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Spells have effect slots. Higher level buffs tend to not only have multiple effects, but many of them also have slots occupied with what can only be described as "filler" effects (they're parsed as being blank? or Charisma with no value), which was probably the workaround necessary to make them stack with other spells that had the same effect because of how crude the stacking system was.
For example, in kunark/velious-era spdats, Symbol of Marzin has the first 2 effect slots taken up by the aforementioned filler effects, while the following two slots contain the buff's defining effects:
Now I don't believe these slots were considered "counters" in the same sense as poison/disease counters (the cure mechanics were a different system), but comparing the number of effect slots used by a particular spell vs. what's supposedly the "strength" value of various dispels, it might shed some light on why Cancel Magic (1) would remove something like See Invis (only 1 effect slot), but not Symbol (4 effect slots). Quote:
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There were definitely counters.
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Cures ever have a "skip over and try for the ones it can" approach? Dun think so.
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Maybe I should create a new thread for this dispel stuff, but its somewhat relevant to the whole spell discussion.
circa 2003 http://www.eqclerics.org/forums/showthread.php?p=178405 Quote:
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good stuff.
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Recant Magic would ALWAYS take all 4 buffs because no buff could be stronger than 9 counters.
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Dullah is correct though that if you casted Cancel magic and it didn't take off your heroism because it was your only buff, a couple more cancel magics would get it eventually. So the counters need to be tracked. Not sure if they carry over between zoning, probably not.
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