That spell can only be cast on yourself...huh?

[Tesil]

This is just a minor annoyance to me...but how come I can cast a whole slew of spells on myself using cas 'whatever' me....but a few spells I have to type my name in....is there a reason for this? I know some spells are caster only...point is why won't "me" work just as well as my name? Don't think anyone is running around with that name.

I'll guess it's a code issue...but would like to know...has bothered me for years!

[Gormal]

wrong slew

[Shevarash]

Well, if you'd tell me what spells you're talking about, I'd be happy to fix them.

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[Tesil]

At the moment I meant Sense Life....I think only cleric spell I can't cast on "me". And thanks Shev for the very quick response!

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Tesil:
At the moment I meant Sense Life....I think only cleric spell I can't cast on "me". And thanks Shev for the very quick response! </font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Um... sense life is only castable on self, so it doesn't require a target at all.

[Xebes]

Some of us are used to casting 'spell' me to get a spell affect on one's self. Would it be possible for some of the spells that don't need a target to also accept "me" instead of complaining that a target was given?

I think that's the gist of the request here.

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[Lig]

I think it's easy enough for people to learn to leave off the 'me' part.

[rylan]

Yeah, I've never used a target for self-only spells.. would be kinda repetitive, and add extra typing for no reason :P

[Tasan]

I still haven't figured out why all spells don't default to self if you don't designate a target. I'm so used to this, and yet it doesn't exist here.

?

Twyl

[rylan]

Hmm.. that would be kinda nice.. cast a spell w/o a target and it defaults to self as the target. I like that idea

[Sarvis]

I find myself doing sl me all the time for sense life. It's more consistant if you add the me, and easier to remember. Or if they switched it so that no given target made any spell target one's self.

[Lirathal]

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[Sarvis]

heh... fine, any non-offensive spell then. Although one could argue that if a person is that dumb they deserve to force missile themselves to death!

[Guest]

The other problem I could see with that is when you go to cast that last stone skin, and you mess up, yer outta stones for the tank.

[Selias]

Yeah Iyachtu, my thoughts exactly... please don't make it so that if you forget to give a target the spell defaults to yourself... I'd much rather have to type in my own name or "me" in order to spell myself up instead of accidently casting my last stone or globe on myself instead of the tank/hitter who needs it to live.

Sel

[Sarvis]

Heh... as if all the chanters don't use macros/aliases to cast their spells. But if you guys don't like it that much, we are back to making it so that self only spells will accept 'me' as an argument.

Sarvis

[Sylvos]

Way the hell back when I first got 2nd circle spells, I went out and made aliases for each and every spell I could cast in that circle. Except sense life - why bother? Just type in c 'sen' and you're off to the races. Sheesh! Lazy Ppl

Tho I agree I don't understand why c 'sen' me doesn't work.

Sylvos

[kiryan]

>heh... fine, any non-offensive spell then. Although one could argue that if a person is that dumb they deserve to force missile themselves to death!

or you could just get in the habit of typing me for the few spells that require it or those in the dark situations.

expansion on lirathal's post as to why default to self is a bad idea.

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