[Technique]

Originally Posted by Daldaen [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The slotting of things I don't think was really the determining factor in classic.

I'm pretty sure that in most cases it was, which is evidenced by examples of tricks involving casting order to stack fungi staff regen with other regen spells.

The peculiarities of bard spell stacking was due to bard-casted spells on items being treated as songs instead of spells.

Bards using items that cast spells (not songs) will have those spells act just like regular spells, where they were acting like songs before. Bard songs stack with just about anything, and spells have their own sets of stacking rules. Bards casting spells from items were able to ignore the stacking restrictions of those spells.

http://wayback.archive.org/web/20021...ML/000323.html

As for CoS and other cold resist stacking, in the Trilogy spdat, endure/resist cold and CoS have their effect in slot 5, so it's unlikely they stacked at this time.

The Lucy history for CoS suggests that they began stacking following these changes:

2002-03-19 05:50 Added Slot 1: Increase Cold Resist by 45
2002-03-19 05:50 Removed Slot 5: Increase Cold Resist by 45

with later measures taken to explicitly guarantee stacking conflicts:

2002-12-12 11:18 Added Slot 1: Stacking: Block new spell if slot 1 is effect 'Cold Resist' and < 45
2002-12-12 11:18 Changed Slot 2 from "Increase Cold Resist by 45" to "Stacking: Overwrite existing spell if slot 1 is effect 'Cold Resist' and < 45"