The monsters behave differently in different zones. In Oasis for
instance, once a giant targets me, he will come back to me from what
seems like any distance the moment I stand up from feign. What im not
sure about is if they do the same thing after they have started
attacking someone else while i'm on the ground. In a zone like Guk, a
feign seems to instantly and permanently remove me from the monsters'
minds, with the possible exception being when they are still battling
members of my group.
As an interesting side-note to using feign in Guk in particular, and I'm
guessing other indoor zones, I can use feign to run through the zone for
the most part with impunity. The best guess i can make is that the
monsters do a radius check around themselves every 10 seconds or so to
look for trespassers. As I'm running through the level (usually headed
for a corpse or zone), I move past most monsters between their radius
checks and they do not attack. On the occasions that they do attack
(maybe 1 in 5 frogs) I immediately feign death, stand up, and keep
running. By the time they do another radius check, I'm long gone. The
one thing that makes it complicated at times is the issue of
spellcasters that has been discussed here. If I notice a frog has begun
casting a spell, instead of immediately feigning to lose any other
pursuing frogs, I keep running. After the spell hits me, i feign,
stand, and run again. The frogs all return to their guard posts or
patrol routes while I run past the next groups.
Well, hope the technique can be used by others if needed.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robb Flynn [SMTP:RobF@...]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 1999 1:37 PM
> To: 'EQ-Monks@onelist.com'
> Subject: RE: [EQ-Monks] Feign Death vs. casters and anomolous
> failures
>
> From: Robb Flynn <RobF@...>
>
> unfortunately, yes, this is supposed to happen. Supposedly there is a
> radius
> of aggression which, once the critter has passed it, it will not
> return, but
> I have never had a monster forget about me. The funniest was running
> from a
> brigand in the Karanas (West I think it was). I FD (was on a corpse
> retreival run and in no mood to fight this thing), wait, run, FD,
> wait,
> run... repeat all the way to North Karanas Zone. I was laughing so
> hard I
> cant believe the dumb brigand didn't know I was alive! =D
>
> Praelor
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ronnie [SMTP:ronnien@...]
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 1999 2:28 PM
> > To: EQ-Monks@onelist.com
> > Subject: Re: [EQ-Monks] Feign Death vs. casters and anomolous
> > failures
> >
> > From: "Ronnie" <ronnien@...>
> >
> > : tells a quick story of woe
> >
> > Once uopn a time there was a Monk who was going to Freepoet after
> getting
> > her red headband in Qeynos she was all the way to the west Commans
> when
> > she
> > happened upon a hill Giant who decided to step on her. She feigned
> death
> > the Giant thinking he had killed our heroine walk off and started
> crushing
> > people in derv camp which was was pretty far away she could barely
> see it
> > in the distance. Rather hurt the Monk stood and mended her wounds.
> The
> > Giant who was no were near her can RUNNING BACK and procceded to
> kill her.
> > She rewake in Qeynos were she was bound and started the long run
> back to
> > the
> > commans and her body woundering why the Hill Giant came running back
> just
> > for her.
> >
> > The end.
> >
> > : Adds a quick almost tale of Woe
> >
> > Later while she was in East Karana she was jumped by a goruge hound
> she
> > ran
> > to the gaurds already hurt and bleeding from a fight with a Gnoll,
> seeing
> > the gurads of the fishing village (though they were trying there
> best to
> > kill it) would not be able to before it killed her in time she
> feigned
> > death. The hound looked at her for a moment and walked off she
> opened an
> > eye and looked around for a few minutes to make sure it was NO WERE
> in
> > sight
> > before standing up she even had time to sit down to try to heal when
> all
> > of
> > a sudden IT CAME RUNNING BACK! Luckally the gurads were able to
> slay the
> > thing in time (lived by 23 hps).
> >
> > The end (for real this time)
> >
> > So heres the question: ummmm is this whats soposed to happen?
> >
> > Palerose 19th circle Monk of the Ashen order who thinks its about
> time she
> > looked in to buying more mesh armor.
> >
> >
> >
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