LOL, nice to hear such tales (even if they are sad

). yeah, the mad cows... I think that was one of the first things added. At that time there were no monsters in the wilderness and I just needed something to play around with. IIRC the first Version had the working title 'Revenge of the Cows', as the beta testers were killing the poor cows in the town for gold and potions...
Is your new character also a Druid? It might be interesting for you to know (and for all other players for that matter) that there is a bug in DO with summoned monsters. The monsters that you summon to not attck monsters that are summoned by other foes.
Example: You face an enemy spellcaster. You summon a 20th level Fire Vortex and he summons a 5th level Rat. Both of you sit back to let your minions duke it out. But your Vortex will lose, since it will do nothing against the rat

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Good to hear that someone finally found the easter egg in the new Version

. Glad you like the mod.
Rollo