[DMN]

I've been trying to track down the exact date it was added.

Best I've seen so far is:


https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/alt.games.everquest/clarity$201999%7Csort:date/alt.games.everquest/lLO0lMgcDZM/lDn4QN7hyEcJ


About 3 months after release.


"From: "J.M. Capozzi" <cro...@gte.net>
The mana using song (And that's the one I refered to a while back) was
planned on being an AOE Direct Damage song, doing 400 damage to up to four
targets.
The catch was, it used almost all the mana a typical bard of that level
(42+) would have. Since bards don't get meditate, even with Clarity it
would take a long while before the bard was able to sing that song again.
Essentially, it's not a song, it's a spell, in the conventional sense.
Why this restriction? Bards are not meant to be nukers. This is a last
ditch, use it when the chips are down, make or break, type of song. At that
level range, 400 damage isn't a whole lot, any caster worth his salt can do
that with a quarter bar of mana. This is a way to give a bard some higher
level punch, without drastically changing the face of the class."