Some mages will not cast "resist lightning" -- shocking results are evil, help needed

[tinkthank]

I see, thank you.

I have not seen vast numbers of complaints about this on the Boards, so apparently I am one of the very few who finds this to be extraordinarily suboptimal. Partial resistance is, so to speak, a kick in your own shins.

If there has not yet been a plea to have this revamped (I suppose, however, that this would mean AI rehaul: the AI must love full resistances more than partial resistances), I would hereby like to start that now.

Thank you!

[Endoperez]

I think this part of the combat AI dates back to the times of Dom:PPP in which there was only two choices in resistances: no resistance at all and total immunity.
As partial resistances were implemented, I think the developers forgot to change the AI. This can be deadly in some situations, so I think this is a bug.

[tinkthank]

I see.

(What exactly is this Dom:PPP that people keep mentioning?)

Thank you for corroborating. Would this be difficult to fix?

Posted the same info 3 months ago, but it was not fixed.
http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin...=001713#000004

The solution seems to cast Thunder Ward (50% prot + 50% prot = immunity).

Cheers

[tinkthank]

Thank you.
Thunder ward is, of course, a nice spell, but it is also Alt-6 (or Enchant-6?), if not 7, I think, and is also steep on the gem/fatigue requirements, whereas Resist Lightning is a level-1 spell with only 5 or 10 fatigue cost, plus it gives you 100% res.

On another note, what is DomPPP?

[atul]

Originally posted by tinkthank:
On another note, what is DomPPP?

Dominions: Priests, Prophets and Pretenders (I might have fumbled the order). Also known as Dom1.

I think.

[ioticus]

Damn, that's a bad bug Hope they fix it.