Lol gotta get even luckier now, I cant speak too much on this since I did ranger at66 and was by far my toughest fight for Maats cap

Or maybe their memory after 16 years isn't as good as yours? I certainly didn't remember it and I played from 2003-2005

Played from 05-10. I vastly remember casting sneak and having the 30 second warning pop up immediately sounding a recast was needed. So 30sec was def the min. I can't tell you what the max was.

That's my recall as well, mercenary480. I'm trying to find info online to see if anyone posted the max duration from RoZ thru ToAU, but it looks like lost knowledge at this point. My memories want to say 5-6 minutes.

$5 says Nas narrowed it to ~0:43-3:00 because of the timer feature. I would have done something else entirely, but what Nas did is a smart compromise because the timer truncates seconds until the effect is under a minute.

We didn't have duration timers on any of our buffs in that era. You don't remember the varied times because you couldn't visually see them, but they existed. Very often you would cast sneak and you would get the 30 second warning timer as you casted it. I believe sneak oils were a little more reliably on the low end, which is why sneak oils were more popular on retail than they are on Nasomi. (even before Monomi)