Game Mechanics: Caster Mobs

[laeolan]

I needed a quest piece from Sol A today. I didn't buff my resists as I didn't think I would need to. I did not run into any trouble, but I was surprised by how easy it was for a green to nuke me. I'm level 50 and an 'inferno goblin wizard' which Alla's lists as level 26-27 was able to nuke me like:

'You feel your skin freeze over. You have taken 127 points of damage.'
'You are engulfed by lightning. You have taken 120 points of damage.'
'You feel your skin freeze over. You have taken 96 points of damage.'
'You are engulfed by lightning. You have taken 34 points of damage.'

Those are the only four spells he cast on me during the fight. I don't know for sure what spells he was casting, but if it was a player he would have Force Shock (179 max) and Frost Shock (187 max) at level 27. So I would guess I had 4 partial resists. Certainly I had not even one outright resist from a mob 23 levels lower than me. I know this is only one fight, so hardly overwhelming evidence. I would be glad to test more, if the GMs have a desire for that sort of thing.

[dali_lb]

wich means he hits for avg. about 50% on a target 23 lvl's higher. that totally BS if this server is supposed to be classic.

Everything that was +5 lvl's was in classic either direct resist or max 5-10% dmg. Plus a lvl 27 npc Wizard would never cast Force Shock or Frost Shock.

They never had spells from the last 2 player spell lvls, wich means he would most likely been casting Shock of Lightning (12), Fire Shock (16), Pillar of Fire (16) or Project lightning 16).

And Enchanter mobs only rarely used charm spells. Example. Evil Eyes (lvl 20-24 for nameds) usually only casted Tashan (4), Eye of Confusion (8), Choke (12) and Chaotic Feedback (8). The named did cast Rune 1 (12), Sanity warp (16), Quickness (16), Chase the moon (12), Enthrall (16) and rarely Charm (12)
(charm has a lvl 25 cap for PC's).

You could camp Evil Eyes all day long from lvl 20 solo as a mage if you depopped pet on nameds so he wouldn't get charmed without dying a single time, and they usually died in 2-3 casts if you engaged before they made pets

I wouldn't recommend soloing them at the state the server is now at lvl 20.
I started soloing those things on live at lvl 18. Usually people shared the throne in gorge, 1 person, or a small group on each side. only bad thing is all the mino and mudite adds at low lvls.