Game Mechanics: Game breaking exploit necro heal

[Daldolma]

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

How is telling you that there was a spell revamp during that time trolling?

If I can find the link to the live necro botb somewhere, you'll see the necros do not and cannot dispel the recourse from themselves but DID use it to heal their pet while tapping the enemy's.


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January 9, 2003
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- Pact of Shadow and Shadow Compact will once again heal player
characters.


Sup? Make this not heal players ever on this server? Clearly a change for 2003.

Apparently your reading comprehension has abandoned you. That patch note clearly states that they will once again heal player characters. As such, it must be understood that they had healed player characters prior to January 9, 2003, as well. Once again, your research is deficient. You have found the date at which they resumed healing player characters; still a mystery is the date at which these spells first ceased to heal player characters. Find that date, then come back.

On the contrary, Koros' patch note reads: "The Shadowbond series of spells can no longer be dispelled by the Necromancer". Within that patch note, there is absolutely no reason to believe that there ever existed a time, prior to that patch, during which the necromancer could not dispell the Shadowbond series of spells. Dentalplan's patch note reads: "Spells that transfer hit points over time from the caster to a target will no longer take effect on the target (the hit point gainer) if the caster (the hit point giver) isn't also affected by the spell." That did not take effect until July 24, 2002, and again, there is nothing within that patch note to suggest that there had ever been a previous period during which the transfer of hit points would not take effect even if the caster isn't also affected by the spell.

If your contention is that the recourse did not appear as a buff and thus was not eligible to be dispelled, then you are welcome to find evidence of that -- but you haven't provided any. "Common sense" is not a suitable substitute for evidence, nor is your memory. Many aspects of Classic EQ wouldn't work as they did if left to the dictates of "common sense". Finally, absence of evidence doesn't constitute evidence of absence, either. The fact that you have links which make no mention of a certain ability doesn't mean the ability didn't exist.

Hth, please stop bumping a repeat topic without any new evidence to justify new consideration.