[.86][Issue] Fearful Fear is Fearful

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Some creatures can cast fear. The user has no way of knowing what this spell does because the fear tooltip says it allows the monster to cast fear. Please explain what fear is in the tooltip. There are a few traits that have this problem. 

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

I'm going to hide under the bed.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

You have nothing to fear but the tool tip itself

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

The file corespells.xml indicates that it stuns all enemies for 3 turns unless they resist. "Stun" being defined as "losing your next x number of turns" 

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Yazari, reply 3
The file corespells.xml indicates that it stuns all enemies for 3 turns unless they resist. "Stun" being defined as "losing your next x number of turns" 
End of Yazari's quote

Yes that's all fine and dandy but the point the OP is trying to make is that you don't know that in-game, in real time, as it's happening.  Do you really want to have to alt-tab out of the game and open an XML file to figure out what an effect does?

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting mqpiffle, reply 4
Yes that's all fine and dandy but the point the OP is trying to make is that you don't know that in-game, in real time, as it's happening.  Do you really want to have to alt-tab out of the game and open an XML file to figure out what an effect does?
End of mqpiffle's quote

oh - I agree 100% with the OP and was not trying to suggest anyone review that file by hand... I just figured someone may read this thread and want to know what the spell did and wanted to offer insight into that - sorry I did not make my intentions clear. I offered the file as a way to validate my statement and express where I found the info - not as a suggested alternative to tooltips ;)

I do think if the description in the file will be what is going to appear in the tooltip, It should be changed to clearly state that the player may lose a turn (as I am not sure everyone will intuitively grasp that stun = lose x turns).