I keep searching for the smoking gun, curious how every comment was around 1/28/01. Perhaps there was a dev comment about 'oh by the way we fixed this last patch, forgot to mention it'. There are no patch notes about a fix before then. Initially people sing high praises, but then later people say the spell is unreliable and sucks.
5/14/01:
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Mem Blur doesn't. Well, not always. In fact, it fails way too often (in my
experience, 1/3 to 1/2 of the time). Mez has a better and better shot of
mem blurring as you get your new mezzes. Reoccurring Amnesia (level 44 or
49, I forget) isn't much better than level 12 or 16 Mem Blur.
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I guess, I'm willing to believe it was fixed to pulse properly (4 ticks) around this 1/28/01 date, however I think there may have been a bug where it was working too good (i.e. 100% chance or damn near during the duration), and it was nerfed to a lower percentage. There is just too much mid-to-late and post velious commentary about this spell not being worth memorizing.
In regards to lucy data being off and being crappy like mem blur line because of no message, I thought Reoccurring Amnesia gives you that message? Seen logs post about 'soandso blinks a few times' when it succeeds. So either that doesn't fly or in era it never had the success message.
I'll see what I can come up with in obtaining an old spell SPDAT for reoccurring amnesia, I've never done that kind of thing so have to figure that out.