10 Years Ago...
The Way Things Are Going They're Gonna Crucify Me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wednesday, May 15, 2002 -- tigole
Shadows of Frustration
My apologies for not updating the site in so long. Things have been extremely hectic for me and my schedule is only going to get worse. So when I get to log in for the one hour a night I've been getting lately, I get to deal with all you rotten cacksuggers who log in and tell me how long it's been since the last update. Well, here's your goddamned update.
So it's that time again -- yes the time you've learned to love to hate or hate to love -- time for me to rant about something. Now, I'm going to come straight out with a disclaimer on this one. I am whining. I'll save some jackass the 15 seconds of glory he'll get by posting on the forums, telling me to STFU cause I'm whining. Because I am. This is pure, hardcore, old school, whining coming your way.
For those of you who follow this site closely, you'll remember that last week we got the Emperor down to next to nothing. In fact, this is the screenshot I posted of his damage bar:
Basically, we knew exactly how to kill the Emperor, but we fucked up. I wont go into the details but it was a clear mistake we made and we knew how to fix it. Well, patch day rolls around and guess who gets changed? Yup, the Emp. Now, the good thing is, they removed the Deathtouch -- the single cheapest attack a mob can have in a game. But what is frustrating is, 3 or 4 guilds had killed the Emperor, gotten their VT powersources and are now free to spoil the zone as they see fit. For all the people who had never tried the Emp, well, no big deal for them really. But the ones who really got slapped in the face were guilds like mine. Guilds that were an attempt away from being in VT, who had spent weeks learning one encounter, only to find that encounter gone one day with a totally new mob (just using the old name) waiting to spawn after blood dies. Don't get me wrong -- in a way it's poetic justice for the handful of guilds that got their powersources. More power to them. They were first and earned what they got. But goddamn I hate feeling like I got cheated. The whole ordeal just screams of poor design and lack of forsight.
Speaking of poor design and lack of forsight, how shitty is it that Blood drops such godly loot? Yes, Luclin loot needed an upgrade. But to anyone with half a clue, how about realizing that Blood is a TRIGGER SPAWN. Did we not learn from SoV???? Can't we make it so that there's NO reason AT ALL to kill a trigger spawn??? Why, oh why, please explain to me why, would anyone put GODLY loot on a TRIGGER SPAWN?? Why does it take a loudmouth motherfucker to bring this shit to light? Jesus, it's common sense. The question is, will the braintrust of San Diego wait until the clusterfuck of blown Emp spawns begins, the endless rantings of assholes such as myself, or will someone realize the horrible mistake of putting loot on Blood now and fix the mo faka ASAP? Only time will tell. . .
And because I mentioned time. . .what's there to do when you cannot see VT because the final quest mob got patched before you killed it? What's there to do when you have 10 nice shards sitting in the bank collecting dust? Well, not much. When in doubt, Guildwar.
Yeah, when bordom strikes nothing beats a trip to Steamfont to kill some Gnomes. Those little cacksuggers wouldn't let me in their guild. Apparently, they're too godddamned good for the likes of a filthy halfling such as myself. Well, representing team LoS was me and Adorean. . .here are the results:
Some AE fun
Also, unrelated to gnomes but still in the half-sized category, we got Laneser a new hat. Ladies and gentleman, meet Dopey:
And here is some more random shit to show you since I have no dead Emperor pictures nor any l33t VT pictures to show you:
Rogue FD pulling. . .
Yeah, I'm pretty much grasping for anything at this point. Listlessness will do that to a person. Oh well, back to waiting for our next chance at the Emperor. Thank god they made it so we're lucky to get one chance each week now -- and that's if the spawn doesn't get blown. Simply fucking brilliant. A grade *A* cockblock guys. . .
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Welcome to the LoS website.
Over the past 10 years this site has gone through a variety of owners, servers, and hosting sites. In fact it would most likely be completely gone if it weren't for some luck. A while ago I was traveling for business and while hanging in my hotel room for some unknown reason I decided to look at the old LoS site. While there I was hit by a strange feeling that it would really suck if the site were ever to completely disappear and so I fired up Teleport Pro and made a copy of the site on my laptop.Well it turned out to be fortunate as a few months later the site disappeared from the web. A number of things collided. No one was really watching the site, the domain legacyofsteel.net went up for auction, and the hosting site was unresponsive to inquiries by former site admins to get at the actual data.
So when the site disappeared I checked around and found that legacyofsteel.net was up for auction. I got in a minor bidding war but luckily no one out there thought it was worth more than a couple hundred bucks.
Unfortunately this site was created 10 years ago in a variety of free html editing programs, text editors, and god knows what else. That any browser could display this steaming pile is a testament to the html leeway provided by modern browser software. On top of that in order to attempt to recreate it I've had to rely on files created by Teleport Pro (which does as good a job as you can).
I've tried to maintain the look and feel of the last known incarnation of the site yet updated portions for easier use. For instance, the galleries and archives have been updated for better browsing.
So maybe it was ridiculous putting all the time in to clean up this PoS, but here's the deal. Much like your friends from high school or college, my EQ guildmates are friends you rarely see but when you do you pick up right where you left off. So I look forward to sharing a beer with many of them over the years to come and yes we were geeks. Yes, you can say "Nerd Alert" all you want but before most people ever heard the term MMORPG or Wow or any of the others...
we slew dragons.
--Adorean Lew,Master of the Arcane,"Port Bitch"