At one time it was supposed to break Root, and did always and at all times.
In their infinite wisdom, yeah right, Verant decided that it was too
powerful to allow bards to break Root, SoW did at one time also by the way,
so they changed it.
Furthermore if its an exploit, then they should ban the monster not the
bard. If I am playing Accelerando when I get Rooted there is currently no
way to prevent it breaking the Root. I f I leave it on, the first pulse
breaks it. If I stop the song immediately, the "You slow down" message
breaks it. Perhaps Verant decided that having an already up and running
Accelerando break Root was not unbalanced, as it would no longer be a get
out of jail free like it used to be. The only time this feature would help
you ws if you were already running away when you were Rooted, or you were
Rooted by a hidden caster while you were running. Heck, physical damage now
has a chance to break Root, you gonna suggest that's an exploit and anyone
who's Root is broken by getting smacked or blasted should just stand there
and take it despite becoming unRooted?
Kitasi
-----Original Message-----
From: M Sanford (Maev) [mailto:
pr0teus@...]
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 4:45 PM
To:
eqbards@onelist.com
Subject: Re: [eqbards] Un-Broken Song
From: "M Sanford (Maev)" <
pr0teus@...>
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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