Everquest Hacked!!!

In a rather alarming development it appears that vicious hackers (also known as hax0rs for our l33t speaking audience out there) managed to break the Everquest Source code.  The hackers, said to be led by the devil-like figurehead known only as Shawn, seem to have altered the game beyond repair.  The hack was first discovered when the guild known as Legacy of Steel (referred to commonly as the Evil Empire on The Nameless Server) killed the High Priest of Ssraeshza only to discover that his loot table was secretly replaced with the Va'Dyn's loot table.  As evidence we have these pictures to show you:

It appears that Shawn and his merry band of Hax0rs have literally destroyed any resemblance of decent loot in Luclin.  As further evidence that this absolutey worthless, steaming mass of fecal matter (a.k.a. loot) dropped off of an encounter that actually requires skill and strategy (unlike the loot-fests known as ToV, THO, Creator, Umbral Plains etc etc) we present you with these photos courtesy of the San Diego Police Department which is currently examining the crime:

Our deepest sympathies from all of us at the Evil Empire to the poor folks who made EQ.  It must be heartbreaking to know that a project as special as this game could be hacked and abused like it was.  You must feel somewhat violated.  Because we certainly do. . .

The Wonderful World of Rhap

Well, we truly had a week of suck.  Sorry to say, but we just blew this week.  Luckily, we had our inspirational leader, Rhap, there to motivate us to reach our lofty goals. . .

Stalkers, Wanna-be's and Unoriginal Bastards

Quotes of the Day

Rhap Introduces Shei to the Cobra

You got knocked *the fuck* out~

As a great man once said, "When I can't drink the Cobra 40 oz., I like to drink the Cobra 32 oz." (paraphrased from Rhap's Member Profile). Ah, such profundity is rare to find these days amongst the intellectually elite of the online gaming community.  But alas, we here at Legacy of Steel are fortunate to count Rhap as one of us.  Despite our best efforts to plot the perfect execution of Shei Vinitras, Rhap once again outsmarted the masses.  Rather than risk the lives of innocent women and children (mostly Crazz), Rhap bravely went forth to have a conversation with Mr. Shei.  Seems they settled things like true gentleman, with a drinking contest.  The Shei's last heard words were, "Blame it on the bottle" while Rhap's final words on the subject were. . .well. . .actually Rhap types too fucking slow so he didn't say much. . .

Speaking of perfect executions, here is what the actual fight looked like:

Before killing Shei, we killed that Mo Faka extraordinaire, the High Priest of Ssraeshza.  Despite the HP getting 3 complete heals from visiting neighbors (oops) the High Priest went down in smooth fashion.

But the best news of the day was that we FINALLY had some goddamned luck for once.  Have I mentioned how much I hate rare drops?  Have I mentioned how much I hate bullshit timesinks?  Ok, I just want to keep repeating those words like a religious fanatic in an airport vestibule so that maybe. . .just maybe. . .someone in San Diego might become a believer!  So here is the good news:

This is the part where I make some cocky statement about killing the Emp soon but what the fuck, of course we'll kill the Emp.  And so will everyone else eventually.  Those little *soon* website updates are so last year.  Just look through my archives if you want to see the origins of where that came from.  Instead I'm gonna post a picture of the Emp full health and I'll just say, "Not even fucking remotely close but eventually we'll get lucky when some bullshit rare drop falls off of a bullshit spawn in a lousy exp camp which is absolutely no fun!"  Anyway, it seems the Emp is gonna die real soon.  My homies over on Povar, Team Ice (note: the guildname Triton is purely a front for the true pimps, Team Ice) are really damned close.  Hopefully my server transfer application works out ok so I can be the first to post on every other guild's messageboard and all over the safehouse when we, Team Ice, finally drop the cacksugger.

So that's about all you'll hear from me the next few days.  I was lucky enough to score playoff tickets to the next two Kings games.  Unfortunately, if there's anything I hate more than Seru bane or Shissar bane weapons it's got to be Patrick Roy.

GM Event Mania!

Whenever there's a GM event on The Nameless, at least 30 people need to send me tells saying, There's a GM event in Dreadlands -- get your guild here quick -- you need to slay the dragon!! Or whatever bullshit mob the GM's decide to be.  I've noticed a trend that the GM's seem to prefer either being A) a Dragon or B) 100000 Skeletons or C) 100000 Werewolves.  But I digress.  Well, let me save everyone some trouble.  I could care less about GM events.  If a GM wants me to kill him so bad he can come track me down and challenge me to a duel.  Those events are lag-ridden jackassfests.  Here's some commentary regarding the latest GM event on The Nameless:

Manalope sums things up nicely. . .

The Wonderful World of Rhap

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Stalker Hall of Fame

Quotes of the Day

Any Stalker becomes too annoying, I'ma send the Sl00t after you. . .

We Did It Like This, We Did It Like That

Ah, that's why we all hate necros. . .

The Good Ol' AoW. . .current farm mob, although thank god, he's actually a fun fight.  Farming Vulak was as boring as can be but at least if you're gonna farm something, let it be a fun fight.  My favorite part of the AoW fight is when he enrages.  All you warriors on other servers try this (note: if LoS warriors do this you'll get a swift kick to the nuts) stop attacking and turn the AoW on enrage!!  With any luck you'll kill all of your monks, rangers and rogues within 2 seconds.  It's quite funny although it ruins any hope of a flawless victory.  And no, LoS hasn't had a flawless AoW kill yet.  Our best kill to date cost us 2 deaths.

Patch day was pretty fun for us.  We basically killed everything that was spawned and then went looking for more.  We've been camping the hell out of our coveted bane weapons and have had pure-shit luck.  Man, it reminds me of all the time and effort it took for us to get our HP/Creator and AL keys.  I'd say we killed 30-40 commanders before getting those keys.  But of course some random jackass can get the key on the first try.  I guess it's the same way with all of SoL:  Get lucky on key camps, get lucky on *stumbling upon recipes*, get lucky on rare components, get lucky on combines.  It's absolutely no fun.  And now we're at the point where people are farming Seru, so you can forget about any hope of a change to the process required for weapons.  They'll cry foul if the weapon quest is adjusted or retuned (and I guess rightfully so).  It's a big mess.  I really can't believe the key and weapon bullshit we as players are putting up with in SoL.  Yet like lemmings to the cliff we persist. . .

So rather than sit in a boring, long, poor experience camp with the hope of getting one single rare quest component which would go for one single combine which might fail, we decided to head to VP so we could actually kill something somewhat fun and do what we like to do as a guild -- RAID NOT CAMP.  So here is this week's money shot:

I guess the next goal is to get 5 or 6 dragons in that picture.  Yeah, almost all of the loot rots when we do VP (and no you can't have any so don't ask).  But the game is beyond loot now.  And let's face it, loot is so incredibly fucked up in Luclin you can't play for loot anymore.  That Seru BP that Afterlife got is the best exanple that there is no hope for loot anymore.  I am beginning to think that loot is just made and placed in the game by some random number generator.  And does it really matter?  Anyone melee that plays at the high level of the game only cares about one stat.  It's funny and sad that you can play the game for 3 years, earn 60 levels, earn countless AA points and yet only one of the little numbers under the statistics tab has any relevance to the actual game.  We're supposed to get excited because a BP has 75 AC?? Wonder if it would be so incredibly taxing for the dude who capped AC to walk over to the dude who makes loot and say, "Hey jackass, I capped AC -- try again on that Seru loot because right now 75 AC means jack and shit, chippy."  Oh well, I could sit and bitch more but I think I'll go spend 8 hours camping a rare component so I can discover new encounters to beta best. . .err I mean bitch about. . .oops I meant have fun enjoying!!! Fun?  What is this "fun" you speak of. . .

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Evil Empire Inc.

Dedicated to making The Nameless a more miserable place for everyone. . .

Stalkers, Wanna-be's and Unoriginal Bastards

In case you ever wonder why I miss tells. . .

Quotes of the Day

Oh, one last thing, I want to thank everyone for all the kind words over the past few days.  And if you sent me an email, please be patient -- I'm trying to sift through them all.  There are only so many hours in a day. . . .