Game Mechanics: NPC's continuing to attack after successful FD

[talian21]

Hi, I searched the forums and found nothing quite like this, so I thought I'd post it:

I was running thru FV on my monk, hunting a quest mob when I was jumped by a drolvarg, and a froglok shaman. I dutifully waited for the shaman nuke to land, and FD'd. I received no FD fail message, and they just stood there, as expected. I reached over, took a drag of my cigarette, put it back in the ashtray, and started waiting for them to walk away. Except that they didn't walk away; after all that time, the shaman began casting again, broke FD, and to keep this story short they killed me.

1.) I checked my /log. There was no "fallen to the ground" message.

2.) I was running around looking for something, so my attack key was never on, much less forgotten to have been turned off.

What happened here? It seems to me that this is a bug, either straight up, or something funny that happens with lag, I don't know. But something was definitely definitely wrong. Any idea? And a GM rez wouldn't hurt either. Thank you.

[Tecmos Deception]

I think it was pretty widely accepted during classic that FD would sometimes fail without the fallen to the ground message... perhaps because an attack was landing at precisely the wrong time so that the feign didn't fool the mobs. Post the log.

Originally Posted by talian21 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

And a GM rez wouldn't hurt either.

I'm sure they'll be jumping right on that.

[evilkorn]

I'm sure a poorly timed riposte would cause it to fail just like auto attack being on.

[talian21]

Didn't think of that one, Evilkorn. Good eye.

However, it still doesn't explain why they'd sit there for a tick or two doing nothing, then attack....