Spells: Spell issues: Consolidated

[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.

[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.

[Striiker]

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

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

How is it working after ticks?

It was not getting Aggro back onto me even after many ticks. The mob was going after everyone else, healers, person casting root.. It's a very significant change. I didn't play a SK in the past so I am only commenting on my current play experience. At present it's only good for pulling, after that, it's not getting aggro back.

[Pezmerga]

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

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

How is it working after ticks?

Before the patch I would cast it twice on a mob then calling for assists, then I would spam it, taunt, and bash until mob was dead and it worked ok. I would still sometimes momentarily lose aggro, but for the most part it was good.

Now it doesn't hold aggro at all. I can spam it. taunt, and bash all day and nothing.

Using the higher level spells works better, like Heat Blood etc, but still doesn't seem to hold aggro as well as it should. The tics do help, but it takes awhile, and by then its been beating on all the dps.

As for the presnap aggro, I never thought it was too much, It seemed about right to me. I could use it to pull off a cleric who healed me, but it was tough to pull off a chanter whos charmed pet dropped with it or someone who stacked dots too early.

I could be wrong though, maybe it wasn't as good during the classic/kunark era. Though I do remember SKs being able to hold aggro much better, and it just doesn't seem like post patch that I am anywhere near as effective. Then again we all remember the good things and forget the bad so who knows.

[Brad_mo123]

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

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

How is it working after ticks?

Ticks from dots have never really been a lot of agro on this server, seems almost as if it's just direct spell dmg which isnt much agro unless it's a lot of dmg. I do remember shodow vortex, wave of enfeeblement(AOE) and heart flutter (lesser version of Asystole) being a lot more agro on live than here but I have nothing but memory to go by.

[Tanj]

I'm having issues grabbing aggro with disease cloud even when there is no one else DPSing. I have mobs in UGuk aggroing on sight and with the group doing nothing it takes me two casts to get aggro.

[Aksiom2k]

I went to rearrange my level 16 gnome wizards spellbook today and found that none of the spells contain the description of the spell details. It shows the level, skill, mana cost and cast time but the description of how much damage it does and what type of spell it is (ae, pbae, DD, etc etc) is not there. This will make it difficult to sort spell books.

[guineapig]

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.