After recently acquiring Brazen Bull I noticed something odd about it. The resist rate on it seemed to be much higher than its predecessor, Iron Maiden. After checking out both spells in the parser I noticed that they both have a -75 resist adjust, but that Iron Maiden is considered a poison spell (much like its predecessors, The Rack and Heretic's Fork) and that Brazen Bull is considered a fire based spell.
As a player who uses the reverse DS line regularly, I see two problems with this spell line. The first is that Brazen Bull is the last of the spell line, and still has the same resist adjustment that the previous spell does. The second, is that Brazen Bull is a fire spell. In theory, it shouldn't matter what the spells type is as long as other factors make it more powerful than lower level versions. However in reality, fire is a much more common resist for npcs to have as one of their higher resists, whereas poison is typically much lower.
I have two suggestions that might bring Brazen Bull more in line with the rest of the spells.
1. Make Brazen Bull a poison spell and keep it at a -75 resist adjust. Lower the resist adjusts on the previous spells to bring them more in line. (I would suggest making Brazen Bull a poison with an even higher adjust, but honestly -75 has seemed more than enough to get the spell to land with Iron Maiden.)
2. Keep Brazen Bull a fire spell, but with a much greater resist adjust than -75.
As it is, with how often Brazen Bull gets resisted because it is a fire spell it doesn't make much sense to simply use Iron Maiden instead. This may just be a personal preference, but I don't believe having 5 extra points of DS is worth all the mana wasted trying to get a easier resisted spell to land.
As a player who uses the reverse DS line regularly, I see two problems with this spell line. The first is that Brazen Bull is the last of the spell line, and still has the same resist adjustment that the previous spell does. The second, is that Brazen Bull is a fire spell. In theory, it shouldn't matter what the spells type is as long as other factors make it more powerful than lower level versions. However in reality, fire is a much more common resist for npcs to have as one of their higher resists, whereas poison is typically much lower.
I have two suggestions that might bring Brazen Bull more in line with the rest of the spells.
1. Make Brazen Bull a poison spell and keep it at a -75 resist adjust. Lower the resist adjusts on the previous spells to bring them more in line. (I would suggest making Brazen Bull a poison with an even higher adjust, but honestly -75 has seemed more than enough to get the spell to land with Iron Maiden.)
2. Keep Brazen Bull a fire spell, but with a much greater resist adjust than -75.
As it is, with how often Brazen Bull gets resisted because it is a fire spell it doesn't make much sense to simply use Iron Maiden instead. This may just be a personal preference, but I don't believe having 5 extra points of DS is worth all the mana wasted trying to get a easier resisted spell to land.
Anyways I cannot really defend not being resisted on all sk spells, but when it comes to lifetaps it has to be considered that the heals that sk get from these is a large part of their tanking capability (same to a lesser degree with all taps (ie shroud and such). Ie if a lifetap is resisted, suddenly the sk isnt getting healed, and consequently will die a lot faster/easier. This has to be put in relation to paladin selfheals and hots and such that will land all the time.
