Clarity/Insight should not be available until May 1999 patch era

[Dolalin]

1) Gordon/Brad list of additions to EQ since launch as posted in late 1999, they mention adding "Clarity/Insight" to enchanters:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.games.everquest/cxEDqD40_do/u09CCl2IC0sJ

2) EQLizer spell list from May 8, 1999 does not have Insight or Clarity:

http://web.archive.org/web/19990508202736/http://gameznet.com/eq/spells/enchanter.html

3) This spdat.eff spell dump from ~ May 20, 1999 does not have Insight or Clarity:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.games.everquest/83V5UDQYVeM/_TlZwHwFjh4J

4) This eqenchanters mailing list message comments on the addition of Clarity in the late May 1999 patch:

https://www.project1999.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2982236&postcount=46

Clarity was 100% added in the late May patch, I think it reasonable to assume Insight was added at the same time unless anyone has any other evidence.

[Secrets]

Can confirm, the only Clarity spell shipped on the 1999 Yellow Disk was "Cassandra`s Chorus of Clarity"

https://i.imgur.com/clcT1Yu.png

The spell that later became Clarity was at index 174 as the spell "Ally", which added 400 faction. It was a direct upgrade to Benevolence.

That spell may not have been present on launch. though that info may have been lost to time:

https://i.imgur.com/3wJ54vQ.png

Also Insight is lacking from the yellow disk spdat.eff that Nilbog sent me.

[Dolalin]

EQLizer spell list still has Ally:


Level 29

Ally

This is an upgrade to the alliance spell. It further increases your faction with your target.


spdat.eff dump from 5/20/99 still has Ally.

[Dolalin]

Found a post from the EQ_Magic mailing list after the May patch asking about a new level 29 ench spell that increased mana regen:

https://www.project1999.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2982612&postcount=83