Miscellaneous: Archery damage was announced via "mob says, hit by non-melee for xx damage"

[Dolalin]

Found a fun screenshot of this in action. I think we all remember spell damage being announced this way, but archery damage was too.

Presumably this also disappeared in the July 19th, 2000 patch where the spell damage one did.

http://web.archive.org/web/200206170...t/EQ001225.jpg

[Dolalin]

Damage shield damage was announced this way too:

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Proof of the greatness of damage shields and of how weird EQ combat
chain of events can be:

a shriveled mummy was hit by non-melee for 13 points of damage
a shriveled mummy was pierced by thorns.
You have slain a shriveled mummy!
You gain experience!
You are stunned!
a shriveled mu bashes YOU for 3 points of damage
a shriveled mu's corpse2 tries to cast a spell on you, but you are
protected.
You are unstunned.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt....o/KB_akXoEQS0J

Actually, DS damage doesn't get credited to anyone, cast one on a level 1
character and they'll be cursing you shortly. It'll look like this:

Player attacks a giant rat, but misses
giant rat says 'hit by non-melee for 24 points of damage'
giant rat attacks Player for one point of damage
you have killed a giant rat
<No xp message here>

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec....E/rH-EHw5CerQJ

And happens a lot in this long eqlog.txt I found from Sept 1999:

fire giant warrior says 'Hit By non-melee for 24 damage'
fire giant warrior was pierced by thorns.
fire giant warrior hits YOU for 89 points of damage.
fire giant warrior says 'Hit By non-melee for 24 damage'
fire giant warrior was pierced by thorns.
fire giant warrior hits YOU for 110 points of damage.

http://web.archive.org/web/200102240...qlog990918.txt