Most buffs don't trigger assist aggro?
 

A lowbie warrior was killing a few orcs in EC just now on green, and I hit him with talisman, guardian, strength, chloro, and alacrity while he was fighting. None of the orcs he killed ended up giving me a faction hit, despite my buffs landing on him while he was standing there slicing them up.

As a test, I fired off a minor heal as the last orc was fleeing, and that did trigger the faction hits for me.

Did those buffs not put me on the aggro list for those orcs AT ALL? As in, if they had killed this guy, they would have just walked away without coming after me? Even though I buffed the shit out of him (tali especially surprised me since it basically is a 200-point heal in addition to just the 200-point max hp buff) while he was IN combat?

Is this intended?

Yeah, I would have expected to be OTL at that point too.

I know on blue you used to get aggro from as little as clicking a bracer of the hidden on someone else. I don't know if this change was intentional or if it was incidental to some other change but unintended or what.


Apparently intended? https://www.project1999.com/forums/s...48&postcount=2

The thread by torven is awesome btw: http://www.eqemulator.org/forums/showthread.php?t=39819

I wonder how many of those mechanics are classic though, and how many of them are implemented now on p99.

Yeah that's why I have a love/hate relationship with awesome detailed info like that. It's great but how much of that applies to this specific instance? All of it, none of it, who can tell?

Torven actually does mention 2001 patch notes that refer to the phenomenon I experienced today. So maybe NPCs not noticing you buffing/healing sometimes (it sounds like 50/50ish chance) really is classic. Crazy.

+100 points for the Dolalin post starting with this: :p
Nice discovery and investigation Tecmos :) That really does seem kinda intuitively odd that buffs would get 0 attention from mobs...

its a witness check