I'm starting to remember the AC story; Before AC, it was the Najina camp - that's where I got my JBoots- this was a big thing because at the time, there were no AA for runspeed , so you either had JBoots or you walked. A caster with Jboots was lethal. The camp for JBoots in Najina became so bad, you had to take a turn, wait for up to two days (no sleep), in order to get into the room/group and get them. Najina was always full of players waiting for their turn, spamming the zone, and interfering with anyone who wanted to play there, not to mention the fighting and bickering that occasionally broke out over the boots, and bought in the GMs.
So, one patch day, Jboots were removed from Drelznas drops and an Ancient Cyclops was started in OOT only, which dropped a ring that was needed for the quest - this is where I camped a few times with friends, so they could get their JBoots. The now SOE owned EQ figured, if they made it a quest, it would curb camping, but all they did was move the whole ordeal to OOT, because now they were camping the ring there all the time, and it was even worse than Najina, very easy to KS. So the last thing they did was create the AC spawn in various zones, extremely rare and random - and I really believe that one zone placeholder would lift a flag for him to spawn in another zone. Right after this last method was introduced, Runspeed AA's was started, so the need for Jboots was greatly reduced. Plat became a common thing, you could buy Sow potions and use them tell you could get the needed AA's for runspeed. All the newer expansions coming out offered items that made things like JBoots look like garbage, and the new items very easy to get.
I sort of like the Najina camp for Jboots - it's not a bad camp on EqEmu, even on the busiest server since there is little interest in it, but will make the AC inter-zone spawn too, one of these days.
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