Have you tried casting the spell itself a few times to see how it works? I don't recall it being all that great, certainly not enough to bypass a mordies for, but that was probably because the undead were saving or resisting.
And, yah, I know turning is level-based, but it seems to me that if you bypass save and MR, you retain the best features of both turning and spell casting, making it a cast-and-attackable version of turning.
Annatar, I guess I am not too familiar with the conventions here. Are you saying that once someone puts dibs on it, everyone else backs off? Wouldn't it be better to have several variations of the item, so that you can choose the most appropriate one? For instance, bypassing MR/Save might be necessary for ToB, but makes for some odd cheese in SoA, like controlling the lich in the Temple Ruins, and making him stand in the lava until he is near death...
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