Bleh, was hoping to avoid linking it all!
There's alot of people who assumed they were actually deity restricted when it wasn't. So you'll find alot of misinformation posts by people who just assumed instead of tested. All of these links discuss the lack of restriction prior to the patch, and make no reference to it switching back and forth prior to that or that it was an introduced bug - no, they were always able to be scribed by any deity, because it appears that they lacked the ability to actually restrict it. It just wasn't well known historically that you could scribe this stuff - people just assumed.
Note - There is also a Mass Imbue line of spells that came later. They left these not deity restricted for like 20hrs, so it's important to know which line (in context) that any discussion you read about this stuff refers to.
Here's some more evidence in like 30min of searching -
http://www.eqclerics.org/forums/showthread.php?t=5021 - by Klairen - 03-01-2002, 05:22 PM -
First of all, they'd have to make the deity specific spells actually deity specific. All those imbue spells with CLR on them can be scribed by any cleric, regardless of who you worship.
http://www.eqcleric.com/archive/index.php/t-355.html - by Dyschord - 07-11-2003, 12:04 PM - "
I do have some of the original imbues that were also not diety restricted when they put them out, but later added the restriction. I can't mem those, but they are still in my spellbook. " - Note, not that it matters for P99, but there's other posts that state they are memable.
https://forums.station.sony.com/eq/i...-pebble.44736/ - post #11 - ARCHIVED-Treeslayer, Feb 2, 2006 - "
Unless they scribed them before the code was fixed to check deity."
http://mboards.eqtraders.com/eq/show...tulings-spawns - post # 8 - by Mileron -
"Don't forget, too...
Prior to a change made in a patch early last summer, clerics were able to scribe Imbue spells for gems not of their deity.
So a Mith Marr cleric could very well have scribed Imbue Black Pearl. (as an example.)"
Also see posts #11
http://www.eqcleric.com/archive/index.php/t-6085.html - by Milletoux - 11-29-2003, 11:29 PM -
"Very early on, you could scribe the spells for all deities, but they changed that so you can only scribe the ones for your own deity. However, if the spell was already scribed you could still use it."
http://www.eqcleric.com/archive/index.php/t-8366.html - by Pinzarn - 06-18-2004, 08:24 AM -
For those lucky souls that scribed the spells before the deity restriction, they can imbue anything.
http://www.eqcleric.com/archive/index.php/t-7835.html - by Milletoux - 05-01-2004, 08:37 PM -
You may hear of a few clerics -- myself included -- who are multi-deity imbuers. There are two ways this happened:
1. The cleric has been around forever and scribed all the single-use imbues before they were deity restricted.
http://www.elitegamerslounge.com/hom...?f=107&t=49568 - by yinlaBB - Mon Dec 04, 2006 12:27 am -
I know originally the priests could scribe and mem all the gem imbue spells that their classes could have as a deity.I made a mistake with my wizzy and she is Quellious and can still imbue the Fire Opals which are Sol Ro. - Note, there is some discussion further down specific to the Mass Imbue spells, which also were not deity restricted for a bit, but unlike the single cast Imbue's, this was for like 20hrs. This poster is referring to the original single target imbues (note includes wiz and cleric lack of deity restrictions).
http://thedruidsgrove.org/archive/eq/t-9286.html - by Delores Mulva - 09-03-2004, 04:02 PM -
It is not fair that some people scribed Imbue spells before deity restrictions were put on them.
http://www.eqclerics.org/forums/arch...hp?t-5056.html - by Balanar - 03-11-2002, 05:13 PM -
I have 4 of the Imbue Spells scribed atm and I use them all. Have they fixed this or did I just get lucky?
http://www.eqclerics.org/forums/showthread.php?t=9626 - by Balanar again - 06-10-2002, 02:35 PM -
Follower of Brell and was imbuein Emeralds just yesterday.
http://thedruidsgrove.org/archive/eq/t-320.html - by Aldane - 07-10-2003, 11:25 AM -
There's a problem with that, Absor. Back when I was bringing up my druid, I was able to scribe both Imbue Plains Pebble and Imbue Emerald. Then, a patch made it so that the spells were unscribable unless you worshipped the proper diety. In that long ago patch message it mentioned that those that had scribed the imbues could continue to use them, but that new scribings would be diety restricted. So, with that said, I -- and many other older druids -- have been able to "normally cast" both imbues for quite a long time.
Since I have always been able to cast both imbues, will I be able to cast both mass imbues, or am I going to only be able to cast one of the mass imbues (which would suck, if I may be so blunt)?
So there you go.