Is Barsleepra working?

[Tobold]

I had several times the situation where I cast Barsleepra on my group to protect us from sleep, but the sheep we were fighting still managed to make all 6 of us fall asleep. Is this spell working at all?

[pmorin]

I'm not one hundred percent sure about this but, I think it shorten the time youre being asleep. Like when were fighting mandagora near kazham last night i used barsleep and we were waking up a lot faster.

[TaruHealer]

Barsleepra increases the chance that you'll resist sleep, but it doesn't protect you 100% - contrary to what the "bar" in the name makes it sound like . I have noticed that barpoisonra reduces the frequency that folks get poisoned. I assume that how well it works depends on your enhancing magic level, your caster level, and the level of the beastie you're fighting.

According to some of the other forums I read the status "bars" are not as useful as the elemental "bars". For example, barfira is good for lowering the damage from gobby bomb toss. I assume barwatera works similarly on crab AOE attack (forget what it's called).

[Brayden]

I've found barsleepra to be highly overrated in my use of it. Still, better slightly more resistance than none at all I suppose...

[PetriW]

Question is what your enhance is at, if you got crappy enhancing skill then bar spells will be equally crappy of course.
Barsleep seemed to help a lot more once I got my enhance skill up, most still fell asleep but only for a short while.