Wail of Banshee

Daltian · Post by **Daltian** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 2:45 pm

Today I noticed that Wail of Banshee started to act funny. First time i cast it on a group of mobs it works ok. But all consecutive casts usually have no effect. Does banshee make them deaf for a while?

Post by **Sparky** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 2:53 pm

If an enemy makes the save against a Wail of the Banshee, they temporarily go deaf for about 20 seconds or so.

CrazyJ · Post by **CrazyJ** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 3:29 pm

Does this affect spellcasting?

watchwood · Post by **watchwood** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 3:58 pm

No, you can still talk while deaf. You just don't have a listen check. Maybe not a spellcraft bonus, either, since you can't hear what spells the enemy is chanting.

Alkapwn · Post by **Alkapwn** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 4:07 pm

Does that mean that silent spells couldn't be counter'd because the Counter caster couldn't identify the spell with spellcraft?

watchwood · Post by **watchwood** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 4:35 pm

Not sure. It's possible. I guess more likely is a penalty to the spellcraft against silent spells, or when deaf.

Kromix · Post by **Kromix** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 5:12 pm

wail is a save vs the scream of the banshee... if you save the fort, you go deaf, thus cannot hear the other wails u toss at it. simple

Post by **Binkyuk** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 7:11 pm

i believe you suffer a small amount of spell failure for verbal spells while deaf.
i have no idea if it's implemented, but surely if you're deaf you'd be unable to identify spells without a somatic component to look at - so stilled ones, not silent ones.