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zerjz3
11-16-2014, 08:19 PM
Ok, let me just cut to the chase here...

I absolutely cannot figure out how to set buff duration with any amount of precision or accuracy. Everything I try is either 5 seconds or 2 minutes or some super short amount of time, even though I am entering a large number like 7200 in the buffduration field.

From reading the tooltips in the EOC 2.0 editor, it seems that BuffDurationFormula is somehow tied to effect_base_value, but I have always used effect_base_value as the value for the actual spell effect itself -- not the duration. I have tried multiple dropdown settings for buffdurationformula, but I am just not understanding how this all ties together - even after reading the wiki for spells_new

Someone please bonk me on the head and clear this up for me :)


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zerjz3
11-16-2014, 09:04 PM
Seems that the proper buffdurationformula setting is 11 just to have it read straight from the BuffDuration field without doing a crazy formula calculation. Just weird that wasn't an option in EOC! Got it now I think, though.

Drajor
11-16-2014, 11:15 PM
https://github.com/EQEmu/Server/blob/master/zone/spells.cpp#L2595