Spells: Differences in Spell Cast time and Mana Cost

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I recently wrote a simple application to load and compare eff files. I used it to compare the current p1999 spell file with the spell file I pulled off of the EQ Trilogy CD. I output the differences to a file and created a spreadsheet with the differences. I currently only looked at the Mana Cost and Cast Time of each spell.

Here is the link to the spreadsheet:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...4Rnlad3c#gid=0

Cast time is measured in thousandths of a second, ie 1500 is 1.5 seconds, just like it is listed on the spell file.

Obviously some items should be ignored (like cast time of bard songs) but some differences show that p1999 is probably wrong on the value.

For example:
Effect Difference trilogy spdat p1999 spdat
Shock of Steel Mana Cost 275 300
Scintillation Cast Time 3000 3500


Now obviously these would be the values at sometime during Velious as that is when the Trilogy was released. But if I can get a copy of the eff file during Kunark or at the end and or/beginning of Velious I could do another comparison of the two files, to get even more timeframe accurate of data. Although I hardly see some of these spells as being changed much during that time period.

UPDATED file includes only the first matches of the spells as ones further down the file are not relevant:
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