Mages were HORRIBLE at launch

[skorge]

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

You're right, that patch is PvP servers only.

Something that it made me remember was that invisibility could originally be cast on players not in your group...which sucked for mages as someone would randomly come by and invis you and kill your pet. I am not sure when they made invisibility a group spell.

No clue if p99 staff even know about this one...this one could be tough to find as i remember it changing maybe within 1 month in or so...

[Dolalin]

Based on things I've found last night and today, I've filed many new magician and a necro bug in the forums to get the classes timeline correct, especially around pets.

Make mages gimpy again!

[DMN]

Remember how pets used to kill themselves?

Jobonker hits jobonker for 82946 damage.


I forget the exact number but ridiculously high. Might have just been a beta thing.

[skorge]

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

Remember how pets used to kill themselves?

Jobonker hits jobonker for 82946 damage.


I forget the exact number but ridiculously high. Might have just been a beta thing.

Yep, even a step further, they actually used to talk to you too...group members would screw with me and give my pet something like a chunk of clay, and he would start saying stuff like "Thank you, X, for the X, X, X....."

[DMN]

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

Yep, even a step further, they actually used to talk to you too...group members would screw with me and give my pet something like a chunk of clay, and he would start saying stuff like "Thank you, X, for the X, X, X....."

Ya. Druids would always be feeding them grubs.

[Dolalin]

@Sunderfury:

The Spell Components not stacking was indeed the research words/runes/etc.

Also the Azia, Beza etc names on the words was not added until sometime later.

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Message ID: 722
Date: Fri Sep 10 12:03:53 BST 1999
Author: TkAdam@aol.com
Subject: Re: Unknown Words


In a message dated 9/10/99 3:27:17 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
lomack@... writes:

> I have some questions about some words if any of you know the answers.
>
I cannot answer all, but I will try [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

> 1. I have about 7 words of Dominion but one of them won't stack with the
> rest? Is this bug from a word from before the stacking patch or is there
> some other use for a non stacking word?
>
It may be a leftover bug. if not, the NON stacking is for necro, but I
believe it is a leftover bug.

> 2. I have Words of Pacification and Words of Derivation. Can someone tell
> me what spells these are for? I looked all over a few sites that have
> research info and couldn't find either of these words listed.
>
Did you look at both Necromancer lists and Mage lists? Both use words... so
it could be for the other class if you are only looking at one.

Otherwise... I would not put it past verant to have some useless words out
there... jsut to confuse matters [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] (I am not complaining here... I think it
is not a bad idea... ads a little spice)

> 3. I have a Velishouls Tome Faded Page but it dosen't have a page number
> associated with it. I noticed on the lists that there are 2 versions of
> Faded pages for Velishouls Tome. One a page 16 and one a page 108. Does
> anyone know which version of the Faded page I have if it has no page
number?
>
may be a useless one [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] as I mentioned above. or even possibly a mage
component? (guessing here...)

> 4. I have Words of the Sentient but there appear to be two different types
> one says "A.... the other B.... (I put dots in to signifify that I can't
> remember the rest of the word. But these A and B words are in parenthesies
> after the name of the Page. Any clue what each is for? I know Words of
> the Sentient are used for the Necro spell Restless Bones and Intensify
> Death. I assume one type is for each spell. Can someone tell me which is
> which?
>

This one I am fairly certain is were there is one for Necromancers, one for
Mages. as for which one is which, I do not ember, and you will have to try [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Sonoroud Tomebinder, 24th level Necromancer, Veeshan

[Fammaden]

Ok, I thought DMF was an original spell, is that Kunark or just a later patch?

And maybe true on lich but call of bones is incredibly strong and I'm not sure how common it will be due to research. And then as you said there are the pets of course.

[Dolalin]

Dead Man Walking was an original spell but it was Lich.

They later moved DMW to Lich at 49 and added DMF.

You can check the EQLizer necro spells page from May 1999 for a list of classic spells.

[Secrets]

Can confirm pets killed themselves at a rate of (Formula 100: -4/tick):

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Burnout line was additionally using the permanent buff duration formula (50) as shown in the screenshot

Also Burnout didn't used to give haste, it only gave AC/STR.

[Reecon]

Pet windows will not be on Green so i hope ppl are ready to actually use pet commands or target their pets to see what their health is at