Raise / Resurrect Lack of Animation Issues

There are a couple things missing or messed up from these spells that need to be implemented or changed.

First there is no animation for them, on either side, the caster just casts them with no animation on their end, and also no indication on the player who is being raised end. It can be hard to tell that you have been raised in the middle of a fight with all the battle spam going on. Also no icon in the status bar to tell you that you have been raised (like teleport offers).

Second, why does the effect wear off? I'm not sure how long the effect lasts (30-60 seconds maybe?). It just seems really dimb that i can have a teleport offer on me forever (haven't tried zoning with it on, or actually timing it, but it is a LONG time). This also goes to the same problem stated earlier that there is little to no indication that you have been raised, so you can miss your raise entirely.

And the third problem is the FIVE minute recast on them? this is also annoying when you miss your raise because of the previously mentioned issues. If you miss your raise someone has to wait four plus minutes to cast it on you again. It wouldnt be as bad if the recast was back to one minute (like it was before) or even 2-3 minutes but 5 minutes is just way too long in my opinion

I don't mind the 5 min recast because I'd foresee a short one to be exploitable in the future. Otherwise I completely agree with you on all points.

I don't see any way to exploit a shorter raise recast. Brink of death prevents zombie-ing things and without reraise or soul ward (reraise for thm) available yet, I don't see how a shorter recast would do anything that game breaking.

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Originally Posted by Shosasosa

I don't see any way to exploit a shorter raise recast. Brink of death prevents zombie-ing things and without reraise or soul ward (reraise for thm) available yet, I don't see how a shorter recast would do anything that game breaking.

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The first death debuff hardly does anything. A small amount of players could very rapidly raise a large number of characters during combat if the recast was, say, 30 seconds.

I wasn't suggesting that it be 30 seconds, i said 1 minute like it used to be, and always has been in XI. or even 2-3 minutes, so bye the time your raise is back up the first person you raised would have lost weakness already (if you use only raise 1). and the first weakness is 25% HP and MP down so for a tank its more detrimental, also any NM like the ogre in the darkhold could easily one shot anyone with weakness on besides a gladiator if they were weakened.