- GM Provo with GM Music will no longer fail skill checks.
- Provoked creatures will have to be able to see each other to begin fighting
- Lowered Magery requirement for Inscription by circle. This does not effect success chance.
- Animal taming will now always tell you if you are not skilled enough to tame the creature. On creatures which had been pre-tamed there was previously a small void in which you could not tame, but would neither get a message letting you know that.
- Difficulty increase resulting from an animal having been previously tamed is reduced.
- Tracking ranges changed. Shorter at 0 skill and greater at GM.
- Dispell Field now dispels both sides of a MoonGate
- Complete revamp of weapon combat damage calculations. The overall effect of this is slight, but we found some areas in which the calculation was in error.
- Glacial Staves now "work"
- Slight randomization added to paralyze duration.
- Forum thread: Provocation - The way it was
- 2002 post made on UO forums by VEX (8th post)
- Stratics Barding Guide
- Most of this web info is Post-T2A, but barding is known not to have changed until they made if difficulty based. There was no useful information on barding found on Stratics during the T2A era or prior.