Mage Weapon Question

[Samoht]

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

During Fear raids on my necro, I remember all of the pet classes parking their pets at the tree and Mages would give them all summoned swords.

How long ago was this? The summoned swords used to proc on anything. It was a bug that was eventually corrected.

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

Why the summoned swords? If they don't really add anything? I'm sure there is a reason, I just don't understand this.

Are these charmed pets? They don't innately dual wield. If the charmer did not have any torches, mage weapons are an available alternative. You'd need two per pet though to get one into the off-hand.

If there not charmed pets, and this wasn't an era when the swords were proccing, it was mostly done in vain.

[Crede]

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

During Fear raids on my necro, I remember all of the pet classes parking their pets at the tree and Mages would give them all summoned swords.

Why the summoned swords? If they don't really add anything? I'm sure there is a reason, I just don't understand this.

I think back then we just thought it did more damage, before there was a nice "Pet Information" wiki guide like we have today. Also just made the pets look cooler.

[Tethler]

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

During Fear raids on my necro, I remember all of the pet classes parking their pets at the tree and Mages would give them all summoned swords.

Why the summoned swords? If they don't really add anything? I'm sure there is a reason, I just don't understand this.

The damage on the summoned weapons wouldn't affect the pet auto attacks, but the procs on the swords would have been working on some of the mobs.

Some of the trash in fear are necro's/SK/enchanters which do have summoned pets that the mage swords would proc on. Scarelings may be classified as summoned monsters too, but not 100% on that. The proc isn't big, so likely wouldn't have made much difference, just a slight boost.

edit: Actually, for a period during the green timeline, mage swords were proccing on all targets rather than only summoned mobs. So it would make sense if that was during that time.

[OuterChimp]

all very informative. Thanks guys.

As for the necro question, it was about a year ago or more.

[NegaStoat]

Found out a little while ago that P1999 uses some funky script logic when it comes to giving pets items. It appears there's a hard & fast rule that if an item can be held in either the primary or secondary hand AND it has an AC rating, it gets dropped into the hand slot regardless if it's a actual weapon or not. I can give my pet two Swords of Runes, complete the trade, and then hand the pet a Coldstone and it gets shoved into its off hand and will be holding a bag graphic and one sword.

I swear that I'm not going crazy in that I sharply recall just dumping 2 swords, a coldstone, and a ring of flight on a pet on old retail servers and the pet would hold everything correctly. Was only slightly depressing. I don't think a pet can ever have a range slot item with this code as long as the item has 2 or more slots it can rest in.