What was up with the Wizard Al'kabor line of spells?
 

Every Wizard from live to p1999 knows these spells are complete trash. Horrific in their inefficiency, the only spells you'd actually use were the pillars.

I always theorized that they used to hit all targets without a cap - thus the cost - and were nerfed with their cost never being adjusted.

What was weird is that they kept making these spells into Kunark and beyond.

Al'Kabor was the ultimate troll against his own kind, then to top it off he gave melees one of their best shoulder pieces.

I read a rumor that they originally had no limit in targets, similar to a PBAoE. During Beta a Wizard was the first to 50. I think Wizards simply exploited the power they originally had and were nerfed hard before release.

It was right up there with some of the other myths and theories

Remember the Megaladon that was supposedly in Lake Rathe in alpha/beta and then removed due to issues?

Also, my personal favorite - Mayong Mistmoore was originally in game and the model was that of the Maestro of Rancor.

I actually believe that latter part - there's no way they made a custom model for some mini boss in Hate.

I look to the Mannaburn debacle as a template of what most likely happened to Wizards during the development of the game. Lucy and the football haha. A class defining ability that made Wizards amazingly powerful in concert reduced to a completely useless ability, no middle ground for Wizards. 12 wizards killing raid targets alone: Unacceptable. 1 monk soloing Bristlebane: Awesome.

I was part of a mayong mistmoore GM event on the innoruuk server when I first started playing. Don't remember the model he used though. Was a character controlled by the GM running the event.

Man, I miss GM run events. They were so cool back in the day.

I always missed the GM events when they happened on my server :( Now when I see GMs I get excited thinking something is going to happen, but they end up just sitting there or leaving...

I always thought I'd only want to be a GM myself if I could just do GM events and nothing else. Customer service is not my strong point.

to be fair, Irontaail fought Bristlebane for over 5 hours and used some outside heals

http://planeofmischief.com/bb.htm

if he said hehe one more time, i swear i was going to lose it