In the previously mentioned incident , there weren’t any HIPS spammers involved. But even if there were, there are ways to indirectly deal with players in stealth mode and kill them as a spellcaster ... unlike fighting a player solely devoted to time stop scroll spamming.
The only indirect way around time-stop scroll spamming is to be well away from the Spell area when it is cast; something very difficult to accomplish in Blackrose. This was what I was initially trying to say.
That said! Since this little debate, a change has been made to persistent AoE spells on Blackstone, which effects Time Stop as well. There is now a ‘Spell Stacking’ limit of 3-4 spells , where each spell stack lasts for 1 minute. This basically puts persistent area spells on a 1 minute cooldown, preventing casters from using more than 3-4 at a time.
Which means that: PEOPLE CANNOT INDEFINITELY SPAM TIME STOP OR TIME STOP SCROLLS ANYMORE!! YAAAAY !!
Thanks driller