Tibia Library

The First Tibianic

The AFT (Alliance of Free Tibians) put on a rare spectacular the likes of which where never seen before. Taghor decided it was time to show Tibia what real rares where so after the update for a fee of 100gp you where able to go down and look at the rarest items in all of Tibia, and at that time these all where rare!

The lounge before the show. I was in no hurry to see these rares, I wanted to enjoy some time with the other foaks who had decided to come down to see the show or who where acual contributors like LB (Lightbringer was a major rare colector at the time so most of the rares where his on the ship). If you noticed that old letter in my hand, then you should know that this was the letter each person got when they paid their fee, a log of the exibit and its contributors (Link to this document can be found: somewhere else, i have to upload it still). Note the comment made by LB, it was acualy possible to kill a person with a summoned dear, you just needed them to be nakid and afk for a very long time ;)

Those godawful dots and lines on my screen is an effect called "dithering." At the time i was using my old computer which graphics card was junk so the fancy light effects called shade and shadow or what-not was replaced with this crap. I had this anoying crap for about a year before i finaly caved and bought a new card. Note the absence of a Grey Tome, for some reason either of the two lenders where not able to be reached in time for the exibition, so sadly it is not on display. Note: The guild Celebnoli was still alive then, a very well known guild to be good and peace oriented, and run by the old GM Elosyadar, one of my very good friends now retired.

Warlocks where very new so this want was still impressive though less rare then most of the other peices. Note: For some reason im missing the two most important screenshots in this set, the wooden wand seen above the common blue spell wand, and the Elven rod seen just becide the blue spell wand and might wand, why they didnt show up ill never know - woodenwand is now lootable in the Paradox quest and the elvish turned into a stupid cip wand.

Not incredible but still impressive (before we found out ghosts droped them).

Again not entirely impressive but still unknown that priests droped them.

The yellow spell wand was the rarest wand in the entire game, only one existed and it was owned by its founder LB. The story on how it was found is posted somewhere in the history section. A shame it turned into that stupid wand system set now.

Rare firedevil drop at the time and sold for 10k a wand or more. As only one place had fire devils, and still does i belive, it was even harder to find.

Behemoths where still largly a unkilled monster, so this wand was still rare then, though not as much as it should have been.

A blue spell wand, the orc shamons specialty and entirely unrare and only got into this rare ship becuase it made a wand set.

150 stack of coins. Back before crystal or platinum existed, monsters use to drop all their gold in single piles. So when people went DL slaying, they sometimes droped stacks of gold greater then 100. Very few stacks like this remain and it wasn't possible to stack over 100 yourself.

The absolute most rarest instriment. Was a gift given to LB if my memory serves me correctly. Pepelu was reported as having a set in this time too, and possibly another person...

There's my elven wand pic, stupid thing was hiding on me.

Now we are getting into the good stuff. Also note my ammulet spot, see how that is a p ammy and not an aol? Back in my day we didn't have this fancy item loss item so it was risky. If i died i could lose all of it or any peice of it - a risk i was willing to take as all other rare warers where. There use to be alot of gangs out there who pked only known rare holders.

Thats your clasic E-bomb, with its 15 shots and full screen hitting power. Became rare nearly imediately after the spell was taken out, perhaps people didn't relize it was gone and kept firing runes or perhaps they where just too damn fun to keep?

Ferumbras loot, was bought by Bubble a few years ago I belive, owned by LB at this time. Thats alot of gfbs for one rune!

A glitch rune, also was a sd with the same 0 shots. It was acidently created during some of the bad lag and crash server days. If you shot it, it would disapear like nothing happend.

Absolute power, this rune was called the creature burn and it was excruciatingly rare as its forging ability was removed from the game for a long time. This was another Ferumbras loot and remains the best knight rune out there (arguably).

This was perhaps the only star amulet in existance and an item i desperatly wanted. It's beauty was only parreled by its outragously unnamable market price. Now a days every dollar store sells these for a buck a dozen.

Beat that Guido! Finaly a rare that is still rare! No idea where it came from, but this ugly peice of crap has yet to become popular quest chest item. Unsure of which legends are true about this item, it's existance is almost entirely a mystery...

Another rare that acualy remains rare. This isnt minator loot or troll loot, this is an acual silver necklase and its very expencive and very rare. Only a few of these badies exist and you'll rarely see one on display - especialy these days. Start showing your super rares people!

The first crystal wand in game owned by Warrax. He was the first to nab it when Knightmare decided to dump a Crown and a crystal wand in Thais temple. Theirs a pic and story of this in the history of added items section. Damn it still is a georgous wand and one I wanted badly.

An old friend, this is of course the Thunder Hammer after cip gaffed the stats on it. This hammer was owned by Patyn (sp?) before it was sold for an undesclosed fat wad of cash. He showed me his whole set on the floor of the warlock hero spawn for something to do, the screenshot ill post elsewhere. This hammer is still outragously rare and sickeningly priced, good luck finding one for anything less then 5 sultan tresurerooms.

A beautiful peice of jewlery. It was not so much rare then but still a nice peace for the room. The wedding ring market went under the day warlocks started droping these bad boys. I cant even fathom the prices people where paying to get ahold of a set of these for their loved ones.

Sort of rare at the time, not much to look at and not entirely impressive.

The guild Red Rose's badge of honor. This item was produced by cipsoft for the guild in the oldendays to give to their most honorable warriors. Very few where made and as you can see the once Rose armor turned into the noble armor. Thanks to all those idiots who squaked about unfairness that only super old guilds got rare rewards.

Miraculosely they didn't botch the shield up so it remains very rare and few outside of the RR guild acualy own one. The RR was a very special guild, they had two items that where super rare and only for their best members. LB made a secreat character to get into the Mercenarys (Manostra) in order to gain their mercenary shield, he was already a part of the RR and had recived their full honors.

This is the same crown that was droped that day along with the crystal wand by Knightmare in Thais temple. Theirs a pic and story of this in the history of added items section. The Crown was owned by LB which was later sold to an unknown person, it remains one of a kind to this day.

Not every picture is a kodac moment, and you can see that i missed the text on this one. But this is my first impression of the ultimate rare room. You realy do not want to know the total value of all those rares in this room. Alot of them where outragously idioticly rare and worth entire accounts of characters depots in gold. Note: See that the GM's still show up in my list, this was before cip had the bright idea of making them invisable to everyone else. Thank you cip, now its impossible to see if any of my gm friends are online.

The ultrarare Bright Sword was a very sought after peice for weapon collectors. Only three of these bad boys existed and two of which where owned by GAS and lent to a friend to keep safe. Some idiot chick pushed a bag with one of these in it and of course some theif nabed it. A lot of cash later and the weapon was recovered.

Ahhh the Winged helmet, the Helmet of Herms. Still a rare item and not often on display but its a very nice looking item, infact that entire "golden set" was beautiful.

This is why everyone came to the exibition. Every rare on this boat is nothing compared to the shield. At its implimentation, it held an unparalled defencive power of 50, and remained so until cip decided to tone down the rares and changed it to 45, then another 5 points to rest at 40. The shield is still two points better then a Great Shield, but was alot higher in olden days. The price of this shield is very high indeed. The cyclopse sword is absent from this shot as it's owner, the theif Alex, refused to give it to Taghor for the exibition citing fear that he may return it to Recca who was presuring the AFT to return it if it landed in any such exibition. It's rightful place is where the f-axe is.

This is what the old Merc shield turned into, a funny named and useless shield that looks terible compared to the Merc relic.

Incredibly rare at the time and fetured in many of the tresurerooms around Tibia in early days. The ring held no power yet and was an ugly mofo, but sold for a prety penny and was rare. Looks are not everything I guess.

This was rare at the time, before all the hoopla with the Demon Leg quest. LB was the first to complete this quest and recived this amoung other goodies as the reward. No bloody chests people, this was one shot stuff except for a bug that respawned it every server save.

Horned helmet, the very rare Outlaw quest. Spawned once per map reset which was twice a year and was a nice peice of craftmanship.

Golden hoop was more the right word, it was a jewlers worst nightmare, a size 600 ring made acidently for a size 6 finger. I know giants who would have am easier time using this as an arm band rather then a ring. Cip finely decided that huge rings where not in style and shrank it down a bit.

Super rare old demon loot, not very likely to be found these days. It's a mirical if you even see one of these on the market. I saw one sold some years ago for 4million, perhaps the price is still around that. To bad its two handed, it would be a wallet smasher otherwise. Weapon listings of this rareity come, like christmas, once a year.

I was pooped after all that fun I had taking screenshots of the Exibition and decided to rest up before leaving.

As you can see, Alex made his own apearance at the show, not letting his reputation ruin his fun. Over all the event was an awsome expirience and I said before i left that I wanted another one in a couple of years and guess what? Another rare event did happen, and that will be detailed next (when i recover the screens).