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Old 10-16-2015, 11:31 PM
Daldaen Daldaen is offline
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Default Veeshan's Peak AEs - Incorrect Resist Checks

This bug report is based off my experience almost never resisting these AEs with 255 resists and wiki lists them at -150 Resist checks.

This is incorrect - None of these AEs should have a lure style check on them.

Velious spdat (2001/01 and 2001/04):


Quote:
Chaos Breath
Decrease Hit Points (HP) from 1004 (L1) to 1240 (L60)
Throw Into Sky


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Classes: None

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Range to Target: 200 feet
Area Effect Range: 35 feet
Pushes Target Back: 3 feet
Throws Target Up: 14 feet

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Skill: Instantaneous
Allowable Targets: NPC

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Resistance Check: Magic + 5

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Mana Required: 337
Spell Duration: Instant
Area Effect Duration: 5.0 seconds
Spell Recovery: 2.50 seconds
Recast Delay: 12.0 seconds

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Spell cast on you: You experience chaotic weightlessness.
Spell cast on someone: Soandso rises chaotically into the air.

Quote:
Diseased Cloud
Adding 9 Disease counters
Decrease Attack Speed by 55% (L1)
Decrease Current Hitpoints by 1250 (L1)


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Classes: None

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Range to Target: 300 feet
Area Effect Range: 200 feet

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Skill: Instantaneous
Allowable Targets: NPC

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Resistance Check: Disease

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Spell Duration: 300 ticks (30.0 minutes)
Duration Formula: 1
Area Effect Duration: 5.0 seconds
Recast Delay: 12.0 seconds

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When you cast: You breathe out a cloud of corruption.
When someone casts: Soandso exhales a cloud of corruption.
Spell cast on you: Your body begins to rot.
Spell cast on someone: Soandso's body begins to rot.

Quote:
Mesmerizing Breath
Target is frozen in fright


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Classes: None

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Range to Target: 300 feet
Area Effect Range: 200 feet

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Skill: Instantaneous
Allowable Targets: NPC

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Resistance Check: Magic

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Spell Duration: Unknown
Duration Formula: 5
Area Effect Duration: 5.0 seconds
Recast Delay: 12.0 seconds

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When you cast: You exhale a silent cloud.
When someone casts: Soandso exhales a silent cloud.
Spell cast on you: You are in a cloud of silence.
Spell cast on someone: Soandso is surrounded by a cloud of silence.
Quote:
Stream of Acid
Decrease Hit Points (HP) by 500 (L1)
Decrease Movement by 50% (L1)
Decrease Current Hitpoints by 500 (L1)


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Classes: None

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Range to Target: 300 feet
Area Effect Range: 200 feet

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Skill: Instantaneous
Allowable Targets: NPC

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Resistance Check: Fire

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Spell Duration: Unknown
Duration Formula: 2
Area Effect Duration: 5.0 seconds
Recast Delay: 12.0 seconds

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When you cast: You spout acid.
When someone casts: Soandso spews a stream of acid.
Spell cast on you: Your body burns as the acid hits you.
Spell cast on someone: Soandso's body burns as the acid hits them.

Lucy Data showing the date the resist checks were added:

Chaos Breath

Quote:
2002-09-03 22:22 Changed Resistadj from -200 to -150
2002-08-24 01:59 Changed Resistadj from 0 to -200
Diseased Cloud

Quote:
2002-09-04 11:33 Changed Resistadj from 0 to -150
Mesmerizing Breath

Quote:
2002-09-03 22:22 Changed Resistadj from -200 to -150
2002-08-24 01:59 Changed Resistadj from 0 to -200
Stream of Acid

Quote:
2002-09-04 11:33 Changed Resistadj from 0 to -150
Now... The 2002-08/09 time period is when they switched away from the Lure system into the -150/-200/-300 Resist check system, and also when they moved from a 255 resist cap to 500 resist cap. Spells in the old system that were updated from a Lure to negative resist check showed this change in Lucy data:

Dragon Roar

Quote:
2002-09-03 22:22 Changed Resistadj from -200 to -150
2002-08-22 10:10 Changed Resistadj from 0 to -200
2002-08-22 10:10 Removed Slot 1: Lure(6)
All of the above AEs are lacking the "Removed Slot 1: Lure(x)" line and the Velious spdat, so during Velious these spells should never have any component making them harder to resist than any other spell. The dragons being 6 levels higher than players accounts for enough different to allow players to still get hit with high resists, but it allows resists to actually matter against these dragons.

Currently on Nexona or Hoshkar you are getting hit for full hits 100% of the time with 255 Resists. They should definitely be tough to resist, but they should be resistable if you stack resists.

There is a *slight* possibility they don't have resist checks and wiki is wrong, but if thats the case something else is amiss. These AEs shouldn't be hitting for full basically every time.
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Old 10-16-2015, 11:52 PM
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feels like in general AoE spells are way harder to resist than they should be; most old sources cite Sevalak as the easiest of the three triplets, but his AoE makes him MUCH harder than Cekenar because it's (basically) unresistable 1260 damage

beefing up player resist rate against NPC spells would solve a myriad of really weird issues including dragon roar being insane, damage aoes from dragons being basically unresistable for the most part, and level 20 green con NPCs frequently landing root on level 60s with MR gear

good find, though, aside from that
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Old 10-22-2015, 12:37 AM
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Old 10-27-2015, 02:58 AM
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Freezing Breath
Code:
2002-09-04 11:33	Changed Resistadj from 0 to -150
Poison Breath
Code:
2002-09-04 11:33	Changed Resistadj from 0 to -150
the 9/4/2002 patch contained a big overhaul for resist calculations at the same time these values were set

to me it sounds like we're dealing with AoEs that were designed with a system where resists could go beyond 255; currently they're incredibly difficult to resist with only 255 of the given resist, whereas before resists were hardcapped at 255 here, they felt much more balanced

these AoEs being realistically resistable with our current 255 cap seems much more in line with old archive posts and screenshots showing players simply standing in AoEs and dealing with them
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Old 10-27-2015, 03:43 AM
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Resist system is Alunova's baby - been real hard to get him to change any of his work from Velious. Feels like they are intentionally inflating mob difficulty but it makes any dragon with Fear in Velious a zerg fest.
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Old 10-28-2015, 12:34 PM
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Quote:
based off my experience almost never resisting these AEs with 255 resists
I will say that I have resisted and partialed various abilities in ToV, but it is a very rare case. Great finds.

I'll try to do some log searches for resist messages.

Quote:
Resist system is Alunova's baby - been real hard to get him to change any of his work from Velious. Feels like they are intentionally inflating mob difficulty but it makes any dragon with Fear in Velious a zerg fest.
If that's the case there should be some comments on it. Players are reporting experiences and researching classic mechanics.
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Old 10-29-2015, 11:12 AM
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Quote:
Chaos Breath
Decrease Hit Points (HP) from 1004 (L1) to 1240 (L60)
Throw Into Sky


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Classes: None

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Range to Target: 200 feet
Area Effect Range: 35 feet
Pushes Target Back: 3 feet
Throws Target Up: 14 feet

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Skill: Instantaneous
Allowable Targets: NPC

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Resistance Check: Magic + 5

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Mana Required: 337
Spell Duration: Instant
Area Effect Duration: 5.0 seconds
Spell Recovery: 2.50 seconds
Recast Delay: 12.0 seconds

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Spell cast on you: You experience chaotic weightlessness.
Spell cast on someone: Soandso rises chaotically into the air.
Resists:
Logs checked between [Tue Apr 21 11:19:13 2015] - [Wed Oct 28 18:21:06 2015]

Only 2 resist messages



Sevalak:

[Sat Aug 08 22:17:35 2015] You resist the Chaos Breath spell!

Von or Neordla:

[Tue Aug 04 09:48:41 2015] You resist the Chaos Breath spell!


Random sample grab for values/dragons; slight variation in damage:

Code:
Vyemm (fall damage, not spell damage?)

The non 100 damage was a result of bard song/runes dampening damage

[Tue Aug 18 19:51:32 2015] You experience chaotic weightlessness.  You have taken 100 points of damage.
[Tue Oct 13 19:54:40 2015] You experience chaotic weightlessness.  You have taken 72 points of damage.
[Tue Oct 13 19:54:09 2015] You experience chaotic weightlessness.  You have taken 82 points of damage.
[Tue Oct 13 19:53:55 2015] You experience chaotic weightlessness.  You have taken 82 points of damage.
[Tue Oct 13 19:53:20 2015] You experience chaotic weightlessness.  You have taken 82 points of damage.
[Tue Oct 13 19:53:02 2015] You experience chaotic weightlessness.  You have taken 82 points of damage.
[Tue Oct 13 19:52:40 2015] The harmony fades.
[Tue Oct 13 19:52:40 2015] You experience chaotic weightlessness.  You have taken 82 points of damage.
[Tue Oct 13 19:52:28 2015] You experience chaotic weightlessness.  You have taken 82 points of damage.
[Tue Oct 13 19:52:10 2015] You experience chaotic weightlessness.  You have taken 82 points of damage.
[Tue Oct 13 19:51:54 2015] You experience chaotic weightlessness.  You have taken 82 points of damage.
[Tue Oct 13 19:51:15 2015] You experience chaotic weightlessness.  You have taken 82 points of damage.

[Tue Oct 13 19:48:04 2015] You experience chaotic weightlessness.  You have taken 100 points of damage.

[Tue Oct 13 19:47:41 2015] You experience chaotic weightlessness.  You have taken 100 points of damage.

[Tue Oct 13 19:47:23 2015] The harmony fades.
[Tue Oct 13 19:47:23 2015] You experience chaotic weightlessness.  You have taken 82 points of damage.

Sevalak:

[Sat Aug 08 22:16:31 2015] Your aura fades.
[Sat Aug 08 22:16:31 2015] You experience chaotic weightlessness.  You have taken 1237 points of damage.
[Sat Aug 08 22:17:49 2015] Your aura fades.
[Sat Aug 08 22:17:49 2015] You experience chaotic weightlessness.  You have taken 1237 points of damage.
[Sat Aug 08 22:18:05 2015] You experience chaotic weightlessness.  You have taken 1264 points of damage.
[Thu Aug 20 18:11:29 2015] You experience chaotic weightlessness.  You have taken 1264 points of damage.
[Thu Aug 20 18:12:22 2015] You experience chaotic weightlessness.  You have taken 1264 points of damage.
[Wed Oct 14 18:38:36 2015] You experience chaotic weightlessness.  You have taken 1264 points of damage.

Von double proc?:

[Sat Aug 08 14:44:52 2015] Von claws YOU for 153 points of damage.
[Sat Aug 08 14:44:52 2015] You experience chaotic weightlessness.  You have taken 1228 points of damage.
[Sat Aug 08 14:44:52 2015] You experience chaotic weightlessness.  You have taken 1228 points of damage.
[Sat Aug 08 14:44:56 2015] LOADING, PLEASE WAIT...
[Sat Aug 08 14:45:21 2015] You have entered Temple of Veeshan.

[Sun Aug 30 17:30:45 2015] You experience chaotic weightlessness.  You have taken 1228 points of damage.

Cargalia double proc?:

[Sun Aug 23 17:35:13 2015] You experience chaotic weightlessness.  You have taken 1228 points of damage.
[Sun Aug 23 17:35:22 2015] You experience chaotic weightlessness.  You have taken 1228 points of damage.
[Sun Aug 23 17:35:22 2015] You have been slain by Cargalia!

Jen Sapar double proc?:

[Sun Aug 02 13:23:34 2015] You experience chaotic weightlessness.  You have taken 1248 points of damage.
[Sun Aug 02 13:23:37 2015] You experience chaotic weightlessness.  You have taken 1248 points of damage.

[Sun Aug 02 13:26:14 2015] You experience chaotic weightlessness.  You have taken 1248 points of damage.
[Sun Aug 02 13:26:14 2015] Incognito rises chaotically into the air.
[Sun Aug 02 13:26:14 2015] Saxx rises chaotically into the air.
[Sun Aug 02 13:26:14 2015] Riding rises chaotically into the air.
[Sun Aug 02 13:26:14 2015] Riding has been slain by Jen Sapara!
[Sun Aug 02 13:26:14 2015] Kindra rises chaotically into the air.
[Sun Aug 02 13:26:14 2015] Kindra has been slain by Jen Sapara!
[Sun Aug 02 13:26:14 2015] Fourier rises chaotically into the air.
[Sun Aug 02 13:26:14 2015] Defcon rises chaotically into the air.
[Sun Aug 02 13:26:14 2015] Leluyn rises chaotically into the air.
[Sun Aug 02 13:26:14 2015] Gradner rises chaotically into the air.
[Sun Aug 02 13:26:14 2015] Rockem rises chaotically into the air.
[Sun Aug 02 13:26:14 2015] Chiggen rises chaotically into the air.
[Sun Aug 02 13:26:14 2015] Chiggen has been slain by Jen Sapara!
[Sun Aug 02 13:26:14 2015] Engelburt rises chaotically into the air.
[Sun Aug 02 13:26:14 2015] Checkraise rises chaotically into the air.
[Sun Aug 02 13:26:14 2015] Rygrim rises chaotically into the air.
[Sun Aug 02 13:26:14 2015] Strange rises chaotically into the air.
[Sun Aug 02 13:26:14 2015] Gongshow rises chaotically into the air.
[Sun Aug 02 13:26:14 2015] Elric rises chaotically into the air.
[Sun Aug 02 13:26:14 2015] Gzaz rises chaotically into the air.
[Sun Aug 02 13:26:14 2015] Little rises chaotically into the air.
[Sun Aug 02 13:26:14 2015] Little has been slain by Jen Sapara!
[Sun Aug 02 13:26:14 2015] Warzone rises chaotically into the air.
[Sun Aug 02 13:26:14 2015] Colgate rises chaotically into the air.
[Sun Aug 02 13:26:14 2015] Colgate has been slain by Jen Sapara!
[Sun Aug 02 13:26:14 2015] Gaping rises chaotically into the air.
[Sun Aug 02 13:26:14 2015] Gaping has been slain by Jen Sapara!
[Sun Aug 02 13:26:14 2015] Bush rises chaotically into the air.
[Sun Aug 02 13:26:14 2015] You experience chaotic weightlessness.  You have taken 1248 points of damage.
[Sun Aug 02 13:26:14 2015] You have been knocked unconscious!
[Sun Aug 02 13:26:14 2015] You have been slain by Jen Sapara!
[Sun Aug 02 13:26:14 2015] You have lost experience.
[Sun Aug 02 13:26:14 2015] Saxx rises chaotically into the air.
[Sun Aug 02 13:26:14 2015] Saxx has been slain by Jen Sapara!
[Sun Aug 02 13:26:14 2015] Fourier rises chaotically into the air.
[Sun Aug 02 13:26:14 2015] Fourier has been slain by Jen Sapara!
[Sun Aug 02 13:26:14 2015] Defcon rises chaotically into the air.
[Sun Aug 02 13:26:14 2015] Defcon has been slain by Jen Sapara!
[Sun Aug 02 13:26:14 2015] Leluyn rises chaotically into the air.
[Sun Aug 02 13:26:14 2015] Leluyn has been slain by Jen Sapara!
[Sun Aug 02 13:26:14 2015] Rockem rises chaotically into the air.
[Sun Aug 02 13:26:14 2015] Rockem has been slain by Jen Sapara!
[Sun Aug 02 13:26:14 2015] Gongshow rises chaotically into the air.
[Sun Aug 02 13:26:14 2015] Gongshow has been slain by Jen Sapara!
[Sun Aug 02 13:26:14 2015] Elric rises chaotically into the air.
[Sun Aug 02 13:26:14 2015] Elric has been slain by Jen Sapara!
[Sun Aug 02 13:26:14 2015] Gzaz rises chaotically into the air.
[Sun Aug 02 13:26:14 2015] Gzaz has been slain by Jen Sapara!
[Sun Aug 02 13:26:14 2015] Warzone rises chaotically into the air.
[Sun Aug 02 13:26:14 2015] Warzone has been slain by Jen Sapara!
[Sun Aug 02 13:26:14 2015] Bush rises chaotically into the air.
[Sun Aug 02 13:26:14 2015] Bush has been slain by Jen Sapara!
[Sun Aug 02 13:26:14 2015] Gradner rises chaotically into the air.
[Sun Aug 02 13:26:14 2015] Gradner has been slain by Jen Sapara!
[Sun Aug 02 13:26:14 2015] Strange rises chaotically into the air.
[Sun Aug 02 13:26:14 2015] Strange has been slain by Jen Sapara!
[Sun Aug 02 13:26:18 2015] Returning to Erudin, please wait...
[Sun Aug 02 13:26:18 2015] LOADING, PLEASE WAIT...

[Wed Aug 19 17:19:35 2015] You experience chaotic weightlessness.  You have taken 1248 points of damage.

Mav Sapara:

[Tue Aug 04 09:30:17 2015] Mav Sapara scowls at you, ready to attack -- looks like quite a gamble.
[Tue Aug 04 09:30:23 2015] You experience chaotic weightlessness.  You have taken 1240 points of damage.
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Old 10-29-2015, 11:44 AM
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Quote:
Diseased Cloud
Adding 9 Disease counters
Decrease Attack Speed by 55% (L1)
Decrease Current Hitpoints by 1250 (L1)


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Classes: None

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Range to Target: 300 feet
Area Effect Range: 200 feet

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Skill: Instantaneous
Allowable Targets: NPC

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Resistance Check: Disease

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Spell Duration: 300 ticks (30.0 minutes)
Duration Formula: 1
Area Effect Duration: 5.0 seconds
Recast Delay: 12.0 seconds

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When you cast: You breathe out a cloud of corruption.
When someone casts: Soandso exhales a cloud of corruption.
Spell cast on you: Your body begins to rot.
Spell cast on someone: Soandso's body begins to rot.
Resists:
Logs checked between [Tue Apr 21 11:19:13 2015] - [Wed Oct 28 18:21:06 2015]

Only 3 resist messages


Zlexak:

[Sat Aug 08 18:47:34 2015] You resist the Diseased Cloud spell!
[Sat Aug 08 21:33:09 2015] You resist the Diseased Cloud spell!
[Sat Aug 08 21:33:54 2015] You resist the Diseased Cloud spell!

Code:
Zlexak:

[Sat Aug 08 17:45:23 2015] Your body begins to rot.  You have taken 1250 points of damage.
[Sat Aug 08 18:47:09 2015] Your body begins to rot.  You have taken 1250 points of damage.
[Sat Aug 08 18:47:21 2015] Your body begins to rot.  You have taken 1250 points of damage.
[Sat Aug 08 18:47:54 2015] Your body begins to rot.  You have taken 1250 points of damage.
[Sat Aug 08 18:48:09 2015] Your body begins to rot.  You have taken 1250 points of damage.
[Sat Aug 08 20:42:35 2015] Your body begins to rot.  You have taken 1250 points of damage.
[Sat Aug 08 21:32:54 2015] Your body begins to rot.  You have taken 1250 points of damage.
[Sat Aug 08 21:34:37 2015] Your body begins to rot.  You have taken 1250 points of damage.
[Thu Aug 20 17:49:01 2015] Your body begins to rot.  You have taken 1250 points of damage.
[Thu Aug 20 17:52:40 2015] Your body begins to rot.  You have taken 1250 points of damage.
[Thu Aug 20 17:52:56 2015] Your body begins to rot.  You have taken 1250 points of damage.
[Thu Aug 27 20:01:02 2015] The shimmer of runes fade.
[Thu Aug 27 20:01:02 2015] Your body begins to rot.  You have taken 550 points of damage.

[Wed Oct 14 18:22:23 2015] Your body begins to rot.  You have taken 1250 points of damage.
[Thu Oct 22 17:32:54 2015] The harmony fades.
[Thu Oct 22 17:32:54 2015] Your body begins to rot.  You have taken 1232 points of damage.
[Thu Oct 22 17:33:32 2015] The harmony fades.
[Thu Oct 22 17:33:32 2015] Your body begins to rot.  You have taken 1232 points of damage.
[Thu Oct 22 17:34:19 2015] Your body begins to rot.  You have taken 1250 points of damage.
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Old 10-29-2015, 01:55 PM
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Yep basically these are hitting for maximum damn near every time regardless of resists.

These effects should be resistable, and stacking proper resist gear/buffs/bards should be far more relevant on these encounters than they have been.

That's not to say someone with 100 DR should be resisting these AEs frequently. But if you're gear swapping and pushing 255 Resist, you should have a decent shot at resists and a pretty reliable shot at partial hits. You shouldn't however be seeing 15 full hits in a row.
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Old 10-29-2015, 01:58 PM
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Spells that give a debuff will always be full or resist. You will never see a partial Hoshkar AS.
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