So what are we arguing bout here?
I don't pretend to be the necro master, but I will say it was my main class pretty much for Kunark through Velious and I did manage to win the botb on the red server, and do pretty well (top 3) on the test server with all the winners were copied to
1) Banishment of shadows did not work in PvP, at least it didn't kill Necro pets or that would have been the strat as opposed to undead nuking
2) Seems there is no hard evidence either way, but I'd have to think anybody who played a necro during live had to have at some point thought of dispelling the debuff pact of shadow/shadowbound places on you- I guarantee you I did and I don't think it could be dispelled. Not once in my journeys did I ever see a necro heal their pet then dispell the debuff, they'd heal then vex.. why on earth would you vex to get your health back and blow 495 mana when you can just cast a 50 mana dispell?
3) Nec BOTB strat was generally who could end the fight with a pet after the initial pets were killed with undead DD's, the person who lost to me on Rallos tried to heal his pet, ended up healing mine instead and the health he lost from healing my pet set him back in the fight and a good reason he lost, I'd have to give him the credit to think he would dispell it if it was dispellable
Who knows maybe it was dispellable on blue servers and not pvp servers but to think not 1 person on a 2000 player population server that was structured around PvP didn't try this trick at some point is just flat out dumb
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