On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, J.R. Hyde wrote:

>
> The eq developers have said time and time again that they intenionally mean
> for eq to not be well documented. They feel a lot of fun comes from
> discovering these things yourself and in a way i agree. Except that a TON
> of things in eq are broken like quests, songs, spells, etc so you dont know
> if you just have yet to figure out what the song does or if indeed it is
> broken. This is ridicoulsly frustrating and absolutely inexcusable. Making

A perfect example is the L22 song. Only now, half a year
after the game has been released, have we concluded with any
confidence that the song is broken.

> most of my complaints. I dont mind trying to find out what stuff does, but
> i dont even bother anymore cause most of the time its just broken. That imo
> takes all of the fun out of it. And i havent done a single quest yet unless
> i read a complete spoiler documenting it works, cause otherwise its
> GUARANTEED to be broken. Now how horrible is that? :(

Yeah, I love to solve puzzles too, but don't even bother in
EQ. Even if it is broken, usually your reward isn't enough to
justify the time and effort. Some guy did the Grimrot quest,
turned in the opal scythe (a 15/48 weapon that procs) and got
a nonmagical morningstar for a reward.

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John H. Kim
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