Rogue hiding in combat gives evade message

[phobus]

The rogue evade mechanic is not in-game until Feb 2000, but hiding during combat currently gives the "Your attempts at ducking clear of combat fail" message one would see when trying to evade.

Expected result would be the usual "You begin to hide..." message that non-rogues see, and rogues see when not in combat.

[phobus]

I realized that maybe it's not just the message being displayed, but maybe the mechanic is in place too, so evidence that evade should not be in the game yet is here: http://everquest.allakhazam.com/history/patches-2000-1.html


- A new rogue-specific ability has been added to the "Hide" skill. It
is called "Evade". This skill has the effect of lowering the amount
that the targeted NPC hates the rogue, and has the potential of making
the engaged NPC switch to another target (preferably a tank) within the
rogue's group. It is essentially a "reverse taunt". This ability helps
mitigate the negative effects of the rogue's exceedingly high damage-
output potential. It also will in-turn help the rogue do even more
damage as the NPC is much more likely to expose its back. It is engaged
by targeting the NPC you wish to "Evade" and pressing the "Hide"
button. As a note, you must not be in combat mode in order to use this
ability.

[phobus]

Okay, evade definitely seems to be working, bring out the nerf bat!

[Verityn]

Were you able to get it to work? I played to level 13 and kept trying it several times and it always failed. Maybe that's normal for that skill level I don't know.

[phobus]

Yep, I had the success message a couple times and the mob immediately switched targets.

It does fail impressively often with low skill.

[Verityn]

Yep, I had the success message a couple times and the mob immediately switched targets.

It does fail impressively often with low skill.

Oh I hope that stays in. I think it's pretty important to the class especially in classic to balance out with casters who have to be a lot more mindful of aggro.

[Rogean]

Gated to Feb2000

[KorafRN]

Any chance this was implemented on blue with the recent patch? Noticing some really weird aggro shortly after a successful evade message. Will try to post logs.