Sounds to me like an exploit that I wouldn't care to discuss. :-P
---Windleaf
At 03:34 PM 12/7/00 -1000, you wrote:
>The following happened recently on E'ci.
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>A group of folks were in the Hole to help someone with their epic quest.
>Don't know the details of the quest, but you have to talk/give something to
>one of the NPCs there. So a cleric by mistake aggroed the quest NPC. If
>the groups killed the mob, they wouldn't be able to complete that portion of
>the quest. So no one else attacked the NPC while it was beating up on the
>cleric. Since no one else was on the NPC's hate list, once the cleric died
>the NPC would not be aggro anymore and they could finish the quest. The
>cleric (59th level with an AC over 1100) thought he might have a chance of
>surviving if he went LD. So he turned on autoattack and then typed in /quit
>to go LD.
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>Now here is where the funny part starts. The cleric had Complete Heal
>loaded in the first spell gem. Apparently when you go linkdead, the game
>automatically switches you over to NPC AI. If you can cast spells,
>apparently the only one the AI will cast is whichever one is loaded in the
>first spell gem. So as everyone else watched the NPC beat on the cleric,
>every once in a while (when he wasn't stunned) the cleric was able to get a
>CH spell off. He was able to cast CH enough that he didn't die before his
>character disappeared from the server. To say the least he was quite
>pleased when he discovered he didn't die after going LD.
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>So what I was wondering is could bards use this knowledge to somehow help us
>survive a fight after we go linkdead. Fear sounds like a good option but
>then again it could potentially screw over the rest of the group by causing
>a train. The new Shield of Songs is a possibility as well. Third option
>would be whatever song that you think would best help your party kill the
>mob(s) you were attacking before you went LD. That would be situationally
>dependent on where you were fighting.
>
>Anyone got other suggestions?
>
>Galtin of E'ci
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