Miscellaneous: Shissar Apothic Staff

eisley · #1 03-20-2022, 09:13 AM

So, Shissar Apothic Staff should've been removed and replaced with Shissar Protection Staff back in around late summer 2016. (Equivalent to March 2001).

Nilbog acknowledged and posted this as fixed pending update back at the time, but it seems it was forgotten or overlooked. I don't believe any more proof is required, nor does anyone contest this change, to my knowledge.

Sorry to any future clerics. Yeah, you will lose one of your best raid items. But, a class got to keep one of their signature items 6 years longer than they were supposed to, and I think it's probably time to nerf it. It's not fair to other classes who lose theirs in era-appropriate times.

(By the way, Donal's Leggings make for a decent alternative to the Staff. Obviously, it chews through Peridots, so it's not going to replace it for stuff like HoT farm groups, but it's at least worth mentioning. Donal's Legs actually outpace it in healing per second. Back in the day I stockpiled these legs in preparation for the Staff nerf, but it never came. As a show of good faith I'll sell them for 5k each to 'real clerics' when/if this gets nerfed.)

**nilbog** · #2 03-20-2022, 12:21 PM

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Nilbog acknowledged and posted this as fixed pending update back at the time

Do you have a link to this? Did a quick forum search and found this one:

https://www.project1999.com/forums/s...ad.php?t=69859

But it doesn't currently appear to be fixed.

Will be easy enough to correct, but would like to do a bit of research to determine the earliest date. You suggest Mar2001, and that thread from Ele suggests Oct2001.

**nilbog** · #3 03-21-2022, 12:32 PM

It appears most of the chat about this change occurred in Oct2001.

https://web.archive.org/web/20011122...ML/007362.html

Fixed, pending update

-Shissar Apothic Staff is replaced by Shissar Protection Staff on Hoshkar's loot table. [Oct2001]

eisley · #4 03-21-2022, 05:38 PM

Ah, had the times mixed up. My bad. Been awhile.

Thanks Nilbog.

Gustoo · #5 03-24-2022, 01:48 AM

Does the item get retroactively nerfed or just start dropping as the protection staff?

nyclin · #6 03-24-2022, 06:52 PM

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Does the item get retroactively nerfed or just start dropping as the protection staff?

existing staves are unchanged, but it no longer drops and is replaced in the drop table with the protection staff