Game Mechanics: Should NOT be able to invis your pet.

[Baugi]

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

So the intention was never to take away the ability for pet classes to invis their pet, they were just trying to fix other bugs. Seeing as how there isn't any talk in the Velious era class threads of people being upset about not being able to invis their pet anymore, they perhaps figured out the bug by then and restored the functionality.

Did you find any Kunark era discussion about it? Obviously the post mentions some but it seems lost to time. I think it was too niche a mechanic for people to care that much about, personally.

Intent argument aside, that post also seems to imply the patch did function as previously assumed? IE all pets were considered invalid targets for invis spells cast by PCs.

Arguing that the patch was reverted (and then implemented again at some later date to explain the 2004 description) is a really hard sell without any positive evidence.

[Zuranthium]

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

Did you find any Kunark era discussion about it? Obviously the post mentions some but it seems lost to time.

Can't find any archived forum posts, but that post indeed shows many people were upset when it happened and writing about it on the forums. But then in later available posts, it's no longer being brought up.

Given that it was only implemented to hotfix other bugs, that would be reason enough to not copy it. Those bugs don't exist anymore.