Kunark and Hybrid Skill Caps

[yaeger]

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August 9, 2000
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- Rangers, Paladins, and SKs now have mana equivalent to that of a pure
caster with the same stats. This will give those hybrids a good deal
more mana, regardless of their stats.

Hybrids could cast more than a couple of spells a couple months after Kunark. However, the devs are always talking about having tons of things to do and not enough time/people to do it all so they have to prioritize.

One of the things I want to see reverted to Classic:

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January 9, 2001 3:00 am
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*Root and Snare*

Root-type spells and "snare" type spells now use a separate spell
effect.

Previously, "Root" spells would overwrite any snare effect upon the
target. When the root would wear off, the target began moving at full
speed. With this change, when root wears off, snare will still be in
effect. This has a few added effects on the other end.

For instance, root will no longer cancel SoW or Journeyman's Boots
effects. It also allowed us to correct a long-standing bug that was
allowing bards to cancel root on themselves by playing Selo's
Accelerando if Selo's was in effect at the time that the bard was
rooted. As mentioned in a previous patch where the first part of this
bug was fixed, this was not the intended effect.