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Originally Posted by Dolalin
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It's true that much can change between Gold and Release. But we can say pretty conclusively that it didn't.
Why?
Because in the Gold spdat.eff, the spell Ally is in the spell ID spot where Clarity is supposed to be. Insight is also missing entirely.
The EQLizer site has Ally, but not Clarity or Insight.
The May 20 spdat.eff dump off the newsgroup has Ally and other high level enchanter spells like Brilliance, but not Clarity or Insight.
We have a complete lack of any mention of the word Clarity from March until late May on the eqenchanters list. 1,400 messages including those about high level spells like Brilliance were sent, and not once was Clarity or Insight mentioned for three months.
We have notes from Brad saying that Clarity and Insight were added since launch.
Finally we have a big enchanter patch at the end of May with big tweaks, and a mention that Clarity was added.
You can't try to counter this conclusion by picking a single piece of evidence and trying to refute the single piece. You have to make a case for why all the above is wrong, as a whole. If you can counter all those five or six things on their merits I'll believe you.
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Okay, I'll re-post this with some points you made in yours. Notice some of these names and compare them to the names in my post.
I think the confusion lies in the naming of the spells and the separation of old spell effects. Enchanters had some sort of mana regeneration, but I can't quite put my finger on what that was. I recall an ongoing debate on whether or not a low 30's Enchanter spell stacked with clarity and I think the reason for this debate was because Verant Interactive had not clarified the spell effect separations. This kind of thing happened pretty frequently but there are very few notes on them because
V.I. was often very cryptic when it came to explaining game mechanics.
Umbral Messenger,
Enchantment of Brilliance, Detect Magic, and Enchantment of Light are just a few examples of spells that were relabeled, removed or reconstituted at a later date. I'd tell you to guess what these spells do, but it may be easier to win the lottery twice in one day after rolling twin 00's for Psionics. The two enchantments spells listed here were originally tied to the mana conversion line and we now know them as Thicken and Clarify Mana. The term
Brillance was reconstituted to an INT buff and I believe Detect Magic spell was simply removed completely (I have no idea what that was).
My point is this. I see where you have something showing Clarity was added, but
was it really added or was another spell separated and renamed to reflect it's purpose? Maybe the developers caved to a barrage of angry voices crying for faster regeneration rates or maybe
the previous mana regeneration spell was under-powered and poorly labeled. From my memory, I am leaning towards the latter since that debate on whether or not the two spells stacked is still clearly stuck in my head. GL.
I mean you said it yourself, they made a LOT of big tweaks. It simply wasn't called Clarity or Brilliance before. They simply simplified the spells. I just wish I knew from which. That would certainly clear up the confusion. I guess I should add
Ally to the list as well.