New Mass Imbue/Enchant spells

[Sayleth]

Doesnt look the servers are coming down tonight, there is patch announced for tomorrow (11th) though.

Sayleth

[splunge]

By the way, nice job of catching the error while the vendors were on Test server for WEEKS. You had TONS of time to fix this, but AS USUAL, you shove stuff out to the live servers without looking twice.

/boggle

[Turlie Silverwine]

Maybe the people on the test server took advantage of it and didn't scream for the dev's attention. /shrug

[Mukkul]

Why do they play on Test then.

[Hibashira]

Maybe the people on the test server took advantage of it and didn't scream for the dev's attention. /shrug

I suspect that the players on test are a lot more disciplined at not screaming and shouting about this exploit and that exploit. Everyone should know by now that the devs roam all the major boards, including this one. Posting any sploit will guarantee a nerf. Can't say I didn't see it coming.

Why do they play on Test then.

Because test server get to see everything first. Not just the finished codes but the codes in progress. Some people enjoy that and others enjoy doing critiques and being part of the test process.

[Aandaie]

And a few too many people on test enjoyed looting cloaks of flames from low level mobs Some even did obvious things like leaving a planes raid when they heard about it to go and get mass cloaks of flames instead.

This led to everyone getting their characters removed first, then later put back without any equipment.

[Lilosh]

Edit: Nevermind, tired halfling eyes misread the quote.

[eqNichola]

Before you all go tarring test server players (and no, I'm not one) with the 'only in it for the sploit' tag, I feel obliged to say that this oversight almost certainly WAS reported on test, via the approved means, and that that piece of information simply vanished into a black hole, with the result that things went live as is.

This would NOT be the first time, and I doubt it will be the last, where something test players have jumped up and down about has made it to live unchanged. Blame the QA system, not the test players

[eqNichola]

Post patch: The mass imbue spells I bought AND SCRIBED *before* the patch STILL WORK. I am happy.

[Thorvari]

oh and FYI....Splunge plays on Test....he was ranting that the issue WAS found on his server, and never fixed before going live.

[Ndaara]

well i managed to fall asleep on the couch and wake up in time to buy my mass imbue emerald and plains pebbles spells, as they are not indicated to be deity restricted. it got all the way to the end of scribing it before it told me

"you're not with the right deity to scribe this" or something like that.

They are not marked with which deity, so be sure you know before you buy =p

ps: i know the dead horse about being able to imbue someone else's gems, but SHEESH making my own imbued plains pebbles woulda made my halfling druid friends ECSTATIC!

[Zeralenn]

Post patch: The mass imbue spells I bought AND SCRIBED *before* the patch STILL WORK. I am happy.

Woot!

My cleric Milletoux (gnomish Bertox worshipper) was one of the quick ones who got over there early, bought them and scribed all the ones she could.

Very happy tradeskiller, especially about those pesky emeralds.

...Zera

[Llwyd]

Note that the post-patch scrolls (that do not mention a diety restriction) cannot be sold back. So, the scribing code was patched, but not the item itself.

[Taushar]

Hmmm, I just better not see you selling tons of Imbued gems from varying dieties in bazaar, Taushar.

hehe j/k


Hobbun

LOL, since I have a mule in Bazaar, you wouldn't know it's me anyways.

Taushar

[OberonMiM]

actually it wasn't the scribing code patched. If you look on the actual spell info it says diety.

Basically the original problem with the single imbues was even though the scrolls had a diety it wasn't checked when scribing. So to fix that initial problem they put a diety marker in the spell itself which is checked when scribing

Fast forward to today. The new spells themselves now have the diety flag which prevents scribing. But however the scrolls which contain the spells dont have the diety listing (which doesn't really affect the scroll because the diety flag is useless on them but its good for info)

All they added was the diety flag to the spells themselves which is basically the same fix for the single target ones.

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