>From: Silverlock <croesus@...>
>
>Ok heres the situation. At level 28 or 29 I went to nektulos Forest with
>some friends and we killed Guards and corporals for loot. We sometimes drew
>overpulls but beguile let us escape them, usually by charming a guard to
>fight the corporal. Today we dicided to go to Solusek and as I waited for
my
>friends someone pulled the corporal and two guards. All three were dark
>green to me at level 32.
>The Corporal on walking apst came at me and I tashani'd him and tried to
>beguile him. And failed. 8 times in a row. I killed it the old fashioned
way
>and thenwhen my friends came we experimented. $ casts on Dark green guards
>all after tashani all resisted. Another 8 casts on Corporals also after
>tashani everyone resisted.
>
>I was mad as hell. This isn't a random number problem this is deliberately
>making a mob that I should ahve a chance of charming IMMUNE to it. When I
>travel solo I have a choice, I always go with a pet spell memmed or with
>beguile. Usually beguile because my other spell mix is geared to flight
>rather then fight. I used to be fairly certain that with 160 charisma I
>could reasonably expect to succeed in a charm of a green. Now that faith is
>gone. What other random mobs has Verant decided to make IMMUNE to one of
the
>Major spells we Enchanters rely on? How many deaths am I going to face
>discovering these little changes. I feedbacked it.
>I petitioned it. I got a tell from a GM or Guide that siad they couldn't
>discuss game mechanic changes but there was something in the news file. I
>logged out to check the news file and didn't see anything so is there
anyone
>out there who can enlighten me as too what the guide or Gm was referring
to?
>And what benefit did we get in exchange for making a spell that we could
>reasonably count on now totally uncertain? I could understand making charm
>spells harder to resist, but thats not what happened. They made a certain
>mob type Immune to them and if they did it for one they probably did it for
>others.
>I think we need to ask Verant to undo this change, Charm spells are the
core
>of the Enchanter class and screwing around with them in that manner is
>crazy. Thanks. Any help or comments are appreciated.
>--
>Silverlock, ICQ 474725
Why would you think all creatures are vulnerable to any spell much less this
one in particualr?
There are a couple of Magic immune MOBs out there.
Also I disagree that Charm is our core spell.