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Originally Posted by Icannotpost
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Damn - none are in?
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Well, for one there's no hard proof that Clarity wasn't in the game at launch. There's conflicting evidence. Pretty much all we have are forum posts by people from 20 years ago. Some of which show Clarity existed at launch; on the other side of the coin, there are other old forum posts which, if you try and extrapolate the implications of their vague wording seem to others to provide an argument that it was not. It seems like the devs of P99 have required more solid proof than that.
For the Necro and Shaman charm, I think it's a mix of (i) it's a good amount of work to build this into the game for such a short period of time before it was patched out, and (ii) it was patched out because it made the classes more OP and the P99 devs seem to lean toward not building things in that would make things much easier for people (and were eventually patched out by Verant for that reason) just because it would be classic.
For the Mage pet stuff, it's pretty obvious that the change was made back in the day because Mages were way less of a playable class without it. Most people in 1999 abandoned their Mages in the 20s. I would assume that there's no reason to implement the original state of Mages on day 1 just to reflect a terrible class design that Verant realized within about 8 weeks or so was bad and needed to be changed in order to have there be any reason for someone to play a Mage.