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AoE spells should only hit limited targets until September 1999 patch era
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If I had to pick a number out of the air I'd cap it at four (on the basis of quad kiting spells). | |||
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Bump for a goog bug report.
It would be good if people leveled the old fashioned way, instead of having the server full of bards swarming wisps etc. | ||
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As evidence of the 4 target limit I present Exhibit A, this post from the EQBards mailing list from June 1999, stating that point blank bard AOEs had a 4 mob limit at that time.
https://groups.yahoo.com/api/v1/grou...8?guccounter=1 Quote:
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(Just to be clear, it was a total wild guess on my part that it should be 4, but it seems my instincts were correct)
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Well I did some quick searching and it looks as though I ran a bard around WFP singing chords of dissonance and the max number of hits I see is 4. The problem is that only happened once - most are 2 or 3 targets at once. I also only did it for a few minutes so it's a very limited sample size.
The devs already have these logs - they're from the character "makesevin". Good luck! -Mcoy | ||
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If god appeared on earth in any form, it was in the form of a programmer that put this bug into the code before launch, for he saw what rogean and nilbog would build one day and knew the power of the bard long before brad and co.
FWIW I found this in the patch notes a few days ago and was going to put together a really robust patch history (rogean I really wondered if you knew of one that someone had already made? Or have you guys got one? I managed to find patch notes from as early as 6 months after release I think, maybe 4? on the casters realm site.) Here is the patch that fixed AoE kiting http://web.archive.org/web/200202231...th=9&Year=1999 September 13, 1999 makes it 6 months 6 months no bard kiting? :casts spell: toxicity removed! If this discovery could play a hand in the elimination of swarm kiting on green and I played a part in that I would say that is the best loot I could have ever be rewarded! (sorry bards!) | ||
Last edited by Jibartik; 09-20-2019 at 09:33 PM..
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Doesn’t seem right, might I ask what is the point of the entire line of PBaoe spells for multiple classes if it’s no different than a quad spell?
But if this guys post from back then is actually accurate, it also seems that bards chant of flame, chant of frost and fufils should be like lures and have a negative resist mod added in. | ||
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I would just assume that it was a spell that players just didnt use, like charm, things often totally sucked back then lol as a bard im sure 4 would seem natural, as you were mostly meleeing with other characters cus you thought you were a tank back then we were all so dumb lol Id figure PBaoe spells could be memed next to my necromancrs grim aura spell
It looks like loramin just beat me to it and compiled all these patch notes onto our wiki so there is the start of what will be the most comprehensive patch history about classic everquest? (that is if you dont already have one rogean?? [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] ) : https://www.project1999.com/forums/s...d.php?t=334317 | ||
Last edited by Jibartik; 09-20-2019 at 09:47 PM..
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