Living Thunder Earring  

 

Anima on Test raided Vindi on 11/6/2013 and this dropped, which is a real bummer since we were wanting a BP drop.

This dropped 03/31/2008 on E.Marr, so yes, it does still drop. Just extremely rare (and kinda useless - its his worst drop - its a good thing it hardly ever drops).

no longer drops

Our guild killed Vindi for the first time yesterday and the Living Thunder Earring dropped. We were quite disappointed cause we were hoping for the breastplate or boots, heh.

Just keep things in prospective here:
Remember, we discovered this thing right after Velious came out...at the time, this item was so incredibly ubber that everyone stared at awe in this incredible item. Its MR and See Invis only compounded its value on my server- Rallos Zek- making it...just...well, there was nothing to begin to compare with it. Now we have the Druidic cabage quest with the FT earring (EoS) for all races, earrings and items of this type seem much more within reason. I forget its name- there's a robe now that's Flowing Thought 10, +100 all saves, +30 int, +5wis/some other stat, +some mana (and HP?), like 60 or 80AC, incredible items are just taken for granted...
this thing was the Holy Grail! Haha, just an EQ ancient going on about forgotten times when noobs really really wanted fine steel weapons and last names were great... haha, peace all. Remember that this thing came out in an era that astounded us all!

With the inroduction of the new CT earrings this is still a good earring but not nearly as uber as it was a few months back

Is this a "monk item"?

The answer to that is "yes and no".

If you define a monk item as something that should default automatically to a monk before any other classes that want it, then it is NOT a monk item. Earrings are almost always light-weight, so the light weight of this item means nothing as far as making it a monk item. This earring would be considered a very nice earring by almost anybody that can use it. It would almost certainly end up on melee classes before casters however. If perchance 95% of all earrings weighed five pounds each, then this might qualify as a "monk item", but they don't and it doesn't.

If you define a monk item as something that would be great for a monk to have, then yes, this is a "monk item". My guild has killed the Vindicator once. We plan to kill him more in the future. Maybe I will get one of these earrings one day, but it won't be just because I am a monk.

Is there such a thing as a "monk item", i.e. an item that should automatically go to a monk? Yes, there is. There is also such a thing as an "enchanter item", a "cleric item", a "warrior item", a "rogue item", etc. Other classes just don't get as excited and vocal about discovering an item that is good for them as monks do because of our severe equipment restrictions.

One thing that many people can't seem to understand is that "ALL/ALL" on an item don't mean jack at the high-end of the game. If this earring had 3 AC, +20 Charisma, and +100 mana, even if it said "ALL/ALL", a monk would NEVER get it. It would go to an enchanter because it would be an "enchanter item". I have even seen people suggest random rolling on items such as this. The only time random rolling would be done on an item like this would be if the people in charge of loot couldn't decide between two or three finalists for possession of the earring.

Can monks be annoying with all these "monk item" comments? Yes, sometimes they annoy even me. Sometimes I even agree with them and they still annoy me.

Do people over-react to "monk item" comments and display the maturity of your average eight year old child? Do they heap unwarranted abuse on anyone who dares to use that hated phrase? Can they be even more annoying than the person who posted the "monk item" comment in the first place? The answers to these questions are: "Yes", "Yes", and "Emphatically Yes!"

HAHAHAHAHA

isnt every 0.0 item a monk item?

The person below me is right, this thing doesn't have a value because whatever guild member it would be awarded to would never sell it. If he by some chance wanted to get rid of it, it'd probably HAVE to go to another guildie. Great earring tho! Kinda cruddy graphic, but hey, they can't do everything. =)

the vindicator is a really nasty giant in kael, he's very capable of taking out an entire guild if your not ready for him. if you kill him you'll take a rather large faction hit against the giants just as if you killed king tormax.

I want to get one of these , but they will probably be way to much for me to afford....how much does this thing sell for?

Bumpilis 15th lvl war
Cazic Thule Server
(i'm proud to be a newbie....its fun explorin when you don't know what thing is gonna beat on ya next...just go from zone to zone and hope you survive)