So I've been soloing for years now, and in all those years I've yet to see bar-status spells do ANYTHING WHATSOEVER.
The rumor is they reduce the time the status effect is on you, or at the very least increase magic evasion to the status so it's easier to get a partial resists to the status. Yet, again, I've seen nothing of the sort.
A few years ago I tested this with LS mates, we went to a status spammer NM (in this case Lumber Jill) and we tried testing the petrify status against Barpetrify. But no matter how many times we tested it (it was around 10 fights) I never got a different duration than people not using bar-petrify, nor did it affect the spell in any way.
(I just killed Jill a few times again, and it reminded me about it.)
By now you may be wondering "Why bring it up now?" and the reason is simple; if we had bugged GEOs for 3 years without even noticing then it wouldn't be surprising if Barspells had been bugged as well and the devs never even noticed. And considering the lack of information about the spells players could have simply assumed they were working as expected.
So my questions are:
- To the players reading this : Have you personally experienced Bar-status spells doing anything? And if they did in the past, have you noticed them doing anything recently?
- To the devs : Can we get an official explanation of how the spells actually work? And also, are they really working as intended?