Corpse dragging by faction - Velious Discussion

[Nedala]

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[maximum]

I can never remember a problem with corpse dragging using Rogue Hide+Sneak, in Kael or Skyshrine. I can't speak for any other classes, or Invisibility spell.

[Grozmok]

Straight from William Fisher, Velious game designer:

So, basically the person dragging the corpse would pick-up aggro if the corpse was KoS to the NPC in aggro range.

This would remain until the player zoned.

[Lazortag]

If you drag a KOS player's corpse past an NPC and the NPC aggroes you, then someone kills the NPC, do you lose faction?

[Fazlazen]

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

If you drag a KOS player's corpse past an NPC and the NPC aggroes you, then someone kills the NPC, do you lose faction?

if a npc aggros you and someone kills it without you doing anything, you take a faction hit, standard mechanic here, nothing different about corpse dragging.

As to the question about FD corpse dragging, it was widely used, monks became big draggers in velious + because of their ability to fd, drag corpses, move a bit, drag etc.

[Metallikus]

It is important to note that the corpse dragger becomes "scowling" rather than "threateningly" because one is instant agro and the other requires a 2nd server tick in agro range to be attacked.

[Xadion]

Draggin up to lord Yilly is a bad example....

All it takes is 1 non kos Mage to just CoTH everyone up there... a rouge would take forever. (edit: i see this was already pointed out lol)

And...not much sees invs in Skyshrine anywho- just gatta know how to get through the maze.

Was this from velious release patch note? /shurg

It really only bones the unlucky adventurer out wondering and gets killed in a bad spot- now you have to find a necro rather than "HEY random guy can u help me" any raid-like stuff that this was meant to slow down etc is nulled 90% of the time by haveing rouges,monks,necros,mages etc at hand.

[sabinrf24]

Pseudo-Velious note - Chardok post-revamp had the corpse drag faction mechanic in place, as well. I'll see if I can't dig up some references to exact implementation dates.

[Szeth]

Originally Posted by sabinrf24 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Pseudo-Velious note - Chardok post-revamp had the corpse drag faction mechanic in place, as well. I'll see if I can't dig up some references to exact implementation dates.

This is also 100% untrue. I am ally in chardok and dragged multiple corpses from betrayer camp up to zone in without aggro.(on eqmac)

[Dumesh Uhl'Belk]

Basically, while dragging you have the faction of the corpse you are dragging instead of your own (if it is worse). The part I don't remember was how long it lasted (duration, or until you zone). It definitely did not persist through zoning. As has been said before... you're just temporarily counted as having that faction... nothing about see invis, invis, is modified. I'm almost positive Feign death would clear the faction change until you dragged again. EQMac would be a great place to run a few tests if some TR people want to chime in.