This IS a bug. Its so obvious accelerando wasnt mean to break root and ghoul root. Moving around while
there's still the root icon on your screen? Being rooted after you zone? This is a bug and always has
been, and using it to break root is exploiting (not that it really matters to Verant). But I wish bards
would quit treating this as a nifty feature and acknowledge it as a bug. So technically the song is not
"un-broken" as you say.
Maev Lorekeeper
Tarew Marr
Kimes, Dean W. wrote:
> From: "Kimes, Dean W." <Dean_Kimes@...>
>
> On a happier note I did some testing of Accelerando last nite vs. Root.
> This was prompted because prior to the patch I had made the following
> observation accidentally in Kithicor.
>
> I was running across the zone when a skeleton of some description rooted me.
> Accelerando was up and running and of course I stuck in place. Since the
> Mob wasn't advancing I quickly switched to twisting the two MR songs I had
> memmed to hopefully resist some spells until Root wore of. Two pulses later
> when I got the "you slow down" message from Accelerando running out I was
> free! Even though I had the Root icon clearly on the screen I was able to
> run to the zone. Immediately on the other side of the zone I was Rooted for
> several minutes. I tested this again before yesterday's patch and the
> pattern held, Accelerando, if it was on when the Root stuck, would break the
> Root when it wore off.
>
> After the patch this has again changed. Last nite I tested some more to see
> what other change had been made. If you are Rooted and Accelerando is not
> up, it will not break it. If Accelerando is running when you get Rooted
> however, the very first "Your feet move faster" pulse message will break you
> free. This happened every time I tried it, both with Root and Ghoul Root.
> The icon remained on the screen and moving to a new zone caused the Root
> icon to again take hold.
> For now, as long as Accelerando is running when you get Rooted, relax. At
> the next pulse you should (to use Verant's wording despite my actual real
> testing) be able to move freely. If Accelerando goes down though you will
> not be able to restart it. If you zone with that Root icon still on your
> screen, expect to be Rooted on the other side.
>
> Kitasi
>
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