Paralysis is overpowered.

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Originally Posted by konming

As I have stated above, base S2 mages casting paralyze has 0.7% of success against MR 25 SC. So it is less than 1-2%. You can do the math yourself to verify.

And that is the winning argument.

Considering that any nerf on the duration of the spell would make it useless against regular armies, and it can be easily countered anyway, any change might as well be a straight deletion of the spell. Simply put, not having a spell on the casting list is better than having a useless spell.