Miscellaneous: Sword of Runes shouldn't have Ward Summoned effect until October 1999 (+other items)

[soronil]

Without more specific patch notes it's really hard to say which patch it was. There is also:

September 13, 1999
Some Magician Summoned items are now lore items. Items that have turned lore have had other small benefits added to them.

From that it sounds to me like the magical effects were added in September and then again changed in October, but we don't know exactly what the intermeditate changes were