You will not evade me, $name

[Teeroyoyort]

not all mobs summoned. i believe it's like a flag on a mob, rampage? no, summom? yes... lol, when 98% fell to 97% the mob would summon. Summon was on monsters 52+ that had the flag. the delay i'm iffy about originally it was longer, then nerfed to be faster much much later on oow maybe.

[mmiles8]

I seem to remember certain animal npcs just didn't summon. I don't want to say this was the basis, but it'd be kind of strange for an animal to say "You will not evade me, Soandso."

You're right on about that. As silly as that sounds, it's true. The ice burrowers didn't summon because they were animals. Animals don't summon. Very important thing to know back then.

Aside from that, it was a hard and fast rule of everything over level 50 summons (at least in the Verant days). It didn't require that you did any damage, it only required that the mob not be at 100% health, and whoever had aggro not be in melee range. Mobs that summoned, summoned every 6 seconds. I had a druid friend who kited summoning mobs on that principle.

On my wizard, I would intentionally face the opposite direction of a tank that I didn't like in revamped CT, and cast the level 34 nuke with the knockback on the mobs at every cooldown just to make him get summoned backwards and backstabbed.

[stormlord]

I don't remember anything summoning from back then.

[mmiles8]

I don't remember anything summoning from back then.

Revamped CT. The mobs were 50+. This is the era of the flowing slime boots and mosquito leg earring. My wizard wasn't 34, that's the level of the nuke with the 20 yd knockback or whatever.

[Insedeel]

Back in classic at the time it was reserved for level 51+ mobs. Most animals didn't summon. I remember very very clearly from the countless hours spent in Sebilis back in those days that there was NO frogloks that would be able to summon except Krups Ilis and reets. Krup's weren't always able to summon (they could range from 49-52), and ilis/reet always summoned. There was only one ilis that did NOT summon and that was the ilis acolyte which is level 50.

Hope this helps.

[mmiles8]

but there were definitely PoP mobs around level *60* that did not summon.

Verant cashed in after velious. Then it wasn't a simple, hard and fast rule, and was mob by mob. Until then, you could write an equation for it. If mob > 50 AND <> Animal, Then mob = summons.

EndIf.

[mmiles8]

Yeah this guy is hypothesizing about whether or not that's the case, probably due to the animal contingency mentioned above, it wasn't common knowledge unless you spent a lot of time kiting in the higher end zones like western wastes.