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Message ID: 21950
Date: Thu Oct 12 22:47:29 BST 2000
Author: John Tatsukawa
Subject: Re: [eqbards] Abashi finally responds... sort of


At 02:41 PM 10/12/00 -0700, you wrote:
>On Thu, Oct 12/00, John Tatsukawa <john@...> wrote:
> >
> > You can believe I'm going to start pouring over enchanter spells at EQ
> > Casters right now. :-)
> >
>
>Note that the enchanter spell list refers to a lot of things as stuns
>that really aren't. It says mez "stuns" the target, as well as the whirl
>till you hurl line of spells. This is different from the color
>shift/slant/skew line which are really stuns. i.e. you can beat on the mob
>for the duration of the spell without them hitting back.
>
>By 44 enchanters have 3 stuns that are aoe around themselves and can be
>chain cast almost repeatedly for very little mana. Cast time 1-2 sec
>
>Even at 20 however, they have a 4 and 6 sec stun with recast times of 12
>seconds, so they can almost keep a mob nailed down permanently just with
>them.

Yea, I noticed that Casters Realm doesn't seem to use the word "mez"
accurately at times. My definition of a mez would be if you damage the
creature, the creature breaks the mez vs stun where the creature remains
stunned.

Thanks for the clarification!