Game Mechanics: Ice Comet Research Combine (Revisited)

[Malakriss]

As a wizard who recently reached the top level I became aware that the Ice Comet combine from droppable runes has been disabled on p99, the reason given that it was believed the droppable rune combine was not implemented until the tradeskill patch of 2002. ( http://www.project1999.org/forums/showthread.php?t=9996 )

This is NOT the case. The droppable rune combine was most certainly in the game by the start of kunark, most likely in classic. June 02, 2000 archive of www.graffe.com's Research page:

http://web.archive.org/web/200006021...h/research.htm

Ice Comet
Rune of Frost
Rune of The Astral

Proper combinations are:
Astral rune LORE and Frost rune LORE (from the Ice Comet Quest) or
Astral rune and Frost rune found from scattered high level mobs. DO NOT combine a regular rune and a LORE rune, you will fail.

The archive has a November 27, 1999 snapshot of the site, but only for the main page which does display the Research link on the sidebar, but they did not archive the deeper linked pages until a later date.

Can the Rune of Frost + Rune of the Astral combine for Ice Comet be re-enabled?