The 99.9 magery vs GM is something that doesn't weigh up with the demo, but I remember that being a thing as well. There must have been an undocumented change to the buff/debuff system at some point ;/Boomland Jenkins wrote:I remember +-11 as well, and keeping my magery at 99.9 on my parry warrior purely for the debuff advantage.
There's mention of it in this 2002 usenet post, which yes, is well past the target date. But I'm pretty sure there's also no documented changes to buffs/debuffs between this era and 2002.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searc ... UU9q3BC9kJ
You can't be debuffed if you are already minus. So, for example, if
you are at say 40 dex base and get debuffed by a gm mage, this knocks
11 off you. because you are not gm, when you buff yourself agility to
counter the debuff you only add 10 which means that you cant be
debuffed again as you are -1 already.