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Message ID: 13612
Date: Mon Jan 24 21:31:19 GMT 2000
Author: jhenders@bogon.com
Subject: Re: EQ weekend update


On Mon, Jan 24/00, Rokenn Swiftsong <rokenn@...> wrote:
>
> >Also, dispite what GZ said about pixie strike not being broken, it looks
> >like they may have changed it recently. Our guild bard wanted to duel my
> >druid while we were standing around last week after the patch and he
> >basically locked me up with pixie strike. I wasn't able to move once if
> >I got the message and icon. This is considerably different from my tests
> >with the song months ago.
>
> Pixie Strike WAS changed. It used to not have the MR reduction effect.
> When it was a straight mez/stun song it was much more effective. The MR
> debuff introduced the dreaded double save.

This is in direct contradiction to my tests last August when it was in
fact less effective, giving bogus success messages yet the supposedly
mez'd PC could still move and attack most times. That was before both
the MR addition and the PvP nerfs to magic.

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