Half feels like I'm being trolled at this point since it's already been posted, but here you go, including highlights and so such so they can't be missed (hint you're looking for keywords of "still" and "continue" which indicate a continuation of an existing mechanic, ie, casting and imbueing another deity's gem. You will never see anywhere an - "OMG! I could scribe it but couldn't cast it before, but now that the deity restrictions went in I can cast it omg!" - why? because that was never a thing)-
http://mboards.eqtraders.com/eq/show...tulings-spawns
Post #11 - "Clerics could
scribe and imbue all Cleric imbue spells. As long as it was a Cleric imbue spell, deity did not matter. A recent past patch fixed this. Now you can only scribe your own deity specific imbue spell. But Clerics that had already scribed other deities imbue spells could in fact
still use them."
http://www.eqcleric.com/archive/index.php/t-6085.html
2nd post by Miletoux - "Very early on, you could scribe the spells for all deities, but they changed that so you can only scribe the ones for your own deity. However, if the spell was already scribed you could
still use it."
http://www.elitegamerslounge.com/hom...?f=107&t=49568
Yinlabb - "I know originally the priests could
scribe and mem all the gem imbue spells that their classes could have as a deity.I made a mistake with my wizzy and she is Quellious and
can still imbue the Fire Opals which are Sol Ro."
http://www.eqclerics.org/forums/showthread.php?t=9626
Post #7 - "You can no longer scribe an Imbue: gem spell, if the gem does not match your own deity.
You
can still cast those that you have written already, though."
http://thedruidsgrove.org/archive/eq/t-320.html
Aldane - "There's a problem with that, Absor. Back when I was bringing up my druid, I was able to scribe both Imbue Plains Pebble and Imbue Emerald. Then, a patch made it so that the spells were unscribable unless you worshipped the proper diety. In that long ago patch message it mentioned that those that had scribed the imbues
could continue to use them, but that new scribings would be diety restricted. So, with that said, I -- and many other older druids --
have been able to "normally cast" both imbues for quite a long time.
Since I
have always been able to cast both imbues, will I be able to cast both mass imbues, or am I going to only be able to cast one of the mass imbues (which would suck, if I may be so blunt)?"
Also, the entire mass imbue saga was an exact repeat of the regular imbue situation. I could dig up more posts about mass imbues, but basically, if you could scribe the spell, you could cast it. You still can. There's never been a deity based cast restriction, only a scribe restriction.
http://thedruidsgrove.org/archive/eq/t-320.html
Teaamilie - "Note: After one year of regretting not getting imbue pp (I am tunare druid)
I have successfully scribed AND imbued a plains pebble. New mass spells aren't restricted."
Scribe restriction was added, mem/cast restriction was never a thing. Scribe restriction was added post-P99 timeline in Luclin...ergo P99 should not have deity restricted scribing on it.
PS - Patch messages were often unclear, and there is alot of classic rumor, gossip, and poor understanding of the game clouding up a bunch of posts. Sift through it because there's often evidence that rumor, gossip, and poor understanding is just that. This is just such a case.