ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

Command Hounds: Blink doesn't increase resists/def past level 1, as being observed on my adventurer. I have 100+ magic if that has any impact on this. On any level it's 15/17% allres on hounds.
Playing Macos Steam version of the game.

Did you have Paradox pool? If you don't have any talents that use Paradox, you might not have the Paradox resource in which case any talent which relies on your paradox modifier might not work as expected or be locked at low values