De-Customize New World

[Macabrette]

(09-07-2014 02:07 PM)GM-Rahice Wrote:  After numerous tests and skill-research and double checking. The results are still the same, we did not change anything when the SVN was updated for these monsters. They were the same before the SVN as they are after the SVN. This included all their skills, their casting abilities, distance for casting.

I've not experience a 'whole screen' of Quagmire. Tatacho are non-aggro and they never stunned themselves or me just by walking into the same map range, The MVP Hardrock Mammoth can stun you for walking close to it, are you certain you didn't mistake this for it?

You can still stand in an area that Nepenthes can not hit you while casting Magic on them, Ninja and Mage classes. However, you do need to wear Bathory to avoid the whole Draining-bit.

I've leveled there legitimately before and after the SVN.

Sorry to disappoint you again, but before maintenance(SVN) they were different and they didn't spam skills like they do now. Nephentes never spammed drain or pneuma while I was attacking them. I can't find an area where Nephentes can not hit me while casting Magic on them! Centipedes never spammed quagmire/edp once a player gets into the zone of visibility.
But if you say that's normal as it was before the SVN, ok o.O

[Aaronock]

(09-08-2014 07:03 AM)Macabrette Wrote:  

(09-07-2014 02:07 PM)GM-Rahice Wrote:  After numerous tests and skill-research and double checking. The results are still the same, we did not change anything when the SVN was updated for these monsters. They were the same before the SVN as they are after the SVN. This included all their skills, their casting abilities, distance for casting.

I've not experience a 'whole screen' of Quagmire. Tatacho are non-aggro and they never stunned themselves or me just by walking into the same map range, The MVP Hardrock Mammoth can stun you for walking close to it, are you certain you didn't mistake this for it?

You can still stand in an area that Nepenthes can not hit you while casting Magic on them, Ninja and Mage classes. However, you do need to wear Bathory to avoid the whole Draining-bit.

I've leveled there legitimately before and after the SVN.

Sorry to disappoint you again, but before maintenance(SVN) they were different and they didn't spam skills like they do now. Nephentes never spammed drain or pneuma while I was attacking them. I can't find an area where Nephentes can not hit me while casting Magic on them! Centipedes never spammed quagmire/edp once a player gets into the zone of visibility.
But if you say that's normal as it was before the SVN, ok o.O

Nepenthes have a long range, so you have to stand back pretty far to cast magic properly on them. They always spammed pneuma before the new update as well, especially if they began to be hit by long range attacks.

Centipedes certainly did spam quag and poisons before the new update as well. I use to go solo kill Tatachos all the time. Centipedes really suck, and I hate how many of them spawn on that map, and are the main reason I stopped going to kill Tatachos. On my prof, I would always have more centi kills than Tatachos, and that gets old so fast trying to farm for money there. x)

[abigunov]

i'm glad that this thread was revived. And if i understood GM right: New world castomization was applied to server before it official submited? If that so, maybe now when new world completly included in game mobs became to "standart" irowiki properties?

[Macabrette]

(09-08-2014 08:07 AM)Aaronock Wrote:  Nepenthes have a long range, so you have to stand back pretty far to cast magic properly on them. They always spammed pneuma before the new update as well, especially if they began to be hit by long range attacks.

They have long range but before the maintenance I was able to kill them from 9 cells and they never hitted me, now I can't. So they can't say they were like this before maintenance.

[azurerogue]

Are you sure you're lined up perfectly along the north/west/east/south of them? If you're on a non-cardinal direction then "9 cells" is really slightly closer and they can target you.

[abigunov]

At least i suggest set mob skill's cooldown (for example Muscipular has similar skill blood drain but it has cooldown 5 sec and chanse to cast it 10%, but Nepenthes(and other NW mobs) as you can test yourself has no cooldown for skills and always cast all of them)

[GM-Rahice]

I'll speak to the other GM's about the cool down suggestion.

[Macabrette]

Oh, I found this pic from August 13 (I was still wizard) where you can see they don't attack or do skills if they see you in the screen.

[Story Teller]

Maybe they are wearing contact lenses?

[GM-Garr]

Fun thing is... SVN update happened on 8th of August. Just saying.

~for a week after svn change some skills on new world monsters were broken before this was reported and fixed. So you got lucky to train in that period :3

But I'll talk to Pandora about increasing their cast delay a bit.