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Old 12-09-2014, 11:54 AM
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I am up for more of a challenge, and like strategy as most EQ players do. However every caster (and even some non casters? bug?) going ape shit and spamming a WIN button with dispell is about as enjoyable as the fact that all 'hard' raid mobs in EQ pull out their WIN button, which is AoE fear.

I'd like to leave that nonsense to raids only please!
Yeah, put me down on the "dial it down" camp then. Dispells should be in the mob's rotation, that just makes sense. But if they are essentially spamming it, that is just a nerf in the other direction.

But as to casting random buff slots, that is maybe a trickier gameplay question. If it came down, from the dev side, to "always hit a random buff if dispell hits" to "always hit buffs in slot order" (as previous posters nicely explained) I would side with the latter.

I would argue that the ideal would be, a dispell has a *chance* to hit a random buff slot, but otherwise follows the slot order system, but that may be not something that can be put into the code.

edit: if a dispell makes its roll to dispell a random buff slot, we could use the term "crit dispell" perhaps. From what people are saying, it seems as if mobs are currently always criting their dispells.
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