What's the deal with spell durations?

[Tgo01]

Many many years ago when I first started playing this game I remember hearing all the talk about spell durations. A little over 4 hours was the limit to which you could stack spells to but 3 hours was considered the typical spell up duration because (either by design or because of a bug) if you cast more than 4 hours worth of spells on someone it could lead to a problem where the durations "rolled over" and you ended up with only like 1 or 2 hours worth of spells. I think this happened when you logged off.

Was any of this ever true? Is it still true? Am I just crazy? I've never really followed up on this after I started playing again and just assumed this was still true, especially considering in the waggle script for lich there is a "stop casting at" option so you don't cast spells over this figure. I just assumed it was because of this, if you didn't want to risk rolling over your spell durations.

Anyone more knowledgeable than myself able to help me out here?

[waywardgs]

The waggle stop cast thing is to prevent wasting mana... Not sure what you're talking about was ever true, but it's not now.

[Kitsun]

I think I remember that being the case back during AOL or to the move to the web. My mage would sometimes lose spells after relogging pretty soon after a refresh.

Can now track spell durations with SPELL ACTIVE. And yeah, whay waywardgs said, it is no longer the case.

[Tgo01]

The waggle stop cast thing is to prevent wasting mana...

I see what you're saying. Instead of casting another spell that lasts for an hour when you can only stack 10 more minutes onto a spell. I like all of my spells to have the same durations though so that won't bother me.

[Malisai]

spells dont roll anymore.

[Jayvn]

gsiii, spells rolled at 4 hours. Unless you had a single cast that would go beyond that, I can't remember the rule on that one?

[Methais]

Logging with over 4 hours of spells would roll them over when you logged back in back in the day, yeah.

[Latrinsorm]

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