Spells: Cantata of Soothing and the Clarity line of spells should not stack

[Kirdan]

So it seems like it does affect the 55 song, but the order is reversed: Cantata blocks C, but doesn't overwrite it.

[Ennewi]

Judging by complaints alone, it appears to have been a bug that first cropped up in early 2001, as there's no mention of those specific songs/spells being incompatible in 2000. Kunark was released in April of 2000 and added Cantata of Replenishment, with Velious being released in December of 2000, adding Cantata of Soothing. So it's possible that the conflict began with inclusion of that new version of cantata, among other songs, as that is right around the time complaints started filtering in.

As noted, but buried in that wall of copy/pasted text on the previous page, the description of one patch suggests that the spell/song conflict had been unintentional and that at least a few attempts had been made to address the issue...

https://everquest.allakhazam.com/his...es-2001-2.html

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September 25, 2001 3:00 am
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** Spell Changes **

- We have removed the changes to bard song stacking that were made with
the recent emergency patch. We will be reviewing those changes for
possible update in a future patch.

...though to what extent and in what way remains unclear; the few months between then and the release of SoL are still unaccounted for.

[Dolalin]

I have spdats from that entire era in my archive, you could check the spreadsheet to see if any slots changed in 2000/2001 to cause that stacking issue and when.

[Ennewi]

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

I have spdats from that entire era in my archive, you could check the spreadsheet to see if any slots changed in 2000/2001 to cause that stacking issue and when.

I tried but was unable locate those through the filename extension, searching for spdat.eff or the song names directly, though perhaps I'm going about it entirely wrong? Allakhazam via WaybackMachine only goes back as far as 2002-2003 for the songs/spells in question.

[Dolalin]

Spdats are in the git archive itself:

https://github.com/dbsanfte/eq-archi...b/master/spdat

I used EQCaster to export to CSV then dumped them all into a spreadsheet so you can see changes in one place:

https://github.com/dbsanfte/eq-archi...AT%20Data.xlsx

The README.md gives the original sources.