Game Mechanics: Trakanon aggro radius

[Sundawg]

Increased agro radius of Trakanon.

Trakanon will now flee at low health.

Lord Nagafen will now flee at low health.

Fixed, pending update.

[Nirgon]

Nice, do you have Trakanon casting necro spells when no one is in his melee range?

I don't recall that nor do I see anyone talking about pulling him otherwise. Never pulled him myself.

He is labeled as a necro though I believe and this behavior would be consistent with him.

I don't think an NPC being flagged as a certain class immediately gives them a set of spells or even specific spells according to their level.

I also never recall seeing a Trakanon skele pet which would debunk, at least for me, any notion he should cast necro spells -- take CT for example though having pets...

And on that CT note, I recall him having like 2 or 3 pets on live lol, dafuq.

[Sundawg]

He is a necro and he does cast some necromancer spells.

I know he should be casting a wider variety of necro spells then he currently is set for. As far as him summoning a pet, that I am not sure about. Not altering his spell set just yet.

Him enraging or not is something else that needs to be researched. Yes he should flee, but that should not automatically disqualify him from being a mob that can also enrage. There are mobs in EQ that can both enrage and flee.

[Nirgon]

Yeah I never saw a Trakanon pet in all my days, CT absolutely.. but he's an SK not a necro

Intredasting

Trakanon firing up a long necro dot would completely make the encounter WAY easier.. so I think he only casts when something isn't inside his melee range?

Could be used to trick him into casting then rush him.. I don't recall him casting necro spells on live, but again, I was just dumping lures into him

[Nizzarr]

EQmac trakanon doesnt enrage.

Can the EQmac people check if VP dragons enrage too? I believe only warrior NPC can enrage and its too broadly used right now on this project.

[Nirgon]

All the tahm?

[Nirgon]

OK well emperor chottal casts a spectre pet, I never ever saw Trak (so he is likely not a necro?) with one of those.

Breath should be much harder to resist here aka you get banged with it for sure under 200 as a level 60. None of this chance to resist with 150 bull shit and certainly people should be getting murdered by it 55 and lower. I don't see any cure fest fights in the recordings here. It just doesn't seem to land very much which is disappointing.

I actually don't think he'd cast any spells.

Rampage and flurry came in Velious so that's a no go.

I don't remember him fleeing or even enraging. If he has another mob assisting him, he definitely won't flee like other mobs.

[Reiker000]

I definitely remember Trakanon casting necro spells, and you can find evidence of that from a simple Google. Most of them are a little ambiguous like "Trakanon casts a lot of poison spells," but here's one from eqclerics posted on June 2002:

Trakanon casts Funeral Pyre now =\

This was in response to a recent patch that changed caster AI. After Kunark, mobs' melee attacks started to become a lot more powerful than spells. Right now, you tend to burn casters down faster as they can really fuck you up quickly, but mob melee damage scaled a lot faster than available spells (as did player resistances), making caster mobs a joke. This only affected mobs that were previously casters, such as Trakanon.

I'm pretty confident that he never cast a pet, though.

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

I thought Arzak just did faction work, now he's making changes to the very mob he raids daily?

/facepalm

None of the changes Sundawg listed make the fight any easier, so what the fuck is your point besides being a stupid cunt?