Bard AE mez resists correct?

[Roku]

I've leveled my bard to 38 and it is the first bard I've played in EQ. About 10-15 levels ago, I began to no longer use AE mez in groups because I found the mobs resisting it more and more. For a while now, I don't even mem it, preferring to single mez adds.

I figured this was a level thing as the mobs I was fighting were getting higher level relative to the song. However, last night I decided to spend a few minutes helping out an orc group in EC by AE mezzing and letting them pull to me. I was very surprised to find that asps, orcs, lionesses, etc in EC were resisting the AE mez about 40-50% of the time.

I'm lvl 38, these mobs are under lvl 10. Something seems wrong. Any more experienced bards have input on whether AE mez is working as intended? As of now, it is completely useless as far as I can tell.

My CHA unbuffed is around 135. I was using a Lute of the Gypsies.

[Dalven]

Its just the way the ae mez works relative to your level. AE mez is over powered until you hit the 30s where it becomes useless even against monsters far below your level. IIRC its something to do with there being an extra resist check on the spell landing. The single mez remains effective tho.

[indiscriminate_hater]

yeah ae mez becomes terrible later on. at level 60 i get resisted by level 1's over 2/3 of the time.

it's super useful for powerleveling low-level aoe classes though. you can pull all of runneye to the entrance and mix ae mez w/ ae slow, damage shield, and hymn to keep aggro on you while someone blasts away.

[Ungriim]

^ at 60 its just completely worthless. It used to be broken on this server and would mez like single target mez and with with 99% success rate to every mob hit - could mez all of karnors with one bard...but alas they fixed it to be as shitty as it was on live

[Laok]

Didn't that get changed to a single target mez on live at some point with a level cap?