Darkness - drow

[Heimdallr]

Darkness is I believe bugged, When You cast it, no one is able to attack. Mobs just stand and watch, you just...stand and watch.

[Moridin]

I haven't noticed this myself, but I'll test it out ingame right now.

Edit: Tested on an imp Lomith was killing in the Lava Cave. After Darkness was cast, both characters stood around doing nothing for 4 to 5 seconds, and then the fighting resumed, though I assume it resumed due to truesight. Going to test on a Duergar thrall without blindsight or truesight up.

Edit2: Combat soon halted entirely. Lomith was able to attack again once Blindsight was cast, though the thrall was completely defenseless. I stopped Lomith from attacking, and waited, eventually a status effect vanished off of both Lomith and the Thrall and combat resumed in full. The graphics of the darkness spell dissipated soon after. So according to this, it is currently completely blinding PCs and npcs that do not have blindsight in a melee engagement.

[Aspect of Sorrow]

The drow aren't able to see well in pitch black, much less other animals without some emitted light. Darkness is a spell that furthers any emission, requiring TS or some variant to counter.

[Moridin]

Yes, but Darkness is not suppossed to completely halt combat, just cause negative modifiers since that is what the spell states. It also makes sense in context, for if Darkness was dropped on you, would you begin to wildly swing your weapon, or just stand there waiting to get hit as what currently happens ingame? As it is concerning the way the Darkness spell is currently acting, blindfight as given by the Darkness domain is 100% useless.

[Blame The Rogue]

as blind fight doesn't allow one to see in darkness, even if they casted it, i'd like to suggest>>>

races with darkness ability, or classes with darkness ability, do not have spells such as blindsight or TS. i think a blindsight ability should be added to all races and classes with darkness ability

casters that cast it as a spell can cast blindsight or TS to counter

[Moridin]

as blind fight doesn't allow one to see in darkness, even if they casted it, i'd like to suggest>>>

races with darkness ability, or classes with darkness ability, do not have spells such as blindsight or TS. i think a blindsight ability should be added to all races and classes with darkness ability

casters that cast it as a spell can cast blindsight or TS to counter

That would be good yes, but the thing is is that the spell and ability is currently bugged as I highly doubt that causing darkness to stop all combat of characters without blindsight is a feature. Basically what we are trying to say is that the bug makes the spell more op than it should be for casters, and completely disabling other characters within better than a stun spell.

I personally play a caster, and so am unaffected by this spell other than that my opponents tend to now be helpless inside it's radius. Darkness should cause negative effects for those without blindsight, and grant concealment to people within it, but not outright bring combat to a dead halt. What is happenning is when it gets cast, npcs without blindsight stop fighting AT ALL.

[Heimdallr]

small note - when someone is in the darkness, you cannot cast direct spells on him, when you stand in the smoke you cannot cast spells at yourself/enemy/anyone outside smoke, basically without blind sight you just stand there wondering ' now why the hell I used that spell'. It's funny that you cannot cast darkness around you, cast faerie fire and attack opponent:D

[Maecius]

I'll raise a flag on this for QC.