FD used to work like this in classic classic:
falls to the ground = fail.
feign death whilst auto attacking = fail (but no fall to ground message shown)
feign death with auto attack off = success (if no fall to ground message)
I believe part way into kunark this was confirmed as a bug and changed so that feign death only ever failed if "fall to ground" was shown.
Spell hits after you feign are slightly different - the feign still works, but if any spell affects you whilst you're successfully feigned, it'll effectively stand up back up again (but you have to stand up manually). If you resist, the feign succeeds.
The only difference i've noticed on p1999 between live and after the "bug fix" is that as soon as you feign your aggro list is entirely and instantly wiped, you can stand up immediately (as long as you're not in aggro range/LOS) and you will not get any aggro again. In fact, you may remember that when "fading memories" bard skill came in, bards became popular pullers in certain circumstances because, unlike monks, they could wipe their aggro list once every... 72 mins? Whatever it was. Basically monks have a 6 second cooldown fading memories atm on p1999.
That's not exactly how it was in live. In live, feign had a chance of wiping your aggro but also a chance of keeping you on their aggro list. This could be used as a tool, it could also be annoying as sometimes you'd have to feign and /q and log back in so that you'd be wiped off the aggro list for definite. This is why sometimes bards were used. Very very very fast, instant aggro wipe, you didn't have to wait for FD and /q.
Probably been said before, but if not, there it is!
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