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If you go down to dartain on a lvl50 toon and try to land mr spells on him you will find that he is 'very' magic resistant.. This is in line with everything that is being cited, what you want to do is create your own interpretation of 14 year old posts and say that very mr to a lvl 50 translates to fully mr to a lvl60.. This is not the right way to approach changes on p99.
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Yes. It's very very difficult to land binary spells (all or nothing) on debuffed even con mobs, let alone red con mobs. I often get a bunch of resists on tashed level 55 nameds (aka Dartain or Crypt). I can't imagine 52-56 characters regularly landing spells on a potentially undebuffed mob (no malo here, potentially tash). As far as level 60 slowable nameds, it's nearly impossible to land. On my Emp Chottal solo, I managed to land slow at around 40% after almost chaining it. And that is on a tashed mob... on multiple attempts
Anyhow, the argument for this:
1) A 65 cleric is able to land magic nukes on Dartain in 2003.
2) Levels help with resists, but they do not circumvent resistant mobs.
Evidence for this is various Kunark raid NPCs which were unslowable even while debuffed to a level 65. Interestingly enough, I got a copy of the level 70 slow chart and
even level 70s could not slow these mobs while they were debuffed.
3) It is extremely unlikely that Dartain's MR status was changed in this time. The previously mentioned immune patch only hit Velious.
Evidence for this is the fact that nothing in Kunark transitioned from resistant to an immune tag; only Velious mobs did. The Kunark mobs that received an immune tag (a Black Reaver) all did so after the 2003 revamp of their respective zones. Dartain was taken out of the game at that time. Hell, Kunark mobs not having an immune tag might still be the case on live.
From these 3 statements, we can logically deduce that Dartain should not be MR. It doesn't tell us the degree of resistance, but we know the NPC isn't MR. A 52 paladin isn't landing much and a solo 65 cleric isn't having any issues. I would wager a level 60 with a MR debuff would face more similar resist patterns to the solo 65 cleric (undebuffed) than the 52 paladin. The current state is that the entire area is very resistant to level 60s with the exception of the Fallen Erudites which are a much lower level. That seems right to be, and there's been no evidence presented that has suggested otherwise.
Now, it would help me if you could identify which of the above 3 points you do not agree with so that I can focus my posts on that rather than include all this information with every post.
In addition, I don't think my enchanter has left EC in a year. There's not exactly a conflict of interest here for me.