Spells: Dispelling

[Daldaen]

EQClerics 1999

Yes, cancel magic will negate ghoul root, if you're lucky enough to not take down their bravery, sow, etc. first. I still don't quite understand how cancel magic figures out which effect it will cancel; I used to think it was the one at the top of the list, but now it seems to be somewhat random.

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Portly -- Mithaniel Marr

EQClerics 2001

Regarding Dispel:

I often play 3 or 4 characters at once. The pact several weeks I have been playing Druid/Enc/Cle/War quite alot. When my enchanter was considerably lower than the rest of the group and the mobs we were fighting (I dragged him around for haste and clarity), his buffs would always be the first ones dispelled, regardless of where they were in the buff list. As the enchanter gained levels with respect to the mobs I was fighting, this behavior dimished, and now that he is 53, and higher level than the majority of the mobs I fight, I am back to pretty much having buffs dispelled in the order they appear.

As a side note, last night right after my chanter made level 53, a level 60 shaman gave him some buffs. Later, as I was getting ready to fight, I wanted to dispell all my buffs so that I could stack them in my preferred order (something I am quite anal about ), Pillage Enchantment removed all my self buffs on 1 or 2 casts, but it took 2 or 3 extra casts once everything else was gone to remove the level 60 buffs. We know that the level of the caster is recorded with the buffs (otherwise low levels could overwrite higher levels of the same spell), so it seems logical that these buffs get a saving throw between the level of the dispeller and the level of the original caster.

^. This tends to give credence to the fact that the buffs have counters and they are determined by level not by a random dice roll. This is something I could get behind.

Clickies are considered level 1s casting the spell. Then every 7-8 levels you increase a counter on yor buffs. IE levels 1-8 buffs are 1, 9-16 buffs are 2, etc.