Atlantis wrote:Silencer wrote:You guys are against the self cast only idea because you guys are so used to leveling with SS. If someone is going AFK then he should log off and log back in when he's back. Such small needs shouldn't even be considered in the grand scale of things. SS is such an easymode spell in PvE, I don't even know why it's there. Complete protection against anything is pretty messed up, even if you can't use spells to retaliate. If I had it my way, I'd take the spell out completely. But seeing as people are really adverse to that idea, I'm keeping that idea to myself.
Priests are useful without SS being casted on others. SS is an annoying spell that causes more problems than benefits.
1. It doesnt last long
2. It only works early levels 1-80
3. Once it does run out its hard to recast as your getting hit
It no where near the super powerful spell your maken it sound. Dispell you can still cast with SS you cant. Basicly all your good for it tanking the early levels or protecting someone for a short amount of time.
I don't like alot of things doesn't mean they don't have its place in the game.
My vote goes to stopped by SFD
Except that doesn't solve the problem from spamming SS on people who don't have SFD. People who just got res, or just changed maps, or just had their SFD run out, etc, will be vulnerable to SS. Without being able to cure SS off of people, then it is still extremely overpowered. Imagine if wizard's stonization was incurable. Then wizards would just make g20 curse to have a 4 minute long stonization. Sure, you could prevent it with SFD, but if you do get stoned you're SOL and unable to do anything for 6 minutes, except logout or use war map to warp to another map. Such a tactic would be particularly effective when defending on the last map, since people would have to warp all the way back to the other side of the grasslands.
Without rares, most curse spells are only 10-15 seconds long at the most. SS, on the otherhand, can last well over a minute once you get over level 100. More than a minute is way too long for an incurable "curse" spell to last. If SS can be cast on enemy players then it must be cureable, last only 10-15 seconds without rares, and be preventable by all the spells that prevent stuns (SFD, prot, twinkle, CFCADG, etc).
Self-cast only is the best idea, I'm ashamed I didn't think of that myself.