Nullify Magic vs Annul Magic

[zanderklocke]

Why exactly did the developers change buff importance values again? I know that dispell sticks used to always remove your top buff, but then that changed with a random patch, which in some ways made managing dragon AEs and dispells futile.

[Erati]

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

Why exactly did the developers change buff importance values again? I know that dispell sticks used to always remove your top buff, but then that changed with a random patch, which in some ways made managing dragon AEs and dispells futile.

it still usually removes the top - the issue is just as the previous poster pointed out, the client side and server side buff order is not always 'accurately' displayed to you in the order your buffs actually are

[zanderklocke]

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

it still usually removes the top - the issue is just as the previous poster pointed out, the client side and server side buff order is not always 'accurately' displayed to you in the order your buffs actually are

Prior to the patch that changed buffs, it was reasonably difficult as a bard to get the right AE removed with dispell when the top buff always got removed. Bards had the extra difficulty of making sure that songs being twisted did not ever drop when dispelling, so songs did not switch buff slot and screw up the rest of your group.

Now, it's pretty hard as a bard to make sure your songs don't drop and end up in the wrong buff slot since you don't know what buff is going to get removed when use dispell and you have to dispell multiple times in a row to get the AE removed. It always felt like a total gamble to me after the "buff" patch.