The town front guards were quite killable for a time but you had to use snare not root. Snare would hold whereas root would break like crazy, many spells are very hard to land on them too.
I killed the east commons/west commons guards also (these were pretty damn resistant until very blue also). But.. the guards inside the towns... very resistant and this was tested on eq mac. I did it on live and it worked exactly the same way I remembered there too not that I'd say live is the end all be all but it worked. Freeport on live is... wtf.
Point being there's 2 posts I dug for and found of people backing that statement.
Notice how I didn't link something obviously wrong like what you just did
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Hey... I was right about the Grobb guards... if ya'll're keepin' score at home. Freeport/Neriak
in town guards were absolutely no different.