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Originally Posted by Splorf22
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Did you read my quote from the guide? The author doesn't even do FD splits any more because all he/she (damn manginas!) has to do is walk up to a mob, hit sneak, watch their social/threat radius shrink, and use a ranged weapon on one of them.
That sounds a lot easier than what goes on now. Splitting melee is easy, yes, but casters can still cause problems. And it should be even harder if resisted spells broke FD which I understand they should.
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I don't think this is as easy as you think it is. In order to get a single pull aggro range is only partly reduced on mobs facing you doing this type of "Sneak pull". You cannot just walk up to a mob if you are not in another mob's rear arc. You will get aggro on the mob that is facing you if you get too close.
You will only get the reduced aggro assist radius from Sneak on the targeted mob your are trying to pull if his back is turned. If another mob is facing you the aggro range is only partly reduced on that mob.
The reason why this works is because you are out of aggro range of the mob that IS facing you but behind the mob you want to pull. When you pull the mob that has his back turned, his assist range is reduced and the other will not aggro as long as you are still outside of the aggro range.
Anyway, this is why it should be very difficult to perform here.
You had to be extremely good to pull this off because as soon as you fired a projectile your Sneak was off and normal assist/aggro radius applied.
Sneak disengaged before this patch when you were hit or hit by something(Referencing my previous post about the projectile system):
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Sneak only breaks when a character is hit, not when he hits someone.
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http://www.tski.co.jp/baldio/patch/20020508.html
One other note on this:
I am unsure how it worked before this patch when you would Sneak while using a projectile.
Player Sneaks
Player shoots projectile -- Sneak disengages as soon as its thrown
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Player Sneaks
Player shoots projectile -- Sneak disengages only if target is actually hit