Shattered Kingdoms

No, Inzy, but close. It's Faerie Fire that does those things. Faerie Fog just reveals hidden folks.

And is completely useless during combat.

Like Nath in PK

P.S
dont get mad nath... I suck too

To my understanding in spell casting NPCs, you don't choose their spell list.
You chose a deity they belong to, and they case a collection assigned to that deity. More like a template.

Of course this is an unofficial something I came to believe, and could be entirely wrong.

Regardless of what they train, there are no NPCs in the game that cast spells as a warlock or shaman, and there never have been. All of those NPCs were set as priests of nature or the elements. Recently there was some reworking of the NPC priest templates, so all priests have access to a more unified list of spells than previously. Hence the difference that you noticed.

I figure this is a good a place as any to say this - but these changes to NPCs and their spells aren't healthy. I've heard at least a dozen or more people (veterans and newer players alike), both on the forums and elsewhere, voice serious complaints about the way leveling goes these days. If you're working towards a better spell template (maybe one that doesn't involve spells like hold person, confusion, paralyze, chaos, blindness, deafness on so many NPCs), then full speed ahead. Otherwise I think there needs to be a serious rethinking about the direction leveling is and has been headed.

I just don't see a reason to make leveling up to mentor any harder or more annoying than it already is.

I disagree, leveling is leveling, it is supposed to be tough, besides what should they do?(the NPCs) Stand like a bag of meat for you to grind through? They have assets and they use them to defend themselves. I do not so much mind the change as long as some bugs that pop out are isolated and eliminated (see hold person/concentration bug)

I vote yes on the "have NPCs stand there like a bag of meat" idea.

Oops. My newb mistake, hahahaha!

Faerie fog should be fixed now.