Game Mechanics: "all EQ guards seem to be immune to the charm series" July 2001

[Jimjam]

Stumbled upon the following 2001 quote:

Like merchants, all EQ guards seem to be immune to the charm series.

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

Nice find. That's very clear and leads us down an interesting rabbit hole regarding guards as well.

Dolalin has peaked my interest!

After some quick research it seems in contemporary EQ all city guard types are immune to charm (tested with a high level enchanter shroud and a low level dark elf enchanter on live. Visited Neriak, Oggok and Qeynos - from low level sewer sentries to superbuffed level 50 gate guards).

Guards that don't wear a uniform nor are on a guard faction (e.g. some of the village / wilderness guards in Rathe and East Karana which are just humans in plate) can be charmed.

On the whole it looks like city type guards (including those in travel zones) are uncharmable, and were uncharmable since 2000 with a few other zam posts backing this up.

I'll reply with quotes and links from zam later. Other classic boards need to be searched too.