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Hello all.
Ive just got back into playing Ryzom recently after being away a while and found out all my old characters got wiped out from a server merge. Ive played many MMORPGs over 14 years and dont remember characters wipes simply from a server merge....and it was a free account so I guess Im out of luck. So, I started a new character and was trying to remember the game a bit. And one thing that quickly came back to my memory, was how incredibly useless the crowd control spells are in Ryzom. Root and Fear both, are completely useless, and a total waste of sap when it comes to killing mobs or doing what they are suppose to do...keep the mob off you. The only thing I can see that is slightly usefull is casting fear...not to actually move the mob away from you like a fear spell should, but to get a little bit of defensive magic experience in addition to your normal offensive magic after you go ahead and kill the mob normally. This can help if you are soloing and want to increase defensive magic a bit but its still inferior to just healing in a group....which brings us back to CC spells in Ryzom being basically completely useless. The root and fear spells have such a ridiculously short duration, they are not worth casting in the first place. Im still on Silan, and maybe they get better at higher levels?? If not, there is really very little reason if any to even have them on your hotbar. Am I doing something wrong, or are CC spells bascially useless in this game?!? Im sure some old Ryzom players might flame me a bit, but unless you can prove the title of this post wrong then dont bother, its just a fact of the game. Thanks for any help on this.

Krell