UO Second Age

I understand your point but what Im saying is that a lot of pvpers were on broadband already, because ping plays a big role on how good you are at pvp. And none of em would use mini heal and spam it.

There definitely needs to be a longer delay after casting heal, we need this in with next patch that fixes hally = )

Along with equip-casting and hitting-on-the-run I think mage pvp is going to be pretty damn close to 1999 after the next patch if we can get this done right.

Let's research and keep discussing, let's not assume demos are correct I'd be willing to accept memories and thoughts and screenshots over the demo. And yea something is definitely up with heals. Sure the disrupt delay should be shorter, but the recast delay needs to be longer to make pvp more accurate.

I think most people would admit that mini heal sucks the way it is, but the research that can be done on this is so limited for obvious reasons. Basing it off memory obviously won't work because anyone who claims to actually remember the timer for mini heal recast is just plain lying.

Basically we'd just have to admit we don't know for certain and put a change in for the sake of balance rather than era accuracy. Whether that is something that Derrick is willing to do is a whole other story.

Personally I used mini heal a lot during UO:R, and there's no mention of a change from T2A -> UO:R. I never used it during T2A, partially because I just never saw people using it often and wasn't a big PvPer, and partially cause my resist sucked so I wasn't going to outheal people ebolting me. When UO:R came along I finally GMed resist and my entire PvP style changed dramatically (well, other than the obvious reason that templates had to change). I mean if we're talking about why people didn't use it much in '99, you could argue that when you have completely sucky resist (like most people will admit they did in T2A), mini heal wouldn't save your ass against high level spells and hallys

nightshark wrote:and partially cause my resist sucked so I wasn't going to outheal people ebolting me

Interesting point