[CrazyPro]

I went ahead and asked Torven what the deal with this confusing spells implementation is, since he'd be the one who'd have any clue what on earth EQ devs were cooking up with this clicky in 2001, and he said "Sony liked to hardcode things. if it did beneficial only spells only then it was probably hardcoded at first before they added a proper spell field or SPA for it" for what it's worth.



also I feel like this would just be good to know for future reference that the spell data in old clients can't be 100% trusted since they might not show the full picture

Also it just kind of makes sense

Klandi's AE dispel was hardcoded to only dispel beneficial spells because otherwise he would dispel his own fear which is literally all he has going for him aside from the AE dispel+nuke.

The Abashi's Rod of Disempowerment clicky was hardcoded to only dispel beneficial spells because otherwise it wouldn't exactly be a rod of Disempowerment, now would it?