What mob can be silenced?

[quickben]

For beastmen, some are easy to know by their job (blm, whm, rdm, etc). But can brd or smn beastman be silenced?

Anyone know which non-beastmen mobs that can be silenced?
The only one I know is worm family. What abt elementals?

I have seen players trying to silence sheeps, mandraga, bats, but not sure if it works.

Can't find any information on this.

Appreciate if you can post what you know from experience or links to the information.

Don't want to look silly casting silence when it has no effect. :p

[Issaac]

All mobs that cast spells. Most of the mobs readies and execute spezial attacks. These spezial attacks are not spells and so, they are not silentable. Im quit sure i could use a benediction even when silented, because its not a spell. But i admit i never tried it. So when you see "xyz...casts..." use silent. If not, its a spezial attack and its not silentable.

[efDisk]

I don't think you can use Benediction when silenced. I remember last week I was hunting keys in Ordelles, and a Malboro thingie (Sapora or something?) did some sort of nasty AOE thing. Gave me bind, paralyze, silence, poison, and I think slow. When the tank got low on hps I said to myself no problem, I'll use benediction. I kept hitting the job ability, and it kept not working. As soon as silence wore off, benediction went off. (And the malboro thing had been dead for some time)

[Issaac]

Sure you warent sleeped or stunned?

But can be, like i said i never tested it. Ill try to test and come back then.

[Icemage]

Benediction is not a spell, and can be activated when Silenced (I've done it before).

Any enemy can be Silenced, but it only has an effect on enemies that display an "Enemy casts <whatever>" message. This works against Spells, Songs, Summons and Ninjitsu.

Casting it on enemies that have no spells will work, but its a waste of MP since they will never try to cast/sing/ninjitsu.


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[efDisk]

You know what? I bet I was stunned. Ignore my previous statement. (Bind and Stun have the same icon, I totally forgot.)

[Gryff]

there are some that are nearly impossible to silence magic pots, some higher level ghosts and bard types also.

[Yuanlung]

there are some that are nearly impossible to silence magic pots, some higher level ghosts and bard types also.

Does elemental seal + silence work in these cases?

[Icemage]

Elemental Seal + Silence helps sometimes, but it will not always guarantee that your Silence will take effect.

Monsters that are particularly resistant to Silence:

Air Elementals (Silence is a Wind effect)
Magic Pots (very high magic resistance)
Bard enemies (Yagudo bards, almost all Sahagin)
Ahriman/Bat Eye (obscene magic resistance)


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[Miriamel]

Magic Pots even resist Holy.. they're evil I swear.

Everything else I wanted to say has already been covered. Hence.. *shuts up*

[Gryff]

elemental seal and silence from rdm lasts like 10 seconds on the mobs i mentioned.

[quickben]

Thanks for clearing up my questions.

The problem with watching out for msg "Mob casts..." is that I have turned a lot of filters on to cut down on battle spam.

Which filter do I have to turn off in order to get that msg?
"Special action initiated by others"? Does that increase the spam by a lot?

For those magic-resistant mobs, I get that I shouldn't waste mp trying to silence them?

On a related note, if your spells (e.g. slow, paralyze) gets resisted, how many times will you keep on trying?

I tend to give up trying after 2 tries, and concentrate on regen & cure II.