Everquest Urban LegendsFollow

The fabled secret door between PC and the echo evil venders.

A once-upon-a-time legend that eventually came true - Enchanter Spell Illusion: Scaled Wolf.

Not really an urban legend, just a spell that took quite a while to make it into the live game. The devs had included spell data regarding this long before they made the spell available. People going through EQ data files found reference to it and it became something of an Enchanter urban legend until SOE finally made the spell available in game after finally deciding on how the spell would work.

Can we make up new stuff to hopefully become urban legends?

Once every game day (72 minutes) you can enter the "Konami Code" (UP, UP, DOWN, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT, RIGHT, B, A) to restore your Endurance meter.

The cape thing was born of some slight reality. It was in the original SOL plans but was one of the first things scrapped due to game engine limitations.

The only reference I could find was an old Mobhunter article which discusses an offical Verant posting no longer available.

Speaking of, remember that old concept art of the new gnome model? Impossible to find online!

The Megaladon always existed. It just had some uhh, pathing issues, that they had to work out. It was definately there in beta.

http://img93.imageshack.us/img93/9560/megaladonhg5.jpg

This is definately the Rathe 'Sea Monster', and how the rumor got started.

Gives a new meaning to the term 'flying fish'.

-Chris


Edited, Aug 21st 2008 6:34am by plopi

One problem with your "flying fish" image...

Its a Great White Shark like image, while the Megaladon
image posted on another reply here it has the image
of a Hammerhead shark.
Did they change the image with the AM begin altered, or
is this a screen shot of a lesser shark?

Regarding the Flying fish image...

I played from Beta2 to Kunark, then quit, just very recently returning for a bit.

That screen cap was taken in Beta (as you can tell by the resolution, and graphics). That was definately the 'Megaladon' from Beta, I don't recall if the pic was from Beta 2 or 3 though. I have no idea what he is now (regarding his model, as it is my understanding he is part of the Shammy 1.5 Epic.

I know the Megaladon was pulled out somewhere around Beta3, because of his pathing issues. It is hard to tell from that picture, however he was very big, kind of like Sand Giant sized (but on his side.)

-Chris

A full set of black iron armor from old runnyeye would make you immune to non magic based attacks.

Rain increased mana regen.

Tradeskill made +Dex jewelry was better then +HP jewelry for melee.

Opening the door in HoT would agro mobs into if you were fighting in area near door.

That killing the Bixies in the Commonlands spawned
Griffins, which at the time (early '99) was a serious
threat to everyone grouping in the zone.

Maybe they were ph for the griffs? I don't know for
sure, but I remember hearing about it when I killed
the poor little guys in bee suits.

Estimated patch time: 6 Hrs.

I remember hearing that by killing the bixies, you could get the wisps to spawn so that you could hopefully get a greater lightstone and a whopping 9pp, woohoo, rich times :)

Good one! :-))

There is a blackboard in a bar in Qeynos where you can leave messages.

I have no idea how I posted in this thread.

Edited, Oct 7th 2008 9:44am by Jophiel

Used to hear that several zones were "preconditioned" to link to new zones in the future. They never panned out though:

1. The Hole = possible zone-out (to Plane of Mischief?) at the very bottom. I've heard this one a great number of times.

2. Shadowhaven = zone-out (in the caster area) to some unnamed high-level zone, supposedly this zone had something to do with the dark history of Shadowhaven, according to the lore the NPC's told me. When Zirumkin stands up against this door and casts Eye of Zomm, the scouting eye actually appears on the other side of the door (heh, it's a gnome thing) - but the second after I send my "eye" down the passage, the eye stops working.

3. Shadeweaver's Thicket = zone-out to some high-level fire-related zone out by the Firehopper's (?) area. There's even a fire elemental guardian in front of the passage that dead-ends, completely submerged in lava.

4. Gulf of Gunthak = there is a passage in the water that is blocked by a large iron gate - I've heard a few say over the years that this was supposed to be a - what else? - a zone-out to another part of Ykesha. Would kinda make sense because Ykesha only has about 7 zones. Perhaps the designers intended for this expansion to be larger originally?

No doubt other folks will notice other zones that seem to have been destined for future zone-links that never were.