Spells: Detrimental Spell Worn off messages

[Haynar]

Having for detrimental spells, it say .... "Your %s spell has worn off." Is definitely doable.

So the question is dots. I think it was others were able to see your damage sometime around PoP or so. It was the crits that really got people going.

So I will probably go with being able to see your own dot damage. And a generic detrimental spell worn off message that goes to the person who cast the spell. And if your spell is overwritten, by someone elses spell, then you also get a worn off message.

Haynar

[Sidious]

Necro perspective here: I distinctly remember messages for dots, fear, root, screaming terror etc wearing off your hostile targets AND messages for buffs ending on your pet. Same message text, yellow I believe just like periodic dmg is now, it would tell me when my haste wore off a pet, fairly certain that if someone cast say resolution on the pet, I would be informed when that fell too.

I remember a period during kunark, perhaps 2-3 months in where SoE borked the detrimental worn off messages where a mob dying would give you the message that everything you had on it had expired. It was fixed back shortly after to only give these messages while the target was alive.

[Striiker]

Originally Posted by Haynar [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Having for detrimental spells, it say .... "Your %s spell has worn off." Is definitely doable.

So the question is dots. I think it was others were able to see your damage sometime around PoP or so. It was the crits that really got people going.

So I will probably go with being able to see your own dot damage. And a generic detrimental spell worn off message that goes to the person who cast the spell. And if your spell is overwritten, by someone elses spell, then you also get a worn off message.

Haynar

Thank you Haynar! I believe you have correctly identified the messages which were present. I know that detrimental spells wearing off or being overwritten were displayed. Also, I recall that DOT damage ticks were also listed. The messages should go to the person who cast the spell in question. Regarding having others see DOT damage, I agree that this was added later.