Your spell did not take hold

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Lusiphur, Oct 1, 2017.

  1. Lusiphur

    Lusiphur Member

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    Apologies if this isn't the right forum for this but I am seeing a lot of these messages yesterday and today. Happens on heals, slows, buffs etc. It must be some kind of client/server desync issue but re-logging hasn't cleared it.
     
  2. benoeb

    benoeb People Like Me

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    I noticed I couldn't cast Annul Magic on myself as I received the same message.
     
  3. Devour_Souls

    Devour_Souls People Like Me

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    I've been having a similar sounding issue, only recently, with macros.
     
  4. Haynar

    Haynar Administrator

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    More info needed.

    Are macros being used for targeting?

    Targeting requires a packet back from server prior client approving target changes.

    So if there is not a delay after using /target or /assist, and a spell is cast. The client may not use the new target. And you may get a message like this. As client sends previous target in packets to server.
     
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  5. benoeb

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    In my case no. I was sitting in PoK and after manually targeting myself I tried to dispell Ancient Breath off.
     
  6. ingwit

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    That may be related to POK being flagged as safe. Also, Ancient Breath is a disease.

    Question for OP: are you clearing your spell gems with a buff that conflicts with an existing buff?
     
  7. benoeb

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    Yeah but wizards don't get DIS cure so dispell it was.
     
  8. Dane

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    PoK is screwy on TAKP. As previously mentioned, it's flagged as "safe." So detrimental spells don't work, which includes dispell. Not sure if this is right.

    edit: was mistaken about non-detrimental spells going through on PoK NPCs. You get an error message, but it is at the end of a cast. /thumbs up
     
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  9. actualspaide

    actualspaide People Like Me

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    Dispel won't remove ancient breath no matter how many times you cast :)
     
  10. lurari

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    Ranger gate is the best dispel. Cures everything.
     
  11. benoeb

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    IF that is the case then I guess it was good I just drowned myself in the west area kiddie pool in PoK instead of waiting on a reason why I couldn't cast dispell on myself.
     
  12. Dane

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    Truth, but should you be able to cast dispel in PoK? Right now it won't even cast, even when targeting yourself.
     
  13. actualspaide

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    I have no idea on this. I would guess you should be able to but I have no proof what so ever
     
  14. Elroz

    Elroz I Feel Loved Staff Member

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    dispel was weird, it was like beneficial if pc casted on pc or npc casted on npc, detrimental if npc casts on pc or pc casts on npc
     
  15. Devour_Souls

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    Well yeah I can see that that is what's happening, it's just that that behavior is foreign to me.

    /assist soandso
    /stand
    /cast #
    /pause (length of cast)
    /sit

    or

    /tar soandso
    /stand
    /cast #
    /pause (length of cast)
    /sit

    I've never had a problem with latency affecting my target acquisition as I experience here. There were many times when I had high enough latency that I would have to extend the pause on the cast time, but never had to pause for the target piece.
     
  16. Darchon

    Darchon I Feel Loved

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    Anything with Disease, Poison or Curse counters cannot be dispelled.

    However the server will strip all buffs, beneficial and detrimental, if you zone with HP less than your total earned from raw HP gear.

    For example if you have two Velium Fire Wedding Rings (65 HP x2) and a Cloak of Flames (50 HP), if you zone with under 180 HP all of your buffs will be removed.

    It's helpful to keep this number in mind when zoning, even a rough idea of where your character stands. On a pure caster in this era, that number may be very small.

    A PoTime geared player typically will have 130-150HP per slot so you are looking at close to 2000-3000 HP being the threshold for such geared players.
     
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  17. Lusiphur

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    I should say my issue was due to wireless lag spikes from my new MBP 2016. Which I didn't have on the ancient 2011 MBP I was using. A reboot seems to have fixed it.