ye pretty sure it was based off mediation.

Meditation sounds reasonable.

From my memory, it was based off (at the least) meditate, because I specifically remember that memorizing a spell (from book to gem) got faster during the same level, as your meditation skill increased.

For example just hitting level eight a new spell would memorize in ten seconds, but after you had gotten your meditation points for that level it would go down to five seconds or whatever.

Higher meditate = spells scribed faster

I do recall a pal not training meditate on a char we PL'd and him saying "fuck this takes forever, I haven't gone back to train meditate"

Can you explain this better? Quick tests on eqmac showed that sow refreshed the slot it already occupied and did not replace an empty slot at top.

was the top slot empty?

lets say buff stack is this

empty
empty
sow
skin

if you recasted sow on live, it would not refresh the sow in 3rd slow but would take up new first slot. it would be

sow
empty
empty
skin

bumpy ^ responded.

nilbog is saying on eqmac it doesnt work like that so you're going to need some proof beyond recollection

i know what hes saying but if he had no empty buff slots ofc its going to refresh the same slot. on live buff stacking was a pain in the ass to maintain. the problem arises when u have buffs buried behind empty buff slots.

so say you have no empty slots, just skin and sow like this:
1- skin
2- sow

then recasting sow will of course refresh slot 2

however on live (and eqmac) if your buffs were like this
1-empty
2-empty
3-skin
4-sow

then you recast sow it, it would be

1- sow
2 - empty
3- skin
4- empty