Spells: AoE spells will not kill mobs.

[Gorgetrapper]

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

According to this thread from December 2002, rains ceased to get killing blows around 2000 (AKA Velious). Why they'd be doing this in P99 at this point makes no sense.

You realize velious was released in december of 2000 (aka almost 2001), so saying it was velious is pretty naive.

Kunark however was released early 2000 (march 2000), so where is the evidence that this was changed durning velious release?

[SUSUGAM]

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

You realize velious was released in december of 2000 (aka almost 2001), so saying it was velious is pretty naive.

Kunark however was released early 2000 (march 2000), so where is the evidence that this was changed durning velious release?

That said, the thread he found still goes against how things are working on P99 right now. Whether it was during kunark or velious doesn't really matter, as we're still pre-kunark. I can't find any info about when they changed it in that thread. But I can see that in January of 2003, it was getting kill shots on mobs with >10% hp left.


Edit: Ahh I see "This isn't a bug. They introduced that code into the game about 2 years ago. Wizards don't like the code, but I remember when it was put in." This would still place the change around 2001 at best. Not early 2000, and Velious was released December 5, 2000. And like I said, even after the change, it didn't take out kill shots altogether, it took out kill shots on mobs with <10% current hp.

[SUSUGAM]

Any word on the status of this bug? I know that not very many seem to care because not many seem to use rain spells, but it has left me crippled personally. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] I don't mind the 10% thing, if that's classic, so be it. (I don't think it is) But if it is, I'd really like it to work as intended, and not have backwards coding. I posted a pretty strong hypothesis on how this is currently coded a couple posts back, just wondering if it has been taken into consideration or if this is decidedly settled and I should give up on the rain spell fight. I will miss you, Rain of Swords. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[SwordNboard]

Targeted AOE's can now kill mobs. Rain AOE's never could finish a mob (even in classic).