Shouldn't be able to see how much you are hit by from spells
 

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April 17, 2001 3:00 am
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- You will now see how much damage your character has taken when he is
hit by a spell that causes instant damage (DOT damage is not reported).

Confirmed classic

yep, lets get classic up in here

reported this when i was playing eq mac along with a bunch of other non classic things.

It makes bug reporting a lot easier when you know the precise amount you were hit for. The devs have already said that they would consider removing this feature some time in the future if the server is 100% perfect and has no bugs, but yeah good luck with that.