Help With Silence

[Crono9879]

I'm confused, and this may be a really stupid question, but is silence a durational debuff, silencing your target for a set amount of time, or does it only stop casting? I've used silence plenty of times, but sometimes I notice that right after I cast it, a mob will start casting a spell again. Thanks for the input,

Deathcab

[neighbortaru]

Re: Help With Silence

it is not a set duration or you could have gotten your spell resisted.

[Taskmage]

Re: Help With Silence

Silence lasts for a duration, but in that case it might have gotten resisted so it was only in effect for long enough to stop the one spell.

Since it's a white magic spell, raising your MND stat can help prevent that.

[Brayden]

Re: Help With Silence

More than likely if you just cast silence, and the mob begins a spell anyway, your spell has been resisted.

[Karinya]

Re: Help With Silence

Silence can be either partially or fully resisted. If it's fully resisted it doesn't go into effect at all and says in the log "Kirin resists the spell." (Or whatever you're fighting.) If it's partly resisted, it goes into effect, but doesn't last as long as normal, sometimes only a few seconds.

In order to be resisted less, use Wind Staff, +enfeebling magic skill, magic accuracy, or MND gear (roughly in decreasing order of power). Most of that stuff won't be available until high levels, though, so if you're low level and you really need to silence something, use Elemental Seal (from BLM sub), or just get a RDM.

[Taskmage]

Re: Help With Silence

Minor point to be made. If you ever see a resist message that says something like "Resist! The Goblin Mugger resists the effect of Gravity." that means the mob you are targeting has a resistance trait against that type of status effect and will be harder to stick that spell on. Usually only beastmen get this, since beastmen have jobs and get the job traits that a player character using that job would get.

[Tirrock]

Re: Help With Silence

That's a good point... I've heard a lot of people complain when trying to silence BRD type monsters, due to their resist silence. I wish our resist traits went off nearly as often. :/