I remember reading that the whole of Solusek B is filled with mobs that can
see invis.
----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Roach <mroach@...>
To: <eqbards@onelist.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 1:31 PM
Subject: RE: [eqbards] Bards in Unrest
> From: Mike Roach <mroach@...>
>
> Here is what I know about using the Mystic Clouding song:
>
> It works verses all creatures including undead (AND your fellow group
> mates), HOWEVER, there are some creatures that can innately see
> invisible...which ones those are, I do not know, but there are apparently
> some that can. (As a matter of fact, does anyone know which creatures in
> the game can innately see invisible?)
>
> The strange behavior with the invis song is that if any member of the
party
> does ANYTHING to drop their invis like cast a spell, or are in Auto Attack
> mode (whether actually attacking or not) and another mob targets them,
then
> that mob will see everyone else in the party regardless of whether they
> appear to be invisible or not. One member of your group on a monster's
shit
> list adds everyone in your group to that monster's shit list.
>
> Every tick of the invis song causes a skill check to be made and every now
> and then a character will fail, and turn visible for a single tick, until
> the next tick of the song and then they pop invisible again. While this
is
> uncommon, it does happen, and during that tick of visibility, if you are
> near enough to a mob to be noticed and targeted, invis is shot for the
whole
> group.
>
> This seems to fall under the group hate thing...where a bard singing Hymn
is
> "helping" the members of his party (like the puller for example) so the
mob
> targets the bard - just like when a cleric heals another group member it
> often attracts the monster's attention.
>
> But all alone with the mino horn and a skill of 105 in wind I sang
Clouding
> and wandered all over the first 3 floors of the Unrest mansion invisible,
> checking it all out...at one point the 2 hags from the basement walked
RIGHT
> past me through the hall and just about made my heart jump out my throat,
> but did not see me at all. This is a fun song to play with.
>
> Faras Tar'Linedhel
> E'ci
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Reece, Tom - 25IDL G4 [mailto:g4mntofcr@...]
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 2:40 PM
> > To: 'eqbards@onelist.com'
> > Subject: [eqbards] Bards in Unrest
> >
> >
> > From: "Reece, Tom - 25IDL G4" <g4mntofcr@...>
> >
> > A similar thing happened to me twice when I was camping
> > behind the back
> > porch. One time, my group was resting after a fight. I had
> > been using
> > Denon's Discord during the previous fight. While everyone is
> > resting, the
> > back door opens up and a festering hag makes a beeline
> > towards me. Next
> > thing I know she zaps me for 300+ hit points and I'm dead.
> > If there is a
> > bug with the axis whatever is it something that Verant is
> > aware of and is
> > working on fixing?
> >
> > <snipped from earlier post by Faras>
> >
> > Last night in Unrest I camped off the side porch
> > because there was a
> > discussion that singing songs off the back porch might
> > be affecting
> > mobs in
> > the basement due to an unlimited Z axis affect bug. I
> > also did not
> > stand
> > around and sing songs while our puller was in the
> > house...I waited
> > until our
> > kill was brought to the fence and whacked once or twice and then
> > kicked in
> > my playlist. This worked awesome and I did not die once.
> >
> > I didn't think the bards invis song worked against undead. I
> > know for a
> > fact I have been attacked by zombies before while singing the
> > song. Can
> > someone clarify this please.
> >
> > I think the people I group with generally recognize
> > that I do a lot
> > as a
> > bard, shuffling instruments and weapons, jumping in and out of
> > physical
> > melee, playing a variety of different songs, some
> > "simultaneously"
> > - and
> > they also recognize the benefit of our songs because I tell them
> > things like
> > "check out your magic resist" and get the "wholly
> > crap!" or invis
> > people
> > while they are medding and they are amazed that it works against
> > undead too.
> > Our party was sitting against the fence medding and watching a
> > Festering Hag
> > run around the yard wasting people, finally being
> > killed by a group
> > only 15
> > feet away from us - we watched the whole thing as the
> > group leader
> > nervously
> > commented "don't stop singing that song Faras..."
> >
> >
> > Galtin of E'ci
> >
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