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Glamour of Kintaz not working properly
Raev's thread about Rapture/GoK reminded me that GoK isn't working properly and I should stop procrastinating my bug report on it.
The main problem: 1) GoK should mez mobs levels 1 - 57 -- I've spoken to several other Enchanter's in game and asked on the forums and no one has told me they successfully mezzed a 56 or 57 mob with this on P99. I also tried to cast it on The Undertaker Lord 3 times, which were all resisted. It's possible they were just regular resists, it's impossible for me to tell without the mez immunity messages that were on live in 2001, but I think he was level immune. Worth noting, he's not immune to mez because he can be Raptured. I would do more testing but it's just not practical to chain cast a 275 mana spell on a level 56+ mob. Evidence: Quote:
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I've done quite a bit of reading on this, and the only thing I can find that suggests GoK was capped at 55 is the line in the Lucy history Quote:
I know my personal testing doesn't count for much with only a few casts, so if anyone knows of a 56 or 57 mob that would be easier to try chain casting this on I'd be happy to give it a try. Secondary Problem: -- There is also a small amount of evidence from Casters Realm and Lucy that GoK should have a 0.0 recast time in this era, which isn't the case on p99. Quote:
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Prior to that patch, Abashi did say mez immune messages were "always" sent. To me, that makes it sound like they had been in game for quite a while before October 2001. Quote:
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Patch notes related to mez immunity messages, predating Kunark by two whole weeks. What was mez immune prior to Kunark? Giants and dragons? Anything else? Mobs that are immune to Mez should give a notification regarding the same. As far as I know, that is not true on this server. www.tski.co.jp/baldio/patch/20000410.html | ||
Last edited by Baylan295; 07-09-2018 at 04:59 PM..
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Bump. I've tried to find more evidence to support this and have came up empty, but I also think the lack of posts of people complaining is sort-of evidence in its self.
If GoK had the same level cap as every other pre-50 mez and cost more than 2x as much mana as Dazzle for only 36 seconds of mez I think a lot of people would have been complaining. | ||
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Kintaz should work on mobs up to 57. https://web.archive.org/web/20030803...tml?spell=1691 This is as far back as I can go on archive but searching patch notes bring up no changes other than lowered mana costs in 2000. Asked Rygar for spdat data so we'll see if we can get some more info. | ||
Last edited by Pringles; 09-02-2018 at 11:21 AM..
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Sadly the information we are looking for is server sided similarly to the blur % chance. Here is the spdat.
[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] Interesting to note that there was no -10 MR modifier at any point in the classic era as I checked spdat's going back to Kunark release. This spdat image is from 04-04-01. Will try to gather more info but it's pretty bare. | ||
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It always struck me that the mana cost of this spell was pretty insane. 275 mana for a 30 second mez is a LOT. I went to check sources outside of P99 and several sources agree. The spell has a mana cost of 125. Comments on Alla, unfortunately only go back to 2003 on this spell so aren't helpful though they do show the -10MR. Then I found this: ------------------------------ June 6, 2000 8:00 am ------------------------------ * Augment, Glamour of Kintaz, Rapture, and Clarity II have had their mana cost lowered. http://everquest.allakhazam.com/hist...es-2000-1.html So I believe the initial cost when Kunark was released was 275, but it was lowered to 125 shortly after release. Unfortunately I'm not able to find an SPDAT parse for that time period to totally confirm this. Can anyone help with this? Either the spell originally had an even higher mana cost and it was reduced TWICE to get to the 2003 level, or it was changed shortly after release.
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