This may seem like superstition on my part but the goblin wizards in
Butcherblock seemed to have been given a boost in their nastiness. I was
soloing these guys at lvl 12 without losing more than two bubbles of damage,
then recently at level 13 I hit a few once more and almost died a few times.
I know that things that con the same can vary in potency but this is a big
difference. I've also noticed this with the skeletons outside of the
Minotaur Cave in Steamfront, which helped me make my 12th level and turned
promptly to conning green, only to return to blue now at 14th level.
Anyone else see similar things like this happening?
Bernwyn
----- Original Message -----
From: John Kim <kim@...>
To: <eqbards@onelist.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 1999 1:39 PM
Subject: Re: [eqbards] Resistance and Rhythym songs
> From: John Kim <kim@...>
>
> On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, SteelWolf wrote:
> >
> > lightning and Shock of Force. Her primary AoE is the Frost
> > Spiral of Al'kabor. How do I know? Because I usually get
> > the resist message for force shock, and occassionally get
> > it for Frost Spiral. I also think the chance of resisting
> > is weighed against either your level or your defense
> > skill, because anyone who has been to Unrest at level 20
> > and tangled with a hag died in 2-3 spells, while a L30
> > takes quite a beating before dying.
>
> I honestly think there are two resist checks going on, kind of
> like how when we Chain something it can resist or not, then it
> immediately has a chance of breaking out. It think there is
> one extraordinarily difficult resist check to see if you can
> take zero damage from the spell. Then there is another resist
> check to determine how much damage you take.
>
> Last night while completing the Staff of the Observers quest,
> I ran across a goblin wizard in Butcherblock. These guys
> killed me way too often when I was level 5-7 so I decided to
> toy around with him a bit. I used Curtail (L30 song, targeted
> DoT) on him to kill him - no melee.
>
> During the entire fight, he peppered me with spells (they sure
> have got a lot of mana - I'd estimate 20-30 spells). Most of
> them only took off 4 or 5 points damage, but a couple did
> about 20. Then on one spell, I saw a "You resist the..."
> message and took no damage. I had *never* seen that message
> for a DD prior to last night (I don't remember the name
> offhand but it was a fire-based DD spell).
>
> That it took a level 8ish mob 20+ spells for me (L30) to see
> one complete resist should tell you something about how
> difficult this check is. I was singing Elemental Rhythms at
> the time with drum equipped, which put my MR in the 80s and FR
> in the 70s. I wasn't trying too hard to keep it up though, so
> it may have dropped to my natural 35/25.
>
> --
> John H. Kim
> kim@...
>
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