Here is my expierence, FD only works if the mobs have completely finished all
their actions for the round. If you FD and one still has yet to hit you or a
spell still has to go off against you it does not matter, it will fail. I do
not know about against DoT and that is an interesting question. I do know I
have fought the spiders in Guk several times and Feigned successfelly while
poisoned. And rabies have never seemed to be a problem. I also like the range
of aggression type suggestion as in my expierences this has proven to be
true. In Guk I have almost always had the stupid frogs come running after me
when I had Feigned, the spiders on the other hand depend how far away from
them I am. Even if I am just over into the next chamber they do not pursue.
The same in Unrest, Dark Boned Skels to my great surprise did not come after
me when I got up from a feign, but you can imagine my surprise when the
Barbed Skel did not ignore me and came back and whoopped my rear. Well, this
is my thoughts on it. I still do not think it is the awesome skill I had
heard of before getting it. I would much prefer to have something that would
help the rest of the party a little more and not be so much of a simple
self-preservation thing. I know the responses about leading mobs away and I
have done this, but still those situations are pretty rare. Usually it ends
out with the call for run going out and me just hitting feign when everyone
has minimal time to head out the nearest door before I die. As I am only 20th
level I always looked forward to the views of more expierenced players.