I haven't been playing D2 yet, but with AI 2.0 I decided to try out the arena, just to see it in action.

I've only played twice, so this may just be something obvious I'm missing, but it seems like almost every spell or effect I try on the AI enemies is blocked by "magic armor", even when I don't see a magic armor effect on them.

I can knock them down, but forget curse, or freeze, or whatever else my ranger throws at them.

What's up?

Also, I did kill their mage once, and then tried to use the vampiric ability to get a whatchyamacallit point from his corpse so I could cast bigger spells. It looked like it worked, but I got no points from it. Is there a failure chance of that one, or am I missing something else about it?

Thanks for any thoughts.