Thread: PLEASE fix the sloppy coding on succor, medica, stoneskin, sacred soil

My gripes with these spells:

Succor; if you`re casting succor while and aoe is charging, one of three things happens depending on how you time the spell:
1. You succor well before the AoE; everyone is healed and the damage of the AoE is slightly mitigated through the galvanize buff.
2. You succor too late; everyone gets healed a bit of heal from the AoE and they have a fully charged galvanize shield.
3. You succor JUST before the AoE; the heal goes off before the AoE but the shields don`t absorb any AoE. This is dumb. The delay on the shield being applied needs to go away.

Sacred Soil; the spell is short duration, and there is a significant delay between casting it and actually receiving the buff that mitigates damage. You have to compensate by casting the spell well before you want the buff.

Stoneskin; the delay is brutal. If you want to stoneskin a tank in just before a specific ability goes off, chances are the stoneskin won`t even absorb any of this ability.

Medica or Cure 3; if you cast the spell too close timed to when the AoE goes off, you sometimes overheal 1-2 members but effectively heal the rest.

The game is well over a year old now. These are very very annoying aspects of combat that healers are still having to deal with. Please look into it.

3/4 of the abilities you mentioned should be used preemptively. Working as intended.

Originally Posted by Kassiekane

3/4 of the abilities you mentioned should be used preemptively. Working as intended.

If the heal hits before the AoE, the shield should be applied before the AoE.

If the heal hits after the AoE, the shield should not be applied.

Seems like common sense to me. There`s no reason for the heal to hit before the AoE and the shield not to be absorbed.

There is a very noticeable delay on operations that deal with HP increases and decreases, yes. A delay that isn't present or as noticeable in most other MMOs and wasn't even there in 1.0. Sure you learn to "git gud" adapt to the bad coding, but it could be better.

I`ve noticed it with Bane too. Bane right after you use your third dot, you will only spread 2 dots.

It's cause you aren't thinking of the spell in terms of it's animation taking effect. As the player all you are doing is activating the spell, upon activating the spell it takes effect on the player and until that animation plays out the effect will not take effect.

When it comes to DOW it is different because you are using weaponry, they are instant action and a blade making contact with an opponent is more instantaneous than a spell having it's effect activate. It's like taking medication, you don't take medication and bam you suddenly feel the difference it takes time for you to feel the effects of it and with magic it's just on a smaller scale where yes you have to compensate for it's activation time on the player when you use it.

Only thing I don't like is when soil is on the ground and you step into it, the delay it takes to get the buff.