Game Mechanics: Intimidation

[Kvappe]

A question about this skill, i seem to remember on live you could train on green con monsters with this skill, atm i have 17 skill all bought and cant raise it at all, havent tryed on blue+ monsters as it would prolly be bad for a rogue to do [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Kvappe]

Can raise the skill on blue monsters, just tryed to kite arown with a blue mob, just going close to do intimidations trys, is this working as intended? or should you be able to work up your skill on green cons aswell?

[Talori]

My rogue has only been able to skill up on mobs I can get exp from. I intimidated orc pawns all over commons without a single skill up (was funny as heck to watch though). I instead tried on blue mobs and it started to skill up. I have been able to proc my serated bone dirk and use intimidate to solo certain blue mobs now - and have my intimidation skill maxed for my level. Having never played a rogue on live, I assumed this is how it is intended to work - although pick pocket can be skilled up on greens. I did find conversation that states you should be able to skill up on anything targetable - but I have not found that to be the case:

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/skills.html?skill=55

[Kvappe]

Yes i think i skilled up on greens on live back in the days aswell, being 50+ and starting to skill up in groups in SolB Sebilis and so on kinda gets you booted i would think [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Versus]

I did my skill ups on yellows/reds in groups. You will get skill ups and it won't work. Win/Win.

Until you get very high skill and then once in a blue moon it will work on a yellow con Sonic Bat and scare the shit out of you and your group expecting a train.

[Kvappe]

Guess ill start working on my skill on fear/hate/sky raids, not much can go wrong there anyway [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Hexsis]

Im having a hard time wrapping my brain around this skill being instant in live...i distinctly remember clicking intimidate/instill doubt and a good 6 seconds later or so AFTER the graphic was done would the skill either work or fail, and get the message saying so. I cant find any forums or confirmation of this. Am i going crazy?

[Volsic]

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

Im having a hard time wrapping my brain around this skill being instant in live...i distinctly remember clicking intimidate/instill doubt and a good 6 seconds later or so AFTER the graphic was done would the skill either work or fail, and get the message saying so. I cant find any forums or confirmation of this. Am i going crazy?

No, this is perfectly accurate. There was a significant delay before the kick fired, and if the kick didn't land (which is often didn't, as we don't have any kick skill) then the fear didn't proc. I haven't tried it on here yet, but if it is instant, it's wrong.

[Reptak]

Yeah. It's very different' than live. As mentioned many times before, the check was at the end of the animation with a kick.

Also, on live, you could skill up on anything you could target, even if it was across the zone. I used to run around and ID stuff when traveling from zone to zone. As I was running, I would just make sure to have something else targeted besides myself and mash intimidate.

Skilling up really shouldn't be an issue, however. It skills very fast.

[Aadill]

Originally Intimidate was a display of moves and a chance of the mob running away at the kick near the end. No fear skulls and I don't think it even said "soandso is very afraid."

The version here is instant Intimidate and then the moves are displayed as well as the Fear spell effect.