Guards in Karanas not Assisting Newbs

[RKromwell]

You are giving Bartley and Stanard to much credit. I watched a Hill Giant kick both their asses. He was down to 10% but the giant won.


As far as animals go though, do I remember wrong here. If I was fighting something on live, and a wolf came by, it would assist me when playing my ranger? I could have sworn I won a duel like that one day in Q-hills. I was fighting a paladin and a wolf passed by, it started to attack the paladin I was fighting.

[Dersk]

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

As far as animals go though, do I remember wrong here. If I was fighting something on live, and a wolf came by, it would assist me when playing my ranger? I could have sworn I won a duel like that one day in Q-hills. I was fighting a paladin and a wolf passed by, it started to attack the paladin I was fighting.

Odds are the wolf glared threateningly to the paladin.

I've never seen an NPC/mob assist a player. Either the npc would attack something else or it wouldn't... whether or not a player was engaged never mattered. Anything a guard would attack, for example, they'd attack with no player around.

[nilbog]

Should any lions be friendly with druids? I thought the druid/ranger faction didn't cross over to lions. Looked up a couple of them and found responses such as these:

I am a ranger of Tunare, and every lion I have ever seen has been hostile, ready to attack. All the other natural critters think I'm pretty nifty though.

Being a Druid and formerly a Ranger i can say for certain that all lions are aggro and KOS to both (although i'm not sure about Druid... by the time i got to their lands they were already too green to be that suicidal hehe)

Oh yeah, they're kos to druids. my 14th level druid got blindsided by one. i was talking with an npc and couldn't find the thing. Was at half health before i could get out of the camp. they hit for over 30 a pop

proposed changes:

-make the karana guards kill lions
-lion faction kos to druids/rangers

Anyone familiar with this?

[mmiles8]

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

proposed changes:

-make the karana guards kill lions
-lion faction kos to druids/rangers

Anyone familiar with this?

As nice as it's been not being KOS to lions, I have to say that both of the proposed changes need to go in. One caveat is that currently not all lions are on the same faction.

As much as I hate posting a statement without a link to back it up, I've scoured archives and modern versions of ranger and druid guides on Allakhazam, Castersrealm, the Druid's Grove, the Ranger's Glade, EQDruids, you name it. I can't find a single definitive statement to back me up on this.

But bears = amiable, wolves = amiable, lions = threatening.

The evidence is out there, somewhere, I just haven't found it yet. Will give it another go later and edit in a link when I turn it up.

[whitebandit]

wow this stuff really was changed without proof? seriously? i dont remember any animals being kos with druids until kunark.. no proof, please change this back [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Itchybottom]

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

wow this stuff really was changed without proof? seriously? i dont remember any animals being kos with druids until kunark.. no proof, please change this back [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Submited by: Qeeq On: 2/18/2000 6:29:06 AM Rank: worst 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 best
These beasts are very aggressive. Do not stop at Gypsies caravans if you cannot take on one of these because if they are out there they will find you.
Almost died twice in a row in North Karana by these lions (while being bound in Greater Fay). First at caravan, I was taking out a lioness that jumped me (which white to my 10th lvl druid) and a high plains male attacked me. Needless to say I had a long walk and boat trip back.
These lions litterly come out of nowhere. While looting my corpse. I looked around 360% during the day. Grabbed everything I could off my corpse quickly loading everything into my backpacks. All of a sudden "you are hit for 30 points". I ran thinking my SOW would save me (wrong-o). i went unconcious and then a guard killed the dang thing (thanks u for saving me a 2 hour trip).
These lions do not like druids, eventhough I never killed any lions before this. They apparently cannot see through even the 2ng-ring druid spell camo as I have not been jumped by them in 4 trips through this zone.

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