Spells: Harm Touch Resisted.

[loserofgame]

I vaguely remember there being a patch somewhere along the line where HT was changed to be on lifetap resist(-200) table, because there were many issues with HT resisting.

I can't remember when that patch was put in, though...and I could be mistaken. But perhaps the patch notes would be the first place to look.

[Grozmok]

I guess you could search here:

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/history/patches.html

[loserofgame]

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

I guess you could search here:

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/history/patches.html

Yeah. Found them:

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December 19, 2000 3:00 am
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*Patch Day*

- The Shadow Knight's "Unholy Aura" discipline has received an
enhancement. When in use, harmtouch resistances will be checked versus
disease instead of magic. In addition, harmtouch will resist in the
same fashion as lifetap spells, meaning that unless the creature is
immune to disease, you should get full damage most of the time.


(This was the first one, and could be construed as DISC-specific, but, followed by)

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January 9, 2001 3:00 am
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***Patch Day***

- The "Unholy Aura" Discipline now gives a 50% bonus to Harmtouch
(compared with the previous 25%) and causes it to save versus disease,
which should result in even fewer resists in most high-level
encounters.

*Spells*

- "Harmtouch" is now resisted as if it were a "Lifetap" spell, meaning
that it is all-or-nothing, and nearly unresistable with exception to
encounters that are immune to magic or out of the acceptable level
range. In addition, maximum damage for Harmtouch has been increased
starting at 40th level.


There you have it. HT should be on Lifetap-style resist and should be near-unresistable in standard encounters.

Edit: Note that the HT change is a Velious-era change. It is feasible that it will not be changed until Velious is released on p99.

Edit2: Anyone else notice that these two patch notes say almost the exact same thing? Redundancy, anyone?

[Lazortag]

Actually that's a Luclin-era change since Luclin was released on december 4th.

[loserofgame]

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

Actually that's a Luclin-era change since Luclin was released on december 4th.

Wrong year.

Dec 4 2001 is when Luclin is released. These patch notes are from Dec 2000, and Jan 2001.

[Grozmok]

^

That was going to be my next question.

It might not be "classic" but as an SK lover it would be a nice welcome change.

When was the last time you saw a lay-on-Hands get resisted by a player?

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[Szeth]

in 2 years when velious gets released.

[Grozmok]

omg i cant wait

[heartbrand]

This is one of those things where do we gimp a classes main ability because verant had their head up their own ass, in order to stay loyal to te timeline, or, do we fix it now to make the class function better? I think the latter

[Grozmok]

+1

I need to post that screenshot of me HT a snake for 5 damage. It's glorious.