So how did they do necro charm on blue?

[Dolalin]

Necromancers had the charm (anything) line at launch. It was nerfed in one of the summer patches.

NECROS
- Fixed bug that caused lifetap spells to be unresistable
+ Some Lifetap Spells Made more mana efficient
+ Added more Class Specific Quests
+ Added more Class Specific Items
+ Necromancer Pet Buff Spells Strengthened
+ Added Special Items to let Necromancers Summon Stronger Pets
+ Lots of New Spells (c.f. Screaming Terror, Pact of Shadow,Vampiric Curse, Bond of Death, Summon Corpse, etc.)
+ Enhanced Call of Bones Series
+ Enhanced Screaming Terror
- Added a Recast Time to Pact of Shadow
+ Added New Looks to Necromancer Pets
- Removed Charm Series
+ Reduced the Casting Time of Some Necromancer Spells
+ Made Research Easier & Fixed Broken Research
+ Added Quests to let Necromancers Quest (instead of Research) their pets
+ Enhanced Effectiveness of Some Spells (Shadow Vortex, Surge of Enfeeblement, Ignite Bones, Dead Man Floating, etc.)
+ Feign Death: Changed to be more effective for creatures under 32
- Feign Death: Is slightly less effective (once experienced) for creatures over 32
+ Slowing component of upgrades to the "Darkness" series increased greatly.
+ Dooming Darkness and above changed to override Snare
+ Slowing component removed from Ignite Bones
+ Appearance changed for higher level pets
+ Levitation component added to Dead Man Floating

[astuce999]

BARDS
+ Added stat and other bonuses to instruments
+ Added more Class Specific Quests
+ Added more Class Specific Items
+ Added Addition Effects to Some Bard Songs
+ Added New Bard Songs
+ Added Ability for Bards to Punch 'Magic Only' Creatures
+ Increased the Power of Some Bard Songs
- Accelerando no longer breaks root
- Hard speed cap slowed Accelerando slightly for bards with best drum.
- Selo's Consonant Chain will no longer root a MOB if the MOB has SoW
- Song of the Sirens' duration reduced. Charm capped for higher level MOBs
+ Can now use weapons that proc while singing
+ Bard's teleport song made to work for party, instead of bard only.

I had been looking for evidence that Selo's overwrote root, lvl 27 charm had a variable up to a minute duration with no cap, and Chains used to effectively root certain mobs for a long time, and it was all in the same post.

too late to implement?

Astuce

[mmoDust]

In addition to the notes I was hoping it was not removed from my spellbook and behold Charm along with some other Unknown Spell still in my necromancers spell book who was created 3/24/99. This is on my necro on live right now on Tunare who was on E'ci at launch.

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[Glasken]

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

In addition to the notes I was hoping it was not removed from my spellbook and behold Charm along with some other Unknown Spell still in my necromancers spell book who was created 3/24/99. This is on my necro on live right now on Tunare who was on E'ci at launch.

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This is a very interesting find, thank you for providing the screenshot!

I am amazed at the number of classes that had charm from the start, among other spells.

[Xanzinder]

Ummm... in those patch notes did it say Clarity was added?!? Was this not in at launch? No breeze until Kunark and no Clarity until we catch up to this patch???

[Glasken]

Right you are! No mana regen for enchanters!

[Natewest1987]

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

In addition to the notes I was hoping it was not removed from my spellbook and behold Charm along with some other Unknown Spell still in my necromancers spell book who was created 3/24/99. This is on my necro on live right now on Tunare who was on E'ci at launch.

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That is insanely cool that you still have this chat after 20 years!

[Jadian]

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- Added "root" component to Treeform

Quoted the important part.

FREE THE TREE PEOPLE FROM THEIR ROOTED SHACKLES.

[DMN]

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

Ummm... in those patch notes did it say Clarity was added?!? Was this not in at launch? No breeze until Kunark and no Clarity until we catch up to this patch???

Clarity was added extremely early. For sure in the first month if not the first week.

A lot of people complained about lack of mana regen in the open beta and verant hastily added a Frankenstein clarity spell that was blatantly ripped off from bards mana song. They also improved meditation a bit at the same time.

[soronil]

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

Clarity was added extremely early. For sure in the first month if not the first week.

A lot of people complained about lack of mana regen in the open beta and verant hastily added a Frankenstein clarity spell that was blatantly ripped off from bards mana song. They also improved meditation a bit at the same time.

So... what is with the long list of notes you listed...

Some of that stuff is temple of solusek ro patch, some of it happened much earlier? So this isn't a single set of patch notes... Where did it come from?