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LOL just for fun, I was thinking I'd list all the things that were a lot worse "in the ole days". I was always into tradeskills but I started playing right after kunark was out so I bet there are a lot more. Add what ya remember that I miss.
So in no particular order....
"When I was your age,
If ya clicked combine and the recipe was wrong it ate it all.
If ya stored stuff in a trade container and hit combine instead of close, it ate all your stuff.
Ya had to buy stuff 1 at a time, none of this stack at a time stuff.
Most smithing stuff did not stack like sheets for banded armor.
You could only be over 200 in 1 skill.
EQtraders was not nearly this complete or ordered
The only way to sell the stuff you made was by word of mouth, none of this Bazaar stuff.
By the same token, I was the only good HEI smith on my server way back so everyone not only gasped at the price but how long it would take me to get the stuff to make it - I had no bazaar to buy components in or sell stuff anon-like.
There was no bazaar to centralize the skills not alone a PoK area.
Ya had to run across many zones to get metal blocks and get them to a forge many more zones away to make the folded sheets that didn't stack, then take 'em a few more zones to where the molds were sold, then back to the forge again. And it was uphill both ways in 3feet of snow with no PoK books and rare sowers/porters around.
HQ ore was only dropped from mobs; no quests or converting FS weapons.
Brewing was necessary for tempers (135) for cultural smithing but brewing was useless otherwise since no drinks had any good stats and they all only lasted as long as a water flask.
HIE cultural armor took 1 blue diamond per block of mithril enchanted to make a folded sheet of enchanted mithril and 1 per temper made and even the highest end guilds only had access to a few BDs and those were reserved for resist gear for their major players.
Until velious leathers, the only way to get tailoring over 200 was with fleeting quivers (If I remember right).
We only had EK to get pelts fast and the drop rate wasn't even half of what it is now.
We only had 8 bank slots to store our stuff and handmade BP were pretty rare.
Only a few packs had weight reductions to them and those all cost more than the average tradeskiller could afford.
Pottery was utterly useless, other than you could make cooking items which were also useless except for RP since food all lasted the same amount of time and only a few had a few low stats. (ok well maybe pottery hasn't changed much
)
Ok I got more, but that should get this going
So in no particular order....
"When I was your age,
If ya clicked combine and the recipe was wrong it ate it all.
If ya stored stuff in a trade container and hit combine instead of close, it ate all your stuff.
Ya had to buy stuff 1 at a time, none of this stack at a time stuff.
Most smithing stuff did not stack like sheets for banded armor.
You could only be over 200 in 1 skill.
EQtraders was not nearly this complete or ordered
The only way to sell the stuff you made was by word of mouth, none of this Bazaar stuff.
By the same token, I was the only good HEI smith on my server way back so everyone not only gasped at the price but how long it would take me to get the stuff to make it - I had no bazaar to buy components in or sell stuff anon-like.
There was no bazaar to centralize the skills not alone a PoK area.
Ya had to run across many zones to get metal blocks and get them to a forge many more zones away to make the folded sheets that didn't stack, then take 'em a few more zones to where the molds were sold, then back to the forge again. And it was uphill both ways in 3feet of snow with no PoK books and rare sowers/porters around.
HQ ore was only dropped from mobs; no quests or converting FS weapons.
Brewing was necessary for tempers (135) for cultural smithing but brewing was useless otherwise since no drinks had any good stats and they all only lasted as long as a water flask.
HIE cultural armor took 1 blue diamond per block of mithril enchanted to make a folded sheet of enchanted mithril and 1 per temper made and even the highest end guilds only had access to a few BDs and those were reserved for resist gear for their major players.
Until velious leathers, the only way to get tailoring over 200 was with fleeting quivers (If I remember right).
We only had EK to get pelts fast and the drop rate wasn't even half of what it is now.
We only had 8 bank slots to store our stuff and handmade BP were pretty rare.
Only a few packs had weight reductions to them and those all cost more than the average tradeskiller could afford.
Pottery was utterly useless, other than you could make cooking items which were also useless except for RP since food all lasted the same amount of time and only a few had a few low stats. (ok well maybe pottery hasn't changed much
)Ok I got more, but that should get this going
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