Did BladeSpirits changed with latest patch?

[Daedalus]

Just yesterday a single blade spirit was able to defeat an ettin or 2-3 undeads in cemetery. Now I see they barely can do a scratch to them.

My impression, or they got nerfed?

[a guy]

Yeah they must have, they are basically useless now - a lich just killed 4 of them in a row and is basically still full health. I remember back during renaissance they were almost too powerful, they would hit like 5 times a second and poison you. People would gm parry with them because they delt out so many blows per second. They had so many hit points that they rarely died before they vanished unless up against a really strong creature.

[Mark]

Yea, or they were dispelled. I agree. blades are weak here for some odd reason, not just recently, but for awhile now, if they are even weaker now, thats a problem

[Ravenal]

I just looked at the code, I had the checks for Siege Perlious in the rules they are weaker, and well i had it swapped... I will fix this ASAP...

[Daedalus]

I believe I can confirm this was fixed with Shard Patch #9.11

[a guy]

Yes they are fixed to the way they were before the most recent nerf, however they are still weaker than they were originally during the renaissance. They hit slow and die easily.
Also during renaissance they would attack you if you were closer to them. If I remember correctly they would attack the creature with the most str - while energy vortex's would attack those with the most int. Also energy vortex's would curse you upon initially hitting you.

[Ravenal]

Originally Posted by a guy

Yes they are fixed to the way they were before the most recent nerf, however they are still weaker than they were originally during the renaissance. They hit slow and die easily.
Also during renaissance they would attack you if you were closer to them. If I remember correctly they would attack the creature with the most str - while energy vortex's would attack those with the most int. Also energy vortex's would curse you upon initially hitting you.

for this to be accurate to the UOR date of UO Publish #10 and before we need some evidence and patch notes from that time. If you can provide and help us find this we'd appreciate it.

[Daedalus]

Originally Posted by Ravenal

for this to be accurate to the UOR date of UO Publish #10 and before we need some evidence and patch notes from that time. If you can provide and help us find this we'd appreciate it.

Unfortunately there are no data in webarchive-Stratics about Blade Spirits before March 04, 2003.

Anyway I have found this:

In Publish 18 we have:

Creature and Pet Changes

* The Hit Points and damage for Energy Vortices and Blade Spirits have been lowered.

Now, if we compare actual Blade Spirits with those ones before Pub 18, we can see their HP were lowered from 180 to 160. (besides some diffs in pet slots but it's not our business now)

I fail to see other differences, and other tweakings among previous Publishes, apart HP which should be 180 and not 160.