Old School Toon Gear - What were ya wearing?Follow

OK, new thread. This is for all of those musty old nostalgia buffs who get a kick out of talking about the old days.

So, here is the question...What was your toon wearing pre-expansion. List you high levels adn even your alts. Just for fun and for the sake of dirging up old memories.

My barb warrior was wearing a full set of crafted armor. Was pretty cool for its time. Was a light blue-green plate mail that was quested for. The Cents in SK made it for you for some plat, a couple of gems stones and some no drop items that you had to hunt.

I used a Langseaux of the Wolves for a long time, but then moved on to an executioners axe.

I had j-boots. Killed Drazelna (sp?) in Najena myself for them.Was the coolest item I ever had in the game. Being able to run fast on demand in pre-book eq was really a great ability.

Hehe. You mean pre *any* expansions?

My pally was wearing a Dwarven Ringmail Tunic, an assortment of bronze armor, a bloodstained mantle, some jagged bands, and some other assortments of stuff.

I carried around a mino axe for quite some time (That was like the uber weapon when it came out, and had an "amazing" ratio back then for how relatively easy it was to get). Upgraded to a polished granite tomahawk. I spent a huge amount of time doing the quest for the shining star of light, then got a bullsmasher by doing the thing in Ak'anon (which had better damage, but wasn't magic oddly enough). For 2hs, I used a bone bladed claymore early on, then later upgraded to a BIB (not long before Kunark came out).

I remember Rubicite, but never had any. I was about 30th level when Kunark came out, but had only been playing off and on up to that point. I remember when they opened PoA, and I can't remember if PoH was opened when I started or not (very very foggy memory of that time period, and I really didn't play that much anyway).


Ah... Good times. :)

Heh.. I remember being so proud when my character was first dressed in all "special" equipment as opposed to basic banded, bronze, etc. Of course, it was things like purity belt, onyx earring, dwarven ringmail tunic, etc so it was "special" all right..

Fear my blackened iron greaves!

I'm only playing 3 months now but I bought LDoN after 2 months only so it was Antonica and Faydwer via ship (!)for the first time (haven't still got PoP)

My Rogue had the newbie armor and a self-fletched bow and arrows. As the newbie weapon (dagger)sucked greatly I was quite proud of the bronze spear I got from a dervish (came to just player-left camp where 1 had obviously just re-spawned and took my chance on the yellow-conning loner)and I even wore a studded cloak and mask I made myself along with 6 tailor-made large bags...

....but then I bought LDoN, discovered the Bazaar and changed most of my gear immediatly...

LOL Yes, FBRs and Oracle robes were big. I camped Najenas room with my guild and over the coruse of two days we pulled so many FBRs we had to havce lower level guildies come and take them from us, as they were lore. Also killed the Oracle for his robe in OOT.

Regarding Mino axes...yes they were very good. We used to head to the mino caves and farm a backpack full and then sell them in the newbie zones. They sold well. PGT was something I never got. The stupid gnoll was ALWAYS camped.

My guild and I went after the J-Boots. I was the main tank and guild leader. The others had been camping her a few days earlier and not one pair dropped. We went in room and the others decided I got the first pair that dropped. First pop I got the boots! Had not been there more than an hour. Waited another hour or so killing and the server crashed. We could not get our group back online together after the server came back up and after that we could never take the camp back. I felt fortunate. I would have given the pair to our cleric though, who had been camping and camping and it had been his idea. Too bad they were no drop...Hmm too bad, lol

Charred Guardian BP and Black Enameled BP are the only two black old school breastplates that spring to mind for a warrior.

Years ago at a Halloween GM event, I won a Gnome Illusion mask for my Rogue. I was high on life for a long time after that. Then aquiring the DE mask brought that high back some many many moons later.

Pre expansions had similar stuff as mentioned above.
When Vel came out, Rygorr (sp?) armor was hot. Felt real proud rockin a full suit. Even at 40 :)

How could I have forgotten my screaming mace?

And it was a charred guardian BP, thank you for reminding me.

I had 2 toons that are still in that gear from the very first server i played on

Cleric- Bloodstained tunic black enammeld mace char guadian sheild Effy boots admantite eppaulets plat jasper rings gold jasper earrings plat ruby veil runed mith bracers molten cloak fbss bronze helm and SSB for helm


Shadowknight-(wifes toon) Moss clay guardian sheild Soulreaver(was da bomb) was in a full suite of bronze with ssb and grotesuqe mask untill upgraded her to a full suite of darkforge armor in were the original Cazicthule zone were the peices for the rogue armor and SK quest peices dropped

Best friend got hooked on the game and he made a war with time he went from bronze armor to Crafted dual weilding yaks(which was the bomb back in them days too)wearing the hero bracer and erolosi bracer and other odds and ends...


Bah those were the golden days of the game no exploits camping arguments( were always fun) endless days in dropping guards and hill giants, and ruining you faction to a certain city... And agonistic was sometimes the best way to go

I remember when my cleric, at 23, claimed a Sarnak Emblazoned Tabard from LoIO in a group. Boy was I proud! I wore that thing till I was about 35, too.

Heh. Ok. Just had to comment on this.

I have now twice in the last few months spotted Pzynn(sp?) in Qhills, killed her and gotten that stupid *** orb.

Do you have *any* idea how long I camped for that with my wiz waaaay back in the day? I tried all the strats, and never got the stupid thing. Finally gave up. Now, I can't help but just stumble across it. I just think fate is mocking me or something...

A friend of mine got me hooked back in '98 or so, but his only char was a 30-ish wizard, so he couldn't really hook me up at all, just dumped me in Qeynos Hills and told me to kill everything that moved. For a long time, it was the other way around, but finally his sister, who had a higher-level bard (Singer, if anyone remembers her from Rodcet Nife) gave me the most unbelievably awesome gift ...

A FULL SET OF BANDED ARMOR!!! AND A FINE STEEL SWORD!!!

Oh man, I was unstoppable. Then in BB one day I looted a Gnoll Hide Lariat, and it was all over.

(Of course, not long after, my "buddy" who just couldn't leave well enough alone, took me to Oasis. People who are newer to the game think that's sand lying all over the place... little do they know it's ranger-kibble...)

Crafted and Bronze! sold dwarven work boots for 2k and bought an Executioners axe (yeah we remember those =D) for 2k! and i still remember this, and i was only lvl25 warrior.
wooooot! those were the days...

Also the first druid i made, gave him max str. 95 str halfling druid, rofl.