I Love the idea that The OP comes in here with A valid Issue, and the response from Gizzled EQ Vet's who have been so beaten down by the failings of EQ over the course of the hundred or so years that they have been playing is "Play slower, Adjust your playstyle" How about not defending clearly broken content because "Back in my day I played with 3 fingers.. AND I LOVED IT" In essence, how about not being toolbags and supporting people taking the time to try and fix clearly broken content because Back in my day, That's how we did it.
I see the same thought in real life today , if you dont agree with my thoughts , you are clearly wrong.
No, Im still in question about the OP. What quest was that where the npc you are escorting is attackable, can be one shot with banestrike, it takes hours, and it cant be repeated until server reset? Unless we know what he is talking about how can anyone give a reasonable response? edit: also, banestrike is instant cast so what was that about "banestrike finishes casting"? Is this a joke thread? Guess I got trolled.
Yeah I got it, you're trying to back out and take the role of a victim cause you realize how poorly you came off. I know you want to believe I'm attacking your personal opinion of how to play and that this could somehow be a 2 way street where you are somehow right, But simply put this has nothing to do with that. "Adjust your play style slow down tabbing" is simply another way of saying "Deal with it" And if he were dealing with it he wouldn't be on the forums trying to get it handled. Furthermore hes not trying to get it handled only for himself, hes here trying to work on it for the whole community because CLEARLY it's a problem. If you somehow play so slowly that you aren't effected by this, You probably should just sit this out if it doesn't effect you.
It is a stupid change from the ground up. What other damaging, root-breaking ability is autocast without any control at all? They could literally accomplish the exact same result by lowering every mob's HPs by a set amount at the beginning of every fight. Why even bother with the mechanic at all. Why even have us play, if the spells auto-cast for you and you can't stop them? I personally would rather they just removed the ability altogether if they insist on changing it. We still have no explanation of why it happened in the first place, and yet players are debating the pros and cons. There are clear cons being brought up, and the only "pro" seems to be that a handful of people don't mind the change (people who probably never used the ability before and still haven't noticed it now).
At least when it was an ability that players cast there was a delay between it being cast and the targeted mob taking damage. You should be able to see this by opening an old log (prior to the change) and searching for Banestrike and then looking for the corresponding damage. A 1 second delay seems typical, however it seems to range from 0-2 seconds. Banestrike also had the fun property of landing on the target you had when the damage registered, rather than what you had targeted when you casted it. This meant when using it for aggro on an add you needed to hold that target for the 0-2 seconds it took for the damage to land before switching back. Judging by this thread it seems to have retained both these features in its proc form.
Just revert it back to what it was. I think personally, that someone complained they couldn't use it successfully because they kept getting interrupted by the mobs, and someone said "let's make it auto-cast". My answer to the people complaining it was getting interrupted is, "Buy the AAs to keep your spells from being interrupted like the game was meant to be played." I personally haven't used it on my main since he turned 85 or so. I got too many other abilities that were far better than banestrike to use.
