Paralysis is overpowered.

[Foodstamp]

Originally Posted by Meglobob

Got to agree with Amhazair here. I just cast about 200 x paralysis at a SC attacking my castle. It had 28 MR, not one effected the SC. I hate the constant casting of any 1 spell after scripting has run. If I had cast a few frozen hearts which my mages were capable of, then that would be 1 dead SC and a lot sooner than 50 rounds. The battle ended very unsatisfactory for everyone concerned with the attacker auto-routing, then my forces auto-routing. The SC had only 3 AP so took a age leaving the battlefield.

My mages also spammed rage, which was obviously useless against a single attacker! I would have prefered, frozen heart, water strike and/or geyser.

My tests came to pretty much the same conclusion about the success rate, so why are all these other people getting so unlucky on their resistance rolls and losing their high MR SCs?

[Agema]

It's chance, and the errors in human perception relating to chance.

What happens is that people very keenly remember when their expensive super-SC fails that one time, especially when the fail is catastrophic and results in autodeath, and more so if it happens early in a battle.

People forget that that same SC might have already been subject to many MR rolls over time and passed them all; or they forget they have many SCs over the course of playing Dom3 who have passed hundreds of such rolls between them and it's only that one that has failed catastrophically. They may forget the times that SCs fail a MR check but it was for something trivial like taking damage from an astral geyser, and so lose perspective of how easy it can be to fail an MR roll.

Alternatively, you can view it this way. If you've got a community of hundreds, each of whom is running a few games, each game with a few SCs, if all those SCs have a 1/1000 chance of failing an MR roll, it's actually very likely at least one SC walks into a battle and fails an MR roll with a disasterous result, because you've got over 1000 SCs facing MR rolls.