Green Era Checklist

[Glasken]

While some specifics regarding my inability to grok dates has been addressed, there is still the matter of hybrid mana pools being drastically lower than full casters, and attack swing timers resetting after a spell is cast or interrupted.

More deets here:
https://www.project1999.com/forums/s...d.php?t=334518

[kaev]

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

While some specifics regarding my inability to grok dates has been addressed, there is still the matter of hybrid mana pools being drastically lower than full casters, and attack swing timers resetting after a spell is cast or interrupted.

More deets here:
https://www.project1999.com/forums/s...d.php?t=334518

Hybrid mana pools were originally based on (level - 8) AND some spells had increased costs ~ +25% to +50% (pet summons and lifetaps for SKs come to mind, as do cleric buffs for paladins) (amounts never documented publicly to my knowledge). A couple yaulps would drain a paladins mana pool, L9 troll SKs could not summon a pet. The removal of the gimped manapool was the first big hybrid buff, it happened not too long after I got spells on my original paladin (I started playing in July of '99, so probably was August or maybe September). Not sure when they removed the mana cost penalties but think it was later.

Another minor bit:
The Druid buff Skin Like Wood did not originally have a +hp heal effect (it increased max but not current hp). This was changed prior to the existence of the Lucy parse of the spdat (so ?Kunark?Velious?) when all the Skin Like buffs had their hp/ac values changed (pretty sure they all lost some ac and gained a little hp.)

[Glasken]

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/hist...es-2000-1.html

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February 17, 2000 7:00 am
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***Announcements***

The City of Paineel, home to the infamous Heretics of Erudin, is now
available via the Optional Patch. In addition, Erudites may now also be
Shadowknights in addition to the other classes available to them. All
Erudite Necromancers, Shadowknights, and Clerics who worship the God of
Fear, Cazic-Thule, now start in the City of Paineel. As such, if you
wish to create a character of this type from this point forward, you
*must* download the Paineel zone-files via the Optional Patch.

- The "Feign Death" spell, when cast by a Necromancer, will now have a
fixed duration. The Necromancer will receive several warnings prior to
the spell wearing off. This change was necessary because some
Necromancers found a way to gain experience through their pet while
being AFK for an extended duration, such as being in bed for the night.
Note: This does not affect Shadowknights or Monks.



Seems at some point...FD didnt have a duration, then did, then didnt?

[kaev]

Here's a question:
In what era were roots changed so that when the caster zoned they were effectively removed (actually behavior appears to be as if cast by a level 1 so most mobs break them within a tick or two)? Or is this a p99 special?

Back in the day I used to break the Paw entrance solo by rooting one mob out of agro range of the spawns at zone-in and then zone out and back to lose agro on the rest. This has never worked on p99 that I can recall (I'm guessing the change was an anti-griefer thing.) Was kinda sad when I discovered that you have to snare to break that solo when any root-capable class could do it in-era.

[Baler]

Farm Shiny Brass Idol from day 1 till green merge into blue for mad plat.

[Valion]

Nope was very common to go into LGuk and see necros afk camped for hours on end.

[Baler]

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

Nope was very common to go into LGuk and see necros afk camped for hours on end.

hahahahahahaha
not on p99

[Verose]

Whew reading through old patch notes is quite an adventure! There's so many subtle and temporary bugs that would be kinda fun to experience (Runed Fighter's Staff usable by Warriors for a while, or a few days where Bard's could charm Dragons / Deities, buffed newbie city guards getting see-invis accidentally, cast-time nerfs to Staff of Temp Flux to prevent players from spamming it for LD griefing).

If you ever really wanted to ramp-up the difficulty curve for Kunark (which might be interesting to do given how knowledgeable and skilled everyone is now), this was active the first ~3 months of the expansion:
https://web.archive.org/web/20020621...p?Article=1904

JULY 19, 2000
Keyed Dungeons

The key for Charasis (Howling Stones) is now NODROP per the patch message from a couple of weeks ago. Furthermore, when your character dies, keys for Charasis, Sebilis, and Veeshan's Peak, will no longer remain with your corpse, but will instead return with your character to its bind point. We made this change to reduce the difficulty and corpse-loss potential of these zones, and eliminate the need to do the key quests multiple times.

[Jibartik]

Wow that'd be 3.5(ish) months of keys remaining on corpses. I would like to see that in actually, that'd be very interesting for raiding and grouping during kunark launch.

[Baler]

I imagine it would be similar to Plane of Sky zone in during Blue's prime population peak.
An island of corpses.