Talk:Power Word, Blind/@comment-2.10.128.52-20181017130821/@comment-104.36.133.115-20190411054805

-4 penalty to Thaco, AC and Saves when Blind, just like Slow. Enemies *may* also take extra melee damage, it seems to behave a lot like using a ranged weapon in melee (-4 penalty to your thaco, +4 to melee attacker's hit and damage). I never confirmed that part though. The big part is the enemy will lose sight of you if outside of melee (1H weapon) range and never react to being hit, even if with a 2H weapon from just out of sight >_>

This spell is mostly useful for using on Mages along with Power Word: Stun -- if they are not already protected with a spell protection like Spell Trap, they are out of the fight long enough to be chunked, generally.

For just the general blinding of this or that enemy, or to be funny against bosses (warning: Dragons can cast Heal :p) spamming lvl1 spell Blindness tends to be better though. It has a save (but no bonus for the enemy like many weak spells) and lasts for a whopping 100 rounds.