My Siren's Grotto

zergling · #1 07-06-2009, 10:30 AM

I've poked around a bit but haven't been able to find whats causing this. Have you had any luck on this Prov?

I've had two players die now while trying to buy things in Thurgadin from what seems to be the same issue.

provocating · #2 07-06-2009, 10:36 AM

Nope, but I did play a lot this weekend. Zones we have seen it in are BoT, ToV, SG and many others. SG seems to be the worst though. I am moving my server from a VM to it's on beefy server by Wednesday so maybe I can look into it again. I bet along the same lines another problem, well not so much a problem but a quirk. In a lot of zones our bots are casting mez randomly without being told, some zones worse than others. Like in ToV last night we would just be fighting the yard trash and the bots quit attacking the mob when it was not completely dead. When asked to engage again they would tell you it was mezzed. Not a problem really, it just slows you down in fights. So this problem could be related, it could be in the spells.

provocating · #3 07-06-2009, 01:32 PM

May had found one thing right off.

Apathy of the Nihil

Is showing up as a nuke on my BOTS ??? That is an AOE mez.

zergling · #4 07-07-2009, 01:19 AM

Did some more searching by checking the problems in Thurgadin and found that one of the NPCs was casting Mark of Kings on himself like he thought it was a buff.

But that is a debuff, so my current guess is that he got hate because he debuffed someone on the surrounding people's faction (himself), and so they attacked him.

I repopped the zone and #stun'd him and no fighting broke out.

Need to go to bed, but tomorrow I am going to try to make Mark of Kings not possible to cast on yourself.

provocating · #5 07-07-2009, 08:34 AM

Someone reported to me this activity in Kael last night.

zergling · #6 07-07-2009, 10:07 AM

Noticed that Mark of Kings and some of the other spells in the line were set up as damage shields instead of reverse damage shields. They were all flagged as non-beneficial already though.

I fixed all that, but unfortunately he still cast it on himself. Does anyone have any idea of how you control what spells an NPC casts on themself?

Seems like this would be a problem with any NPC that is a cleric of sufficient level.

Shendare · #7 07-07-2009, 10:19 AM

Potentially relevant database tables include:

- damageshieldtypes
- npc_spells
- npc_spells_entries

**Congdar** · #8 07-07-2009, 07:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by provocating

May had found one thing right off.

Apathy of the Nihil

Is showing up as a nuke on my BOTS ??? That is an AOE mez.

This is an Enchanter bot spell. It was supposed to be Dreary Deeds which is a slow and is listed in Alla's but it was changed from Apathy of the Nihil which is a mez in 2005 and both have the same id=4877. It's in the Titanium spell file as Apathy of the Nihil and in the SoF spell file as Dreary Deeds.

I'll update my spell files for the bots and get them to the database guys. It's been a while since I had the databases updated with the bot spells and I've had many other spell changes that need to go in.