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Old 10-10-2017, 11:22 AM
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Originally Posted by Rygar [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
The patch message itself just seems to mention that, if you factor in their correction, that it was changed from worn to activate to race / class to activate (meaning rangers didn't have to wear it anymore).
No -- before the Jan. 23 patch, it could be activated from inventory. Rangers were not happy about the "worn to activate" change (who would want to swap out their Cloak of Thorns for DCotS during an encounter just for the haste?). From the Alla link in my original post (and this is not the only statement out there like this):

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Originally Posted by Anonymous, June 3 2001
It is usable from general inventory. Basically, you stick it in your inventory slot, and bind it to kick or something.
It seems to me that the devs original intent for the DCotS change on Jan. 23 was for it to be "Race/Class to activate" and not "worn to activate," just like they did with SoulFire to prevent non-paladins from abusing it. They goofed and the latter option went through for DCotS, which was later fixed on Feb. 13 to what their original intent apparently was.

Good points, Paul. Something to keep in mind is that top-tier guilds were often secretive about strats and items, and you'd rarely see them posting uncommon information on sites like Allakhazam. Non-rangers attempting the DCotS quest is something members of a hardcore guild could afford to do due to raiding frequency, and surely the ability for rangers to use it from inventory piqued the interest of other melee classes. I myself completed the DCotS quest here on P99 on my rogue out of curiosity back in 2013, and I later learned that another old rogue guildmate of mine completed it in 2011/12 to test it also. Perhaps private guild forums of the old hardcore raiding guilds would hold more answers, if any are actually still around.
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