Not a Bug Report

[KageTokage]

Frequency: Sometimes
NPC name: Lyon the Beast King
Area and coordinates: Zadnor
Steps:
1. Enter the duel/critical engagement "Taking the Lyon's Share".
2. Wait until Lyon casts his Harness Fire spell early into the fight.
3. Start casting the lost action Lost Dispel so that your cast resolves AFTER Lyon has visibly received the On Fire buff on his bar.
4. Watch as you randomly get a "No effect" message from Dispel and get one-shot killed as a result.

I'm aware that there is a slight disconnect between when a target visibly receives a buff/debuff on their bar and the game/server actually registering that the target has said effect for the purpose of abilities that interact with it (Summoner's Bane being the most common victim of this as trying to trigger it immediately after applying Bio can have a similar result), but it feels particularly bad in this case as I've had my Dispel cast resolve nearly two seconds after the Harness Fire buff appeared on Lyon and still had it fail to work and have seen others fail the duel for the same reason.

There's very little consistency as to when it decides to happen as sometimes you can get away with dispelling the buff almost the instant it appears on his bar, while on other instances it won't fall off even if you wait a second or two prior, and naturally the average player is going to try to get rid of it ASAP when you only have about four seconds after he gains the buff before he starts auto-attacking again and kills you with it. Even if the "solution" is to wait as long as possible before you dispel due to some kind of issue with how long it takes the game/server to tell that the buff is active, it's not going to be readily apparent to most as logic dictates that "If buff if visible, buff can be dispelled".