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Message ID: 14278
Date: Thu Feb 3 21:34:29 GMT 2000
Author: Ryan Honeyman
Subject: Re: Denon's Dissension


> Is this song of ANY use whatsoever fighting Mobs? Don't they have
> unlimited Mana?

They don't have unlimited mana. I fought a cleric deepwater goblin
caster for Kenross ;-) last week.

Brought the goblin to 1/4 health, and crap... I had charm mem'd
instead of pixie... /sigh Goblin greater heals to 1/2, I beat him
down again to 1/4, he greater heals, I beat him down, etc. etc.

Then I see:

a deepwater goblin begins to cast a spell.
a deepwater goblin feels better.

?? Hmm... feels better = Light Healing.

I mush his face into the ground some more....1/4, 1/8....
come on you dumb thing heal yourself!.... I know you want to.

You have slain a deepwater goblin.
You gain experience.

uhh, woohoo (green exp!) lol.

NPCs do _not_ _not_ _not_ have unlimited mana.

They have a whole s-load of it, and it regens very very fast
when they are not in combat. But once you see a mob spend alot
of mana like this, The force shocks turn into burst of flame, and
the healings turn into light healing. You know the mob is running
out of mana.

The thing is you have to be much higher than the con of the mob
in order to make it become spent from casting. I imagine a white
con caster could kill you 2-4 times over with the amount of mana
it has.

Harmonic.