Game Mechanics: Rapture/Dictate Immunity

[Splorf22]

I'm consolidating my old rapture immunity thread because most of the evidence was on the second page. I plan on bumping this thread for the next few years. We enchanters are already going to have to deal with enough BS in Velious without Sky being Velious Part I.

Currently there area number of mobs on P1999 (Korocust, Chottal, and basically everything in Sky) that are flagged immune to charm or mez (they cannot be dictated/raptured). I think that there is very little evidence that *anything* should be specifically immune to Dictate or Rapture at this point, except things that have an insanely high MR to begin with.

http://www.tski.co.jp/baldio/patch/20011008.html

NPCs that were highly magic resistant in order to make them immune to certain spells can now be given specific immunity to those spells. This means that they can be made immune to critical spells, as intended, and still be generally less resistant to magic. Players will receive a message similar to the one that is already given for Mesmerization spells when they cast a spell on an NPC that it is specifically immune to.

http://www.therunes.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2198

The reason for the PoH mixup is the timeline. PoH has had 3 incarnations. During PoH v1 (single floor hate) and begining of PoH v2 there was stuff that was basically immune to magic. This included the golems in Hate, Phinny's 2 (or 3) guards, Black Reavers in CoM. This included *immune to rapture*. You would get a flat out resist. In addition you simply could not land any spells on mobs that were 6 levels higher than yourself.

Enter the resist change. Gone were the MR immune mobs. The aforementioned mobs could now be mezzed with rapture. They were still very highly resistant to other MR based spells though. Also gone was the "6 levels" rule. This happened while Hate was in version 2. Therefore you will have som who swear you could mez golems, and some who swear that you couldn't...

Enter Hate revamp. Now Hate is v3. I havent played around there much, but it sounds like the spites are now flagged using the unmezzable flag.

Since the resist revamp, I have yet to get a resist on Rapture (not counting mez-immune flag).

Now I realize that is very hard to prove a negative empirically. However, for stuff that was known to be immune a simple google search pops up. For example 'rapture spite golem' or 'rapture drozlin' return results quickly, 'rapture korocust' and 'rapture chottal' don't. Mqemulator also doesn't think that these guys are mezzable.

http://mqemulator.net/npc.php?id=89144
http://mqemulator.net/npc.php?id=89001
http://mqemulator.net/npc.php?id=103219

Regarding Sky, I think most of these immunities are incorrect as well.

http://thornoohaha.guildportal.com/G...opicID=2080508

Post from 2006 of course but it does claim the Guardian should be mezzable (and I would think therefore dictateable). *Also found:

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/zones.html?zstrat=70

claiming the Princess on #1 should be charmable.

And finally:

http://www.angelfire.com/freak/eqjon...planeofair.htm

Which indicates that most mobs in Sky should be mezzable.