I was thinking today that while I have been playing EQ since December of 2001, I really don't know all that much about this game. I estimate that I am likely playing with between 5-10% knowledge of everything available to me. Up until Gates of Discord, I basically played only two chars, a Paladin and a Necromancer. I raided often.
GoD killed our guild and I ended up morphing to my current style of play. I love the 1-70 part of the game so I have many, many chars in those levels. I have many heroic chars, but again my knowledge of the intricacies is very limited. I simply don't need the in depth knowledge considering my style of play.
I love questing and have done almost all of the quests lower level chars can do. I don't consider this as knowledge of the game as these quests are very well detailed here on ZAM so I have no need to memorize the mechanics.
Inspired by the level 1 twink thread here, I have started to see how far I can get a level 1 Gnome Warrior with only tradeable items. I have no chars over 87 and with my very old laptop, I do not have an option to box. So far I have the little guy at 614HP. I am currently camping the Hierophant's Cloak in Old Sebilis, but having no luck at all spawning it. I have spawned multiple other named, but not the hierophant. I don't know if there is a particular trick to this spawn, but will keep trying. This mission was what caused me to realize how much of EQ I didn't know about. I have had to research each slot to try for drops. Every day my knowledge creeps higher.
Edited, Jun 19th 2016 12:58pm by KC13