Grave Robbers  

The quest for the longsword is definitely gone. Turn in the items that used to give you the longsword and you now get the Scimitar of Ethereal Energy. Not quite as good as the longsword, but still a decent weapon. People who disagree with that statement need to consider that not everyone is a tank trying to hit for as much damage as possible as quickly as possible.

The only way to get the Longsword of Ethereal Energy now is to purchase one from someone on your server.

Mostly agree with you.

I farm things occaisonally, there is not better or faster way to make fast cash than to do so. If you need 50k fast can you honestly tell me you would go kill hill giants for the cash. I dont think so. The only real downside to farming is that people that accually need the item for themselves and want to fight for their item instead of buying it have to wait in line, but thats life.

Twinking, heck most people that do twink only put on armors and weapons that alot of people would just as soon destroy. Most people just assume this is cheating because they either refuse to or cant do it. So what, what one person does with items and cash that THEY EARN is none of someone elses business.

As for the accually nerf. I garontee theres not an oldtimer out there that plays regularly that didnt see this comming. the LSoEE was/is better than almost ALL the recorded paladin and SK 1h weapons, granted there are alot of better weapons out of ToV but how many people accually get to go there. I truly think that the LSoEE accually threw pallies and SKs way out of the dmg tables. Being that the 2 classes are ment to do about 3/4 the dmg of a warrior. A warrior with a LSoEE and a centi LS, or jagged blade of mourning an do 3 or 4 times the dmg as a pally or SK with any decent weapon.

Sory for kinda wondering off track but its kinda an explaation of why the nerf had nothing to do with farmers.

Some interesting points here.

Farming has its good points and bad.
A good point: It puts on the market and make available items that some people would not normally be able to obtain - what else are you going to use all those PP that you have been hoarding except to buy an item you cant get yourself.
A bad point: Farmers often clean out an area (that they get no exp for) and ruin the game for those who were there for exp AS WELL as the items concerned. Even to the point of KSing and camp stealing - this does happen frequently.

I find it interesting that you think the sword was too powerful I was only interested in getting it because of the AC on it. Otherwise it is has a worse damage ratio and stats (except the dex of course) on it than the weapon I have been using since lvl 35 as my prime weapon and still using(I am now 52). I would not have wanted to do the quest if my AC wasnt so bad.

With the current quest reward I would think that a very small percentage of people would want to do it. A weapon which has the same dange ratio as a crystalised sword (easily obtainable of a mob for a mid 30s) with NEGATIVE stats which depending on what is important to you could quite easily cancel out the positive stats. Few below 50 would be able to do this quest. A better solution would have been to just make it no drop.

As for ******** the economy up, you could argue that that is the case for every new item that goes on the market. I believe there used to be a time when SSoY (Short Sword of Yekesa? - I admit I can spell to save my life) used to be considered the uber 1HS.

Finally before you give those of us who have not been able to obtain this item "the finger" saying it was our fault for not being off the mark quick enough consider this: I upgraded my PC before LUCLIN - Hardware,(new sound card, graphics card, memory) so that I was WAY over configured to run LUCLIN. I put on all the recommended drivers. Yet I have not even been able to get into EQ until the last week. Now I can get in but the bugs are so numerous that I am about 25% effective. Essentially I log in and can do nothing else. In other words I have not even been able to have the opertunity to get this item. So comments about about complaining because I was too late to do it are somewaht insensitive. What I find EXTREMELY annoying is that Verant is now focussing on "tweaking" the game and not on getting the remainder of us back into the game.

Actually I did this quest once then I was onthe second circle and half my guild knew they should move to get theirs. All who could got one and 2 friends one an inky and another one without luclin got theirs from me too.
WELL lets tell it straight this weapon was to good in reward efort ratio. Consider it a bonus to the quick and the lucky. But stop whining there is still a lot to explore.
Mithralblade Paladin 55 (using one )
Valeren cleric 54 ( not using one)
Ikoma Warrior 28 (using one)
And to the fact of Twinking shall I destroy stuff i cant sell cause of weapons like this???

in the musshy zone ACID!!!!!!

Could we please dispense with the childish class-bashing? I used my druid to get this item for my warrior (who is high level btw, and actually needed a weapon upgrade!). Did the quest once, never again. While waiting in line for Maricella, I was behind a ranger who was doing it for the THIRD time, as he sold the previous two.

Pretty fekking lame that you whine about farming the item...when about two sentences before you talked about wanting to give it to a level ONE warrior for crissakes. Uh, that is pretty much the definition of farming...camping something that you don't intend to use as your main. Blabbing about giving it to a level one character and then ******** about druids farming it paints you a pretty fair idiot.

Anyway, people soloing and farming items are far less obnoxious then a few tanks I know who scream "NBG!" everytime some piece of junk weapon drops that they wouldn't even consider using. Ninety percent of tanks don't engage in this behavior though, so I'd never type a whole group by the perfomance of a few.

Lol you had trouble doing this with a bard there? someones not playing the bard right then.. Easy solution, get the bard sowed in the bazaar, haul butt to fungus, pull Ebben and dot kite his butt around the town, if you are quick, you won't take ANY damage... This entire quest was easily soloable to my 46 bard and the exp was nice... Thats why it got nerfed, risk vs reward was WAY off :/ I quested both the LSEE and the Scimitar to use in my offhand until I finish my epic... I wish I had finished the quest the second time a bit faster so my pally would have one, but oh well, nerf was needed :(

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This is the problem with Veriant. They Fxxk you over without realising it. Yes they take out the quest giver without telling us so we can go and quest for from JUNK! WTF are they???

I mean who would waste their time going after this piece of shxt when they can just go to GD and get the icetooth claws. And on the other hand save themselves from buying SOL.

I know a friend who brought SoL just for this weapon and now they are getting fxxked over.

You are what is wrong with the game. Sell it for
what it is worth. I hope verant makes it so that everyone can have one so that your item is only
worth 2cp :p

And Verant. Don't tell me that you can't reset
the zone. Your GM's are telling us that it is broken. RESET THE ZONES. Don't BS us. Tell us that you are nerfing it. Be more up front.