Game Mechanics: Green NPCs should flee at 50%

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Author Topic: Big bunch of bard ...issues.
Abashi
Station Member posted 10-10-2000 05:17 PM

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* Selo’s Constant Chain (23) One of two songs unintentionally nerfed when 54 song was changed. Song used to stop mobs in their tracks at 50% health, since patch does not stop mob until down to 20%. Song also overrides higher level snares of other classes. UPDATE: VI has decided that song was too powerful after 18 months as-is with no documented complaints. Consensus on bard bulletin boards is that VI does not want to spend time to fix song and
has instead opted for a cop-out nerf. Song has random 0-9 second duration, 3 second casting time, and higher resists than snare/root. If song is left as-is, bards want a full 9 second chain to make up for reduced strength & high resists, now it is just weak AND unpredictable.
[Wrinn, Gordon] -- Works as intended. The previous operation of the spell yielded creatures that would stop cold when fleeing at aroudn 50% health. Rather than fight like a rooted NPC (which would have been fine), the NPCs would do nothing while getting beaten for half of their life.