Velious Traps -- questions
 

Quote:

Sense and Disarm Traps In addition to rogues, bards, who always had the ability to disarm traps, have gained the ability to sense them as well. Since we are aware that some may have not bothered training sense or disarm traps due to them formerly being unimplemented, bards and rogues will have the ability to gain skill without training once they have reached the appropriate level and have crossed a zone boundary. These skills now have use within Velious. There are traps, and they range from annoying to deadly throughout Velious. They are invisible and can only be detected and disarmed by rogues and bard. Use “Sense Traps” to see if there are any traps in the vicinity. If so, you can then use “Disarm traps” to try and disarm the trap. Once disarmed, the trap will remain inactive for a short period of time (about a minute) while your group passes through the area. If there are multiple traps within range, your attempt to disarm will be directed towards the closest one.

We need all the specifics on how these should work.

-Are there any traps which can't be disarmed? I recall hearing something about Sleeper's.
-Success/failure rates? Messages?
-All untrackable/invisible ?
-Any traps which after disarmed take longer than 60 seconds to reappear?
etc.

Nilbog, it looks like you already posted this?
http://www.project1999.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=73241

Edit: see my last reply before the thread closed.

He's overworked and underpaid :)

http://thedruidsgrove.org/archive/eq/t-3881.html
Dragon Necropolis guide on the Druid's Grove
http://www.angelfire.com/freak/eqjon...necropolis.htm

Plenty of trap threads if you're willing look...

Sorry I couldn't resist :p

http://www.myfacewhen.net/uploads/11...-trap-card.jpg

It's a quick quote, not a term paper, so reading it verbatim isn't the way to go. It doesn't necessarily imply that one targetable AoE mezz would take care of all the mobs.

FYI, the rule of thumb with AoEs is generally, targetable AoEs hit up to 4 mobs. Point blank AoEs hit unlimited. (There a few exceptions like the Al'Kabors line but that is just a mess). That's why quad kitting is a thing, 4 mobs are kitted because that is the max number of mobs you can hit with a casted AoE from a significant range (targeted). AoE groups use point blank AoEs (PBAoEs) to hit as many mobs as they can lockdown with AoE stuns. Theoretically that number is unlimited but of course you have to account for things like damage taken to casters if too many mobs resist, or a case where there are too many mobs for environmental specifications.

Knowing this you can pretty easily figure out the intent without asking the old devs: Give casters the ability to benefit up to a point from AoE abilities. Give bigger benefits to groups. If targeted AoEs were unlimited you could have one person AoE a whole zone with near no chance of death because they could do all the damage from a distance.

I thought ench had their ae mez max target up'd in velious to 8 targets.
And traps in Necro were so easy to to bypass, as all you had to do was levi a bit above them. I do remember there was one static trap at the entrance to tunnels leading down to zland

This is the FATAL FLAW of rational thinking that all targeted AEs were limited to 4 targets. Simply not true on live in classic/kunark. The only ones limited to 4 targets were the wizard damage line of targeted AEs (pillars, columns, al'kabor). AE tash, mez, snare might of been limited at some point in later expansions, but they definitely hit everything in range in classic kunark.

Bump.