It isn't the concept of a 6-second simulation tick that's absurd, it's your suggestion that spell effects are being resolved based on game state that's potentially up to 6 seconds old.

If this were the case, out-of-sequence events would be a regular occurrence: heals landing and saving a target after it dies, ports taking former group members after they disband, nukes killing targets seconds after they receive a complete heal, CoH summoning players after they zone, etc.

These things aren't happening here nor on Live.

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.

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

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

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...

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

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