ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

I think it's a bug.

I have level 3 vimsense (effective 4.2). It says it lasts for 7 rounds. And it does.

But any time it is used, if I check enemies, it shows them having "Vimsense(3)". Even though it will last longer, it seems to report it wrong.

Dracos wrote:I think it's a bug.

I have level 3 vimsense (effective 4.2). It says it lasts for 7 rounds. And it does.

But any time it is used, if I check enemies, it shows them having "Vimsense(3)". Even though it will last longer, it seems to report it wrong.

I think it gets reapplied, but only lasts on enemies for 3 turns. If they leave the range it'll wear off as advertised.
So you keep sensing them for 7 turns but they are sensed only for 3.

That makes sense, but the ability text doesn't say anything like that. And given its huge area (most of the screen) and monsters tendency to rush toward players, it seems an odd special case to bother with. I guess it would help fleeing archers, but both archers and mages have a range of 10 generally, so they're usually wanting to stay in the AoE, even if retreating.

Maybe their saves reduce it by x amount of turns?

Certain that isn't the case. I think it is how 0player described, it's just that's a pretty strange special case effect.