NPC's holding items

Rhambuk · #1 04-30-2013, 09:41 AM

I know that you can't give npc's items anymore. I remember a friend from live that played on red, give a no drop item to a monster let a lvl 1 kill it loot.

Anyway i was just wondering if you can still give money to monsters and if they hold on to it.

a decaying skeleton with 100k might make some noobs day.

falkun · #2 04-30-2013, 10:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Rhambuk [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I know that you can't give npc's items anymore. I remember a friend from live that played on red, give a no drop item to a monster let a lvl 1 kill it loot.

Anyway i was just wondering if you can still give money to monsters and if they hold on to it.

a decaying skeleton with 100k might make some noobs day.

Ya, that noob would never move again.

Rhambuk · #3 04-30-2013, 10:32 AM

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Ya, that noob would never move again.

hed be happy!

Swish · #4 04-30-2013, 10:37 AM

Still see guards holding maces etc, its not fully gone is it?

Bamzal Sherbet · #5 04-30-2013, 10:40 AM

npcs will take anything you give them, and will attempt to equip it.

As per classic, when you kill the npc, they should drop everything that you gave them.
(Except for NO DROP items. NPC will NOT drop a NO DROP item that you gave him.)

On Project 1999, NPC doesn't even give back the droppable items when they die [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Swish · #6 04-30-2013, 10:43 AM

I'd understand that for coin but not for weapons/armor...has anyone tried giving the Priest of Discord a set of bronze armor? Does it work here? [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Always funny on Live, he'd be wearing something new every week

Rhambuk · #7 05-01-2013, 11:03 AM

http://web.archive.org/web/200107081...ML/008248.html

lol this would be great...

Valium · #8 05-01-2013, 11:25 AM

It appears they still have separate inventories.

Years ago, I recall non-pet NPCs returning items handed to them - possibly in an attempt to prevent moving no drops/money, etc. This caused an unintentional widespread exploit and was then changed. After the fix, NPC's would eat the items and they still wouldn't appear on the corpse - charmed or not. I believe this was due to them putting the items in their second, inaccessible inventory.

It may be worth mentioning here and possibly a reason inventories are separated, at least on blue. Seems like an intentional change.

Briscoe · #9 05-08-2013, 08:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Rhambuk [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

http://web.archive.org/web/200107081...ML/008248.html

lol this would be great...

Also from that thread:

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Mobs that have hands will always equip the last weapon given to them... pushing whatever they were holding into their loot table.

Try this with an orc pawn, if you want to see for yourself.

Was this actually true?

Rhambuk · #10 05-08-2013, 09:06 AM

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Also from that thread:

Was this actually true?

even on live i dont remember being able to re equip mobs, if they had it equipped they would just put what you gave them in offhand if they could dw or loottable if they couldnt but that was a long time ago.

The only time I really remember benefiting from giving mobs weapons were insane hard raid mobs that quad, like the big guy during the bertox event in CoD wed give him a fine steel 2hand staff killed his ability to quad because now he has no DW.