Oblivion talk:Dispel

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[edit] Questions

This effect is still unclear for me.

1. What does "M pts" mean? How can I be sure that one effect would be cleared with my "Dispel 60 pts" potion and other effect would not?
2. Swordplay page tell us that "Dispel can be used for removing reflect damage from clannfears". Is it true? Or those inborn effects can't be cleared (like Race/Birthsign abilities)?

I've started to do some tests to try to figure out these types of questions, and I've updated the page based on what I could figure out so far. I'd be very interested in knowing whether this seems to agree with what other people have experienced. So far, all my tests have been done by casting spells on myself and then trying to dispel them, so it is possible that spells cast by enemies work differently.

As for inborn effects, based on the game guide dispel "does not affect abilities, diseases, curses, or constant magic item effects". I included this statement on the page. Although I haven't actually tried to test it yet, it seems that it should not be possible to dispel a clannfear's inborn reflect damage ability. --Nephele 21:19, 4 September 2006 (EDT)

Can you please include at least a sample of things that Dispel will affect? Your page and the manual agree on what it won't do, but neither of them tells people what it will do.--Robin Hood 12:58, 31 March 2007 (EDT)

I've expanded the page somewhat to hopefully address your criticism. Let me know if that works, or if you have more suggestions :) --Nephele 15:13, 31 March 2007 (EDT)

That's excellent. Thanks! (Oh, and it wasn't meant as a criticism, just a suggestion. <g>)--Robin Hood 13:28, 1 April 2007 (EDT)

[edit] Dispel Magnitude

This has been marked as a question that needs to be answered. Was a working formula ever found to link the magnitude with the maximum strength of spells dispelled? The 15/70 and 25/100 statements suggest that the maximum strength dispelled is (3M + 25). Ong elvin 11:29, 24 August 2008 (EDT)

I want to know this too. 173.32.11.67 15:59, 2 November 2008 (EST) (|Helper Unknown)

I am using an Oblivion Mod that allows me to create spell with a magnitude of up to 1000 points. By testing I found out that casting a Dispel 800 pts spell on self will dispel ANYTHING, even spells that cost over 3000 points of magicka! On enemies, a dispel spell with a magnitude of 150 pts is completely sufficient to dispel absolutely everything that can be dispelled, as enemy spells are rather weak, because obviously enemies do not create custom spells at the spellmaking altar, but use those pathetic weak spells created by Bethesda (like summon headless zombie for 25 seconds, that's a laugh). WRFan 11:38, 9 October 2009 (UTC)