No clarity for enchanters on green

[DMN]

Originally Posted by cd288 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I don't know if that's sufficient enough evidence. A site made by a person could be incomplete. For example, they seem to be missing the level 4 Enchanter pet spell, and to my knowledge that was in from day 1. I think you'd need an actual patch notes saying that they are adding a new spell called Clarity.

Now that you mention it. I seem to recall enchanters having some serious problems finding their pets. Though it might just have been not many people knew they were all in Highhold, it's possible they did have missing pets.

[Dolalin]

This guy dumped the spdat.eff on 5/20/99 and it did not have Clarity in it:

5/20/99

Just for fun (boy, I must have been bored!) I went thru the spdat.eff file,
and cleaned out everything but the spell names themselves. Here's the full
(current) list of spells, and spell effects, like animal poisons, rabies, GM
special spells, Guide spells, etc.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt....M/_TlZwHwFjh4J

Then this guy mentions clarity on 6/4/99, so it must have been added in a patch between these two dates:

6/4/99

...

5) Enchanters are great. Clarity Rocks. Some fun spells too, I love em.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt....I/IPW-lS221d0J

[DMN]

looking like it was the may 24 patch. Seems the right time frame and that patch had a ton of spell updates/changes.

That eqlizer site didn't update the enchanter animations until late 2000 for some reason.

[Dolalin]

There are tons of missing patch messages. There could have been another patch in between those dates that we don't have. I added a bunch more today but they are hard to find.

The biggest problem is that www.eqvault.net / www.eqvault.com have incomplete archives. I think www.eqvault.com had a strict robots.txt for 9 months and excluded web archiving entirely. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[sciception]

What about Bards?
NM it is in

[Ferahgo]

We really need to get our hands on a time machine.

[cd288]

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

This guy dumped the spdat.eff on 5/20/99 and it did not have Clarity in it:



https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt....M/_TlZwHwFjh4J

Then this guy mentions clarity on 6/4/99, so it must have been added in a patch between these two dates:



https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt....I/IPW-lS221d0J

I definitely remember having Clarity before May 20, 1999. Whether it was added before then or in on day 1, I can't personally confirm since it of course took me a little bit to hit 29 (there's also that other comment on Allakhazam that says it was in from day 1). I don't think one person's spell dump is really that relevant...who knows if they accidentally deleted Clarity from their list while clearing out the extra stuff in the spell file etc. etc. etc. Plus you have the Bard level 32 Clarity song in there, so Clarity was clearly a concept at the time.

[Dolalin]

Got it. They're talking about Clarity here with this, there's nothing else this spell could be:

5/25/99

One REALLY positive thing I read about (also undocumented) is the
addition of a spell for level 30+ Enchanters, that is a group spell
that increases the mana recharge rate by 50%. This, if its true fixes
a big hole in the Enchanters toolbelt since most of our group oriented
spells are aimed at improving tanks, as opposed to helping casters.
Still just rumors at this stage but I am definitely more positive now
then I was this weekend.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!se...E/4cq1-QqW6hEJ

Looking like that May 24 patch is the one.

[cd288]

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

Got it. They're talking about Clarity here with this, there's nothing else this spell could be:



https://groups.google.com/forum/#!se...E/4cq1-QqW6hEJ

Looking like that May 24 patch is the one.

I don't think that's Clarity at all. Clarity is a level 29 spell not a 30+ spell. It also doesn't increase it by 50%. You're extrapolating random internet comments from 20 years ago. Unless it says something like "hey how excited are you guys that Clarity was added in this patch!?" then it's not proof of anything.

[DMN]

Originally Posted by cd288 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I don't think that's Clarity at all. Clarity is a level 29 spell not a 30+ spell. It also doesn't increase it by 50%. You're extrapolating random internet comments from 20 years ago. Unless it says something like "hey how excited are you guys that Clarity was added in this patch!?" then it's not proof of anything.

It will if you cast it on a low level character via a higher level enchanter.

29 versus 30 is certainly hair splitting.