulet of necropoteince ❤
Moss covered twig! I haven't thought about that stupid thing in 20 years.
Scimitar of the Mistwalker! It dropped off Vox for Rangers & Druids allowing us to spawn a pet wolf
For a while this was the only thing I wanted more than the Druid epic
@@Flowmada I was on Rallos Zek & was a slow leveler. I never saw one. I don't know if anyone on Rallos killed the Lady before they took it out =(
@MaTeOWaNnA CoMeDy ReMaStErZ I knew a guy that had one. But Time Spinner, & Time Hammer (or Earth whip) made it inferior as a lvl 25 ranger ganking the gaskets. Could get it via Shadowhaven Casino, same as Guise, Beads, etc.
Finally something good comes out during this quanrantine.
hell yeah these videos are too rare, so true
There was a clicky faction adjuster that dropped from one of the court members near the Coldain king, it wasn't in the game long before it got removed. It did something like clicking to add +1000 faction for the target's faction, really nice.
Sounds like a debug item that got left accessible to players by mistake.
@@ladyabaxa Yes, it was only around for one or two patches after launch. But luckily the original items weren't deleted from characters that earned them. Extremely rare and valuable.
Is this the final video from Flatts? Or will there be more EQ content in the future? I have watched every video, and really miss the cool content from the greatest game ever :)
Ikr, hope to see him back soon. I rewatch classic adventures every so often.
Abashi’s Rod of Disempowerment pre nerf was an awesome monk wep, specially for pulling since it was insta cast, unlimited and removed buffs on the pulled mob.
Even w/ the what, 3 sec cast time still very very useful. Just not as useful for say Red or certain situations.
Started playing this game in 1999. Oh how time goes by.
A small part of me misses EQ. I poured thousands of hours into it in 00/01. I could never dedicate that much time to a video game ever again, but I have fond memories of the vastness and complexity of the world, all the mystery and places to explore, and the chills I got as limits were pushed.
Boogoog also accidentally dropped a 10AC ring called the "Gem Encrested Ring" (later renamed to Gem "encrusted" ring and moved) during the first week of Kunark. I managed to snag one of these as a caster, with no idea of the significance of a ring with 10AC in those days - i think i sold it for 1200pp when it was probably worth 10x at the time.
I was Azure Guard. Funny to see some of the names when watching this old breakdown.
The Moss Covered Twig wasn't a monk item at the time. It was one of the best ways for warriors to hold aggro.
you could also dual wield them, not limited to one. I used to farm them with ShowEQ and made a fortune.
actually it was a monk item at the time it was an everyone that could use it item.
Every item usable by a monk was considered by monks to be a monk item at the time. My guild used this mainly for the aggro management it provided.
Incorrect. The only MCT i ever saw on live was equipped by a human monk twink in the opening days of Kunark
@@Cody1JZ Most of the ones in my guild were warriors for the purpose described. This didn't really start getting used by twink monks until it was changed to the moss covered branch when, as a 2HB (the second version) it was generally useless for warriors. two 1HB hitting as fast as the MCT did generated at least the minimum aggro per hit, and it held aggro exceptionally well on most raid targets.
This is flatts most popular Everquest video yet, I look forward to more videos, I hope some are coming soon
I... think he just stopped uploading one day without explaination? I wouldn't hold out for an upload, seems like he quit just as the whole roner garbage began.
You're the only youtuber I have clicked the bell icon for. The moment I see something from you, I get all giddy. Thanks endlessly for introducing me to this utter masterpiece of a game, and all of the cool adventures along the way. Long live AG as well
My 1999-2001 rogue got her JourneymanBoots off Drelzna. Took me 3 days of staying awake to get to my turn to kill her when camping them.
One of the best moves I made in my EQ career.
Yuck.
I was a guide in Fennin Ro from 1999 to 2001. So many memories, really miss my guildmates. I've been in many guilds on many mmorpgs since EQ but for some reason that first guild me and four other people I played with made is the one I miss the most. Here's to you Eternal Crusaders of Norrath (Amuka, Izz, Max, Haldolek, and Ash.)
Breezeboot's Frigid Gnasher and Oakwynd come to mind. Been playing since 2000.
The music makes me all mushy on the inside.... Have some of the best memories from this game. Made a ton of friends. And no matter how "old fashioned" the game got it was always this game I compared other games with after leaving EQ.
Holy moly.... I owned the majority of these items or created twinks with them back in 2002 - 2005. I never would have thought they'd become rare, nerfed, or non-existent.
I had a monk/shadow knight with fungi tunic + twig if I recall correctly. My druid had the manastone. My shaman had the fungi staff which helped with cannibalism. I camped the ghoul assassin for over 48 hours for the guise of the deceiver for my bard. And all the #1 items on the list I'm pretty sure I had only ever seen on various Afterlife members on the Mithaniel Marr server when Thott the Bard was my icon as a 13 year old kid.
This game basically ruined my life - You can't get back over 600 days of your life... Nor make up for a destroyed high school career that directly impacted your college progression. But, there was something magical about this game that will never be able to be replicated again. This was so impressive to watch knowing I at least owned and/or obtained some of the rarest items in the game at some point.
Man I really want to see this guy come back to RUclips EQ was the best thing ever and my favorite class is a monk made my week when I saw a new vid of this guy sure do miss him
Looking forward to more potential videos at some undetermined point in the future.
Man,I hope Flatts will come back
Currently following Paul Anthony Romero instead. Content is not in depth but he did make some of the music for EQ during planes of power expansions.
I still have a Manastone on one of my Live characters. Far too late to be really useful, but it is a conversation piece.
You mean conservation?
Thanks for bringing me back on memory lane. Still have a lot of fond memories and a game that did it right before succumbing to business and player pressure.
Hope you are doing well man. Miss your videos.
I miss this content so much.
Blade of the Black Dragon Eye! I have one of these on the Rathe server. The damage/ delay ratio of 14/24 gets this weapon replaced as the game moves on but for agro pull that sword served my warrior well into the Planes of Power expansion. The weapon proc envenomed breath generated a LOT of mob hate for some reason, and the weapon proc went off a lot. I could easily out agro warriors using Blade of carnage/ Bloodfrenzy combinations, and even warriors using the Blade of War that was 2H Slashing Atk Delay: 32, DMG: 48 Dmg Bonus: 104 AC: 50.
This might be the best Everquest video I've ever seen. Congrats! The list is great, it's really close to what I would pick (except I might add Soulfire).
Dude. I stumbled upon this and then went over to classic adventures. THANK YOU! IM SO HYPED WATCHING THESE. SO MUCH NOSTALGIA! I was younger when I started playing eq, so I'm learning alot!
Oh damn, nostalgia overload here but I just no longer have the time to get into a game like EQ.
Hey man I really like these videos where you narrate quests, zones and your travels.. wish you made them more often I’m a huge fan!
Miss you flatts
Missed you Flatts, good to see you're still about.
Earthshaker! 12+ AA per pull during the PoP era pulling half of Plane of Fire using the Earthshaker and the warrior rampage ability as a soloing warrior was insane.
the actual nerf to the moss covered twig, and several other low delay weapons was the fact that they were made offhand only, at 1st they were useable primary hand. They also removed, and or changed them from dropping in game.
I played classic EQ for only a week just so i could say i've played it but I really love your videos. That number 1 story was really interesting, thank you.
Staff of forbidden rights deserves to be on this list
Flatts we miss you.
Hey man I just discovered your channel and am slowly working through all your videos! I was an original EQ player way back in the day, and this is seriously making me want to come back and try this P99. I hope you keep doing what you are doing, your videos are great.
Glad to see Classic EQ is still going strong, but I played P99 to death already (started on the initial server 5 days after launch). Eventually the raiding just turned me off due to the number of guilds all competing for the same targets. While very similar to contested raid bosses on live, some people/guilds raided without regard for anyone else on the server in order to gear not just their main, but their primary alt, secondary alt, tertiary alt, and so on. That mindset, instances of early cheating (cough Nagafen first kill cough), and other problems like plat duping just ruined the experience in the end.
Played this game for 8 years and my first and biggest memory always drifts back to being a n00b paladin furiously clicking a deepwater helm with its 10 second cast time for those sweet 100 hp heals while I tried to solo in Dreadlands lol.
lol reminds me of my early monk days using binding wound skill. People would ask me what I was doing (it makes the loot sound/crouch animation) and almost no other monks used it. Once the skill cap lifted, it was an amazing heal for monks and bandages were fairly cheap. While the healer meditated I'd also heal the group and people always laughed. It sucked but it was better than sitting on my thumb and roating.
We miss u
There were quite a few insta-click items where they added casting times. I had the Pegasus Feather Cloak (mage epic item) on my ranger for a long time, it was insta-click (cast Levitate) at first and you could use it to climb straight up, took a long time but you could use it to get to high ledges that you otherwise could not reach. it was also clickable on anyone, didn't have to be grouped. I levitated literally everyone I ran across. lol
AoN will slowly levitate you as well
Pretty sure Pegasus Cloak wasnt instant cast.. Maybe im wrong
I've still got my raid notebooks with loot note, raid points, hundreds of pages. Guild bank notes for necro coffin fees. Emergency phone numbers for monks and Necros in case of a planar raid wipe on a work night when we needed emergency corpse recovery assistance. Ahh the good old days.
Hey Flatts I really enjoyed your Robe of The Whistling Fists video and all the work you put into it. It's crazy to think it came out 2 years ago. I appreciate your content and I think if you could make at least 1 video a month you would see your viewer count go through the roof.
Mage epic originally had unlimited charges I believe and you could reclaim the pet for mana. The Fungi staff was castable on anyone, not just yourself originally and the person didn't have to be in your group either. It murdered on PVP servers as it instantly snared people. You missed Lustrous armor too.
Lustrous Russet, was plate armor that chain classes could wear (like Rubi), it dropped in Plane of Fear and had no level requirement, so guilds would bring their level 1 twinks in to loot rots. This is why they added the level 46 req to zone into the alter planes, and I believe they also removed Lustrous.
Don't forget Bladestorm, Katana of Steel Sleet. Warrior only 2hander that procs a strong rain spell. Drops either off Inny or CT I don't remember, until Temple SolRo patch IIRC
wow, the nostalgia in this video is for real. I remember several of these back when we played when EQ was new back in the day. EQ was the best game of this type and original still i think. It really captured the essence of an MMO. If i was a young lad still, id def be on project 99 for memories. lol some good times and some good friends.
Hell 15 years ago I had a 65 Iksar Monk. This video brought back memories.
This video hit me in the feels for sure, nostalgia overload
This video reminded me of all the shenanigans you had to do as a monk. I remember farming a bunch of clicky items to have to get by. Like getting myself a pair of Jboots to travel faster, farming balls of burlap yarn to be able to snare, and I'd always go to Cabilis to fight the non trainer version of Master Glox and apply intimidate to him, just so he could summon me outside of his locked room, so I could get away with his gate potion.
Monks had the most insane farms. I remember guys spending like 9 months on Treant Fists, and years farming for their Robe of the Lost Circle. I personally spent 4+ days straight without sleep to get my Gator-Scale leggings, and that seemed mild comparatively.
Great video, brings back good memories. I remember back in original EQ twinking a new Cleric with a manastone and a fungi tunic and powerleveling himself in Befallen using undead nukes. Great times. Really wish I had never traded the Manastone though, would love to still have that.
Ohhhhh shiiiittttt, he’s back EQ fam!!
11:50 When I was in highschool the dark elf custom helm with old style graphics was such an intimidating and awesome look. I played on vallon zek red server, any whenever I saw that face I knew I was going to die. Fun times.
Found your channel like 3 weeks ago and wasnt sure if you were still active. Been making my way through your monk videos, awesome stuff man, really really enjoy watching your episodes! Was thrilled to see you posted a new one, great job on this one as well!!
I realy miss new videos from you, you still playing?
Best EQ RUclipsr is back. Good to see you alive and around.
The Fungus Staff was amazing on my Necro. Pair that with the health to mana conversion line of spells and I pretty much never ran out of mana.
I played this for many years from around 1998 to around 2005 and still miss it from time to time. No other game has come close to the depth of engagement this had despite its many flaws and chunky graphics.
Great video Flatts as always.
The pre nerf terror forged mask combined with manastone was indeed very game breaking both were quickly nerfed.
What about the quest for thex mallet / ring of the dead? A human monk
(as could other race and class combos) very early on faction himself and acquire the ring from the dark elf necro&sk guild it also had the bind affinity charge and could be combined with a locket of escape. This was also available pre kunark whereas the locket was not.
One other perk of the pre-nerfed Circlet of shadow, that still make it more valuable then the AA introduced later with instant invis cast is the lack of re-use time. The trick you can do with the no re-cast time is it allow you to pull 1 mob from a point of a zone to another passing trought various mobs without aggroing them as long as they not see trought invis. Its nice to pull some named in tight area where it is impossible to kite them to a zone were you can.
I literally feel like a crack addict who just saw crack after not seeing it for so long.
You forgot a very important item: The Vox Res stick (I forget the real name). Used from drop from Vox very early in Vanilla EQ (they had removed it well before the Plane of Fear revamp/Plane of Hate from what I recall), had 10 charges but you could do the vendor recharge trick. It was usable from inventory and allowed any player to cast resurrection. This item was -CRUCIAL- for high end raiding back in the day and even helped us snag some server/world firsts. You could use it to cheese past tons of trash by having a monk or SK drag some corpses of necromancers and clerics to a safe spot, then have them summon corpses of the raid and res (or use mages and summon living people). You would literally save hours of raid time doing this in some instances.
Moss Covered twig was a damage beast, at least during Kunark era. A friend of mine let me borrow it in Selebis (the Trakanon dungeon). I was out-damaging an entire full party on my monk and stealing the XP from kills when we tested it. Runed Bolster Staff was removed for a similar reason. It was a 20/20 2 hander from what I recall during Kunark. I lent mine to another monk I knew and never saw it again when he quit lol
I had the only Shroud of Longevity on the server, because we woke the Sleeper after it dropped from Ventari or whatever her name was. The server was so mad at us, accusing us of "war crimes" by shutting off the primal candy spout/warden loot. We were so farmed we used to give primal weapons to random NPCs in front of people to get the "thanks for the primal greatsword!" etc and make people mad we were basically tossing them away. So troll ;p
staff of forbidden rites 96% rez 10 charges
Glad to see you creating again!
Deepwater helm would've been my number 1. Originally it was instant cast symbol. Self only but still, instant cast heal was amazing. I remember a paladin soloing fire giants and probably could have taken naggy if he'd been up. Unfortunately this was nerfed and given a cast time shortly after devs realized their mistake.
It had its time on blue as well.
I remember camping all of this stuff on the official servers. I played on E'ci and was lucky enough to be on many of the server firsts. To say that this game was a part of my life that is an understatement. I would love to go back and have the same social community. That is what made it worth it for me. Have a few of these on my account.
E´ci was my server aswell ^^
I am surprised Rod of Annihilation didn't even make the mentions... it was a game breaking caster item that basically turned a caster into top tier melee in pre-luclin exps.
I played for 9 years after it was released. One item you didn't mention was the Longsword of Ethreal Energy. I don't remember the stats for the sword but the quest for it was with the Luclin release and was soon taken out. I had it as a dark elf SK and was helping my paladin friend get it. It was late at night and we had the quest all finished except for the final turn in. He was dead tired and said we can turn it in tomorrow. Unfortunately they took the quest out that night and he never got to tun in. I may still have it but I haven't logged for quite a while.
Mobility for raids in the early days of EQ was so amazing.
I just want to say even if flatts don't play anymore and his content is dead he's what got me into project 99. I know I'm late to the party, but hey... better late than never. Currently level 13 farming caimans in oasis and yeah this game is nothing like playing WoW when growing up.
I think above all the player interactions are the best thing of this game. I'm generally fairly antisocial but considering this game is tough and how the mechanics work I've become quite friendly. Either way... godspeed. Not to sound like a nonce but your voice along with the background music is a perfect everquest nostalgia vibe - for someone who never played it growing up ^^
glad there's people like you getting a new experience. These days people do lower guk and unrest on the pathway to lvl 50, but you can also do those caimens up to about lvl 18 then go to mistmoore and then the frontier mountains. caimans were amazing times...
Anyone heard from him at all? Worried about Flatts...
Cazic Thule gate potion was removed some time after the first expansion. Even though they didn't stack you could still own more than one so I kept a bag full of them on my character. It allowed you gate to cazic thule but with the added effect of being instant cast. It great for when you needed a quick escape because you fell down a hole in a dungeon or stuck in plane of hate as a melee because you disconnected in a raid and couldn't log back in to catch a ride out.
The fighters staff you missed! 19/20 2hb that was replaced by IFS :)
So glad you’re back! Thanks for the video
One big ass nerf was the one performed on the lvl 49 necro pet dual wielding daggers pre-Kunark. So powerful it could solo full exp frogs in Lower Guk and it would destroy any lvl 50 warrior in a duel, regardless of gear. It was absurdely overpowered :)
Great video! I watched the whole thing, which in this day and age is rare to dedicate 18 minutes to. WORTH IT!
no need to apologize for putting the warders' loot at number 1. thats absolutely where that belongs.
Pumice Stone was insta click when released, now has cats time. On a PVP server this item is priceless and hardly ever was sold
I love these videos, man. I watched them all now, and I'm gonna need you to make some more.
I remember reading about how even after 10 years there were some items in this game that hadn't even been crafted yet.
In our darkest hour our hero has returned!!!!!!!!! 🙏
Video brought back the memories of trying to go after some of those items, of which I had a few. Damn campers!
Good ol' EQ... Degenerated to the Time-Lock Progression servers of late. Lots of dirty tactics from people--kill stealing, training, more training, spamming zones with bots, farming with bots to flood the market... good times to relive it all if you have the time and money to spare as there are still lots of great people to meet in game.
@@judgeparker2767 Daybreak and whoever else they split the company into is complete garbage how they handle any of the complaints, too. They moderate forums more than in-game issues.
I think a project quarm human monk playthrough series is necessary.
I'm disappointed that we didn't get the explanation that the mosscovered twig USED to be useable in the main hand meaning the delay actually did matter.