If god appeared on earth in any form, it was in the form of a programmer that put this bug into the code before launch, for he saw what rogean and nilbog would build one day and knew the power of the bard long before brad and co.
FWIW
I found this in the patch notes a few days ago and was going to put together a really robust patch history (rogean I really wondered if you knew of one that someone had already made? Or have you guys got one? I managed to find patch notes from as early as 6 months after release I think, maybe 4? on the casters realm site.)
Here is the patch that fixed AoE kiting
http://web.archive.org/web/200202231...th=9&Year=1999
September 13, 1999 makes it 6 months
6 months no bard kiting?
:casts spell: toxicity
removed!
If this discovery could play a hand in the elimination of swarm kiting on green and I played a part in that I would say that is the best loot I could have ever be rewarded! (sorry bards!)