Back then, no farming was around, well, it wasn't called farming, and people weren't that determined, there wasn't any rushing dungeons, pinks were very hard to get, and very, very few people in the game would run around cussing in town. Hardly any greed, when you'd log in, you'd see everyone you knew, and few you didn't, there was no such thing as noobs because everyone was one pretty much! The community seemed nicer, it was a time before stash, a time before trade, and a time before a lot of the other special content we have now. Fnord was the same exact thing as alterra pretty much, just a smaller server, and it had a rumor that it had easier drop rates
Back then, there were a thing called scammers, not the "he sold me an overpriced pink" scammer, but someone that would basically say, oh, I have this item (sometimes it didn't even exist, just sounded cool because they made it up) what item would you trade for it? Then they say "ok, give me that item, I give you this one" and they would ditch with your item, but that rarely happened, few people were scammers.
Back then, everyone wore gem staffs if you were a Mage, and hybrids weren't around, plat wasn't available, it was 1 or 2 dollars for each expansion, the game was debatably better then, but it has grown, a lot. I could go on and on about how it was back then, but what I really remember were the gem staffs, if anyone might have a picture with a Mage wearing a gem staff from way back then before the graphic change and swamps, I wanna see it, I want the memory revived
I remember looking everywhere for the staffs, I forget if gifting was out by then, I don't think it was. I can't remember how I got the mastery one eventually, but I did. Now when I'm talking, I'm referring to fathom days, I could talk about LE days, or swamp days if you want, it wont be as long since I remember fathom days the best.
Btw, anyone remember Loso? I miss him
he went to the navy, and I heard he'd come back, bur it's been a while :/
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