Originally Posted by
Kageshinhiryu
Having played WHM since 2004, I had read, heard, and seen Bar-spells to act in the following ways:
Bar-element: reduces damage, increases magic evasion to resist an element
Bar-status: reduces the length of a status ailment, depending on the situation, and increases magic evasion to resist the ailment
In any content, I notice that when I buff the party with Barblizzard+Barparalyze, instead of 1 minute paralyze, they tend to be 15-30 seconds. I've had complete resists from it before as well.
Same goes for Baraera-Barsilence, and Barearth-Barpetra.
There is no mystery to barspells. Magic evasion is tied to bar-spells.
Have you researced the easily accessible information located at BG-wiki?