A while back I posted about final form vulnerabilities and how they can be crippling. One answer was that they are pretty easy to cover with preps.

I just wanted to point out a glaring flaw with that logic.

Mobs who can exploit vulnerabilities also tend to dispel. Some to an absurd degree.

Example: I recently fought a bishop in a temple and counted how many times haste spell was dispelled during the fight. 35 times. I didn't take the time to count how many dispels just took down other spells.

I gave up using any preps for obvious reasons after the first 10 rounds as I was lucky to get 3-4 rounds out of them before they were dispelled.

To me, that goes beyond "challenging" into the realm of simply annoying.

So, there.