Resists

[greatdane]

I think mobs have a tendency to have higher MR than the other resists. There's no mechanic that makes magic-based spells easier to resist by default. If you're having trouble landing spells on a mob, dispelling it can be more helpful than tashing or maloing it if there's a chance it has buffs on. In dungeons, almost all mobs will be fully cleric/shaman buffed unless they've just spawned.

[aubie]

29 Shaman been killing static bards for awhile. Resists seem to get better as you outlevel the mob. RNG has a HUGE effect (i.e. I can get 3-5 resists, then zone, but come right back to the same mob and get no resists). Malo seems to have little effect if any (i.e. I can successfully land malise and then have 3-5 resist on root, disease/poison dot, and I can cast malise and get resisted, then have no resists on root, disease/poison dot). Maybe it gets better with the higher level malo's, but for now I have concluded not worth the mana.

It's kind of like the government though...I'd rather they not screw with it, because I think root holds much better here than on live (dd component of shaman dots seldom breaks it). If they look at it, I'm afraid that will get changed and the resists will stay the same. I can live with the way it is now. So move along devs, nothing to see in this thread.