I agree. And do we remember what happened in paper D&D? The recipient of the
Ressurect lost a point of Constitution (Stamina) permanently. And the caster
of the spell was on his butt for a lengthy period of time, regaining his/her
strength. This is an extremely powerful spell, and should come with some
consequence.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lanadina the Magician [SMTP:lanadina@...]
> Sent: Thursday, July 29, 1999 7:41 AM
> To: EQ-Clerics@onelist.com
> Subject: Re: [EQ-Clerics] Verant ruined the revive line of spells
>
> From: "Lanadina the Magician" <lanadina@...>
>
> Can I be hypothetical here for a second?
>
> Imagine you are walking down the street, a car hits you, you die, and
> miraculously, a doctor is able to revive you and bring you back to life!
> Are
> you going to have full health? No way! Are you going to be extremely weak?
>
> You betcha!
>
> Granted, it was a REALLY nice thing to be able to be resurrected and have
> your full mana and HP on your character, and being ready to go after you
> loot, but if EQ is about Roleplaying, and about trying to be
> semi-realistic
> in some cases, ressurect was not broken in the last patch, but instead, it
>
> was made to be a little more beleiveable/realistic.
>
> Let the flames begin, just be gentle <g>
>
> Lanadina
>
>
> ======
> From: Olli Haapam�ki <olli.haapamaki@...>
>
> I just did a revive on myself yesterday and was damn surprised to the
> result. Usually
> all it does is teleport to corpse and return a little xp. But at that time
>
> it did a whole
> lot more. And all of them were negative side effects. After resurrection i
>
> had all my
> mana drained, had only 50% of HP, had some kind of weakness effect on me
> and
> all this without any addition to the positive effects (xp gain). I feel
> this
> is a terribly
> wrong move by Verant. And besides they did not mention a thing about it in
>
> the
> patch message. Why the heck did they do something like this? Do they want
> to
> ruin the cleric now that it is perfectly balanced? That would be awfully
> stupid.
>
> Iyenya Goldenheart
> Lvl 30 dwarf cleric
> Innoruuk server
>
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