How do you prevent your divine casters from being dispelled?

Ballad

Dispel has always been a huge issue to my divine casters, yet I rarely see it being talked about on these boards.

With SCS, basically every tough fight in SoA/ToB begins with a bunch of Dispel/Remove magics thrown around. Arcane casters can easily ward against this with Spell Immunity: Abjuration, but my divine casters invariably get all of their buffs and protections removed in a jiffy.

Am I overlooking some really basic strategy, or is there really no way to avoid getting dispelled as a priest? I know people have soloed SCS with divine casters, so there must be some way to work around this.

JuliusBorisov

No actual strategy except for running away from the Dispel/Remove Magic AOE (at least I did that with my Totemic Druid solo). Divine casters indeed suffer with SCS from this (same with potions' buffs).

Enuhal

If you download the newest version of SCS and install the component introducing IWD spells into the game, divine spellcasters (including your opponents) will get access to a new 6th level spell called "Entropy Shield", which grants protection from Breach, Remove Magic and Imprisonment amongst other useful effects. This is explicitly intended to adress the issue you mentioned

Tresset

I saw this thread and decided I would try to do something about this issue. I felt the best solution was to modify Shield of the Archons to also grant immunity to the dispel opcode for its duration. So here is the mod I made. To install just extract it into your override folder. Let me know how this works for you!

Raduziel

All my buffs are made during the fight, so I don't have this issue.

Pretty much I start the fight, eat up the Dispel/Remove then cast Sanctuary/Invisibility 10' and begin to buff.

gorgonzola

also i often don't pre buff, or if i do it is cause i have spotted the enemies so sending some summons or protected toons to suck the dispell is not a problem.

running away from the dispell is also a tactic that works well, as the aoe is quite small, i do it often when i use it offensively to avoid that my frontliners get debuffed by my mages, and doing it if the enemy mage is the dispeller needs only awareness of what is happening.

i don't use scs, i use tactics mod, there the dispell is much less used, but a lot of enemies see trough invisibility, so sanctuary or invisibiity spells are not so useful to gain the time to buff.

Danacm

Spell immunity in pnp is a divine and not arcane spell. So mod it to divine casters.

Raduziel

Danacm wrote: »

Spell immunity in pnp is a divine and not arcane spell. So mod it to divine casters.

DoF has it for both, but only clerics with major access to Weave may get it.

Borco

Playing a single class cleric will definitely be a mitigating factor due to their relatively higher caster levels. When I ran my Priest of Talos in a solo no-reload, dispel was a minor inconvenience rather that being a serious threat.