Dolalin
01-04-2020, 04:33 PM
This post from Abashi led me to dig up this nice list of Enchanter spellbook and spell gem icons being different until March 2000:
Date : 22/03/2000
Topic : Bug Fixes
This came of the official EverQuest message boards.
With today's patch they just changed the clarity icon to look identical to the other stat buff spells that enchanters have. It seems small but adds up to a semi - major annoyance that should have been left alone. It now blends in quite nicely with all of my Mez. line spells and my blur line which account for 4 - 5 of the 8 spells on an enchanters list at any given time. This can lead to miscasts of clarity when you meant to Mez. or the like possibly leading to the death of members of your party. This was really a useless change to enchanters which only accomplished making things more confusing and annoying us further. Doesn't Verant have genuine bugs to be concerned about rather than changing this over a year after the game was released ?
If they wanted to do something semi-useful they could have fixed some of the around 15 typos that are involved in the text from casting certain buffs and spells that would have been a better use of time. What do you all think ?
The assertion that making some minor 2 - minute change is keeping major issues from getting fixed is false. Many of the spell icons were fixed to be correct in our attempt to clean up some of the annoying little issues that have been around for a while. It's somewhat similar to complaining to a cop writing you a speeding ticket that there's murders he should be catching. We have many people that all work in concert on many different aspects of EverQuest.
- Gordon
Here is the list from the newsgroups:
3/3/00
"Fabno Licious" <shan...@home.com> wrote in message
news:iOEv4.2559$j16.20937@news.rdc2.mi.home.com...
> Why is the clarity icon purple, and feedback is yellow?
> fro my knowledge, purple is a group spell, and yellow is self only, yet
they
> both function like they should be red
> is this just a minor slip? its just annoying me.. nothing big
There are TONS of enchanter spells with the wrong icons.
Here's a list:
Pendril's Animation
Juli's Animation
Kilan's Animation
Shalee's Animation
Sisna's Animation
Sagar's Animation
Uleen's Animation
Boltran's Animation
Aany's Animation
Yegoreff's Animation
Kintaz's Animation
(Yes, that's ALL the animation spells except for level 8 Mircyl's. It
has the correct summoning icon.)
Bind Sight
(Cast Sight and Shifting Sight have the correct icons)
Sentinel
Chase the Moon
Clarity
Feedback
Mind Wipe
Blanket of Forgetfulness
I'm also wondering if Insight and Brilliance have the right icons, but they
have icons that no other spell in the game has, and also they have effects
unlike any other I can think of (Beneficial, targetted, mind-altering) so
I'm not completely sure there.
Bendik Simonsen
ben...@ifi.uio.no
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.games.everquest/f1-5l1Kvt54/gmpkSnqJE_YJ
3/3/00
oh yeah... almost forgot about the animations..
about the level 8 one - it looks like that man standing in a doorway in the
spellbook, but it turns into a wand when memmed.
--
[33 Enchanter] Fabno (Erudite) <Warriors of Apocalypse>
Erollisi Marr
"Bendik Simonsen" <ben...@ifi.uio.no> wrote in message
news:zwGv4.608$Iw2.43034@juliett.dax.net...
- show quoted text -
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.games.everquest/f1-5l1Kvt54/OWKert6Pa3IJ
I dunno if you guys can tweak these per era, but if you can, I'm sure there's someone out there somewhere who remembers these old icons and is very OCD annoyed at them not being 100% classic. :D
Date : 22/03/2000
Topic : Bug Fixes
This came of the official EverQuest message boards.
With today's patch they just changed the clarity icon to look identical to the other stat buff spells that enchanters have. It seems small but adds up to a semi - major annoyance that should have been left alone. It now blends in quite nicely with all of my Mez. line spells and my blur line which account for 4 - 5 of the 8 spells on an enchanters list at any given time. This can lead to miscasts of clarity when you meant to Mez. or the like possibly leading to the death of members of your party. This was really a useless change to enchanters which only accomplished making things more confusing and annoying us further. Doesn't Verant have genuine bugs to be concerned about rather than changing this over a year after the game was released ?
If they wanted to do something semi-useful they could have fixed some of the around 15 typos that are involved in the text from casting certain buffs and spells that would have been a better use of time. What do you all think ?
The assertion that making some minor 2 - minute change is keeping major issues from getting fixed is false. Many of the spell icons were fixed to be correct in our attempt to clean up some of the annoying little issues that have been around for a while. It's somewhat similar to complaining to a cop writing you a speeding ticket that there's murders he should be catching. We have many people that all work in concert on many different aspects of EverQuest.
- Gordon
Here is the list from the newsgroups:
3/3/00
"Fabno Licious" <shan...@home.com> wrote in message
news:iOEv4.2559$j16.20937@news.rdc2.mi.home.com...
> Why is the clarity icon purple, and feedback is yellow?
> fro my knowledge, purple is a group spell, and yellow is self only, yet
they
> both function like they should be red
> is this just a minor slip? its just annoying me.. nothing big
There are TONS of enchanter spells with the wrong icons.
Here's a list:
Pendril's Animation
Juli's Animation
Kilan's Animation
Shalee's Animation
Sisna's Animation
Sagar's Animation
Uleen's Animation
Boltran's Animation
Aany's Animation
Yegoreff's Animation
Kintaz's Animation
(Yes, that's ALL the animation spells except for level 8 Mircyl's. It
has the correct summoning icon.)
Bind Sight
(Cast Sight and Shifting Sight have the correct icons)
Sentinel
Chase the Moon
Clarity
Feedback
Mind Wipe
Blanket of Forgetfulness
I'm also wondering if Insight and Brilliance have the right icons, but they
have icons that no other spell in the game has, and also they have effects
unlike any other I can think of (Beneficial, targetted, mind-altering) so
I'm not completely sure there.
Bendik Simonsen
ben...@ifi.uio.no
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.games.everquest/f1-5l1Kvt54/gmpkSnqJE_YJ
3/3/00
oh yeah... almost forgot about the animations..
about the level 8 one - it looks like that man standing in a doorway in the
spellbook, but it turns into a wand when memmed.
--
[33 Enchanter] Fabno (Erudite) <Warriors of Apocalypse>
Erollisi Marr
"Bendik Simonsen" <ben...@ifi.uio.no> wrote in message
news:zwGv4.608$Iw2.43034@juliett.dax.net...
- show quoted text -
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.games.everquest/f1-5l1Kvt54/OWKert6Pa3IJ
I dunno if you guys can tweak these per era, but if you can, I'm sure there's someone out there somewhere who remembers these old icons and is very OCD annoyed at them not being 100% classic. :D