Spells: Spell Resist changes

[Man0warr]

The lure component exists in this timeline for Dragon fears and (most) dragon AEs, but Lucy obviously has missed out on some of the modifications during the resist overhaul.

Check out Dragon Roar from the Trilogy client spell dat file:

789^Dragon Roar^PLAYER_1^^^ lets loose a mighty roar.^You flee in terror.^^You are no longer afraid.^0^300^0^0^0^0^36000^7^3^0^0^-6^1^0^0^0^0^0^0^0^0^0^0^400^0^0^0^0^0^0^0^0^0^0^0^2 507^2116^-1^-1^-1^-1^1^1^1^1^-1^-1^100^100^100^100^100^100^100^100^100^100^100^100^ 0^0^0^1^10^23^254^254^254^254^254^254^254^254^254^ 254^4^0^52^-1^0^0^61^61^61^61^61^61^61^61^61^61^61^61^61^61^61 ^43^13^0^13^0^0^0^0^0^0^0^0^0^0^0^0^0^0^0^0^0^0^10 0^0^154^0

Note the bolded part.

Now compared to Rain of Cold with a -100 resist check on Lucy:

Lucy:
2002-09-04 11:33 Removed Slot 1: Lure(4)
2002-09-04 11:33 Changed Resistadj from 0 to -100

Trilogy client spell file:

1487^Rain of Cold^PLAYER_1^^^Calls forth a circle of frozen shards above you.^Frozen shards slice into your skin.^^^150^300^0^0^0^0^12000^0^0^7500^0^-4^-300^0^0^0^0^0^0^0^0^0^0^0^0^0^0^0^0^0^0^0^0^0^0^25 15^2063^-1^-1^-1^-1^1^1^1^1^-1^-1^100^100^100^100^100^100^100^100^100^100^100^100^ 0^0^0^3^10^0^254^254^254^254^254^254^254^254^254^2 54^4^0^24^-1^0^0^61^61^61^61^61^61^61^61^61^61^61^61^61^61^61 ^44^13^0^3^0^0^0^0^0^0^0^0^0^0^0^0^0^0^0^0^0^0^100 ^0^116^0

You can conclude just by comparing these two spell dat entries that Dragon Roar had Lure(-6) in the Velious client.

You can also conclude from this that the Lure system is multiples of 25 - example Lure(-4) is -100 and Lure(-6) is -150.

So if Lucy doesn't show Dragon Roar as ever having a Lure component in it's change log, then either A) the change took place before Lucy was recording modifications or B) it just missed it (this is a common occurrence if I recall correctly) - so it's safe to say that Hoshkar's AE did have a Lure component on it on Classic (and Lucy doesn't have a record of the change from Lure -> Resist Adjust) and definitely DOES have a Lure (or resist adjust) component on it right now on P99.

Point being - don't trust Lucy as gospel for all things to do with spells - we have copies of the actual spell dat files available to us from Velious.

Edit: I just wasted a bunch of time cracking off spell dat file and realized Alunova already did this research 5 months ago O.o