Yes It is true.
For instance, the gnomish warrior guild leader gives you a quest to seek out
a clockwork stolen by the faeries. He is smack dab in the middle of the
faerie town with all those rather high level faeries, somewhere around 20
NPCs that will attack you if you try to attack the clockwork. This quest is
not given to anyone over level 14, but can't be completed unles you have a
20+ group. Again, it has horrible rewards.
>From: Nosferatu <nosferatu@...>
>Reply-To: EQ_Tinkering@onelist.com
>To: EQ_Tinkering@onelist.com
>Subject: Re: [EQ_Tinkering] Lets find Bidl Frugin
>Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 11:27:37 -0500
>
>From: Nosferatu <nosferatu@...>
>
>Believe it , verant has this sick and twisted thing about making quests
>ungettable at higher levels, and impossible for low levels to actually
>solve, for instance this quest. one of the lens you need tog et from
>Borxx, a level *30*+ Evil Eye. With verants normal sense of rewards well
>get 20 exp pts, a faction adjustment and a tarnished dagger as reward,
>note this is a step up from the usual rusty dagger they give us.
> another example (again gnome) get tergons spellbook, OK this spawns on
>a level 18 or so mob... your reward for solving the quest? a level 4
>mage spell.
>/Nos
>