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01-01-2020 03:12 PM |
/pet guard here & /pet guard me: different behaviour in early game
In early EQ, /pet guard me and /pet guard here put the pet into an aggressive mode where it would attack any NPC that wandered into its aggro radius:
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6 . "pets guarding"
Posted by Drakun on Jul-20-99 at 11:05 AM (EST)
They changed this A LONG time ago so that telling a pet to guard somewhere is just like the as you were command except they will return to that spot after killing whatever YOU command them to kill. And the guard me command is exactly like the follow me command. Because yes before it was a sure way to get yourself killed while walking through an area with your pet on guard and it picks a fight with everything around it. But that is not the reason they changed it, they changed it because people would sit their pet on a spawn sight with a 2H sword and go off somewhere and have their pet kill everything that spawned their getting exp or whatever. Example would be outside of BB in Qeynos Hills. In the early days I've seen a skeleton sitting there with a 2H sword killig the Gnoll over and over again but there was no Necro with him so the master was elsewhere collecting the faction and or exp.
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7 . "That was fun, yeah!"
Posted by Malbusia on Jul-21-99 at 06:43 PM (EST)
> Example would be outside of BB in Qeynos Hills. In the early days I've seen a skeleton sitting there with a 2H sword killig the Gnoll over and over again but there was no Necro with him so the master was elsewhere collecting the faction and or exp.
...probably down the street at Starbucks.
I would love to have that as an option, again. One time early on, just after getting my level 4 pet, I was in "the bowl" of Steamfont, and I fell asleep (wee hours, don't you know.) I woke up a some minutes later, and my pet had daisy-chained well over half the bowl. At level four, a top pet can kill anything in there, and is safe unless they run into a group of several spiders and attack one.
Let's face it, the real reason was to stop someone from camping their pet, not because pets attacked when going through a dangerous area. That is easily fixable.
It's too bad, too. I greatly enjoyed it, role-playing, to have my pet keep a death-zone of greenies around me when camping higher-level MOBs in a zone (not that I camp or anything.) Now those smarmy rats just waltz on by me, not a care in the world. When not meditating, I frequently have fun while sitting using F9 and targetting the greenies the hard way. This is a riot up on the Orc Trainer's hill, where nothing this side of the trainer himself can beat my pet in a one-on-one. I don't do it with lower-level parties around, though, since they like to fuss with the fleabags. Me, they're filthy creatures, those Orcs. Get thee away from me. Jebartik, kill.
Fortunately, the kobold runts and other scowling greens still attack while you're sitting. Pet psychically senses it's attacking me, and it's insta-dead before it can knock me out of my meditative slumber. Well, Ok, a Legionairre can sometimes make it far enough to konk me on the back of the head, but at that point it's best that I get up, anyway, since I don't want to be near the fleacloud kicked up as his dying body hits the ground.
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It seems it was changed June-ish 1999?:
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7/1/99
My elementals, using Guard Here have stopped
attacking everything unless I tell it to or until
something attacks me first. I think Verant has
changed this. My invis air elemental was set to
"guard here" when I went out looking for giant
skeletons. When I got back a Cyclops was standing
on my invis pet. Eventually it wandered off with
my pet sitting the contentedly until the skeleton
got in range (he had hit me earlier) and then
went beserk on the thing. I'd be dead if the
elemental attacked the cyclops. I've used guard
here in Nejana and Guk. Similar response. He
doesn't twitch, even when something spawns right
next to him. Even non-invis elementals do this.
I'd suggest trying pet guard here again. Verant
has changed it. I'm very happy now...
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