Dispell mobs suddenly a bit strong?

[iruinedyourday]

I was killing stuff in hs last night and did think to myself, man he is chain casting that dispell. Could be just a coincidence but I did think it.

[captnamazing]

it's like they know that dispel is way more detrimental than a resistable nuke

[Kender]

buff stacking was classic. always had to have junkers at the top. dispell should not be removing stuff down the list first

[maahes]

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

Dal's right, it's classic. You prob never noticed it before because dispels being broke/resisted. Also, they shouldn't dispel random buff slots like they are currently doing. Depending on the level of the spell cast buffs should be dispelled from the top slot down.

This is correct. Common practice to drop any buffs that were in your first and second buff slot and fill them with clickies.

[iruinedyourday]

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

it's like they know that dispel is way more detrimental than a resistable nuke

A Sentient Bile did say, "hello world" right before I killed it.... But I just thought it was a glitch or something.. anyway right before it died to my final nuke it muttered, "please no" again, another bug I think. /shrug

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

In general -- not counting butt hurt aoe'ers or others who seek ez mode -- how do we feel about mobs actually being not stupid, and using dispells more?

Sky is a unique point of reference: aoe dispell, every pull, multiple times = one of the most classic pita of original eq.

That would be the extreme, but the other extreme is where dispell is a rare event.

It would be bad if they coded casters, so all they do is cast dispells. But, they *should* cast it and it should land fairly often. I just think it makes sense, especially post-50. Mobs should be smarter as our buffs get more powerful.

[Rupertox]

The problem of this is that tey're not dispelling top slots, they're dispelling for example hero and symbol woch are in slot 5 and 6

[iruinedyourday]

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

In general -- not counting butt hurt aoe'ers or others who seek ez mode -- how do we feel about mobs actually being not stupid, and using dispells more?

Shamans would love it. :P

[Buellen]

Prior to patch mobs would dispel infrequently and would rev up their dispel attempts as their mana got low. This behavior was very evident if you took on many caster mobs. typically they would dispel and root like crazy toward the end of their mana bar.

[Toodles]

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

In general -- not counting butt hurt aoe'ers or others who seek ez mode -- how do we feel about mobs actually being not stupid, and using dispells more?

Sky is a unique point of reference: aoe dispell, every pull, multiple times = one of the most classic pita of original eq.

That would be the extreme, but the other extreme is where dispell is a rare event.

It would be bad if they coded casters, so all they do is cast dispells. But, they *should* cast it and it should land fairly often. I just think it makes sense, especially post-50. Mobs should be smarter as our buffs get more powerful.

I am up for more of a challenge, and like strategy as most EQ players do. However every caster (and even some non casters? bug?) going ape shit and spamming a WIN button with dispell is about as enjoyable as the fact that all 'hard' raid mobs in EQ pull out their WIN button, which is AoE fear.

I'd like to leave that nonsense to raids only please!