Per dev quote, SPA 112 "Modifies casting skills of the affected
entity by BaseEffect for the purposes of determining whether or not a
fizzle occurs when casting spells."
Fixes issues caused by having a spell with this effect on caster such
as wrong target debuff durations and buff refreshes not taking hold.
Using low level mez to test if a mob is mezzable and NOT get aggro has been squashed. When you cast you will get 1 point of aggro on a Cannot mez with this spell.
Example PC A is fighting mob B. PC C casts a heal on PC A. PC C will
inherit the timer from PC A. This is done because beneficial spells have
a "witness" check from NPCs so there is a chance PC C would not gain
aggro and could just keep on going with no RestTimer which allows them
to fast regen while actively participating.
So we've been doing heading wrong all these years. You will need to run
a script to fix your quests and required SQL to fix DB.
This fixes a ton of random issues with headings and as gives us a better
resolution on headings :P
Currently the names only show for inspecting via Target Window because
we send buff packets in the wrong order and there is a dependency on
them being correct for self that isn't present for target window.
400 ms is far too aggressive for normal game play
Set to 10 ms to hopefully not get in the way of legitimate game play
Also, why do we even do this? As far as I can tell, we need this to be
less than the users ping to not cause issues. What are the actual
reasons we do this and what can we do differently to solve them?
- the defaults are set in the code and can be tweaked by sourcing utils/sql/git/optional/rule_values_range_update.sql
- Thanks to mackal for gathering live ranges, thanks to takp for initial numbers
- We would send 200 for combat updates and the client will only display <= range 54 anyways, these should help a lot in spammy combat
RULE_CATEGORY( Range )
RULE_INT ( Range, Say, 135 )
RULE_INT ( Range, Emote, 135 )
RULE_INT ( Range, BeginCast, 200)
RULE_INT ( Range, Anims, 135)
RULE_INT ( Range, DamageMessages, 50)
RULE_INT ( Range, SpellMessages, 75)
RULE_INT ( Range, SongMessages, 75)
RULE_CATEGORY_END()
