Spells: Spell issues: Consolidated

[Striiker]

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

Yeah, it's kind of funny that there is absolutely zero spell information in the game anymore. I know we can easily look up more or less what every spell should do online but it must have been a trial by fire back in classic... I can't even imagine.

Hopefully this was unintended (as Nilbog speculated in a different post) and will be restored at some point. I am trying to remember back to the day. I seem to recall that there weren't any descriptions for the spells at launch as I have a vague recollection of being happy to see the descriptions added at some point. For so many things it was rial and death.. er I mean error. Attacking undead or wisps without a magic weapon, etc. I played a Wizard and Enchanter and relied heavily upon some web sites for details and advice.. (Graffe's for Wizard and Caster's Realm for others). Also therunes.net for enchanter stuff.

[burkemi5]

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

Shield of Flames, level 20 mage spell, now lasts 2 minutes instead of 7 min [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Something is wrong.

Bump. If i have to i can live with 5 min lvl 49 thorns but this quote seems a little strange.

[Dac321]

I mentioned this in another thread but, I am having severe issues with disease cloud and other spells. For example, our monk in the guild pulled a mob just by sight aggro, not hitting it at all. I cast disease cloud on it, which landed.. But nothing happened. Same occurred with dooming darkness, and heat blood.

All these problems occurred post spell patch.

[nilbog]

Disease cloud was providing too much 'snap-aggro' from what I saw in the past.

How is it working after ticks?

[YendorLootmonkey]

Thru classic and at least thru velious, my live guild used a SK as our main tank (except on bosses which required defensive)... he would chain cast DC 2-3 times and you couldn't pull aggro off him unless you tried. Same with Flame Lick for rangers/druids... both spells were powerful snap aggro tools. The DoT ticks were icing on the cake in terms of aggro, so to speak.

[Frootloop]

vampiric curse is almost useless with the amount of resist im getting @ Paw spires on DB cons the mana loss from resist is terrible [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Zeelot]

How is it working after ticks?

It's not producing much aggro at all. I literally cannot hold aggro on anything
non-tauntable without resorting to chaining fear/invoke fear.

[isoka]

Ok, did some more tests :

Casted togors on me.
Casted drowsy on me : didn't take hold
Casted walking sleep on me : didn't take hold
Casted tagars on me : overwrote togors
Casted togors on me : didn't take hold

So either togors, drowsy, walking sleep are all 0% slow but the duration made lower level not take hold, either togors is slowing but not as much as it should.

[Zigfreed]

Played my 40 chanter last night for 4 hours, noted a slight increase in resists and root breaking earlier than it used to.

That increase did result in things being harder but I got used to it and planned accordingly.

I think there is some chicken littleing going on at least in terms of chanters.

[Teeroyoyort]

I've noticed a HUGE increase in resists on bard charm in the planes. Like not being able to charm some mobs at all. Getting 8 resists in a row before i get killed, lol. I'm assuming this was tweaked for the increase in lvls in kunark. However maybe it's a bit too extreme?