Spells: Manaskin using the wrong number of peridots

[Asher]

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

It was 2 dots. Sometime in between Kunark and Velious it was changed:

Kunark

Manaskin
Increase Absorb Damage from 521 (L52) to 591 (L59)
Increase Mana by 1 (L52)


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Classes: Nec (L52), Wiz (L52)

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Requires 2 Peridots as reagents

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Skill: Abjuration
Allowable Targets: Self

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Resistance Check: None

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Mana Required: 330
Spell Duration: 1200 ticks (120.0 minutes)
Duration Formula: 3
Casting Time: 5.0 seconds
Spell Recovery: 2.25 seconds

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Spell cast on you: Your skin gleams with an incandescent glow.
Spell cast on someone: Soandso's skin gleams with an incandescent glow.
Spell fades: Your skin returns to normal.

Velious

Manaskin
Increase Absorb Damage from 521 (L52) to 591 (L59)
Increase Mana by 1 (L52)


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Classes: Nec (L52), Wiz (L52)

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Requires Peridot as a reagent

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Skill: Abjuration
Allowable Targets: Self

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Resistance Check: None

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Mana Required: 330
Spell Duration: 1200 ticks (120.0 minutes)
Duration Formula: 3
Casting Time: 5.0 seconds
Spell Recovery: 2.25 seconds

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Spell cast on you: Your skin gleams with an incandescent glow.
Spell cast on someone: Soandso's skin gleams with an incandescent glow.
Spell fades: Your skin returns to normal.

Where did you find this?

Asher

[Silo69]

if true this is one of those times a bug should be altered to cater to player base, not everything was looked at with a fine tooth comb on live. seriously 42 plat to cast a self skin shield, really are you that much of an ass?

ep99 staff did change mechanic of fd and charm BEFORE actual time lines to live. Fd was 100% to land as long as the spell component was cast. Same with charm, wich was fixed due to enchanters having a red con charmed pet last full duration. Even though live game time line it took YEARS to fix.

minor easy database change

2 dots to cast is broken and in 2012 it dosent make it feel classic

get over your hate

[Silo69]

similar to the high hold keep pathing exploit wich was in game for years, and sony couldnt find a fix for it, and would just have gms invis periodically to catch exploiters.

here on p99, staff had the same issue and high hold keep was un expable for close to a year before they found a live fix for it, it was classic, if your gonna 'keep it classic' some changes are necessary and unnecessary, this is one of those. Its a flaw bug in the game mechanic wich took a long time to overlook, we have more resources today on a 10+ year old game to not burdon player base with "classic this classic that".

Spell needs to be looked at with regent cost.

[uygi]

Please save your opinions, they don't matter. The only opinions that matter are the devs'. Everybody else can only use cold hard facts.

Treats' data would indicate it should change some time between now and end of server timeline. My guess would be that this was one of the things that changed in mid-late Velious when SoE took over and re-tuned tons of stuff. I'm too lazy to dig through the wayback machine that much, and not poor enough to really care.