Cancel Magic starts at the top of the stack. Druids have complained a
LOT about how useless this makes the spell.
You might want to practice putting a short-lived buff on yourself first
(Firefist for Druids. Or perhaps Shield of Thistles, which is combat
length) so it wears off. then see which spell is removed by Cancel Magic
when you use it.
On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Kevin Dailey wrote:
> From: Kevin Dailey <kevin_dailey@...>
>
> "Flash of light is an awesome little tool, if it works. Its
> fast and uses little mana. He also has cure blindness and he would be
> stupid
> to not have it memorized. If he is a lower level it can last a
> reasonable
> time."
>
> I was told by a friend who hunted in Runnyeye that Verant issued a patch
> that caused your ENTIRE screen to go black when you get blinded. I will
> have to try this on myself. Because if this is the case, then even
> though the troll shaman has me targeted, he will be unable to use his
> mouse to click his memorized spells. He WILL be able to cast spells IF
> he has hotkeyed them AND remembers which keyboard number goes to which
> spell....but I know for a fact that this shaman hasn't done that.
> So......It looks like I'm going to be a Flash of Light caster on Sunday
> night at the PVP grounds in Neriak. Hmm....maybe I should first cast
> Invulnerability on myself to get him to waste his mana, then blast him
> with Flash of Light, and keep blasting him with it while I melee the
> crap out of him.....means that I'm going to have to memorize extinguish
> fatigue as well, cause it's gonna take me FOREVER to melee him to death.
> And I should probably memorize Cancel magic in case he decides to root
> me....But someone said earlier that Cancel magic starts at the top of
> the stack. Why? That's where all MY buffs are! If I remember correctly
> (from Highpass and the gnoll shamans who cast root), I think Cancel
> magic starts at the bottom of the stack. Otherwise, it would be a
> worthless friggin spell, eh?
>
> Thanks for the suggestions so far...keep them coming...and let me know
> what you think of the Flash of Light strategy :)
>
> Saidinn
>
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