Game Mechanics: Necro charm and Feign death

[ammut]

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

negative played a necro in 99

i could charm frenzy fd and clear room repeat this was live

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NECRO, By Richaard (1/28/2001)

There are a couple of things you can do to break charm. Cast Feign Death, Gather Shadows, or Hide. Any 3 of those should break charm. There should be a way to cancel out charm as normal. I personally dont understand why Verant forces you to wait untill spell runs it's course when you should be in control of the mob.



Edit : When they are at it... Devs should fix the trick that allow you to click the 'go away button' to break charm just before you finish casting your charm spell.

[guineapig]

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

http://web.archive.org/web/200112230...ell.asp?Id=497


NECRO, By Richaard (1/28/2001)

There are a couple of things you can do to break charm. Cast Feign Death, Gather Shadows, or Hide. Any 3 of those should break charm. There should be a way to cancel out charm as normal. I personally dont understand why Verant forces you to wait untill spell runs it's course when you should be in control of the mob.

What about "pet go away"? That's how chanters do it, you just click the button.

[ammut]

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

What about "pet go away"? That's how chanters do it, you just click the button.

another bug [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[guineapig]

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

Edit : When they are at it... Devs should fix the trick that allow you to click the 'go away button' to break charm just before you finish casting your charm spell.

Is that really a bug though? I mean you can do that with any spell. You can cast levitate and click off your old levitate right before it lands, same goes for enduring breath, etc...


Is the pet go away button not supposed to be there? (I honestly can't remember and wasn't playing in 1999). But as I understand it the button is just a hotkey for the /pet get lost command which anyone could make anyway.

[ammut]

As a necro i remember having to feign death or use my circlet to break charm. It is way to easy to cast charm and use get lost just before the spell lands.

[guineapig]

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

As a necro i remember having to feign death or use my circlet to break charm. It is way to easy to cast charm and use get lost just before the spell lands.

I understand how easy it is, but I'm just wondering if the text based command worked back then or not. Because if it worked then this is not a bug.

[Dabamf]

It didn't work. Enc had to dispel, necro had to FD

[Yoite]

you're not supposed to be able to do /pet get lost to un-charm a charmed pet. only invis or death (FD) or it breaking by itself.

[Haynar]

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

What about "pet go away"? That's how chanters do it, you just click the button.

Not for long.

Haynar

[Haynar]

If I recall, FD would break a charm, if you were FD for like 2 minutes. I cannot remember exactly at what point in the timeline it worked like this. For that matter, you lost all pets if you were FD for too long. I will research it more and see what I can put together.

Haynar