Game Mechanics: NToV Hatchlings flagged Charm immune

[Daldaen]

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

Unless things have changed since I jerked around on beta, the devs know these were charmable in live. The issue being players having access to non-MR slows with npc casting resists being what they were. There's also the lesser issue of starting CoV faction wars with GoV to kill shit.

Charming hatchlings wasn't common practice until Luclin implemented dire charm. Enchanters would cast a normal charm on them, bring them to HoT, junk buff, break charm, and then cast dire charm on them. If you lead with a detrimental spell like tash, you would aggro 30 other hatchlings. If you led with dire charm, you topslotted a 3 hour cool down in a zone where every other npc dispels.

This... but very little in HoT or NToV/WToV dispels. Glimmer Drakes are about the only ones and that's when they elect to cast that spell from the default Druid set.

Largely, on P99 even if this change gets implemented it wouldn't be used because no one currently classicly crawls NToV. But hopefully one day when you must start at Ikatiar/Eashen stairs and work your way up, Enchanters will be able to fill another role of charming by grabbing a hatchling pet and helping their raid with DPS.

I could see some adventurous Enchanters try to single a hatchling out and Charm it into HoT hoping it doesn't break on the way in. But most everyone CoTHs into HoT and doesn't do a normal break on P99, so you couldn't even use the pet until after clearing the front two wurms and two pathers, at which point you probably don't even need the pet to do what you're doing, it would just make the game more fun (and more importantly classic).

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

This... but very little in HoT or NToV/WToV dispels. Glimmer Drakes are about the only ones and that's when they elect to cast that spell from the default Druid set.

Largely, on P99 even if this change gets implemented it wouldn't be used because no one currently classicly crawls NToV. But hopefully one day when you must start at Ikatiar/Eashen stairs and work your way up, Enchanters will be able to fill another role of charming by grabbing a hatchling pet and helping their raid with DPS.

I could see some adventurous Enchanters try to single a hatchling out and Charm it into HoT hoping it doesn't break on the way in. But most everyone CoTHs into HoT and doesn't do a normal break on P99, so you couldn't even use the pet until after clearing the front two wurms and two pathers, at which point you probably don't even need the pet to do what you're doing, it would just make the game more fun (and more importantly classic).

Summon companion is an enchanter usable spell....pet guard, gate/coth and summon

I posted a thread about making these things charmable a long time ago or responded to one. Did find a discussion by dev and how they didn't want to give raids the slow ability of hatchlings. I'd be all for making them charmable though.

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

This... but very little in HoT or NToV/WToV dispels. Glimmer Drakes are about the only ones and that's when they elect to cast that spell from the default Druid set.

I figured all the cleric drakes/wurms + SK drakes would cast nullify or cancel frequently. That on top of the shimmer/glimmer druids. Admittedly, never spent a lot of time in EToV despite the armor being good. We were dumb on live and armor farmed in WToV Telk room.