Originally Posted by hijinks (Post 715367)

Greetings,

My pal Nirgon brought this to my attention few hours ago. Nice to see people still fighting the good fight.

Before I even give my opinion on this, although ya'll probably don't care I feel my history might persuade you into thinking I might know what I'm talking about.

I played on Rallos Zek for 3 years, 2 of them were playing the Necromancer class, from classic to well into Velious. Rallos Zek as you may or may not know, was a PvP server. Knowing and testing these kind of things meant life or death on that server. Furthermore, not only did I play on Rallos for 3 years, I also won the Necro Best of the Best on Rallos, and placed 3rd server-wide on test. Now, with that being established:

A necromancer COULD NOT I repeat, COULD NOT dispel this DEBUFF from their player character after they have the Pact line on a pet or PC. The very first time I saw this on Red99 I was truly like WTF, but was too lazy to even mention it.

I remember on many accounts thinking "wow let me try to dispel this, why even bother lifetapping a mob when I don't have to lose health to heal my pet by dispelling it?" NEVER WORKED. Not only that, but participating in a BotB with many other necros both on my server and the test server not once did anybody attempt this, because it did not work. And trust me when I say, if it did, people would have used it, because the very strat I used to win the tournament was to UNDEAD DD their pet, that strat would be nullified if they could pact their pet and dispell the debuff by losing 25 mana or whatever Pact+Dispel magic came out to be it just wasn't possible, at least on PvP servers. Another thing to further illustrate my point: One of the favorite items Necro's were after was the Holgresh Elder Beads, which was a right click Eye of Zomm or some shit like that you could cast on.. for the very purpose of Vexing (or Bonds of Death) this NPC clickly to get your health back from healing your pet, and other people. They would not have been so wanted by necros if Necros could just dispell the DEBUFF Pact of Shadow puts on the necro.

Hope that helps.

Originally Posted by Alecta (Post 1142864)

No.

Without getting too technical, the only thing that was broken about the bond of death line was the client side debuff icon on the target. Even though the target couldn't see the icon, they could still dispell it. However, if they did dispell it, their buffs would get out of whack on the client side until they zoned.

That's all we fixed.

Originally Posted by Alecta (Post 1104651)

Also, it seems the necro HoT Dark Empathy currently lets you dispel the component on the necromancer, while it continues to heal the target. At the high end this allows for 500 hps heals for 40 mana. Is this classic / desired?

Originally Posted by nilbog (Post 1107720)

I think so. Could be addressed again.

Originally Posted by Alecta (Post 1107724)

And if dispelling the drain while keeping the HoT is classic, that's fine then. I just wanted to raise the point.