Wizard Level 60 Spell - Sunstrike

[Jomar]

On P99 it is currently 500 mana for 1600 damage in 7.5 seconds. According to a Graffe snapshot from September 2000, it should now be 450 mana for 1615 damage in 7.0 seconds(the P99 wiki has listed (http://wiki.project1999.org/index.php/Sunstrike) as it being this way currently, but it is not).

P99:
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/7796/sunstrike.jpg

Live:
http://web.archive.org/web/20000918120725/http://www.graffe.com/spells/spells.htm (This also shows the Draught of Ice change that's going live with the next patch here.)

Sunstrike
Skill: Evocation
Mana Required: 450
Casting Time: 7.0 seconds
Spell Recovery: 2.50 seconds
Description: Fire based direct damage doing 1615 damage to a single targeted mob. This is the largest direct damage spell in our arsenal.

[Brinkman]

Reserving this spot, as I believe graffe, and you, are wrong. If I recall correctly it was 475 mana for 1600damage and changed later on.


Ok first, knowing graffe as I was a wizard in 1999-2004... He liked to post things from Spdat files in his daily news. In this link he posted the spell data from test, before kunark was released.

http://web.archive.org/web/20010304115747/http://graffe.com/spells/expansion_spells.htm

Sunstrike 1600 damage. No mana listed unfortunatally.


Here is a link from casters realm , please note what it says above the cast time.

http://web.archive.org/web/20010504145325/http://eq.castersrealm.com/spells/wizard/spelldescriptions.asp?SpellID=322

If you dont wanna click the link it says " On March 29 this spell had its mana cost changed from 475 to 450"

[Jomar]

http://web.archive.org/web/20001017030531/http://eq.castersrealm.com/spells/wizard/spelldescriptions.asp?SpellID=322

Says the same thing about the change on the October 2000 archive, so that would imply that it meant March 29, 2000 (the very first patch after Kunark launch, even though those patch notes expressly say there were no changes made to spells other than resurrection and fear- but at that point there were no 60 wizards to notice the changes). There was also no patch on EQ Live March 29, 2001.

Here you can also see Sunstrike is 450 damage in the Wizard spell list on Dec 10 2000 from the same site you linked: http://web.archive.org/web/200012100158/http://eq.castersrealm.com/spells/spells.asp?Class=Wizard

[Brinkman]

http://web.archive.org/web/20001017030531/http://eq.castersrealm.com/spells/wizard/spelldescriptions.asp?SpellID=322

Says the same thing about the change on the October 2000 archive, so that would imply that it meant March 29, 2000 (the very first patch after Kunark launch, even though those patch notes expressly say there were no changes made to spells other than resurrection and fear- but at that point there were no 60 wizards to notice the changes). There was also no patch on EQ Live March 29, 2001.

Here you can also see Sunstrike is 450 damage in the Wizard spell list on Dec 10 2000 from the same site you linked: http://web.archive.org/web/200012100158/http://eq.castersrealm.com/spells/spells.asp?Class=Wizard

What I am confused about the most is why would p99's version cost 500 mana when it was 475 and then changed to 450? :confused:

Maybe they used the orignal Kunark beta Spdat files for all Kunark spells and changed most of them after research, and they just missed this spell..

Its quite possible the spell was 500 for 1600 and changed more than once, being tweeked in beta and on test, and then changed finally on the March 29 patch to 450/1615.

But then this really confuses me ...


------------------------------
March 29, 2000
------------------------------

This morning's update consisted primarily of server-side changes to
improve performance of the game engine in general. No items, spawns,
spells (with the exceptions below), etc., were changed as a result of
this patch.

Area Effect "Fear" spells will no longer work in PvP. This affects a
bard song, as well as the Cleric "Wave of Fear" spell.

Corrected a bug with some of the Resurrection spells that caused them
to return too little experience.

We plan on publishing data and item changes next week if all goes well
on the Test server. We apologize to those who are inconvenienced by
having to wait for the expected changes.

- The EverQuest Team

Of course VI didnt always tell the truth ,,, so whatever lol


Either way most sites list this spell in early kunark as 450 for 1615 so it should be changed to reflect this.

[Rhaj]

Any update on this? 50 mana is a big difference. It would make this spell actually useful in day to day mobs compared to the draught of ice spell.

[kanras]

Kunark spell data has it as 500m/7.5s/1600dmg. Velious spell data has it as 450m/7.0s/1615dmg. Jomar's links prove that it was changed somewhere prior to where we are on the timeline. So it's been upgraded, pending update.

[Jomar]

So everything is correct now (total mana use, cast time, damage), except the spell is still requiring 500 mana initially to cast the spell (and the spell finishes casting before the casting time bar is complete). I assume this has something to do with no spell file being released with this weekend's update and will be fixed at some point, but figured I'd let you know anyway.

[Nirgon]

Ah I think this might be incorrect. I think it was as high as 1800 damage on blue and nerfed to 1615 on pvp servers. Maybe I'm wrong but don't have time to look right now. Just what I remember hearing.