Quote Originally Posted by Roberto077 View Post
The crown of persistence was released as an item that showed you had the persistence to make it to the next level of the Balefort sewers 56 cap, but that cap was only a few months long and required less xp. This cap has made us persist through hellish PvP, hellish PvE (literally and figuratively, 1 year of no major updates, and all the crap from hackers and scammers.

IMO, there was a relatively low amount of persistence in most areas (not levels) of the game back then compared to what we have to persist right now.
Actually, the xp needed for 55-56 was over 100k. It's more than it is today. Additionally, there where no thrashers around, no free daily elixirs, no daily blessings and no xp anywhere. So sewers cap was a tough cap!! Esp with no elixir!!