Spells: Dispel broke

[Scrubosaur]

It's sounds like the mechanic is a little too complicated. Velious dragons dispel would always dispel a set number of slots from top down regardless of what was on them. Casters NPC's would dispel your top buff slot every time they cast a higher level dispel. If it was a low level NPC casting dispel it would either be resisted or not strong enough to remove the buff. More than likely dispel mechanic removed buffs from the top buff down (hidden counters) but there was no over lap to the second buff unless it was a very high level dispel then it could remove more. PC vs NPC dispel mechanics might have been different as I remember it taking a lot of casts to remove NPC buffs but the dispel order was the same (removing first spell cast first).

If someone was testing dispel mechanics on live then it does look like there is a mechanic in which buffs after the first one could be dispelled first. The issue with that is if you either click the junk buff while dispel is being cast or less than 6 secs before being cast then EQ doesn't recognize the buff being up and will dispel the first buff that had been on longer than 6 secs.

[Scrubosaur]

True. Those things listed are not effects by a tick but things that cause a buff (or debuff) are affected by a server tick such as dot's.

[BarackObooma]

BUMP - needs fixed, what Uthgaard said is how I remember it as well.

[Scrubosaur]

Still having to rebuff after EVERY fight because of the randomness of the dispel effect and the fact that every NPC that has the spell in it's book, spams it. Other than the fact that dispel is in a very bugged state, I don't remember any NPC's other than enchanters or shamans using the dispels...

[Kaym]

Fix this please. Why was this changed in the first place?

[Kaym]

Is there any evidence for the current system? If so, please link... because it's awful.

[Tasslehofp99]

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

Disease and poison cures worked on a counter system. Dispels didn't and shouldn't. Various dispels do however attempt different numbers of times, from 1 to 4 attempts per cast.
Pillage enchantment will attempt to cancel 4, cancel magic will attempt to cancel 1, etc.
You can find these same effects in the old spdats.

yep this is how it worked from 99-2005 when I played EQ on live.