Shared Merciless Ferocity Rk. 1 overwrites Rk. 3

The level 100 beastlord buff Shared Merciless Ferocity has strange overwriting behavior. Rank 1 (and 2) will overwrite Rank 3. Also shorter duration will overwrite longer duration.

e.g. SMF Rk. 1 with 24 minute duration will overwrite SMF Rk. 3 with 27 minute duration.

For all buffs there is no timer limiter, it would be too much processing to have to dynamically determine every single target remaining time vs duration of the caster. The only other thing that can happen is a lower level caster cannot refresh the buff that came from a higher level caster.

Just by the factor of having the same buffs in the same slots should be running the stacking checks and the higher stats win out. Are you sure its Merciless Fero that is being overwritten and not one of the lower level rank 3?
https://www.raidloot.com/spells?name=Ferocity&effect=&class=Beastlord&level=&view=

He is correct, rank 1 shared merciless WILL overwrite rank 3. It always has.

I have mgb'd rank 3 in the lobby and a character right after casts his own rank 1 and overwrote it.

Spell IDs 36422 36423 36424

Yea this has been busted for years and is super annoying. I mentioned it in the Thief's Vision bug report that devs confirmed (https://forums.daybreakgames.com/eq/index.php?threads/thiefs-vision.260405/page-2) since it's behaving similarly. I suspect if one gets fixed, that fix will be applicable to both.

Yes, I'm sure. I regularly MGB SMF Rk. 3 with my BST in the buff pile in PoK (so no worn off buffs), only to very frequently get it overwritten by someone else MGB'ing a Rk. 1.

Since thieves vision was recently fix is there any chance this could get looked into