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Jeph Suszter
10-19-2002, 11:53 AM
Was in Veeshan's Peak the other night and I picked up this thing on a rolloff with other druids:

Dragon Spine Staff
LORE ITEM MAGIC ITEM
Damage: 8
Delay: 20
Ratio: 2.5 Excellent
Wis: +14 Mana: +65
Weight: 7.5
Weapon Skill: Two Hand Blunt
Classes: Druid Beastlord
Races: Halfling Wood Elf Half Elf Human
Inventory Slot: Primary Melee
Required: Yes
Can be stored in Medium and larger containers
Last updated: Wed Jun 13 10:05:49 2001

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Effect: Bolt of Karana
Type: Triggered
Charges: Unlimited

Trying to figure out what the effect is for....what I know so far:

Melee Range to cast, 13.5 second cast
200 point DD (125 on other PCs), outdoor only
BUT, leaves a dot/debuff counter on the target

So I wanna know why. I can't figure it out. No stat changes, no slow or snare effect. So what does it do? Anyone have any idea?

Thanks! :)

Happyfeet Funkmaster
10-19-2002, 12:25 PM
Effect doesn't do anything at all, you can file that under Verant's Elite Programming Skills, and Too lazy to fix it I think heh =)

Aweyen Thornfist
10-20-2002, 09:50 AM
Did it stop you casting the effect on the mob again? A druid mob in Griegs cast Ice on me yesterday and I had an Ice icon in my buffs window for about 30 seconds.

Perhaps this is an attempt to prevent constant free mana dd's?

Happyfeet Funkmaster
10-20-2002, 10:03 AM
Ice is a real Debuff though, lowers FR by 50 for like 18 secs.

Tiane
10-20-2002, 03:12 PM
The buff does nothing. Doesnt prevent you from damaging yourself again (as thats all the staff is good for.)

It had a unique look for it's time but there are other (possibly less crappy!) staves with the same look now.

I remember when we got one of the first ones anywhere. My druid guildy who got it spent the next hour in VP trying to figure out what it did. It didnt even do any damage at the time.

They made me loot the next one 8(

Tia

Alyn Cross
10-20-2002, 08:44 PM
it used to be a spamable dd.... before it was nerfed into uselessness with a 13.5 second cast time. it's ok for backing up booboo when farming spiders and that's about it.

alyn cross
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