Magic Longsword
One of the most sought after items in all of Tibia, its power is unmatched by any weapon save that of the one use Ice Rapier. The weapon entered Antica in the early days before the wipe and was discovered by Arieswar and Taghor. As the item was illegaly added to the game, it was removed a few days later as described by the story below.
The sword showed up again around 1999, this time illegaly apearing inside a cyclopse, where it was found by Ghaleon. He made a deal with Arieswar who was the highest leveled character in Tibia at the time and he used it for a week before Guido found out. Arieswar's depot was deleated as punishment for not reporting the weapon (though some say it was for illegialy duping a second one).
It was not until the 2003 Tibia convention that the weapon returned. This time the sword returned as a prize to the orginizers of the Burg Waldeck convention from Cipsoft. Hagbard, a GM and one of the orginizers of the convention, held a private auction for the weapon only alowing cirtin people of merrit to bid on the item. Sioberry bought the item for around 5.5million and put it up for sale himself. Recca tried to buy the item for 6.5million in goods and cash, using Alex as the middleman, but Alex had other plans and stole the whole lot. According to recent posts, Alex had a change of heart and returned the cash to Sioberry. The sword only surfaced briefly in Lightbringers house for a super rare showing and has not been seen since.
With so much rumor and so little fact, and with few who are willing to state the truth of things, it is nice to finally hear an "offical" word on the story. Here is Alex's post:
" I guess it's that time of the year again and mentioning of the Satori Tournament is a good start, so here we go:
During the Satori Tournament of that year the horrendous organisation made me really angry. Lightbringer was visiting me in RL at the time and we had a barbeque planned later that day, but had to wait for hours for the tournament not only to start, but then to move on.
One of my chars (Strenni) was disqualified during the tournament (wich had extremely detailed rules up to the point organizing wich spells were allowed) for using a spell that was not forbidden, but forgotten by the organizers, wich pissed me off even more after the wait.
Later we made it into the final (I think) against each other (I was also using Kefur Darkhammer that day).
Both had highly powergamed skills so the lowlevel gear we got to wear during the tournament could not go through the armor. We both decided to just put both chars on "defensive mode" and now have everyone else wait for as long as it took. We wanted to force a draw as payback for the endless wait times.
Thats where Recca decides to change the tournament rules, again, by throwing firebombs around to speed things up.
Thats where my grudge against him came from.
Now the quick version of the theft:
Hagbard got sword from CIP. Hagbard held auction with fixed end time. Hagbard only allowed a selected group of people to bid on the sword. Siobkerry and Brakiss were not allowed to bid, they asked me to do it in their place. I won the auction because the time limit had run out. Reccas next bid came 8s too late.
I payed Hagbard and gave sword to Siob/Bra. They didn't like the sword after paying 2 raresets+extras for it and asked me to make a new auction.
I make a new auction, only Recca is bidding. I invent "anonymous bidders". Recca "wins" the auction for 6.5mio in items and cash. I collect the sword. I collect the payment. I log out and walk around in my flat talking to my roommate deciding what to do.
I decide to steal both.
I steal both.
3 days later my concience catches up with me and I give the payment to Siob/Bra. I keep the sword. The screenshot in the darkmansion is made.
Fast forward past the Amera adventures and some years of warcraft. I make a new knight on Antica. The day he turns lvl 100 Recca and friends show up trying to kill me. I start negotiations with Recca. We come to an agreement.
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End of story.
Also, I tried checking the tibiawiki again, since I complained regulary for a while how much false information they put there regarding this. And not to disapoint, a new version of utter stupidity in there again. Can noone get it right? Or at least that wrong?"
The real story of the cyclopsemania sword (it's first entry into the game)
-info by arieswar
Taghor and Arieswar where exploring the poh dragon lair with the new found knowledge that a pick would sometimes open up a hole on muddy ground. None others knew this was the case since it was a new feture of the update. Arieswar block and killed the dragons and dragon lords that resided inside the lair and used the pick to hit every peice of mud patch inside. They had no luck, so they destroy fielded all the firefields in the lair and picked the mud spaces they left behind.
At last they found the proper hole and droped into the lower level. More fire covered the floor, but one fire field caught their attention as it had a body lying under it. They destroy fielded that spot and serched the body. It contained a key to an unknown location (Knightwatch Tower), a book and some other junk.
The key was a wonderful new find and just as they where about to leave the body of junk behind, arieswar checked the stats of the plain sword and his jaw droped to the level below them. Inside the bag was a weapon far beyound the power of ANYTHING ever used ingame, a wooping 80/60 skilled one handed sword.
Taghor recived a sov as compensation for Arieswar to keep the sword and aries used it for 3 or 4 days before Guido angerly came and demanded the weapon. Rumor had traveled fast and he was angery that a map maker had illegaly hidden it for himself.
Guido took the weapon and destroyed it, leaving in a huff.
The second cyclopse sword was found by Ghaleon inside a cyclopse. It too, was just a regular sword graphic, but with tremendous power. Ghaleon messaged Arieswar and offered him a deal for the sword and Arieswar gladly accepted, wishing to maintain his many level lead on everyone.
After Arieswar had used its impressive power for a week, killing dragons in 2 or 3 hits (their skills and levels where no where near 100 then), Guido found out about the weapon returning to Tibia again and decided to punish Arieswar for not reporting it, by deleated his entire depot, including the sword.
Found at Cobolt tower, Cool and Rare items section.
The Introduction of the Crown and Crystal wand
The introduction of the Crown and Crystal wand (the one that was displayed in Warrax's house for so long) entered the game in 2001-2002 (?). Knightmare made an announcement that he would be tossing some free items at Thais temple and soon a crowd gathered, filling the room and surrounding area with hopeful players. KM tossed the crown and crystal wand to random points inside the temple and fast snatchers claimed them for their own. The items changed from hand to hand before they found long term owners. The crown of course ended up with Lightbringer, who sold it some years ago for a million gp, and the crystal wand was bought by Warax and eventually was deleted along with his character. To this day only one crown remains, however due to quests, the crystal wand is in plenty, though still difficult to gain.
2011 edit: Due to some dispute it is likely that the Crown and Wand already existed and that Knightmare instead used a chameleon rune to show off his items rather then giving them away. The screenshot is taken by Taghor and submited to the WOT screenshot contest which you can see in the event section.
"Taghor
Have you ever seen so much people in the temple??
This happened after some BCs of Knightmare that soon something wonderfull would happen.
All hurried to the Tempel of Thais and stood on each others feet.
Then suddenly two items popped in the crowd, a crown and a crystal-wand(the crystalwand is not on the screen cause too many people blocked the way so i could only screenshot the crwon)
Have fun
Taghor"
Blessed Shield introduction
The blessed shield was first introduced after the character wipe, and given to Elleshar for his graphical contribution to Tibia. He kept the shield for a while, as its deffense was 50, before agreeing to sell it for the high price of 130k (this was a lot of money in those days, as there was only gems and gold coins as a source of currency and no banks) to Muecil (sp). The shield also came with a promise to never sell it, which was broken many years later when Muecil decided to sell the shield. He placed it for auction on the newly created World of Tibia auction place, where the price soon rose to unprecedented 5million in cash and items (rares sold around 300-600k then). Lightbringer was the lucky buyer of this shield, adding it to his already impressive collection of rares. Elleshar was quite angery about this turn of events and chronicaled his anger on the now defunt World of Tibia board (thead was here).
Recently the shield has resurfaced in an Ab'dendriel house of a player called Gryphee on Antica. This was the first time the shield had been seen since Lightbringer sold it (rumored to be given to his wife for her hand in marriage). The shield appeared with a bronze necklace and ball gown, both of which are extreamly rare. Though showcased for awhile, the rares vanished and rumor speculates that the shield is deleted.
The Demon Leg quest
The first few pairs of Demon Legs entered the game many years before, but this quest is the reason why so many of these legs exist today. Lightbringer and Genisis GE explored Edron after the update. In the depths of the hero cave they discovered the newly re-added Demon. They where the first to kill these new demons, and eventually solved the fairly difficult mission of clearing four demons from one room. When they went to the chest at the end of the circular room, the chest held a pair of demon legs, 8 small diamonds, ring of the sky, dwarven axe, an ankh, a blue tome, a never before seen medusa shield, and a one of a kind guardian halberd. As all quests with rares spawned only once per map reset, they did not expect to gain more from the chest so they divided the items and left. It was sometime later when Antica became brave, that other teams cleared the demon room and found the same loot. Every day teams found the loot and soon caught on that these rare items where easily obtained. Knightmare had forgotten to set the spawn to only once and so it was abused. After a while of heavy abuse, KM removed the quest and replaced it with a harder version, and the items became what they are today: a demon helmet, a demon shield, and a pair of steel boots.
Introduction of the SoH
The Shield of Honor entered the game on January 7th, 2002 as a gift for those who purchased a premium account of 7 months. This prize was the first and last offered by Cipsoft, as they received many complaints from players that Cip was selling wealth. This item was a special promotion for Tibia's 5th anniversary and as a kick start to the introduction of premium accounts started only three months earlier. This snippet of news can be seen in the Tibia news archive or as follows:
On 7th January 1997 Tibia went online for the first time. This means that today is Tibia's fifth birtday! Because of our anniversary we want to give a special present to all players who sign up for a 7 months premium account or extend their premium accounts by 7 months. They will receive the so called shield of honor. This is a limited time offer. The payment must arrive until 31st January.
Furthermore we want to announce that a few weeks from now we will introduce new premium account features. These include in-game support for guilds, the possiblity for experienced characters to refine their vocations to achieve new titles, as well as new spells. Stay tuned!
Finally we want to remind everyone that character transfers between accounts are only possible until 15th January.
As of October 2011, CIPsoft broke faith and has offered a Drapper Mount with 6-12 month premium time purchases. So much for not selling wealth!
The History of the Rose Shield, Mercenary Shield, Kreaell Shield, and Rose Armor
In Tibia’s earliest days, before accounts, before rentable guildhalls, before even the introduction of Kazordoon or any other town other then Thais, there where few guilds that lasted. Those that did where awarded with their own guild hall and rare keys to open them. A few of these guilds where given the honor of having their own special item as an award. Only three of these received the honor, the Kreaell guild, the Red Rose and the Mercenaries. Only a few copies of these items where ever made, and those few where awarded to those individuals who truly where worthy to receive the honor of owning one. Over time the rare rewards, Kreaell shield, Rose shield, Rose armor, and Mercenary shield where given out. Outcries of unfairness where screamed for many years before Cip decided to listen to them and made most of the items questable and changed the names and graphics of a few of them. The only item that escaped identity destruction was the Rose shield. The Kreaell shield became the ancient shield, the Rose armor became the Noble armor, and the Mercenary shield became the Griffin shield.
It is a shame these noteworthy items where destroyed. History sometimes holds no value to the masses that only see unfair privilege.
The first Warlord Sword
The first Warlord sword to enter the game in early Tibia. One of the Gods decided to sell the powerful weapon to the highest bidder. The person bid the outrageous price of 300 stacks of diamonds (as gems could be bought and sold for the same price, it was a common money unit as only gold coins existed). The player only enjoyed the sword for a little while, before it was removed along with the depot of the owner by the angry God who had been told of how the diamonds had entered the game. Duping would not be tolerated.
Currently a warlord sword exists in game and was recentlty sold but no details on it are known…
The Demon Powered Shield
Back when the graphics where less pleasant to look at, a powerful shield entered the game illegally. This shield was known as the Demon powered shield and along with the ungodly defense of 50, it had an attack power of 5! This shield was duplicated and spread to every player who wanted to buy it (was sold for around 30k then). Cipsoft eventually discovered this abuse and deleted every player who had a shield in their possession. The famous Flamehead escaped deletion by chance, as he had died the day before and lost the shield. Rumor has it Lightbringer talked his way out of deletion, claiming to not know that the shield was illegal, and being the one to of reported it.
Lost boy was a well known man back in the early days of Tibia. He was in charge of the popular flat system involving keys. He had his own island retreat on the old GS Island accessed by Fibula dongeon. For his efforts he was giving the item of his creation, as he was a very taltented graphics artist, the coveted Dragon Scale Leg. Most rares ended up in dupers hands and mass multiplied, but this one pair remained inside Lost boys depot, perhaps exsting there to this day...
Back with the introduction of the Plains of Havok, came the introduction of Outlaw camp not long after, and in its depths where the runes of a past city. Today this place holds the bright sword quest, but way back it was the sole location of the Horned Helmet. This item spawned once per map update.
Way back when their was one world, one city, one small continent. The Winged helmet could be found, spawned at the Lighthouse west of Thais. It was fairly easy to gain, but spawned once per map update. Conterary to popular belief, this helmet has never granted speed, or ultimate protection beyond its healthy defensive powers. It is unknown how many exist to this day...
He's an excert from Aureus' Site.
Note: This is translated peice so some words don't work out. Let me know if you can fix this peice.
"In the cellar of the lighthouse, which is appropriate southwest for the city (use west gate), gives it a relatively small area in the Zyklopen lives. They respawnen there very fast.
In its area there is also a chest, in which after each server restart one Helmet OF Hemes, 50 pieces of gold and a Axe are appropriate for doubles.
The entrance to the Cyclopese is however something hidden:
If one in the lighthouse the first leaders descends, one comes into a small area with a corpse and unites crates. If one the middle of the 3 crates away-pushed sees one a lever, which one surrounds. There second leader opens downward. There one needs however still the assistance of a second player, in order to arrive for the cyclopese. (if not already before someone was there and the way left open...):
One is in a t-shaped course. North there is a characterized field, on which a player (crates do not function) must place himself. Second goes daweil into the south and sees there a Trepenabgang. There down is again a lever, which one surrounds again.
Now a Teleporter appears that directly to the Cyclopese leads at the eastern end of the t-course."
The history of this hammer was best sumed up by Wot: " In the times of dread some of the best dwarfen smiths were hold captive by the forces of Blog. They were forced to teach the secrets of smithing to Blogs children, the cyclopses. Kazrad Rockfist, a dwarfen hero, braved many dangers to find the hidden underground forges. He sneaked in and managed to free the captives, but as they made a run to the exit, they found the steel doors sealed shut. With the rampaging cyclopses of Blog in their back the dwarf begun to pray to their gods and in the last minute they got an answer from the heavens. Kazrads hammer became blessed, and with a single mighty hit the hero shattered the doors, allowing all captives to escape. Wielded in many battles as a symbol of the fight against the cyclopses, the hammer was lost. The dwarves call this artifact Khundahamar, which means ‚liberator‘ but its only known as the‚ Thunderhammer‘ by the humans."
Ingame only two such hammers existed, one was a gift from the gods to Patryn for his convention work, the other illegal gained by Warrax from the one shot behemoth quest, using his bought gm, Ender Speaker of the Dead. After Warrax's deletion, the hammer escaped and was sold. The buyer lost more then hammer when he failed to heed the words from SGM Flattery, loosing his depot along with the hammer when CIP deleted it. A hammer exists on Premia, entering through the demon cip quest, gained and sold by my Premia char Morak. One exists on Eternia where one of the players gained it for reporting a major bug. With Orshibaal droping these every so often, other worlds have gained this weapon. Indeed even Antica now has another, but perhaps the team will destroy it in disagrement? So powerful a weapon is now not as rare as it once was...
Back in 1999 CIP had already added the Dragon Lord to the game a year earlier, but they wanted to give something special to the new client (version 6 (?). So it was for a year that the DL would rarely drop a Great Shield. Back in these days there where few spawns on the Tibian map, and the advanced dragons where the most difficult monster ingame after the removal of the Daemon (old demon) a while earlier. With most of the player base hovering around level 50 and earlier levels, you can begin to see the difficulty with killing dragon lords. In those times their was fewer then 300 players online so you could wait forever before another Dragon Lord spawned, worse you where unable to attack and use runes at the same time. So the players found a bug to make killing the red beast easier, we waited for it to shoot its 3x3 fire, and placed our healing runes ontop of the fire and switched to attack. Back then the Lord wouldnt move and dance like today so you where able to trap it diagonaly, eliminating his wave attack. DSMs where not easy to gain then, but the powerful Green shield was exceptionaly rare, being looted once a month on average. A shield which held the unbelivable 4 point difference over a master mind (master mind had 38 def, great shield had 42) simply was not good for game balance so CIP stoped DLs from droping the coveted Green wall a year after its introduction. Perhaps fewer then 15 of these priceless relics still remain. Duping increased the number then, and monster drops make the shield more "common" in todays world.
Surprisingly, a lot is unknown about this famous two handed axe weapon. For many years it was the greatest obtainable weapon in Tibia (other then ice rapier), with other high status weapons not available or removed due to cheating. What is known is that this item was a single shot quest item per map reset. Some people claim this weapon was also found in Demons, as a rare drop harder to gain then todays Eplate, but I can't be sure. It has been several years since I last saw one for sale, many famous people have owned one and I remember someone pegging the existance of 8 of these weapons in 2004. The last known axe that was forsale sold for 4 million. It's destructive power is still marveled even today. Due to a bug of Hellgorak, many of these axes now exist. Today it's still a rare drop from a few high powered creatures.
In times earlier then the Hero, or even earlier then most monsters in Tibia, the crown set was rare. No quest spawned it, no place displayed its graphics. The only thing rarer then the set itself was acualy seeing the set displayed, an event I only recall ever happening once. Even the coveted rare demon set apeared more often then this equipment. Rumor has it's introduction all over the place, some pegging it as a designers award for a job well down, others peg it as a convention team prize, others say it was a gift from the gods, and a few jellious ones mutter about illegal entery. What is clear is that it existed and was rare. Sadly this item was totaly de-rared with the introduction of the Hero.
As seen on Taghors history site:
"Ahh i begin to love this site
Long lost people appear to add their comments. A very interesting Comment was made by Karl, a former wizard (That’s what the GMs were called in the old days). And since i think you all should hear about the story of the first Helmet of the Stars, i will add it here:
Hello Tibians and a special “Hello” to Taghor!
Even though I haven’t talked to you in about 5(?) years I hope you remember me.
I stumbled up on Durin (in a bar in Regensburg) some time ago and since then I am back online in Antica from time to time now. I just found this homepage and since you are looking for old stories I might contribute one. I heard you are mostly looking for stories about where the rare items came from so I start with the story where the first Helmet of the Stars came into the game - or better: into the possession of a player.
Before I begin, I have to point out that it was not really the first HOTS that was gotten by a player, but the first that still exists today. There was an update (maybe in 1999? – please correct me if I am wrong) where all now rare items were deleted and the whole setting of the item system was reformed. It was necessary, because it was very easy before to get those items (dragons dropped them all) and every level 5 player already had a full set of the (back then) best items in the game: HOTS, E-plate and a firesword. So to make Tibia more interesting, all these items where replaced by a steel helmet, a regular plate armor (or was it a chain armor?) and a regular sword. From that update onwards, the rare items were hard to come by. Maybe it was not as hard as it is today, but still a lot harder then before.
So when the server came online with the new update, Thais was swarming with people filling the temple right away and giving good old Quentin a shock by the sudden appearance of so many players logging in at his residence. Some were upset by the now lame equipment they were wearing, some were rushing into the depot to check what happened in there. One player run ahead of all others to be the first at the demon to see what treasures he would hide. This was Galadriel, the probably mightiest sorcerer back then. She wouldn’t have had to hurry that much, because there was no one else that was so eager to see the big red one, but still she did. There was only one place in Tibia back then where you could encounter a demon, and that was deep below Thais, south of Mintwallin. It was not longer then 10-15 minutes after the server came online that I got a message from Galadriel: she had defeated the demons and found as a treasure the famous Helmet of the Stars and an enchanted plate armor. She was a bit upset, because she thought it was still to easy to get the nice stuff. What we didn’t know then was that this mighty treasure only spawned once, so it was Galadriel who was the first and only player that had these nice items for some time.
I hope you liked this memory and maybe you can use it for your homepage.
I still got more memories to share, like
- Where to find an E-plate, HOTS, firesword and cyclopmania sword in the alpha version.
- Where to find the first SOVs, after they were introduced to the game.
- Where to find a cyc-sword with the stats 80/60.
- Where to find spell scrolls that taught you spells independent of your profession.
- Finding the first great shield of Tibia.
But since I don’t know if you want to tell some of these things yourself, Taghor, I will stop remembering old times now and let you decide if you are interested in stuff like this at all.
Keep up the good work Taghor, and hopefully we will meet in Antica soon.
Good hunting,
Karl
Karl i can only say i am very interested in this kind of stuff. Please contact me at tibiahistory@gmx.com to talk about it.
So people i am sure you like this kind of memories? If so, leave a comment and encourage Karl to post more. (but then as an Auhtor)"
KrAzY/Villux Batch, was out on their newbie characters looking for high levels to kill with ice rapiers (they where dupers and easily made more of them). Galadriel, holder of the only HoTs and Eplate in game, walked by at x roads. He killed her in a single shot and was surprised at what she droped. They had no idea that she had these spectacular items and promptly began duping them. While other players went to their depots to survay the damage after the great wipe, Galadriel went to the demon spawn and found herself these items. She was disapointed, thinking that these items where still common yet kept their discover to herself, until she heard that they where one of a kind, keeping them even more secretly.
Kensu, who knew the duping technice as ill describe below, made 30-50 of the sets and gave them away to friends who liked to die and lose them. As is always the case with duping bugs (like the recent case at the bk swamp) he got lazy with his duping practices, and stopped using nubie characters and began using his own main to duplicate. This bug was discovered by Kensu and Aureus, and was abused by Kensu heavily resulting in his deletion. Aureus of course reported the duping bug and it was eventualy repaired (though the damage had already been done). The duping phenominon of the 99's and 00's did not end with this glitches' removal as other people where secretly abusing duping bugs at the time.
To dupe back then using the inventory method, you put a fishing rod on the ground and right clicked on it, then stepped on the rod and clicked it above your head. A single window would open like a backpack in the consol, the graphic looked like the old blond head, and it had the grey and red up and down arrows, a crosshair marking, red outline box as a target (the old targeting system), and a full red box like when you attacked something. Each of the inventory spots had an item in it, the items you had in your backpack. You just took the items out of the wierd inventory and put them on the ground, logged off and back on again and youd have your full inventory back plus your items on the ground.
Arieswar, Lightbringer, and Flamehead where the first to enter the old demon room in Mintwallen after one of the early updates. Arieswar was scared becuase of the large number of demons inside the room, but together they lured them away and got to the chest on the far size. Underneith/inside it was 2 demon sets, a one of a kind Yellow spell wand and a sword of valor. The wand went to Lightbringer, the sword of valor to Arieswar, and Flamehead took one of the demon sets. The second demon set was devided between Arieswar and Lightbringer, LB gaining the legs and Arieswar keeping the armor which he gave to Lady Rebel and who still has it to this day.
Back in the early days of Tibia CIP decided to add a few special scrolls to the game in order for players to learn spells ment ususaly for other vocations or perhaps it was yet another item stolen by illegal means? At any rare these spell scrolls could be learned by any vocation that reached the required magic level. Great Energy Beam, Summon Creature, Great Healing, and the covated Ultimate Explotion where the four spell scrolls available. Some paladins on antica are able to summon, only half a dozen druids are able to cast ultimate explosion, some paladins are even able to use the great energy beam, yet not one knight ever was able to gain magic level 8 required to gain the unbelivable great healing spell. These spells as you can guess where terrible for game balance and where removed before the version 6 update of 99.
For a large number of years 6 types of rings existed in Tibia. The power ring (purple), the life ring (blue), time ring (green), might ring (new old one)(yellow) and death ring (red) where the main rings, followed by the buyable wedding ring, and the super rare Might Ring (trading for 120k at the time). These rings held no purpose beyound their use in a quest or two, their sale value to npcs, or their rarity (death ring traded for 10k a pop). For many years people complained that the rings where useless, everyone wanting some use. Everyone rejoiced with the introduction of the new client and the appearance of a ring slot. Everyone looking for use out of the rings and came up with nothing, resulting in the spot being used for wedding bands or decoration. Now many types of rings exist, each granding a special ability for a short time, long gone are the days of rarity and display of rings. Here is a topic with one of the many discussions as to how to make rings useful.
Many runes and spells have come and gone in the history of Tibia, the runes left from these days are a reminder that powerfull spells should be better balanced. Two of these rare runes are the Creature Burn, and the 15 shot Energy Bomb. The creature burn rune was a powerful fire magic rune that required mag 7 to use, and did decent inital fire damage, then kept burning the target like the envirum rune of today, it was a very nice rune and a few existed until cip reintroduced the rune at a much reduced damage rate, today known as the Soul Fire rune. The 15 shot Ebomb is very well known and a largly sought after collector rune which in olden times created a 9x9 energy diagonal square doing the same damage as an Energy Field rune. According to Cheron, you needed magic level 25 to fire this monster, before it was reintroduced by CIP as the small 3x3 rune we have today of the same name, and far fewer shots. Other rare runes include a light blue rune with an upside down anchor on it, designed for mag 26, adori mort vis - use unknown. Another recently brought up rare rune was the yellow mana fluid rune, any information on this rune would be appreciated - it no longer exists in game as far as anyone knows. Today you can see a few rare runes that are rare because of the number of shots they have, some being the result of bugs (0 shot runes), others the rare loot of ingame quest (Ferumbras loot, Fortembra loot, ect), or as new quests like the 3 shot uh and 2 shot sd. In CIPsofts stupidity they turned those runes into ugly ass silver an gold edged versions of the runes.
Creature burn 
Ebomb 
Mana rune?
For as long as I can remember these shield where entirely worthless. They held no practical value and where only dropped by dwarf guards (which their was only a few spawns of). During one update this changed dramatically, even though the only two original places to find dwarfs where still largely un-hunted by Tibians. The Kazordoon armor store decided one update that it would purchase the basic shield for 300gp.
My friend Sir Seggallion had tons of these shields saved up. He liked to help new players by giving them some starting equipment and as a result had tons of these worthless shields and other beginer stuff saved up. When the update came he sold all of his precious shields and made a fortune. Other players soon discovered this great opportunity and bought up shields from all over tibia, running to Kazordoon to sell them to the npc. I hunted in the prison mine for shields of my own to sell and Guido passed me and asked what I was doing while checking up on the update in Kaz. Shortly there after
Cipsoft realized the insanity the price had caused and cut it down to its present day 100gp.
About an age back, older then my thoughts go, I spoke to someone famous who owned one of these when they where hard to get. They where not droped by any Warlocks then, as not even Ferumbras had made an appearance. I seam to recall this being droped by the origonal Daemons though my mind can never be certain. As a one of the greatest armors and most rare it was trading higher then even the Dragon Scale Mail. A normal knight at that time would expect to move from a Knight Armor all the way up to a DSM before ever owning a Golden Armor. This nice armor was coveted by those who owned it, and its old graphic still ranks high as one of the greatest graphics ever to enter Tibia, a damn shame they changed it. Anyone with more info on this armor should contact me.
This armor has had an interesting run since its introduction in '99, with the addition of Dragon Lords. These armors where very hard to gain as few DL spawns existed and even fewer people where able to hunt them (you try killing these beasts at very low levels, where even level 100 is outlandish). The price of these green mails rose in early 2000 to trade around 300k a peice. This price droped dramaticly when Arieswar, and a few others, discovered a bug in POH DL lair that every DL after server save would drop a DSM. The price quickly droped to 100k a DSM before CIP interviened and delt those who failed to report the bug a cripling blow, reseting their accounts and adding banishments. Today this armor is not as great as it once was.
Before Orc Leaders, before Black Knights, this helmet was a rarity. For some reason it became rare, driving up the price to 20k per helmet. As there was no Royal Helmet, and since the Demon Helmet was still a rarity this helmet rose to meet the demand. I am not sure what caused the shortage, but I was very surprised to see this helmet rise to such a price. With the introduction of some new monsters the price fell to more realistic values, yet remained high until over saturation finaly sunk the price to Djinn levels.
Before Amulets of loss, before all the fancy necklaces that grant benifits, before even the full Amulet of Life, this was the best neck peice you could obtain. Giant spiders where the only creatures that droped these then, as demons where out of the game for a while. The price of these precious items rose high as the sky, trading for 20k or more. Now these items are totaly worthless as most would rather have a nice 50k amulet of loss around their neck then a 2 arm amulet. People today don't know risk. These have returned in favor in recent years due to item loss being inside the characters.
Belive it or not, their was a time when owning a pair of steel boots was the ultimate prestige. These boots where so rare that even the greatest knight Arieswar did not own a pair! There was no fancy behemoths, no silly pirate boots, none of this boh or soft boot crap, it was simply you owned a pair of leather boots, the same pair you first found in a troll, or you where very rich and lucky and owned a pair of steel. I bought a pair of these ultra rare boots from Ghaleon for a nice 150k, and I sware they brought me extra luck just for having them on. Rumor mills have stated that these boots where first droped very rarely in Fire Devils, which where only found in small numbers in the Desert Dongeon. Where ever they first came from, the boots stoped droping and where rare up until the introduction of Behemoths. Today these boots trade so low that its almost impossible to sell them, thanks to the speedy BOH or the mana enhancing Soft Boots.