It's amazing to see how badly VI messed this up. A wonderful idea, asinine implemantation.

This is like giving your kid a clean pair of underware and telling them to put them on. When they return they are wearing them on their head...

A Number of items were changed (Again) on test this eve. (Wed, June 5)

Many items got nerfed (though personally, in most cases I think they should have been), though some were also upgraded from my point of view.

The point being:

DO NOT BUY ANY GEAR ON THE BASIS OF WHAT'S BEEN POSTED TO DATE

Affliction effects seem to affect any Debuff as well as DOTs. My Syphon Strength, Scream of Hate, and Despair all got Affliction Haste bonus, as well as my Clinging Darkness and Disease Cloud.

If you already have these items do you have to have a GM changed them to be able to use these new focus effects?

Lizardskin Tribal Mask : Reanimation Effi. 1

Oh goody random items having foci effects
So the new mage summoned foci become worthless
Sounds like someone in Verant heard about foci and went MAD

I read at caster's realm that the ToV is also a focus item, but has the effect of reanimation haste I. No wisdom casters have reanimated pets so what is the point? Was what I read true or not?

Tuuvan

Improved Healing + 20% Healing Beneficial Spells Only Not Complete Heal Spells

Extended Range + 15% Spell Range

Extended Enhancement + 15% Spell Duration Beneficial Spells Only Not Complete Heal Spells Not Invulnerability Spells

Reagent Conservation - 15% Chance of Reagent Use

Improved Damage + 20% Spell Damage Not DoTs, AoE's, Banes

Enhancement Haste + 30% Spell Haste Beneficial Spells Only Min Cast Time: 3 sec Min Duration: 72 sec

Mana Preservation - 10% Spell Mana Cost Not Complete Heal Spells

Spell Haste + 15% Spell Haste Not Complete Heal Spells Min Cast Time: 3 sec

Affliction Haste + 33% Spell Haste Detrimental Spells Only Min Cast Time: 3 sec Min Duration: 36 sec

Extended Affliction + 20% Spell Duration Detrimental Spells Only Min Duration: 36 sec

Affliction Efficiency - 25% Mana Cost Detrimental Spells Only Min Duration: 36 sec

Summoning Haste + 30% Spell Haste Summoned Pets Only

Reanimation Haste + 30% Spell Haste Summon Skeleton Pets Only

Summoning Efficiency - 25% Spell Mana Cost Summoned Pets Only

Reanimation Efficiency - 25% Spell Mana Cost Summon Skeleton Pets Only

General Overview


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Spell Haste Focus Items:
Does not affect Complete Heals
Does not affect Spells with less than a 3 second cast time
Does not affect Spells that last less than 72 seconds in duration


DD Damage Focus Items:
Personal Area of Effect Spells are not effected.
Target Area of Effect Spells are not effected.
Damage over Time Spells are not effected.
Dragonsbane and Giantsbane are not effected.


DoT Focus Items (Affliciton):
More ticks of damage done for standard amount of DoT damage per tick.
Does not effect spells which last less than 36 seconds.
Can also extend non-damaging duration debuffs such as Snare, Harmony, Root, Malo, etc.


Duration Focus Items:
Does not effect Invulnerability Spells
Does not effect Complete Heal spells


Summoning and Reanimation Focus Items:
Only works on Summoned Pets
Does not work for Charming Pets



Edited, Wed Jun 5 17:05:29 2002

http://eq.crgaming.com/editorials/focus.asp

This link shows what the effect does....
The level...as stated below I, II, or III is ONLY what spells it affects. I only goes to level 20 spells...after level 20, you will need a II or better item to affect your spells. II goes to 44 and IIIs cover all the way to 60.

Each level of focus works on higher level spells, Effects with I only go up to level 20 spells, II goes up to 44, and III works on all spells in the game. That is what the numbers mean.

Please Report on what these effects on these items do. Or put a link up to a site that does say what they do.