In that case, shouldn't you resist all buffs, Lay on Hands,
Ressurections, Divine Aura, Teleports, SoW, shadow step, etc etc? What
about resisting the clense effect on a SSOL? Or resisting Yaulp from a
screaming mace?
It seems to me there should be a distinction between friendly magic and
foe magic - perhaps you are exerting willpower to resist those nasty roots
and burns cast by dazed orc shamen, but allowing your friendly cleric to
heal you...
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Nindar - High Elven Cleric Of Tunare - The Rathe
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff McClain <
jmcclain@...>
Newsgroups: alt.games.everquest
To: Nick Shaffner <
nicks@...>
Date: Wednesday, September 22, 1999 12:27 PM
Subject: Re: Test server: Cleric healing is now player resisted
>Maybe you all think I'm crazy (and maybe I am), but I think that this is
>PERFECTLY reasonable. I mean if you have MAGICAL RESISTANCE, why wouldn't
>it apply to ALL magic? I mean, it isn't like the item "knows your
thoughts"
>or can interpret which magic is bad and which is good. It is a good/bad
>tradeoff that you must consider. Sort of like how *some* items lower
>your ratings in one thing while providing a benefit to another. I see
>no reason that you shouldn't have to do a resistance roll or whatever
>when ANY magic is cast on you...
>
>Jeff
>
>Nick Shaffner wrote:
>>
>> Well if they do end up propagating the change to the normal servers,
>> then there will probably be a lot more deaths in my party - I have enough
>> troublie with fizzles and running out of mana already....
>> I guess one thing that would help in this case is to always make sure
>> the cleric is the highest level member in your party, which would
presumably
>> cut down party member's chances of resisting their heals...
>> Heh, I hope the magic resistance stat doesn't factor into this, I can
>> see it now:
>> Hey, you warrior - don't use your shiny brass shield - it ups your
magic
>> resistance - or to a caster: take off that bloodstained mantle... Maybe
>> they can also make tashan work on PC's too - get the enchanter to lower
>> everyone's magic resistance so healing spells don't get resisted as much.
>>
>
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