Game Mechanics: Cordelia Minster (North Karana)

Phallax · #1 05-04-2010, 07:06 PM

On live I use to grind Cordelia Minster in NK and Vhalen Nostrolo in SK for exp. Was a good single mob to grind some EXP from at your own pace. Neither one of these bards on live ever casted(cant say if Vhalen is havnt started grinding him yet) and Cordelia currently is. Its not a huge problem but its also not accurate

Phallax · #2 05-06-2010, 09:50 PM

Vhalen is also casting. Couldnt check the charm hes using but he is casting Fufil's Curtailing Chant. Which is not listed in Lucy NPC spell usage. Also if you read through the Vhalen Nostrolo link on Allakhazam youll see people talking about hes an easy camp because he doesnt cast.

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Bards are good to kill for only 1 purpose unless you are an evil race (kill all u want) when leveled and need exp to keep the level. they are the EASIEST mob for its level as they use meele and none of the songs,believe me if they used the songs they wouldnt be camped half as often.

from his Beastiary link

http://eqbeastiary.allakhazam.com/search.shtml?id=3323

Garik · #3 05-07-2010, 11:16 PM

Yeah. I used to camp vhalen like it was my job back in the day. never cast shit, but sure did like to drop those mandolins

Gorroth · #4 05-08-2010, 03:08 AM

The 3 high level bards in Highhold Keep also cast; high-level spells, including mez and charm mind you, making them impossible to kill as a solo or duo when they were actually decent exp on live.

**nilbog** · #5 05-08-2010, 03:53 AM

Can anyone provide me a date for when bard npcs started casting? Links or patch notes.

Phallax · #6 05-08-2010, 08:37 AM

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Can anyone provide me a date for when bard npcs started casting? Links or patch notes.

I can search for this, but I honestly have no clue, they never did while I played.

jettoki · #7 05-08-2010, 09:25 AM

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Can anyone provide me a date for when bard npcs started casting? Links or patch notes.

Closest thing I could find is a thread from 2004 on the official forums confirming that there are no bard mobs in the game. http://forums.station.sony.com/eq/po...topic_id=54088

I played a Necromancer in 2001 and killed mostly bards from 16-34. I can confirm that they never once used a bard song, even though they always dropped instruments. I killed so many that I got warmly faction in Mistmoore. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Phallax · #8 05-08-2010, 09:37 AM

Good finds, I couldnt dig up anything in any patch history provided by Allakhazam.

Jify · #9 05-08-2010, 02:22 PM

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Can anyone provide me a date for when bard npcs started casting? Links or patch notes.

I thought we made bards cast because they should have in classic? I guess that's not true to classic then.. but ya... Bard NPCs were just warriors with caster HP.

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Atern · #10 06-04-2010, 08:53 AM

Couple things I've noticed...

Isabella Cellus is supposed to wander the halls, stopping periodically. Her path takes her through the room with the 2 nobles.

Storm Dragonchaser and Star DreamSpinner are doing some whacked out stuff. I'm not quite sure what, but it looks like that are essentially dispelling my pet. Even with a fully buffed and focused 49 earth pet, after about 5 seconds it's gone. They should be casting spells, but not dispelling pets.

The most recent experience i've had with these NPCs outside of P99 is the EQMac server Al'Kabor. The above is how these NPCs act on Al'Kabor, which has all expansions up to PoP.