Everquest Old Cultural
Anyone Still Using or Making the Old Cultural?
Ages ago, I hunted down the one Dark Elf smith on my server known for making the old cultural armors. This was slightly after their time, when you didn't want them for the stats (and some will argue you never did) so the supply had dried up. I wanted the look --Dark Elf casters in chain is pretty neat after all. Since the combines used blue diamonds this was not a cheap thing (and trivials were high for the era).
Not every race/deity combo got armor of this cultural vintage (I think half elves may have been fully left out) and some cultural could be used by other races, and some was very specific. Depending on what class/race/deity you were you may of had some options. I can't link a picture of this... as it doesn't look like any of the caster chain tunics for Dark Elves have ever had images submitted. So here's a Barbarian in Helanic Tundra:
If you look up an item such as "Imbued Emerald" here, you will get a long list of such cultural armors. There's also some cultural weapons (like the Tunare and Karana bows that are unbelievably better than other bows you see in Luclin era baz on a progression server... at least on a regular basis). Here's one example:
What we could use here at Allakhazam is modern pictures of people wearing this armor, as well as the modern item window shot. In many cases we need proof that the combines still work, and verification of when they are active on progression servers.