On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Achuith Bhandarkar wrote:

> Does anybody have information about the lengths of the mez and stun lines ?

Best source I've found is
http://www.darkflame.org/data.pl?mode=EQSS&search=spells
It's an extract from the spells.dat file. GZ has said that there are some
inaccuracies, and that the game code does some additinal modification of
the numbers, so don't trust it too far. Still, it seems right on in a lot
of specifics.

> I heard in-game that mez is 15 sec, enthrall 30, entrance 45 and dazzle 60.
> The enchanter spell list on Baelish's site says mez 30, enthrall 30,
> entrance 50-60, dazzle 120, which I find more believable. Anybody measure
> with a stopwatch ?

darkflame says mezmerize is 4 ticks (24 secs), enthrall is 8 ticks (48
secs), mezmerization is 4 again, entrance is 12 (1 min 12 sec) and dazzle
16 (1 min 36 sec).

I've not timed it, but it seems about right, at least for the lower-level
ones.

> Also, as far as I can tell, this line of spells is fixed duration, i.e, MOB
> does not get any saving throws to break early like the root line. True ?

As far as I can tell, yes. It is broken by any damage, of course. Yes,
stun breaks mez.

> Stun line : Color Flux 3 sec, Color Shift 7 sec, Color Skew 8 sec.

Stun is different. It's not a length of spell effect, it's an instant
effect of "stun", with a numeric value. Flux is 4000, Shift is 6000, Skew
8000. The stun effect with our DDs is always value 1.

My theory is that there's a stun-recovery rate somewhere between 1000 and
4000 per second, varying per target, perhaps based on target's STA or
other stat.

Searching on monster "spells" with effect Stun, it seems Air Elemental
stun has a value of 3000 + 60*lvl (max 5000), and basilisk's stone breath
is 12000 stun points.
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