err.. an apology might be in order.

[What HingeMaker]

I've just started playing a Necro in BG1 and had the great idea of parking my pet on one side of the keep doors, porting through to other side and using life tap there leaving me pretty invulnerable. Great idea I thought, ICE wizards use PBAE through the doors all the time.

I used the technic for about 10 mins when the mids were at the doors to great effect. I was told almost immediatly after by one of our lot that it was a LoS exploit and pretty naughty.

My only defense is ignorance. It seemed like a good idea and an adaptation on what Ice Wizards do. I didnt know it was an exploit i just thought i was using my char to best effect in a simliar way to an ice wizard using PBAE through a door.

Please except my apologies. The char in question was Hidden.

Please dont take my account off me

 

[Cheesehound]

Oh brother!, You have Ye sinned... Yes sir, Ye have sinned badly...


To repent these sins you must delete your nercomancer and swear to NEVER make one again and NEVEEEEEEER DO YOU HEAR ME?! do that again brother!... now can i get a amen? a amen?? AMEN! SAY IT SO I CAN HEAR IT FOR SIZLLE! AMEN!

 

[mid_Efour]

what a liar


ban him, ban them all

 

[old.TeaSpoon]

Don't panic - people whine about it, but the fact that you can do it isn't illegal. Mythic are currently changing the LoS issue so that you cant do this, but for now, as long as the pet is inside the keep, and not in the walls, its all legal baby!

 

[Garaen]

All legal, but very lame.

 

[granitus]

As one of the Mids on the other side of that keep wall it is nice to see an apology . Hope to see you in BG today for my last day

 

[granitus]

Oh and teaspoon what he was doing was an exploit of a bug in the game , fixed in patch 1.60 . Illegal no , Lame yes and a ruination of peoples enjoyment of this game . Thankfully most guilds abhor this behaviour so if you see it happening please report it to your GM to pass on to appropriate guild.

 

[Old_Bean]

Originally posted by What HingeMaker
I've just started playing a Necro in BG1 and had the great idea of parking my pet on one side of the keep doors, porting through to other side and using life tap there leaving me pretty invulnerable. Great idea I thought, ICE wizards use PBAE through the doors all the time.

I used the technic for about 10 mins when the mids were at the doors to great effect. I was told almost immediatly after by one of our lot that it was a LoS exploit and pretty naughty.

My only defense is ignorance. It seemed like a good idea and an adaptation on what Ice Wizards do. I didnt know it was an exploit i just thought i was using my char to best effect in a simliar way to an ice wizard using PBAE through a door.

Please except my apologies. The char in question was Hidden.

Please dont take my account off me

Bravo man! Good for you apologising.
So you should be sorry. Can't wait for the LOS patch, 'cos it'll mean that BD's are the most kick arse class then!

 

[old.Cher]

replace kick arse with boring please.

"o look there a guy from another realm, i'll just stand here hitting him with a majorly overpowered insta lifetap till he dies,..... o look theres another". rinse and repeat, till boredom takes over and u hopefully leave the game.

 

[old.tuppe]

and what makes this hard, if you/someone necro use this allday long, change when LOS come is huge.
better try now learn how to survive whit incoming rules, and dont get angry whit them.

 

[old.TeaSpoon]

Originally posted by granitus
Oh and teaspoon what he was doing was an exploit of a bug in the game , fixed in patch 1.60 . Illegal no , Lame yes and a ruination of peoples enjoyment of this game . Thankfully most guilds abhor this behaviour so if you see it happening please report it to your GM to pass on to appropriate guild.

Its not a bug, its working as intented

And isn't that whats I said in my post above?

There were never problems like this in the days when only chanters could do it.

 

[old.Cher]

mainly because chanter pets hit very lightly compared to a necro.

mainly people get pissed off with chanters los issue,

but its the difference between

being attacked by a chipmunk (chanter pet) or a tiger (necro pet)
add in the fact that if the necro gets his pet to stay and walks outside he can repeatedly lifetap u without having any sort of comeback upon him.

chanter tries the same and would be dead in seconds

 

[granitus]

If it is working as intended why do Mythic call it a LOS exploit/bug and have changed this in patch 1.60 ?

 

[old.TeaSpoon]

Originally posted by granitus
If it is working as intended why do Mythic call it a LOS exploit/bug and have changed this in patch 1.60 ?

They claim that this is how it was supposed to be, and that now, since the necro has been added that it was time to address the issue. Put it this way, you won't get punished for it, just like you won't get punished for standing behind a tree and shooting a ranged weapon throught it (This is easily done).

 

[Gabrial]

Try taking a keep with 10 mushrooms the other side of the keep doors - ouch.

Still, my aoe dot seemed to stop em fairly quickly

 

[finbahr]

kill da necros bashem and squishem and roll dem up into lill iddy bits and eat dem so dey never cum bak an bovver us again ever cus dey hurt me wen i cant bashem cos pet is hidding like a gurly kobbie (soz kobbies)

 

[Goryk]

The thing about thid is the pet is pretty much invulnerable as there is no climbwalls. For that reason, outof fairness, I always park my pet on the battlements during a keep raid. He may not have direct line of sight to some of the targets I kill with them, but he's fair game to any archers or mages who want to take him down. Surprisingly few seem to take this opportuinity though. There is pretty much no way to place a pet in view of the target you are killing as he's always several steps behind you, and doens't have the same los as you, but I'll always leave him in a gap between the battlements so someone can have a go at him.

 

[greenfingers]

exploit .. pffft whining mids

U mids can take that exploit and shuve it up where the sun don't shine ...
overpowered pet using Bonedancers .. it's CHEAT I tell ya CHEAT!

 

[Fafnir]

Well if i see a necro outside with pet, my hunter goes for the pet. Mostly gets myself killed but a dead necro is a good necro.