Game Mechanics: Dartain the Lost

[pasi]

Many mobs were magic immune to prevent slows.

I agree with this.

If you get bored of killing revenants, you can invis undead down to the crypt below (west courtyard just inside undead tower gate) and kill dartain the lost. He's 55 I think, dark blue to 65 before the xp changes. Make sure you kill the roaming wanderer the ducks into the crypt within the crypt. If you fight him in the far west corner in the courtyard, the other undead in the area will pact him nonstop and make for a longish fight. (Tho this was before destroy undead. It probably doesn't matter if you can kill him in less than a minute with chain nukes.)

From the perspective of a solo 65 cleric. So, there are an additional 5 levels at play here. This cleric does mention chain nuking down Dartain. These nukes are of course, magic. 5 levels did not allow you to cast a spell of a certain class on a mob that was resistant to that class. If you need evidence of the prior statement, you can refer to The Slow Guide which was also written from the perspective of a level 65. You can see that NPCs resistant to a school at 60 were still resistant to that school at 65.

So, that should be pretty clear that he is not fully magic resistant.

Now, is he more MR than the usual level 55 named? On this server, he currently is. Part of that is being a caster (Shield) and part of that is that he frequently wears a tunic and NPCs appear to receive the stats from their inventory.

So, the question is whether or not he should be more MR than he already is. So far, the only evidence in this direction is that of a level 52 or below paladin attempting to stun and root an unstunnable red-con NPC. To further complicate this,
1) we have no idea on whether or not the NPC was tashed/malad/dispelled/etc.
2) the paladin uses the word "almost" with MR
3) We don't know if the paladin was aware the NPC was flagged unstunnable prior to his remarks.

I would hope all this yields the conclusion (while welcoming new information as it comes) that no resist changes should be implemented at this time.

What seems legit though is that he should drop 2 items.