Dispel Counter Mechanics

Jimjam · #1 04-19-2018, 02:29 AM

Sometimes client and server disagree on the order of your buff icons.

Tortok · #2 04-19-2018, 09:54 AM

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

Sometimes client and server disagree on the order of your buff icons.

I'm trying to figure this out currently. My theories, though couldn't verify by now when client/server get out of sync on (de-)buff order:
- dispelling
- rebuffing an existing buff; at least on the client the buff will jump to the first free slot. Iirc on live it stayed where it was, so maybe p99 server also does not change the buff slot number in this case.

Ortnit · #3 04-19-2018, 11:11 AM

I also noticed a couple of times that my bufforder was different after a relog/disconnect or maybe even after zoning (not sure about the last one).

Tortok · #4 04-20-2018, 04:23 AM

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

I also noticed a couple of times that my bufforder was different after a relog/disconnect or maybe even after zoning (not sure about the last one).

Zoning should have same effect as relogging in that regard. Wasn't there a command to reload the UI [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
That could do also to get them back in sync...

Triiz · #5 04-19-2018, 12:15 PM

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

Sometimes client and server disagree on the order of your buff icons.

Yeah this is true^^

From 2015 -

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

Dispell is not random.

Cancel Magic (9) always removes top slots, unless the buffs got reordered on client compared to what server thinks.

h

Haynar's opinion on other peoples opinion of the P99 dispel system vs. Live, just found it while I was looking for the above quote

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

You can argue all you want. You can reference ancient posts where people guess how it works. I took a shit load of data to make one of the best efforts to date in reproducing this classic mechanic. Many thanks to all those that dug up info, that helped me get this working right.

For those that want to continue arguing that I got it wrong. STFU, delete all your chars, and go play somewhere else. Clearly I did not do this for the ungrateful bastards who have an over inflated sense of self entitlement.

Haynar'd