Assassin question ok this is weird and a bug

[Tedra]

<p>I have a lvl 12 assassin and was soloing in grave yard when a lvl 11 assassin adept dropped called Murderous Design.</p><p>I didnt recognize this spell/ca at all and searched my combat tabs, 4 different times for it (at lvl 12 there arent a whole lot anyway) and i didnt have it?</p><p>i had to scribe the adept to get the ca in to my spell book -</p><p>ive been playing for years and this has never happened is this a bug? now im wondering if im missing any other spells</p>

[EQPrime]

<p><cite>Tedra@Befallen wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I have a lvl 12 assassin and was soloing in grave yard when a lvl 11 assassin adept dropped called Murderous Design.</p><p>I didnt recognize this spell/ca at all and searched my combat tabs, 4 different times for it (at lvl 12 there arent a whole lot anyway) and i didnt have it?</p><p>i had to scribe the adept to get the ca in to my spell book -</p><p>ive been playing for years and this has never happened is this a bug? now im wondering if im missing any other spells</p></blockquote><p>In order to noob up the game when they released the smedbux update (gu57) they took out the early versions of taunts, transfers, etc.  Basically they did it because they found most people were playing solo for the first 20-30 levels so threat stuff wasn't necessary.  They took out some of these early spells from automatically appearing when you level, but they are still in the game as drops and spell recipes I guess for people who really want them.</p>

[Jrral]

<p><cite>Tedra@Befallen wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I have a lvl 12 assassin and was soloing in grave yard when a lvl 11 assassin adept dropped called Murderous Design.</p><p>I didnt recognize this spell/ca at all and searched my combat tabs, 4 different times for it (at lvl 12 there arent a whole lot anyway) and i didnt have it?</p><p>i had to scribe the adept to get the ca in to my spell book -</p></blockquote><p>With the New Halas update they changed some of the low-level spells. Some they shuffled around so you get them at different levels, and some they left in but don't auto-grant them until a higher level. Murderous Design, for instance, is a hate transfer (pushes some of the hate you generate to canonically the tank). If you're soloing it's not useful, who would you transfer hate to when there's nobody else with you? If you continue to level, you'll find your automatically given Murderous Design 2 as an apprentice at I believe level 25.</p><p>The rationale behind not auto-granting group-specific stuff like taunts, hate transfers and the like? With the new starting zones, most beginning players will be at level 20 or so before they finish the starting quest series and get into a city where they'll start meeting people and grouping up. And if they already know people and plan on grouping from the very start, chances are either they're an experienced player (who knows all about getting spells/CAs made and isn't depending on auto-grants) or the people they're playing with are experienced and will be filling them in on all this.</p>

[Rahatmattata]

<p>They removed the coercer spell mesmerize which was a really dumb decision imo. That's a class defining spell. Might as well not give assassins a stealthed attack until level 20.</p>