Why does dispell remove friendly buffs?

[Xargon]

Originally Posted by Handel

Besides the goblin shaman spell "Leech of life" or something like this

You can dispel it on an enemy troop that has at least one other buff/debuff. It just does not show up as a viable target if it has only threads of life on it. So a workaround is to cast an auxiliary debuff at the enemy unit and the dispel it (not sure about dispel lvl3, it works with lvl2).

[ckdamascus]

Originally Posted by Xargon

You can dispel it on an enemy troop that has at least one other buff/debuff. It just does not show up as a viable target if it has only threads of life on it. So a workaround is to cast an auxiliary debuff at the enemy unit and the dispel it (not sure about dispel lvl3, it works with lvl2).

Nice tip! I thought about dispelling it from the enemy but he didn't have a debuff!

Once again, orcs manage to be a pain in the butt...

[Xargon]

Originally Posted by ckdamascus

Nice tip! I thought about dispelling it from the enemy but he didn't have a debuff!

Once again, orcs manage to be a pain in the butt...

Yes, it still is a pain in the butt... probably even more so if you are not playing a soothsayer - it's more reasonable if you are able to cast both spells in one round, as long as the fight is not so hard that you have to cast other vital spells. But then again, thread of life seems to be supposed to bind friendly units together, so it will hopefully get patched sooner or later.

[camelotcrusade]

To the OP, maybe you are used to the HoMM spell called "Cure." That game has Cure to remove debuffs on you and Dispel to remove all effects regardless of positive/negative. There were also "mass" versions of both.

It's more efficient to have them combined in KB, but sometimes I miss having that cure spell.