Corpse dragging by faction - Velious Discussion

[Xadion]

It was pretty much all of velious- but as stated, skyshrine, PoG, Kael, ToV, Thurg AB etc

Also do note, as stated in a feq quotes- it did not trigger you instantly to KoS- as you could invs drag just as you could all the time- it did not magically make the mobs see past your invs- also it had some sort of timer, as if you- lets say are non kos to giants, and drag a kos-corpse invs to zone, un-invs then wonder over to the other side of the zone- the giants wont kill you- I took that as "they didnt see you dragging the corpse" but I as a SK with a prenerf CoS was always invs- this may not be the case and others may be able to comment more on the long lasting effects of dragging a kos corpse.

and yes, yay velious

also i dont think the corpse thing was "classic velious" but put in a little later

[Artah]

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

I can't imagine any corpse dragging would cause instant KOS status, but that instead the dragger takes on the faction status of the dragee.

I'm not sure what kind of cross-check would be involved or if a corpse can retain a faction status.

I remember that the KOS status was temporary and only lasted until the player zones out then they are back to their original faction when they zoned back in. They become kos again if they start dragging again (had too much fun with this). I am not sure if it's an entire zone temporary faction change or just the aggroed NPC and anything that was aggroed by association.

[Arteker]

was one of the main reasons robes for necros have summon corpse in it as cliky .

Rogues find hard to drag corpses in such zones for that reason (most times was monk work). it changed when they added the AA for hide

[Ele]

Anyone have input for how the faction sharing worked while FD on a monk/sk/nec?

[happyhappy]

Flip flop was essentially like invis, no agro trigger if you /corpsed while fd.

[Spitty]

Corpse aggro was definitely classic - right from the get-go. It may not have been been around in early stages of testing, but it quickly became obvious how easily exploitable the raid zones in Velious were.

All you needed was a single epic cleric in your guild on +CoV and you could bring a whole raid right into Yelinak's lair, for example.

[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.