Roots Breaking(Enstill)

[Juevento]

Enstill iirc is a notoriously bad spell. I think I used root on my shaman until I got immobilize. As others have suggested, stick with root and maybe stick to mobs that are 4 or so levels lower. Level difference has a huge influence on spell effectiveness in P99 (see all the issues with zlandicar and fear as an example).

[Hastley]

Makes me sad how bad and mad OP is

[kaev]

lol this thread...

There's nothing wrong with Enstill, it's just Root with a longer duration for more mana. What's wrong is using a mana expensive root on high blue mobs, i.e. mobs with a good chance to resist/break. Using spells with DD damage compounds the error by giving an extra chance to break (at a bonus to the resist iirc.) With the streaky RNG here you will go oom and then you will zone or die. Congrats OP, your relentless "but it's not my fault!" wailing has made you the RnF poster-child for that particular bit of EQ game knowledge/skill.

[indiscriminate_hater]

Originally Posted by TarukShmaruk [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

That's because the advice isn't really answering his question - he wants to know why Enstill sucks shit, if there's something he doesn't know about those mobs or the spell line in general.

Not useless shit like "go fight lower level mobs idiot"

The answer is Enstill sucks shit as do most of the higher level root spells and you're generally better off sticking with Root because it's cheap.. Every once in a blue moon Enstill lasts long enough to justify its cost.

Also those mosquitos have higher MR than normal IIRC and just like to break root a lot.

install sucks shit because the server emulates classic mechanics. we're telling him to "go fight lower level mobs idiot" because that's the way to deal with these mechanics.

reading comprehension is hard

[applesauce25r624]

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http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+to+uninstall+a+program

what? it's RNF! somebody had to do it

[indiscriminate_hater]

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http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+to+uninstall+a+program

best advice yet for OP

[Pokesan]

check out all the BDA posters being rude to a lowbie

smh

[Thiefboy777]

Soulsippers feet don't even touch the ground that's why root didn't work, it's science.

[Aviann]

As a high level paladin using this spell, it works legit as fuck even in high level dungeons.

Are you nuking it maybe? Nukes can prematurely break a root.

[Nirgon]

Some of you got WAY too used to the old broken mechanics here like root lasting full duration almost every time

If you try rooting a barely blue or even con, root should break hard

Planar mobs still need more resists, as do in town guards (the ones that don't yet)