Lvl 16 enchanter: Breeze spell

[ejohnsto02]

Nertith Gracon does not seem to have the Breeze spell. Some other players told me that they bought the spell when Kunark first came out. But more recently, a few other enchanters looked for the spell and also couldn't find it on Ms. Gracon (so it is a bug with others and not only myself).

[guineapig]

I purchased it in FV, and it's probably also in OT.

Wow, deja vu... :p

[davidr64]

I purchased it in FV, and it's probably also in OT.

Wow, deja vu... :p

Yes, you purchased it probably very soon after Kunark was playable, but now Breeze is gone from Nertith Gracon (where you bought it in FV) and also from Kelsi Q`Grinol (in the Overthere).

I have checked both merchants several times the past two days and submitted 4-5 petitions...

Breeze is currently unattainable for any Enchanters.

[Potus]

I bought it the first day Kunark came out, but it's not on the merchants anymore. Definitely a bug.

[Psionide]

still not on merchant

[Slaine]

I have also checked both merchants and no breeze

[Uthgaard]

and submitted 4-5 petitions...

Do not, under any circumstances, ever spam in petitions. Especially not for bugs.

[davidr64]

Do not, under any circumstances, ever spam in petitions. Especially not for bugs.

I was just wondering if /petition even worked. When the first one hasn't received a response in 3 days I figured it was just a remnant of Verant's code that you guys don't pay any attention to.

Sorry.

[Throb]

I seem to remember it being sold by the Shady Swashbuckler on live. Have you checked there?

[davidr64]

I seem to remember it being sold by the Shady Swashbuckler on live. Have you checked there?

He doesn't sell it on project1999. I checked. :)

But yeah, even on live he didn't sell it. A couple of merchants near him sold it. Those merchants aren't in Project1999, because those merchants were added much later.

The only two merchants on project1999 that would sell it are Nertith Gracon in FV and Kelsi Q`Grinol in the Overthere. Neither of them have it right now.

At the time of this writing, Breeze cannot be bought by anyone from any merchant on project1999.

[davidr64]

Any idea of the status on this?

[marmamiel]

... !

[Ardenya]

Just got my chanter to 16 tonight and been really looking forward to Breeze. Checked both vendors in FV and OT and the spell is indeed missing on both of them. Bummer...

[Janok]

Spell still not on either vendor.

[kilur]

Just hit lvl 16 and cant find the spell for sales as of today in FV.

[davidr64]

Breeze still cannot be obtained by any Enchanter who plays on this server.

[danus]

Breeze is currently still missing/sold out from the vendors in both FV and OT =(

Hope they fix this soon.

[Nataz]

Is this intentional or a confirmed bug? Will it work if the vendors are killed and respawned?

[Loremasten]

I saw some desperate enchanters offering hundreds of plat for the spell. Cant blame them though, its one of the reasons I waited to start my enchanter until after Kunark. I do hope that the spell will be fixed soon, but I will say that I will not petition online. The Developers are doing a great job. I dont feel that I should ever have the right to get angry at them because they are already giving up lots of time for me to be able to play for free anyway. Keep up the great work everyone. I will wait patiently.

[corradojeff]

this is still broken?

[ryandward]

Still broken.

[fauxreigner]

Breeze is still missing from Nertith Gracon in Firiona Vie. I didn't bother checking the other merchants because it looks like things haven't changed yet.

This is a really important spell for enchanters until we get clarity at lvl 29 - can we get some kind of word on what's going on and when it'll be fixed?

[marmamiel]

Any news on this one? Has anyone seen it around in game yet?

[danus]

It's still missing as of 4/5. Dunno what the plans are for this, at the moment it seems like we're gonna have to kick it old school and wait for level 29.

[Ardenya]

Someone might try to kill the vendors and see it that helps. Only thing I can think of that doesnt require any dev interaction. On the other hand, we've had server restarts already and it didnt change anything...

[Knightmare]

It's funny how they managed to get in and nerf the Iksar turn in quests so quickly and yet this is still missing.. *rolls eyes*

[epicentre]

It's funny how much energy people can put into reporting the same thing again and again and again, just saying "still missing".

Filling the bug reporting "tool" with redundant and useless info will only slow the dev team. (I know this post is no exception...)

Let'em do their job.

[danus]

I think people are just looking for some word from the devs whether the absence of the spell is on purpose, a bug, planned to be fixed, etc.

[baalzy]

I'd heard that breeze wasn't initially available at Kunark launch. I have nothing to support this statement, it would make sense though why the devs haven't put the spell back in. It's obviously a quick fix.

[williestargell]

why is breeze not available on vendors?

if its not coming out, please just tell us so i can quit checking every day.

[Loremasten]

I think that you have to post to show to the Devs how important a fix is to the people on the server. I was under the impression it is broke because it was sold for a short period of time. However, it the real reason is that they are waiting a set amount of time, could one of the Devs please respond that is the case? Or are Devs not going to give out information like that? I am not sure if they can/would answer that because I am new to this server.

[williestargell]

some people have it now so it can't be that they're waiting

[danus]

Clearly devs just hate Enchanters, and are delighted at our dismay and confusion.

[ryandward]

wtf guys this is ridic

[ryandward]

I am just logging on every day and crying myself to sleep :(

[Gorgetrapper]

Instead of crying about breeze right now, you could have had clarity already.

[ryandward]

Hah. This spell is very class defining. It's hard for me to feel motivated to play my chanter when I feel the class is broken. And it's very frustrating that I ran and waited on boats to get to FV, it wasn't there so I went to OT. It's not there either, it took like 3 hours to do all that.

[Ardenya]

Same here... I understand this sounds whiny and stuff but I had my chanter on hold due to a lack of time to play. When Kunark came out, first thing I did was move her over and grind the last four levels needed for Breeze. When I found out the spell poofed from the vendors without any kind of ETA of return I just stopped playing her because of that letdown.

Anyway, I've got plenty of other stuff to do but I'd really love to see the spell being availible soon(tm). If there are any deeper issues with those vendor NPCs other then a messed up table, maybe a short time work around would do it. Sometime later in timeline, Breeze appeared on a vendor in tunnel. This could work temporarly and could be easily undone.

[ryandward]

Yup. I agree 100%. I know it's supposed to be out, because I had a lvl 16 enchanter at the time Kunark came out, and my friend just hit 29. He commented how I had it easy, this was right when Kunark went live.

[guineapig]

In classic it only increases mana by 2 per tic. In fact I'm not even sure if that increases at all as you level. I don't think they made it better till 2005.

I'm just saying...

2005-06-29 16:23 Changed Slot 2 from "Increase Mana by 2 per tick" to "Increase Mana by 4 (L14) to 6 (L20) per tick"

source: http://lucy.allakhazam.com/spellhistory.html?id=697&source=Live

[Striiker]

Hah. This spell is very class defining. It's hard for me to feel motivated to play my chanter when I feel the class is broken. And it's very frustrating that I ran and waited on boats to get to FV, it wasn't there so I went to OT. It's not there either, it took like 3 hours to do all that.

Well, I wouldn't go THAT far. Yes, it's a most welcome addition to the spell lineup. Charm is broken (apparently until lvl 39) and I think that's far more class defining than breeze. I agree that it sucks and should be out there and I am not telling you how to feel or what to think. Just remember that Enchanters are the masters of control. Clarity / Breeze is the icing.. I made the long haul to 29 on both live and here without breeze and it's so worth the climb. No for the clarity but for the great experiencing helping groups to pull off the impossible.

I do agree though that if, after reflection you still don't want to play your enchanter, then you should consider playing one of your other characters until this is resolved.

[williestargell]

in kunark u dont even get the spell til 16. they were changing the regen amount for level 14...sometimes u have to read a little carefully.

and whatever the regen amount is. it's worth it.

making excuses by saying its not that good is so not the way to go here. nor is saying, oh just hurry up and get to 29 for clarity.

the fact is that some lowbie enchanters have the spell, and it's flat out UNFAIR that the rest of us can't get it. I don't know how hard the fix is, but apparently not that hard, cause the port spells took all of 3 min of server downtime to put on the vendors on the fly on kunarks opening night.

[guineapig]

It was 2 mana per tic, that's a fact.

[Ardenya]

See, I understand that you are trying to calm people down and I respect this. I also am fully aware that the regen bonus is a minor one and not really game breaking or changing. And I also agree with whoever suggested that in the time this thread has taken people could have leveled to 29 already and have Clarity.

On the other hand, one major thing that made me roll an Enchater besides CCing and Jewelcraft was the ability to increase mana regen. I'm a crack addict, always been. I'm already missing KEI MGBs since I started playing on P99.

Also, these days my playtime is rather limited, I'm a casual player nowadays with a spike here and there with me playing more than a few hours a day. Sometimes I dont have time to log in for a week or more. Thus grinding those 13 levels from 16 to 29 to get Clarity would take me quite some time, even with exclusive playtime on the chanter. I've been looking to get Breeze since Kunark release was drawing near. That's the only reason I've started playing this char again.

Eventually, dont get me wrong, I'm not heartbroken about not getting Breeze. I rolled a mage instead and enjoying it very much. Yet, I would greatly appreciate any kind of notice whats going on with the spell. Is it a simple fix that going online soon(tm)? Is it something deep within the coe / tables not worth the attention right now? Is it intended or a bug? Anything official would be better than what we have now. The very fact that this thread has 40+ replies and almost 2k views shows clearly that it of a great interest to people. More than a simple 2 mana per tic.

[williestargell]

well all the "calming" that's being attempted is not working.

2 mana per tick at low level is just as much as clarity at high level.

anyone suggesting u should just level fast and get clarity can take a hike


the fact is this: a few lucky enchanters got breeze. the other ones are left out. i get a ton of tells for breeze a day and people act like i'm a retard and don't know how to find a spell vendor cause i can't cast it.

the very least that should happen is for a dev to take 30 seconds to respond to the thread telling us when to expect it to be fixed and we can't even get that.

[Knight]

well all the "calming" that's being attempted is not working.

That depends. I was already banned once for 2 crappy posts about it in this very thread (http://www.project1999.org/forums/showpost.php?p=257677&postcount=26), and in this one (http://www.project1999.org/forums/showpost.php?p=257688&postcount=4), and you can see just how friggin' innocuous it was. 'Calming' and 'quieting' can look very much the same, clearly.

In my case, the "calming" is working as I just stfu about it. It doesn't matter what you or I want, we don't run the server. They don't really care or see any difference between people who support the server by donations or those who just leech like 1/2 the schleps around here. They're not all in this for us or our happiness. The sooner we figure that out, the sooner we stop getting annoyed about how things are done around here. We play on their server, we play by their rules. If we don't like it.. there's the door. We can all recognize or piss off as far as some are concerned.

If we're not posting a full-blown documented bug, and we're not making a dig at a dev, they pretty much couldn't care less. Took me almost a year to figure that out, but I finally got a lame-ass ban and it became pretty clear.

And no this isn't a dig at anyone. This is simply how it is, or at least how it's been shown to be to me.

[Vonkaar]

Sure, it would be "nice" if a dev would come on and give you an update. You aren't entitled to anything and bugging them every 12 hours surely isn't accomplishing anything. Feign Death for a monk = class defining. Fear for a Necromancer = class defining. Freaking 2 mana regen for an enchanter, omfg chill out. If it's the loss of, "Casting Breeze at T1 for donations" that you're losing out on, /tell vonkaar in game and I'll hook you up with some plat, and I'm certainly not rich. I just quickly tire of petty posts like this.

For all you know, there are 5+ devs sitting around thinking about quitting P1999 because of whining ingrates like yourself and it's these threads that might push one of them over the edge. Remember that this is a free game that is only possible because of the efforts of hard working developers & sys admins. Say thank you. Report bugs. Think to yourself, "it'd be nice if we had an update," but for the sake of those that want this good thing to last - stop bugging the devs.

[ryandward]

It is not like it takes a lot of code. I am not sure of syntax, but it would be no more than something like

set quantity of breeze spells on appropriate vendor to 10000

[Arclyte]

Getting close to 16 :(

Want to buy

[epicentre]

/agree Vonkaar

DEV's know breeze is missing, it's probably already fixed, but they can't patch the server everytime they fix a bug.

[Vonkaar]

It is not like it takes a lot of code. I am not sure of syntax, but it would be no more than something like

set quantity of breeze spells on appropriate vendor to 10000

And you can't possibly know what is going on behind the scenes outside of this assumption.

Many years ago, I was doing systems administration work for a cartoon company in Fort Worth, TX (FUNimation Entertainment, if you're curious). I was basically their entire I.T. staff, handling everything from desktops to databases, servers to switches, faxes to firewalls. There was a crazy week where we had a pretty bad storage server meltdown and video production was halted during a critical push. This shit had to be fixed as soon as possible. Two hours into the repair, our email server took a nosedive and the company pretty well ground to a halt. I shut the doors to my office and worked on getting things repaired as quickly as I could.

About an hour into my troubleshooting, I heard a knock on my door and before I could answer it, Michelle from accounting (a 350lb behemoth) stomps in and started bitching to me about her iTunes library. I have Microsoft premier support on speakerphone and we all get to hear her whine about iTunes for 30 seconds. I tell her that we have bigger issues right now and we'll fix it after the freaking company is operational. She storms off, the ground shaking under her weight. Two hours later, still working through the issues... with Symantec and Microsoft techs pointing fingers at each other, Michelle's coworker comes in my office and explains that she too is having issues with her iTunes. I'm obviously sitting there doing nothing because MS & Symantec are doing all the work, so why can't I just come down and fix it? It's an easy fix... Buuhreeeeeeeeeezzzzeeeeee!!! Breeeeeezzzzeeeeeee!!!

Breeze!!!

I spent all night working through those issues. And then I went home. I took the next day off. Michelle and Jody didn't have their precious iTunes library for 2 days and I didn't care. The following day I basically handled every other request, fixed every single problem I possibly could until the last second until heading downstairs to take a look at their iTunes problem. It turned out both Michell & Jody had unplugged their speakers and couldn't hear their music. So they were right - it was an easy fix. I probably could have fixed it during the crises. But they annoyed me so badly I didn't want anything to do with them and they were LAST on my priorities.

Long story short... don't annoy the Devs.

[Hottbiscuits Dreadmuffin]

Long story short... don't annoy the Devs.

Love the story, agree completely. It's totally relative in this situation too, even more so because THEY AREN'T GETTING PAID TO DO THIS. It's a labor of love (I hope).

I'm grateful to you, P99 Devs. Thank you for your hard work and dedication. I main as a Cleric, and if I were missing one of my earliest HP/AC buff spells, or even the majority of the line all together, I would still play a Cleric and still enjoy being here.

[nilbog]

Haha. Not reading 6 pages about Breeze, but if all this is about it being sold?

Next patch.

Server can't be magically patched without coming down.

[Arclyte]

yay

patch is coming soon i hope :)

[ryandward]

http://www.project1999.org/forums/showthread.php?t=33579&page=4
Uthgaard: DB Overhaul & Research drops revised worldwide, all research items should drop now
Uthgaard/Kanras: Fix for CoTH & Others Requiring group members to target and also not needing LOS

2 Others. Also, Breeze isn't supposed to be in yet. In one of the 5 threads on the topic, you'll find someone who posted the details.



http://www.project1999.org/forums/showthread.php?t=30743&page=6
Haha. Not reading 6 pages about Breeze, but if all this is about it being sold?

Next patch.

Server can't be magically patched without coming down.

[Arclyte]

well fuck me

[ryandward]

Yep. I dont know why they are saying its not supposed to be in yet, it was out when Kunark came out. I am 99% sure that got it that day :confused:

[Arclyte]

The only thing I could find was this post from Mindforge http://www.project1999.org/forums/showpost.php?p=259515&postcount=18

Nebulous to say the least. Maybe I'm retarded but I have yet to glean any information as to when Breeze was released from that site.

[ryandward]

Hmm i wonder if the devs know they are contradicting each other.

[Uthgaard]

Not intentionally, he saw something in my changelog that wasn't supposed to be there, posted that it was fixed, and I was like, shit, I thought I edited that.

[ryandward]

No, Uthgaard! I know it's not intentional!

[Arclyte]

Just once, you could have opened that icy rock you call a heart and bent the rules to ease the suffering of mana users everywhere, but no, you cling evermore to your archaic and destructive "rules".

I will remember this slight, Uthgaard the Cruel.











plz? :( :( :( :(

[ryandward]

Hey Arc, did you find the thread he was talking about with the details?

[ryandward]

Just once, you could have opened that icy rock you call a heart and bent the rules to ease the suffering of mana users everywhere, but no, you cling evermore to your archaic and destructive "rules".

I will remember this slight, Uthgaard the Cruel.

plz? :( :( :( :(

Lol. I know it just like... Throw us a bone, its 2 mana per tick =/ Bleh. Although I am still fairly certain it is supposed to be there, I am not gonna argue about it anymore. I am just gonna play my wiz :)

[Arclyte]

I haven't seen anything besides the EQlizer spell list. It didn't have Breeze listed in the spell list until October-ish of the same year. I tried to check Alla and Castersrealm but they don't go back that far. Whether that is proof that Breeze wasn't included at launch is not something I would commit to, but oh well.

I suppose we should focus our anger at Mindforge, as he unknowingly gave the taskmasters here the lash we're being raped with atm.

And yes, I am being dramatic :)

[Arclyte]

http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20000831235550/http://eqvault.ign.com/guidebook/playerguides/enchanter/advancedenchanter.shtml

I've found a guide detailing the "new" breeze spell at level 16, albeit from August of 2000.

When was Kunark opened on P99?

[Glitch]

A message from every single enchanter who played and leveled before Kunark:
GET OVER IT.

[Arclyte]

traitor

[Shrubwise]

Hey my little crack children,
I know someone, who knows someone, who has extra copies of Breeze.

Yup.

Bought about 10 copies the day Kunark came out, and he's been holding onto them. I may be able to drop some names for the right price, maybe get your fix taken care of? Hmm what do you think about that, my fuzzy little men-peaches?

[Arclyte]

I will gladly trade my anal virginity for a copy of breeze

[Shrubwise]

9 out of 10 copies left for sale. Taking anal virginites in lieu of big cash.

[williestargell]

So is breeze supposed to be in or not. a simple straightforward answer is what is needed at this point since we just had a patch and it is still not in.

People are just left hanging when a dev would end all speculation by just answering clearly. It'd take less than 30 seconds

[ryandward]

This is ridiculous, people are exploiting other players because they bought breeze?!

[Shrubwise]

This is ridiculous, people are exploiting other players because they bought breeze?!

Capitalism my friend. Supply and demand. Think I learned it in 12th grade economics.

[ryandward]

I understand that is what you are doing, but this can't be an intended side effect of getting rid of Breeze? This is exploiting a bug, in my opinion.

[Uthgaard]

No, it is not. And I wouldn't suggest buying any because I'm going to go through and wipe them all from spellbooks/inventories.

[Arclyte]

way to rock the fucking boat guy

I bet if you stopped sperging for 10 minutes and asked shrub nicely he would have probably just given it to you

[Shrubwise]

Uthgaard is just trying to scare you all off my little Norrathlings.

Still for sale, 1kpp per copy !! Buy now !!

[ryandward]

No this is retarded. Some people can't have it, and others do. This is outrageous and certainly not working as intended.

[Shrubwise]

Oh, but for the right price you CAN have it!

[Arclyte]

http://www.project1999.org/forums/showthread.php?t=10782

have you seriously been bitching about breeze for 10 months?

LOL

[williestargell]

so...on these items/changes that come in post-kunark (as breeze is apparently being ruled) and down the road, post-velious. any time frame on how long that'll be?

[Marcq]

so...on these items/changes that come in post-kunark (as breeze is apparently being ruled) and down the road, post-velious. any time frame on how long that'll be?

2 months roughly.

[williestargell]

thanks. coulda saved 9 pages of posting if we'd just been told that earlier.

[Vonkaar]

http://www.project1999.org/forums/showthread.php?t=10782

have you seriously been bitching about breeze for 10 months?

LOL

:eek:

omfg...