I am usually to wordy, so I'll get to the point.
We were fighting through a mage tower and we got hit with a Prismatic Ray. We all got the indigo "insanity" ray (Dm realized later that this isn't really how it works, he should have rolled randomly on the chart for each PC, not once for all of us). So we are all under the effect of an insanity spell.
The insanity spell reads that the targets are under a CONSTANT confusion effect. Does this mean that there is no save other than the initial save to avoid the ray, and no duration? So we are all just confused forever or until some random NPC figures it out and helps us by one of the methods listed in the spell? Since the whole party is insane we effectively cannot help each other and are just stuck forever right? Does that seem a little OP? Am I missing something?
By the way heres what happened. After we were all confused, the spellcaster just sat back and watched us kill each other. Eventually I was able to cast dispel magic to help the party out (Which begs the question, will dispel magic remove the effect? The spell says only Greater restore, heal, limit wish or wish. Is removing a status CAUSED by a spell, a seprate category from removing the Spell itself? Even though the end result is the same?). But by that time all of my party was dead (one guy died just after I dispelled him). So I was alone. clear headed, and Greaterly Invisible. So being desperate and wanting to go out in a blaze of glory, I appeared in front of the guy and broke my staff over my knee!
Turns out Pathfinder staffs dont cause the devastation that I remember D&D staffs did when they broke (except the Staff of the Magi, an artifact). But my DM liked the idea so much that he allowed it any way. So I rolled my D%, and wound up on a different plane instead of dead, and the bad guy, his whole tower and most of the town was completely obliterated. Awesomeness.
Of course I lived, which i didn't expect, so now I have a few people who arent to happy with me. Should be interesting.
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If you read confusion you will see that you in effect have a 25% chance of acting normally.
So heal or limited wish might have been cast, but dispell does nothing.
Well I'm not A big fan of rescanning things as a DM, if I was informed that I had made a mistake with a spell to the point of shattering a party I would have. No one likes do die by mistake.
Also your party should have had resources like heal available to it before being exposed to that level of spell.
yes it was during an "act normally" turn that I cast dispel magic on myself.
Should I assume that it was a prismatic spray instead of ray? That makes a big difference. Also, because of the mistake your DM made that you already mentioned this obviously had a much bigger effect than is intended in the spell. I also don't see you mention the saving throw anywhere in your post (will negates). And while I'm at it I'll just go ahead and chastise your DM for using a spell he thought could instantly kill (petrify) the party or send them to another plane of existence.
All that being said; no I don't believe the insanity effect is broken. You just have to use it correctly.