Quote:
Originally Posted by lethdar
[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
It is impossible to dispell against a competent prepared player unless you're gonna wand it off.
Moron.
|
This is yet another person who obviously did not play on a PVP server and it's completely false for two reasons.
1) Dispells could be resisted. The way the spell worked was it would check against the top spell on the list BUT if that spell resisted, it would check the next spell down. The resist rate was low, but it was possible to cast a dispell on someone and instead of it taking the top spell it could also bypass the junk buffs on top and take off a spell in the middle or on the bottom. Trust me, I remember being EXTREMELY annoyed when that shit would happen. The difference being that a Magician recasting a damage shield, if he can get it off without interruption which is no guarantee, costs WAY MORE MANA then a Ranger recasting his buffs, especially SoW.
Most quality players always kept the top spots empty so that they could dispell DoTs when they landed. Some good players even knew this so they would first cast a shitty DoT THEN their good DoT to try to get it underneath all the buffs. With a low cast time on dispell, it was nearly impossible to defend all your buffs with everything going on. For example, I could snare/DoT the pet so that every DoT tick the Pet would run towards me. The Mage either needs to dispell that DoT taking up time where he is not focused on defending his buffs, or pay 100% attention to his pet because if the pet got out of range of his orders to stay back, it would continue following me anywhere in the zone and I could kill it. A good Magician would recast the pet and send their old pet away when I was gone, but then you're losing a significant amount of mana recasting the new pet. Or, chain casting dispells you could simply catch the Magician in the middle of a long casting spell and he can't get his junk buffs up in time before the 2nd dispell lands.
It was basically impossible to do what you are claiming and you're forgetting the most important part.
2) Everyone worth a shit had egg-shaped Pumices. Instant cast dispells that were rechargable on the server. Let's say you were one of the ~5% competent Magicians that managed to do all of the multi-tasking required of a Magician and still got lucky and could keep the damage shield up, I could still take it off instantly with an egg-shaped Pumice and there was nothing you could do about it. Whenever I fought a Magician inside of a dungeon, I always used egg-shaped Pumices on damage shields because with how fast I hit, I would die to them. An egg-shaped Pumice on the damage shield, then stick to the Magician like glue, he'll never be able to recast it before dying.
I even had players on Vallon Zek chain cast egg-shaped pumices on me solely to remove my Jboots for the .2 seconds before I reclicked it so they could slightly catch up and try to get in a hit in. Slamz did that shit all the time to me.
Put egg-shaped pumices on the PVP server and allow them to be recharged just like how it was on the old Zeks and we'll see how well you can keep your damage shield up. Basically, it's impossible.