Game Mechanics: Slam on magical creatures did not work until Dec 1999 era

[Dolalin]

Slam did not work on magical creatures until December 1999. After this, you could equip magical shoulders and it would hit the mob.

Source:

Povarian
posted December 01, 1999 06:51 AM

Please post a status on this BUG. I and my whole group died again in CT cuz I was unable to SLAM the steel golem, while wearing my crafted gloves (magic) and wielding my Exec Axe (2hander magic).
Thank You

A True Warrior who will not settle for using 1handers to fight, mes love mes axe and mes wanna use it all da time!!!!

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Robert Hill
posted December 07, 1999 05:01 PM

This has been fixed on the Test Server. It be necessary to have a magical item equipped on characters shoulder to achieve a slam on magical creatures. This should be updated on Wed. Dec. 8.

Robert Hill
Lead Tester
EverQuest

http://web.archive.org/web/200004110...ML/000016.html

Verant was using the DrTwister.com forums as an informal bug source for a few months in 99.

Edit: Here's Rob Hill today, because I'm creepy: http://www.gamesauce.biz/tag/robert-hill/

Fix is corroborated in patch notes for Dec 8th 1999:

Race Enhancements

Barbarians, Ogres and Trolls may now slam magic mobs when equipped with magic shoulders.

https://wiki.project1999.com/Patch_N...e_Enhancements

[Dolalin]

It seems that during beta or shortly after release, it was possible to slam magical creatures using a magical 2h weapon, but this was changed at least as of May 1999:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt....4/o666m88Z-KEJ

Afterwards it was not possible to slam magical things until Verant's patch fix above.