No clarity for enchanters on green
 

I've been trying to track down the exact date it was added.

Best I've seen so far is:


https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/alt.games.everquest/clarity$201999%7Csort:date/alt.games.everquest/lLO0lMgcDZM/lDn4QN7hyEcJ


About 3 months after release.


"From: "J.M. Capozzi" <cro...@gte.net>
The mana using song (And that's the one I refered to a while back) was
planned on being an AOE Direct Damage song, doing 400 damage to up to four
targets.
The catch was, it used almost all the mana a typical bard of that level
(42+) would have. Since bards don't get meditate, even with Clarity it
would take a long while before the bard was able to sing that song again.
Essentially, it's not a song, it's a spell, in the conventional sense.
Why this restriction? Bards are not meant to be nukers. This is a last
ditch, use it when the chips are down, make or break, type of song. At that
level range, 400 damage isn't a whole lot, any caster worth his salt can do
that with a quarter bar of mana. This is a way to give a bard some higher
level punch, without drastically changing the face of the class."

At least they get breeze at 16

Not till kunark.

I have a better source for this in the EQ-Enchanters mailing list, give me a few.

Edit: Actually it kind of sucks. Bleh. I will let you know if I find anything.

Edit2: May 5th 1999 spell listing on EQLizer does not have Clarity:

http://web.archive.org/web/199905082...enchanter.html

Doesnt clarity start at day 1 release but is not a beta spell? Breeze comes with Kunark.

I recall reading somewhere that clarity was added something like 3-6 months in

Clarity definitely not in at release.

Where in that resource do you see that Clarity wasn't in until X months after release? The only reference to Clarity in the messages is that once instance above where they say even with Clarity it would take a long time for a Bard to get its mana back because they don't have meditate. Nothing in there that I can see that talks about when Clarity was or wasn't in the game.

I don't know if that's sufficient enough evidence. A site made by a person could be incomplete. For example, they seem to be missing the level 4 Enchanter pet spell, and to my knowledge that was in from day 1. I think you'd need an actual patch notes saying that they are adding a new spell called Clarity.

Edit: Also found this on the Clarity page from Allakhazam: "There are no days before Clarity. Clarity is a lvl 29 enchanter spell and has been in the game since launch. Maybe you are thinking about Clarity 2, which was added with the Kunark expansion?"