The quotes align with my anecdotal experience of how things are working on P99. I mostly use the highest level root spell (with some consideration for cast time and duration for specific applications) as my experience has been the higher the level of the root, all things being equal, breaks left often when triggering a root breaking event I.E. landing a nuke or ticking a DoT. AKA the level of the spell impacts the likelihood of breaks after a root spell lands on the target.
The second layer to this is based on the up front resist check, which in my experience (again aligning with the original quotes) is that the likelihood you cast root on a mob and get a flat out resist doesn't seem to be impacted based on which root you use. This type of direct feedback would likely contribute to emergant behavior of "if the root lands the same % of the time, I might as well use the cheapest mana cost version" not fully accounting for potential impact on root breaks after it lands.
The third layer is debuffs. My anecdotal experience of the P99 mechanics has been that the mobs resist at the time of root landing has a pre-determined impact on root breaks as well. This was very noticable on a shaman root rotting multiple mobs with epic. Opening the fight with malosini prior to landing root meant that root rarely broke before full duration, however, landing root then malosini resulted in a noticable increase in root breaks on the initial root duration.
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