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Originally Posted by Danth
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Ayillish has the exact same AE and single dispell as all the regular west wastes dragons. It hits a little more often because Ayillish himself is higher level than the weaker +4 dragons, but his effect is the same. Last time I fought him (just this past week) I lost absolutely no buffs except junk buffs--as usual. By far the largest cause of losing buffs beyond the first four will be either failure to re-apply a junk buff in time, or glitching buff order. Your client can and will de-synch with the host with respect to which order your buffs are in, and this happens more commonly if you're applying a new buff very rapidly after a different one fades (such as if a torpor lands immediately after a strip). Bard songs will *frequently* result in this type of glitching out. It can be fixed by removal of the offending buffs if you can identify them, or more easily by zoning or re-logging. Otherwise, once in a very great while--maybe once in every 20 or 25 dragon kills--I might lose a slot 5 spell.
Aiyllish's special (and other dragons using this same ability) is NOT a proc in the sense EQ players usually use the term. He can and does use it even when he is not engaged in direct melee. It's more of a no mana cost spell with no cast time. It has a wider radius than player spells but CAN be out-ranged while pulling him. Compare that to Ice Burrowers, whose own AE effect is indeed a melee proc and will never fire at all if they are not directly engaged in melee with a target.
Other types of cancel magic effects have different behaviors. Some still strip fixed slots while others remove slots seemingly at random. It varies with each individual effect and there's nothing to do about it except memorize as many as possible.
Danth
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Yes I apologize, I shouldn't have said proc. I know it isn't a proc (the Ice Burrowers have a proc AoE, which means it cannot trigger while they aren't hitting you), whereas Dragon AoEs can trigger regardless. I think my brain said proc because I assume the AoE trigger rate is similar to how procs work when you are meleeing. They have an average trigger rate per minute, but RNG can make it happen more or less often. I may be wrong on that, but that has been my assumption.
When you are talking about the buff glitching, are you implying buffs can be out of order even if they appear in order on the client? I have seen my buffs re-arrange themselves when zoning, and I always re-apply them in the desired order when that occurs. It sounds like you are saying the client and server actually desync at some point while you are in a zone, and you can only determine this occurred by zoning. The process of zoning has the server send a fresh update to your buff order, and thus it gets updated on your client. That is really good to know if true, as I thought the buff re-arranging issue was a zoning specific problem, not a client-server desync issue.
I haven't fought Ayillish in a while, and I don't like killing her for fun if I don't have a friend/buyer/alt lined up for the 6+, so I was just guessing as to what her dispel is. I have had most of my buffs stripped before by Ayillish, but that was probably due to being unlucky and getting AoEed while casting spells. That is another problem with instant cast dispels, they are even more problematic when casting spells with long cast times like Epic click, as you cannot re-apply your junk buffs while casting unless you interrupt yourself.