'We had it so much harder when I was a newb!'

[Nimphe Wildwood]

Indeed Lilosh, but that wasn't the person I was hinting at, but should be recognized as well!

Who could forget Irontaail I remember when he played his wee lil Mage before becoming famous.

[Draggar]

Originally posted by Lilosh
But R.A. Salvatore admitted to playing on Povar on more then one occasion.

IMOHO - It would be the best thing in the world to be grouped with someone who turned out to be him...

Awaiting 'The lone Drow' (out the day after tomorrow!)

[Xenephex]

You guys have covered most of them; a couple others -

No readily available light sources in Halas/Everfrost - you used to be able to sell fire beetle eyes and lightstones there with ease.

And one of my least favorite - that sliding money bar, before you could actually type in the amount of money you wanted. If you were buying something fairly expensive, it could take forever to get the right amount of money out.

And you used to be able to sell the contents of a backpack by clicking on the backpack; a lot of people (myself included) accidentally sold something valuable from a backpack we thought was empty.

[Telaeth Everdark]

Haven't seen "Hell Levels" yet. When you wept when you hit level 30, not realizing how much easier that hell level was compared to all the ones after...

[Dragon Don]

Not sure if these were mentioned but here are a couple:

Arrows were made one at a time (and with no shift-click that was a real pain for my ranger)

No group damage. If someone did more damage than any individual in your group, they "stole" the kill.

Going to every web site I could find only to see variations of "please tell me what this spell does" for some of my spells.

I still remember the first time I saw a troll in Qeynos. It was so unusual (and this was several months after release) that I took a screenshot of it.

[Dryanna]

Curt Schilling plays on Povar too

aside from the whole-bag-sellin' thing (not that i'm a click-click-clicker or anything ), I had the hardest time with the "can only have 2 bags open at a time" thing. I could NEVER get organized, simply because I couldn't visualize what I had every where.

[Eumerin]

Originally posted by Maevenniia
- no cleric hammers or Hammer pets, no wizard sword of Xuzl, no swarm pets

There have ALWAYS been summoned hammers for clerics (and paladins, since they used the same spells). I still remember when my paladin hit level 15, and I had to start practicing my conjuration skill so I could summon the hammer. Since it was magic, it was the only weapon I had that could hurt a ghoul or a wisp.

Mind you, even with the later added bane undead damage, its still not a very good weapon these days, and hasn't been for some time.


-- Not wanting to give my rusty weapons to the volunteer smiths to sharpen because I was afraid they'd fail and I'd lose my weapon.

-- When more bandits were added to West Karana due to demand for camp space. I think the hunting of them died within a few days of that...

[Craftah]

Can't believe no one mentioned one of the good things that is now gone...

Making Fish Rolls was profitable!

This all ended when the opened a new server which they said they were allowing no transfers to.

Day 1: 100's of Dark Elves fishing in Neriak to get fresh fish for fish rolls...

[PetrosDaroc]

-Casks weren't stackable, so making Faydwer shakers and Minotaur Hero Brews were a royal pain...

-Ceramic linings weren't stackable, so you had to adjust everything just right so you didn't run out of room because of that extra lining...

-Hell levels...

-The tunnel in EC...ahhh...at least on E'ci...

/auc WTS a bag of stuff at torch 1!!!

-Bronze armor was really good, but the mithril stuff from SolB couldn't be beat!

-Everyone used INT for tradeskilling, hence that druid headpiece from PoFear that has no WIS on it, but has INT instead.

Everything else I was gonna say was already said.

[Phabos]

I was the ultimate newbie because I had a Finely Crafted Shan'Tok my (at that time uber) Level 25 friend gave me from Kunark. Of course, I later replaced that with the Ghoulbane I bought for 75pp. (Oh wait, that wasn't a bad thing...)

I remember the boats and the long roads everywhere, and how much I loved the Nexus when it was first released. And once Nexus was open, but before the Bazaar, I made a killing (at the time ) killing gnolls and buying SP armor from the SK vendors, then taking the pieces to Kelethin and selling for 20-25pp each.

Oh wait, that wasn't bad either...

Okay, the new days are great. I love zipping from place to place and having the Bazaar so I can sell goods all day, but there were things about the "old days" that made them a bit more bearable than we like to remember.


Phabos Aphsion
Drunken Paladin of Brell
Tarew Marr