Para blow and Precasting

Please take away precasting now. It's lame. Ok, think about it, I run up to someone with explosion precast and my vanq spear equipped, I hit them for 30 and get a para blow, release the exp and EB, that's 110 damage, Throw an exp pot in, 140 damage, throw in a lightning wand, 160 damage, Ok, so they chug a gheal pot and cast mini heal, still 130 damage, take away the lighning wand that's still 100 damage.
Ok, so now a macer runes up with with FS precast, gets a chrushing blow before you can cast mini heal. 90 damage yay.
Ok, so a hally mage runs up, ect ect ect. Plz. =[

Oh, and is para blow borked for anyone else? =[

pre-cast is removed.

Why would you let someone get a hally hit or spear hit off on you, if you're a decent mage? That's always how I fought against my friend. He'd precast a spell, I'd poison him. If he was still coming at me, I'd lob an explosion potion, and cast explosion/ebolt. That'd take him down almost all the way with 100 alchemy and I'm sure it wasn't much different with less. Then you fireball while he tries to cure, or poison again. Always save your mana till he has his weapon equipped. How did you guys play during UO:R?
I've seen every kind of template beat every other kind of template, and make it look easy.

Blah, precast was one of the most enjoyable aspects of UO:R because it made it really diverse.

Diverse = WHACK EB :/