Thread: Spells: Lifetab spells
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Old 09-23-2012, 09:14 PM
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Lifetaps will check Disease ONLY when Unholy Aura is active.
My fault, I was thinking of Leechcurse (this is a Lifetap thread, lol).

The Unholy Aura discipline was changed from MR to DR because it was getting resisted and resulted in a blown disc for 72 minutes.

Most mobs (typically high end bosses/etc) had higher Magic Resistance than Disease Resistance, a lot were Magic Immune.

Patch note from January 9, 2001:

http://www.tski.co.jp/baldio/patch/20010109.html

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The 'Unholy Aura' Discipline now gives a 50% bonus to Harmtouch (compared with the previous 25%) and causes it to save versus disease, which should result in even fewer resists in most high-level encounters.
Any mob here on P99 that is Unslowable you should not be able to Lifetap. The reason being is because back then before they could specifically tag a mob as Unslowable it just had Magic Resistance that was too high to ever overcome.

You can find a lot of information here on why lifetaps were initially changed from unresistable to resistable:

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.g...rch+this+group

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Petition me for "flaming outside RNF" again if you will...
Have no idea where this came from, I have never petitioned you for flaming in the bug forum....
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