Game Mechanics: AoE spells should only hit limited targets until September 1999 patch era

[Vyal]

Originally Posted by DMN [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The "wave" spells weren't messed up, people just didn't understand how they were supposed to work very well.

there were no enemies that were "immune" to AoE spells that weren't also immune to other spells. So the patch notes wouldn't specific AoE spell targets, but spells in general, if that's what the patch was trying to say.

"beta" much like "classic" is a time frame of many changes to the game. AoE spells initially had no limit on targets. This was nerfed by release not for "balance" reasons, but for concerns of server/client stability.

No PB AE worked correctly most targeted AE did not.
That doesn't change the way the spells were supposed to work.

The spells were never supposed to be limited, it's extremely possible and highly probably that these change logs from back then are referring to fixes put in to correct problems from having thousands of people online and they are not saying that prior to the fix AoE spells were intended to work differently.

I'm going to leave this thread now take away from it what you will.