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Ice Comet Research Combine (Revisited)
As a wizard who recently reached the top level I became aware that the Ice Comet combine from droppable runes has been disabled on p99, the reason given that it was believed the droppable rune combine was not implemented until the tradeskill patch of 2002. ( http://www.project1999.org/forums/showthread.php?t=9996 )
This is NOT the case. The droppable rune combine was most certainly in the game by the start of kunark, most likely in classic. June 02, 2000 archive of www.graffe.com's Research page: http://web.archive.org/web/200006021...h/research.htm Quote:
Can the Rune of Frost + Rune of the Astral combine for Ice Comet be re-enabled? | |||
Last edited by Malakriss; 11-13-2010 at 10:52 PM..
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Actually if you look at the URL, that page is from June 2, 2000. That's one of the problems with using the web archive. It doesn't tell you when it's fastforwarding to a more recent page. It goes to the closest archived page when following links.
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Yes, that's the date I posted. The argument from the original thread was that the droppable Rune of Frost + Rune of Astral combine for Ice Comet was not implemented until 2002, and that is why they disabled the research combine.
That is false, the combine was in game but the runes were exceptionally rare in early 1999 (Vox+Naggy only). They added in the quest for a no drop version, and by the time Kunark was coming out the runes were dropping "from scattered high level mobs" already. The combine should be re-enabled. * March 16, 1999 - July 27, 1999 ( http://www.eqclassic.org/forums/view...hp?f=16&t=1571 ) Quote:
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More relevant posts I've found on the topic:
http://www.therelentless.com/boards/...d.php?t=129478 Quote:
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Bumping this for closure as I had the same question and found much of the same evidence for pre-Kunark droppable Ice Comet runes. Is this being re-implemented in a coming patch, or will the necessary components for Ice Comet (ie: the no drop, quested runes) stay as they are?
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Rune of Frost would not exist if you were right, Uthgaard
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Bump.
Only the NO TRADE runes are working for this combine still. Both Rune of the Astral and Rune of Frost have been dropping for some time now and should also work for the combine. | ||
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Added.
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When you see an announcement post with the patch notes.
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