[quote]Originally posted by SixOfSpades:
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Originally posted by K2Grey:
[qb]I think any respectable player would have some difficulties engaging in such strange tactics like running away to abuse really bad chase mage AI, and seeing a supra-genius lich forget where the battle is and just sit there after being knocked away
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Realistically, I think it's plausible for any reasonably intelligent Mage to keep firing spells at a target that is mostly (but not entirely) immune to them. It's more plausible, at any rate, than for reasonably intelligent Warriors to try to pound the crap out of a Wizard whose defenses they have no hope of bringing down anytime soon....any smart and self-respecting Warrior would simply fall back for a bit and let the simple passage of time do most of the work for him.
That doesn't really answer the question, since while it's reasonably plausible for a mage to try various spells against a guy with high MR (what else is he gonna do? try and run away?), it's not that unplausible for Sion and Ketta and those other Guarded Compound guys to set up an elaborate trap, and when their quarry breaks out, for only the fighters to follow and for the mages to just sit there. Surely if they cast all those spells and prepared all those neat tricks then they realize you are a relatively tough enemy and that it would be good to give the fighters some magical support. Similarly, Shangalar should realize that just because the enemy is not in plain sight, does not mean that Layene can handle the magic aspect of the fight on her own.
As far as the warrior bit goes, the fighter in question may not necessarily know for sure whether it is Protection from Magical Weapons that he is running up against, or Stoneskin, and since one can be bashed through, it makes sense to make the attempt. Similarly, Stoneskin is available for mages much sooner than PfMW, and a fighter may make the mistake of assuming a PfMW can be broken in the same way as a Stoneskin. Finally, even if the fighter knows how both spells work and can recognize them via the meta-ability of message buffer, he may not necessarily wish to just run away and allow the mage to summon up an army of Skeleton Warriors, at which point killing him can get real hard.