Paralysis is overpowered.

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Originally Posted by konming

I do not really know about that. Soul slay is just one level up there and it is generally much better against SCs. Paralyzed SCs still may have cold/heat aura, fire/astral shield, blood vengence, awe+fear and more. Why should we nerf a spell that's specifically against thugs/SCs so it would not work on thugs/SCs? Paralyze already has 0.7% chance of working casted by a base caster against 25MR. Who would ever use paralyze against anything if each turn it can shrug off 2-10 turns?

What happens is the AI casts paralyse first. If you have a lot of casters, they spam paralysis spells. After the most threatening / high value targets have been paralysed the slay soul spells start.

This is how it seems to go in the current version.

I'll clarify this a bit more. I don't have an issue with paralysis being efficient and useful. It's the rediculously long duration that I hate. The battles don't last long enough that the 20 - 40 round duration would have time to pass, so at the moment it's practically "paralysed until the end of the fight". That's the silly bit.