Fertile dirt and other 'necro' regs

[ifotwo]

I just remembered, you said you stopped fertile dirt from spawing on earth eles. But they spawned on earth eles even before the whole potted plants and necromancy type stuff. Way back in the beginning there were the regs that you'd use to cast spells, then other rare regs that we couldn't use, but has some sort of mystrerious lore to them. Actually, here's the stratics link:

http://uo.stratics.com/content/basics/reagenttome.shtml

All the rares there were in the game since the beginning. They just didn't have uses and were very rare. When necromancy came around they just converted the use. Same with fertile dirt. Actually, now that I think about it. The dirt may not have spawned on earth eles. But I certainly remember it being the least rare of all the pagan regs (What they were called back then.)

So there you go =)

[Alex21]

thank you.

[Derrick]

Aye, I do remember them being there during T2A i didn't know if they were there in the original release but I believe they were always called necro regs and I had a ton of them saved up in preparation for the promised necromancy which never came.

I'm not sure when necromancy finally did come out but it was years later.

I remeber reading a team ad-hoc discrussion in 98 or 99 where they said that necromancy was coming soon, like weeks not months...

Anyway I figure it'd be authentic either way but I thought they might be better off as a rare item than a common useless item to pick off a corpse like they were in the T2A days.

[ifotwo]

Yeah, I remember stuff like executioner's cap and the wyrm hearts and dragon's blood type stuff were way more rare than the bat wings, eye of newts, and fertile dirt and whatnot. All the necro regs in-game weren't even used for necromancy when if finally came out. (Which was about a year or two ago) So stuff like the brimstone and

Also, necromancy finally came in about a year or two again. And they did a horrible job with it.

[Alex21]

Post some more information and maybe we can script them for the server

[Blakheart]

necro regs weren't in the original release, i don't remember them from t2a either...I think they are more mondains legacy or age of shadows, perhaps even later..they were a few patches before necromancy, cihivalry, trammel, meditation, etc.
I could be wrong, thats just the way I remember it.

I do remember collecting necro regs before the neon weps and other crap started. But nobody knew what they were going to end up being used for at the time.

[Bicchus Dicchus]

Aye, I do remember them being there during T2A i didn't know if they were there in the original release but I believe they were always called necro regs and I had a ton of them saved up in preparation for the promised necromancy which never came.

I'm not sure when necromancy finally did come out but it was years later.

I remeber reading a team ad-hoc discrussion in 98 or 99 where they said that necromancy was coming soon, like weeks not months...

Hate to dig up an olde topic, but I reckon I've something to say on this.

I recall during that time there was a window of time, 2-3 weeks, in Test Center, that had Necromancy and Necromantic Alchemy. It was nothing like the AoS Necromancy, and Alchemy was expanded to make use of the expanded reagent list.

I recall a potion that would make one translucent, like an Ethereal Mount, and difficult to target.

However, this period occured after T2A, but it was a most interesting diversion, worthy of being looked-into by any interested parties.

Fo shizzle.

-Bicchus Dicchus

[Berock Shagando]

necro regs weren't in the original release, i don't remember them from t2a either...I think they are more mondains legacy or age of shadows, perhaps even later..they were a few patches before necromancy, cihivalry, trammel, meditation, etc.
I could be wrong, thats just the way I remember it.

They were definitely in T2A. I quit OSI shortly after UO:R released and I had hoarded lots of PAGAN Regs as they were referred as back then. The rumors of them being for necromancy sprouted just before UO:R released. Thats when I remember hearing them referred to as necro regs for the first time.

[Kaivan]

Pagan reagents had different availabilities during T2A, depending on the reagent. This page is an archived version of the current stratics page, and is relevant to our time frame. It gives information on where certain reagents were available from, and only a handful of the pagan reagents were actually available during T2A and UOR.

Also, check out the April 1999 HoC chats (you'll have to go through the archives to see them as stratics seems to be on the fritz). You'll see heavy indication of a new system in the works that talked about new types of potions and ways to craft them. There is also some information on how the system worked, with heating stands and items such as flasks becoming purchasable and that these potions would be crafted from some of the pagan reagents that were in circulation using such flasks. This information is on the archives under the alchemy section (I'll get the link later). Beyond that, other HoC chats from the same time frame also suggest that Necromancy was something in the preliminary design stages, and that it was going to make a debut in-game before the end of 99. Of course, it was never seen, but rumor has it that the rare non-spawning reagents were handed out in very limited quantities on OSI servers in promotion of necromancy by Seers at about the same time. Of course, the system for using these reagents never surfaced, and the concept of spawning all of the pagan reagents was abandoned, thus creating the rare itself.

[PointlessPeasant]

They were definitely in T2A. I quit OSI shortly after UO:R released and I had hoarded lots of PAGAN Regs as they were referred as back then. The rumors of them being for necromancy sprouted just before UO:R released. Thats when I remember hearing them referred to as necro regs for the first time.

I also remember speculation that the "bad circle" in your spellbook had something to do with the upcoming necromancy patch...

[Panthor the Hated]

lmao I remember those rumors too

then necro came out years later and everyone was disappointed, or at least i was

[Quin the Wretch]

Necro regs came from a cross shard seer event the way I heard it. The event took place in the Hedgemaze and had bags of necro regs as rewards. What I was told was that since UO engine was based off Pagan the necro regs were there from the beginning in the code, jsut not in circulation in game. After the event they started spawning on certain mobs. Common ones where executioners cap that fell off corpsers, Dry wood that fell off reapers, blood vials from Blood eles, dragons blood from ancient wyrms. The rare ones were the brimstone/ pig iron/ wyrm heart ones (at least on Pacific)

[archiacsubrosa77]

It would be wise to not give away or sell regents of any kind...you could never know when they will become...as it is said...useful...the magick arts are mysterious and unknown in many circumstances...and you do not want to eliminate opportunity

[Berock Shagando]

It would be wise to not give away or sell regents of any kind...you could never know when they will become...as it is said...useful...the magick arts are mysterious and unknown in many circumstances...and you do not want to eliminate opportunity

lol

[Zyler]

I know this is an old thread but here's my take...

Some necro regs were spawnning before T2A and perhaps were called pagen regs then. There was alot of hype and demand for a necro character so more were released prior to T2A and during T2A. I hoarded a bunch as well but I believe when UO:R was released, is when the actual necro character (and a few other templates) was introduced. I do remember the necro being very disappointing. People had already flocked/were flocking to EQ... so UO:R and the other enhancements seemed desparate.

But, that isnt stopping me now from gathering necro regs for a necro lodge set up heh. Maybe that's desparate... but more of a personal quest of which this game has so many to offer.