Spells: Torpor Mana Expenditure

[Erati]

^

Nothing was worse in classic than clicking off SOW to run with a bard

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[Ele]

SPdat.eff from September 19, 2000 (Epic Weapons Patch) Obtained from here

Torpor
Regeneration for 1200 Hit Points (HP) in 4 ticks
Decrease Attack Speed by 30% (L60)
Decrease Movement by 100% (L60)
Decrease Mana by 50 (L60)


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Classes: Shm (L60)

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Range to Target: 100 feet

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Skill: Alteration
Allowable Targets: All

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Resistance Check: None

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Mana Required: 200
Spell Duration: 4 ticks (24 seconds)
Duration Formula: 10
Casting Time: 6.0 seconds
Spell Recovery: 2.50 seconds

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Spell cast on you: You fall into a state of torpor.
Spell cast on someone: Soandso falls into a state of torpor.
Spell fades: Your state of torpor ends.

The mana component is missing from the November 16, 2000 and later spdat.eff patches.

Torpor
Regeneration for 1200 Hit Points (HP) in 4 ticks
Decrease Attack Speed by 30% (L60)
Decrease Movement by 100% (L60)


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Classes: Shm (L60)

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Range to Target: 100 feet

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Skill: Alteration
Allowable Targets: All

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Resistance Check: None

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Mana Required: 200
Spell Duration: 4 ticks (24 seconds)
Duration Formula: 10
Casting Time: 6.0 seconds
Spell Recovery: 2.50 seconds

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Spell cast on you: You fall into a state of torpor.
Spell cast on someone: Soandso falls into a state of torpor.
Spell fades: Your state of torpor ends.

[evilkorn]

Glad we are past that in the timeline, but it's good to know for future progression servers they may plan.

[Daldaen]

November 16, 2000

The spell Torpor received an unintentional reduction in effectiveness.

The timeline here doesn't make sense to me.

September 2000 - Torpor has Reduce Mana (50) -- (Is this per tick or just once?)
November 11 2000 - Torpor no longer has the Reduced Mana
November 16 2000 - Torpor received an unintentional reduction in effectiveness

If it had the mana drain removed, it would've been an improvement not a reduction in effectiveness?

[Ele]

Originally Posted by Daldaen [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

November 16, 2000



The timeline here doesn't make sense to me.

September 2000 - Torpor has Reduce Mana (50) -- (Is this per tick or just once?)
November 11 2000 - Torpor no longer has the Reduced Mana
November 16 2000 - Torpor received an unintentional reduction in effectiveness

If it had the mana drain removed, it would've been an improvement not a reduction in effectiveness?

Sorry Nov. 11th was a typo meant 16th. Directly comparing the Nov. 15 and Nov. 16 spdat.eff files shows the removal of the mana reduction component. And it should be per tick.

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[Erati]

I smell classholes up in here

[maskedmelon]

The November 16 patch notes reference the previous day's patch, so presumably a nerf hit Torpor on November 15 and was then corrected on the 16th.

Regardless, we now know that until September 23rd (November 11, provided no patches occurred in between) Torpor had the drain component. That places the drain removal 4 weeks prior to Velious release.

Bring out the nerf bat!

[evilkorn]

The unintentional reduction in effectiveness refers to them not wanting it to drain mana. That patch fixed it.

Bring out the nerf bat!

We are to the point just before velious release as far as patch timeline goes. Thus these findings do nothing to change the current state of the server.

[Daldaen]

Evikorn is correct, we are past that point. But for almost all of Kunark, it should have its drain.

[maskedmelon]

Not quite ( unless I missed a launch date notice?) Rogean has indicated that we'd have a minimum 6 week notice before launch. So we have at the very least 2 weeks for this nerf assuming we receive launch notice today, probably more.

I say nerd it now and leave in place until Velious launch as penance for our oversight ^^ ... or at least until 4 weeks before launch.