Wow. Paralyze is the Super combatant killer!

mr.white · #1 December 22nd, 2003, 05:39 AM

RIP: Belial, killed after being paralyzed by a volva.

RIP: Belphegor(With an amulet of antimagic. 21 magic resistance total), killed after being paralyzed by a volva.

Alive and well: 2 Heliophagii and 4 Archdevils after destroying Pythium. Gotta love the AI spell selection

Anyway, paralyze has really impressed me. It didn't take many shots to get past the magic resistance in either case...and once you're down it's hopeless. You won't ever wake up in that battle. Kind of makes me wonder if getting my earth mother blinded by machaka wasn't a fluke. I won't take magic resistance for granted ever again!

apoger · #2 December 22nd, 2003, 06:44 AM

I'm glad someone else has noticed this.
Seems Paralyze has amazing penetration.

Jasper · #3 December 22nd, 2003, 07:33 AM

I haven't tried casting Paralyzation directly so much as getting from Astral Shield, but ouch. I'm not sure I've ever seen anything Paralyzed live. I wonder if MR penetration items work with Astral Shield...

The Paralyzing Poison from the Barbed Tail attacks of many demons seems fairly nasty as well. I haven't played around with it, but I'm presuming there is no MR save.

Anyone know of anything else that has Paralyzing Poison?

Saber Cherry · #4 December 22nd, 2003, 08:25 AM

Things with "poisoned claws", like ghouls and Ermor priests, have paralyzing poison... but as far as I can tell, it just does fatigue damage (50, perhaps?), not paralysis.

Also, Woodsman Blowdarts do paralyzing poison damage, and I'm not sure which kind. But with 2 AP damage, they can't hit anything armored, anyway...

#5 December 22nd, 2003, 09:51 AM

Paralyzation is just another hammer in the "Astral is great, for a select few races" coffin. Not only does it only take a few cssts to usually affect all the SC's. But it is cast on Pretenders, Devils, King (Queen) of (Element) and other nasties first (The targeting isn't stupid). It even goes to mages next. And on top of that, once something is parazyled it isn't doing anything. The duration of the spell is almost as good as it's penetration.

[ December 22, 2003, 08:01: Message edited by: Zen ]

WraithLord · #6 December 22nd, 2003, 10:26 AM

I think duration and or penetration of paralyze should tone down a bit.
It's a good SC counter, but it must require many more castings or Last less rounds.