Yes I have experienced this problem 3 times in the last week or so. Once
with a Festering Hag (which I chalked up to an interrupted spell), once to a
non-casting Dry Bone Skeleton, and most recently to Droon. This is exactly
what I was referring to in my previous notes, the fact that even after a
successful Feign, I still get killed. Actually, in the past week or so, I
have not had FD actually work for me. I also petitioned about it, and the
response I got from Sandolin was "Sometimes monsters can see thru even a
successful Feign Death." My question is now no longer why/ how did I die
with a successful feign, but rather if a monster "sees thru"
a successful feign, how the heck is that feign considered successful?
Praelor
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Louis Cutburth [SMTP:aztecelt@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 1999 9:15 PM
> To: EQ-Monks@onelist.com
> Subject: [EQ-Monks] On how FD works
>
> From: "Louis Cutburth" <aztecelt@...>
>
> In my experience it seems that time has been the important factor in a
> monster's agro level. For example it would seem like no matter how long I
> lay there a Sand Giant will always come looking for me once I stand up.
> That's why I bolt to to the zone after a run-in with them no matter what.
> But of course this seems fitting with the way sand giants behavior has
> always shown it be one of the most hatefully aggressive creatures in the
> game. i.e. the way they are more willing to switch targets from who they
> were chasing to something else which just got a tad bit closer. All they
> want is to whoop some butt. It makes them happy.
> On the other hand I've noticed some creatures will seem to not come back
> if
> just wait a long time. And still others seem to not come back after just a
>
> little bit even if I can see in zoomed out view that they didn't even go
> but
> just out of sight or what some call their alleged radius of aggression.
>
> But now my question. I had a couple of experiences recently where I was
> not
> fighting a spell-casting creature and auto-attack was turned off. Also
> there
> was no failure message. Yet I died. Once was during a packet-loss spike
> (showed me feign and everything but when the PL cleared I was dead) and
> the
> other I saw no PL and I hadn't had any lag all day! But everything seemed
> fine after I feigned until about 10 seconds later a flood of damage
> reports
> came through with my slain message too. The worst part was I feigned
> because
> I couldn't take my opponent (Dorn) even though I'm level 21 but I had 4
> bubbles of health when I feigned! And suddenly poof I'm dead. I fought him
>
> at level 20 and I know Dorn can beat me but it takes him longer than that.
>
> So I contacted a guide who related that he really didn't know much about
> "the ways of the monk". Anyways he said it might be a bug of some sort and
>
> he filed it as such and recommended that I file a bug report too. Anyways
> I
> just wanna know if anyone else has had the same problem before?
>
> Qolos Stormeye on Solusek Ro
>
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