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Originally Posted by Zuranthium
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Combat swings worked differently in 1999 as well. Doing any kind of input that wasn't an instant skill like kick or an instant social, would reset the auto-attack timer (casting a spell, using an item - *even ones with instant activation like JBoots*, starting a bind wound), and it wouldn't start again until you were finished with whatever you were activating. It was VERY important back then to wait for your swing if you wanted to cast a spell while trying to melee, and then immediately cast the spell, because otherwise you were delaying yourself from attacking that much longer. The only exception was Bard songs.
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This was only true while auto-attack was switched on. Players could turn off attack, cast their spell(s), then turn attack back on. If the player did that then the spell cast wouldn't affect swing timer. Doing this was particularly important when using slower 2H weapons. In early velious era the hybrids were patched so that their melee works like it does now on P99, but all other spellcasting classes had to continue turning off attack (or lose some melee time) throughout the entire classic era.
Of course the above has nothing to do with P99's broken implementation of bind wound, which is long overdue to a fix, but it's good to know in case the powers-that-be ever alter melee to behave more classic-like.
Danth