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Does the Cleric's Holy Word spell no longer stack?

alastair93alastair93 Member Posts: 117
in Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition
Just been playing around with the first fight in ToB, and even after casting two Holy Word spells next to Illasera, she can still keep casting ~75% of the time.

Did the 2.5 patch nerf the stackability of the spell?

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  • CamDawgCamDawg Member, Developer Posts: 3,445
    Illasera is level 20 so Holy Word causes deafness, which includes a 50% chance of spell failure. Since she can't be deafened again, max spell failure rate remains at 50% through multiple castings.

    This is unchanged from the vanilla game.
  • alastair93alastair93 Member Posts: 117
    Oh really? I guess that makes sense now that I think about it.

    I was under the impression that you could cast two for 100% spell failure. It was from posts like this one from @Pantalion (and others).

    Thanks for clarifying.
  • CamDawgCamDawg Member, Developer Posts: 3,445
    If your target is in the level 8-11 range, then they get slow + 75% spell failure. Perhaps it stacks at that range.
  • Grond0Grond0 Member Posts: 7,508
    I was under the impression that the 50% spell failure was a separate component to deafness (as the 75% spell failure clearly is in addition to slow). Stacking would therefore not necessarily be unreasonable. It's not a spell I've used much, but I seem to remember @semiticgod referring quite a bit to its use to get 100% spell failure - that doesn't mean the behavior hasn't changed over time of course.
  • CamDawgCamDawg Member, Developer Posts: 3,445
    Just a straight deafness effect for levels > 11. Deafness has a hardcoded 50% spell failure, though I suppose it's possible the engine could apply it in a stackable way.
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