Well.. I had the unfortunate opportunity to do a little more experimentation
with FD last night, and have come to a couple conclusions. Perhaps someone
out there can add to or refute my findings. Either way would be great!
I believe that there are 2 conditions (aside from the "in the middle of
attacking/casting" conditions). The first is the level of the MoB being
feigned against. A high level MoB (by that I mean one that con's red) has a
good chance of seeing thru a successful FD. I say this due to my *insert
foul language here* death against Droon. We had just killed Broon and were
heading for the Zone with Droon hot on our tails. He caught up with our
enchanter, so I doubled back to get his attention on me while the others
kept going. I got his attention, he started hitting me. We had already
worked out that if this should happen, the Wizard would cast, pulling Droons
focus, and I would FD, and then he would zone. Worked like a charm. Droon
turned to go after the Wiz, I FD successfully (no message), the Wiz zones,
Droon comes back and kills me while I am still FD'd. It is my assumption
that he was not fooled due to the fact that he is Red... or perhaps because
of my 2nd condition (which I actually find less likely in this case) which
is an INT check vs. FD skill. I have noticed that MoBs I would consider
sentient (i.e.. creatures that have formed a type of society such as Aviaks
or Frogluks) are the ones that continually either return or I have failures
against.
Just for your info, I am 20th with all skills except weapons, kick, and
round kick maxed.
Any thoughts on this? It is really starting to bug me that the last 2 times
I have tried FD, I have been killed by non-casting MoB's after a successful
FD. The only saving grace is that at least the rest of my party was able to
escape both times.
Praelor Dileasai
> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBNALNOOR@... [SMTP:IBNALNOOR@...]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 1999 10:55 PM
> To: EQ-Monks@onelist.com
> Subject: Re: [EQ-Monks] Feign Death vs. casters and anomolous
> failures
>
> From: IBNALNOOR@...
>
> Here is my expierence, FD only works if the mobs have completely finished
> all
> their actions for the round. If you FD and one still has yet to hit you or
> a
> spell still has to go off against you it does not matter, it will fail. I
> do
> not know about against DoT and that is an interesting question. I do know
> I
> have fought the spiders in Guk several times and Feigned successfelly
> while
> poisoned. And rabies have never seemed to be a problem. I also like the
> range
> of aggression type suggestion as in my expierences this has proven to be
> true. In Guk I have almost always had the stupid frogs come running after
> me
> when I had Feigned, the spiders on the other hand depend how far away from
>
> them I am. Even if I am just over into the next chamber they do not
> pursue.
> The same in Unrest, Dark Boned Skels to my great surprise did not come
> after
> me when I got up from a feign, but you can imagine my surprise when the
> Barbed Skel did not ignore me and came back and whoopped my rear. Well,
> this
> is my thoughts on it. I still do not think it is the awesome skill I had
> heard of before getting it. I would much prefer to have something that
> would
> help the rest of the party a little more and not be so much of a simple
> self-preservation thing. I know the responses about leading mobs away and
> I
> have done this, but still those situations are pretty rare. Usually it
> ends
> out with the call for run going out and me just hitting feign when
> everyone
> has minimal time to head out the nearest door before I die. As I am only
> 20th
> level I always looked forward to the views of more expierenced players.
>
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