My Paladin Eqic, when epic's (and their quest) were first introduced in EQ2. The whole game within a game of finding the clues to peice together the quest to even start the quest to begin questing for that weapon. All the requirements of visiting other zones, mobs, NPC's and everything about earning that weapons was genuinly epic. And then after receiving it, the stats it had on it were something I looked at for probably a combined 2 hours (not all 2 hours at once, I just remember opening the stat window a lot just so I could read it.) It remains, to this day, my favorite weapons in a game soley because of the work it took to earn it.
After earning it and after it was surpased the joy I had that I could "mount" it and then hang it on my wall in my house in EQ2 was truely monumental in terms of the feels.
Runescape 2 Saradomin Hilt. When the godwars began,
I spent hundreds of hours Soloing the gods general Zilyana before she dropped the hilt for me.
I was one of the first in the world to put the godsword shards and hilt together with my smithing forging the Saradomin Godsword.
I had to have high agility to climb down the ropes to reach the boss. Defeat 40 enemys each time before i could fight Zilyana. High combat skills to defeat Zilyana and high Smithing to forge the weapon which dropped in 4 parts.
Benediction/Anathema, the epic priest staff in WoW Vanilla.
http://www.wowhead.com/item=18608/benediction
http://www.wowhead.com/item=18609/anathema
It was not easy to get and very rewarding. You had to kill Majordomus Executus in Molten Core and Kazzak, an open world boss. Then you could see an invisible quest giver in the plaque lands. The last quest was hard. You had to heal and decurse fleeing civilians and kill attacking undead and stay alive.
Greeings
I'm torn between Benediction/Anathema and Dragonwrath, Tarecgosa's Rest. The former was a fulfilling personal experience; however the latter is tied to memories with my old raid team and us working through one of my favorite raids. I unfortunately became the target of some very rude and angry trolls after my Dragonwrath ceremony, as I was a discipline priest receiving the item, but that wasn't enough to tarnish my happiness.
I also will ALWAYS remember the raid tier where I Never Received Shoulders because it was hilarious.
Bard epic in Vangaurd was OP. Once I got it it was VERY hard to get groups for alts. Cleric and Psi were decent, but noone ever wanted me on anything but the bard.
Vercel's mask, also VG, deserves mention, for the wrong reason, imo. It took 8 kills to get the mask give or take, but there was virtually nothing else in the entire wing worth killing for, so we were going there just for the mask. Once that was received and a dozen or so people were not spending all that time JUST for me to get a mask I was rather relieved.
First lightsaber in SWGs was cool, building my own, then turning it on made unlocking the jedi seem real. Although it was the jedi that was overpowered, and that first saber actually kind of sucked. (At least before the 2 nerfs, first with the introduction of the village then when they made jedi a starting class.)
My favorite to complete was the RIS armor in SWGs. Me and some mates stumbled upon the Woolymander Temple while on a walkabout. No idea what it was or what it was for. Clues were hard to come by. A couple weeks (maybe months) later...
Kilsin said:What is the best weapon or armour piece you have ever earned in any game to date and why do you consider it so good? #PRF #Epics #Bestdrop
That would be the 8th Coldain Prayer Shawl " Blessed Coldain Prayer Shawl" easily the best quest EQ1 ever created. Parts soloable, parts groupable, parts needing several groups. The storyline was great, the progression of the shawl as you went through the quest was excellent and the end item was very well balanced.
I think the coolest weapon in Everquest 2 came from a raid boss called Cheldrak. The first guild on each server to defeat him would obtain a Mythical item called Cheldrak Tooth. Now I wasn't in the guild that first obtained it, but the thought of it and seeing it on the person who actually got it was pretty cool.
Without a doubt it was the BiC quest in EQ. The GoD expansion to be exact. Was an augment, but a really nice one. It was about the same stats as the gear at the time so it was like having an extra piece of gear. Was a 200 and some odd step quest that took forever and many raid forces. Also required all kinds of tradeskills. Hardest work I ever did
