Stun

[Mishaela]

Yeah, this is...sortof something totally out ofmy field of knowledge so just thought I'd ask, does the spell Stun have a set duration or does potency effect it? More importantly, if something can resist stun (i.e. Dynamis Lord, Kirin), I assume magic accuracy would be more important than potency, if that is in deed a factor? I want to get RDM/DRK for such occasions and am wondering if things such as Nashira pieces would be better than raw +int.

Thanks in advance for any feedback.

 

[Lavi]

From my personal experience, use the Thunder/Jupiter Staff to increase the duration of stun and for stun resists, use +dark magic skill. Normal mobs should not resist stun unless they have some form of magic barrier like pots and special mobs (Impossible to gauge) can sometimes resist so the skill should provide accuracy to landing stuns. The same principles that govern stun for DRK and BLM, work for Flash with WHM and PLD so you should be somewhat familiar with it already (although not as used as frequently as stuns).

 

[Skaw]

I think flash is unresistable(excluding duration.)

I've resisted Stun, I've never resisted Flash. Even from Too Weak mobs.

 

[Bajaratt]

Only resists on flash I've seen were when magic shield was up.

 

[Lavi]

I was resisted on flash the other day in besieged as 75 WHM. It wasn't just a NM, but normal mobs although they all con as impossible to gauge.

 

[mdkuser]

i cast stun with Jupiter staff+ all the +drk gear i can get, on blm. Drk magic does increase the duration of stun. The wamoora prince for example, on which stun lasted for a very short time( less than 0.5sec, u would see stun wear off message before stuned msg lol) when i first got 75 blm. After I geared up my blm more seriously with Jup staff+drk gear ( 305 ish drk skill) im able to stun them for 1-2 seconds).

The resists on stun arent very common, but still i managed to get resisted on exp mobs a few time, those were wamoora prince, and it was earth day+weather ( and mobs are earth based).

 

[Mishaela]

Thanks for the feedback ^^
And yeah, Flash can be resisted by normal mobs...forget who I was duoing with but saw a Flash resist while fighting Antica.

 

[Courtney]

Kirin resists stun frequently, while DL only resists it rarely. For DL, a Jupiter's Staff is probably the best piece of gear you can get, followed by Dark Skill (not Crimson Hands) and MagAcc gear.

For DL it's probably more vital that it lands, interrupting whatever it's doing, than having it stay on for a long time (although obviously that will help too).