On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, [iso-8859-1] Bj´┐¢rn Karlowsky wrote:

>
> Today I experienced problems with charming. While charming hadden and
> sticking him onto axe I noticed that he won't follow my orders after
> charm broke and doing the recharm.
> Same happened in everfrost, charming an icy orc and sticking him onto
> Redwind.
> I successfully tried with a snake an rat though. Whats wrong? Does
> anyone know?

I've been meaning to update the L20-40 songs on Rokenn's site,
but haven't had the time. Here's my hunch as to what's going
on:

Charm wipes the damage list, but doesn't seem to wipe the hate
list - only puts the bard on top. The game prevents your pet
from attacking you, so the mob will attack whatever is next on
its hate list.

So let's say Ranger pulls two mobs. He pulls a Melee mob with
an arrow, and a Caster mob comes along.

Your group dutifully attacks Caster.
You charm Melee, and order it to attack Caster.
Melee attacks Caster.
Caster attacks your group (this is important).
Charm breaks, Melee attacks you.
You recharm, Melee looks at its hate list and Ranger is on top
(from the original arrow) so it attacks Ranger.

You need to give it the /pet back off command and reissue the
/pet attack command.

Now, if Caster had attacked Melee back and done sufficient
damage to put it on top of Melee's hate list, then you
wouldn't have this problem. This is usually what happens when
you are soloing with charm.

The hate list management also seems to be prey to the whims of
the mob AI. Undead for example tend to attack the nearest
available target, and thus won't always retain any hatred for
stuff that's been beating them up.

--
John H. Kim
kim@...