Game Mechanics: Charm issue lately.

[Glitch]

I went back a few pages to see if there was a thread of this. Maybe I missed it, idk, but charm is right fucked up right now. ehe.

Aside from breaks being extremely common now (even on tashed and malo'd mobs), there's a much more annyoying issue. For some reason, charmed mobs seem to try to attack player characters that are near the mob you sent your pet to attack. Basically, you'll send a pet onto a mob, and the pet will face the tank and then run over to some casters or healers, but it wont attack the mob with any consistency. It'll just face the wrong way, run around and spam "That is not a legal target, master".

I'm going to assume it has something to do with faction war fixes. I'll keep experimenting with it, but take a look at it, because the entire line is really useless (outside of soloing) right now!

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[Haynar]

Most of the faction war fixes, entirely prevent attacking. They do not redirect attacking.

I would imagine it is to do with hate, and how it will redistribute it on charm breaks.

I do not have access to that branch of the code, so I am not sure of the cause.

Haynar

[guineapig]

Hmm, i never thought of the possibility that the charmed pet was scrolling through targets on its own but I guess that's possible.

What I can add to this is that, although I was indeed in a group with other people, I did not notice the mob looking at other targets, much less running to them. It seemed to stay facing its target but just not swing 75% of the time. I could have simply missed it though.

Posting my notes from the bug report I posted (sorry if this is the same issue which it now seems to be).

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I first notice this in SolB the other night. I had a Beetle charmed and whenever I sent it to attack a mob it would say:

"that is not a legal target master" (paraphrased)
but proceed to attack it.

That I've seen before but it seems far worse now. (I want to say that it didn't start happening immediately, maybe after a few kills, but I might have just not noticed it right away.)

I will see one hit for x-dmaage followed by 3-4 of these illegal target messages, then another hit or 2, then 3 or 4 more illegal target messages.

Later on that night I had a spider charmed near fire giants and had the same thing happen during every fight.

I have screenshots but I can't post them till I get home.
Anyone else have this issue lately?

(On a side note it seems like most of those messages should actually be hits. When this was happening the DPS from my charmed pet was super crappy because, if I'm right, roughly 3/4ths of the time the charmed pet will simply refuse to hit the target then all of a sudden decide to hit it, then refuse again).

[Gorgetrapper]

I noticed this a while ago, extremely annoying and definitely makes your pet lose out on a crapload of DPS because of it.

[Jete]

http://www.project1999.org/forums/showthread.php?t=6009