Throne of New Tunaria, early zone rush = bug?

Illuminator · 06-13-2008, 09:58 AM

You zone into TNT and everything bum rushes your raid, wiping it every time you pull until you separate, find the player the mobs are fixating on, and leave him dead till the first hall is clear. Was it ever resolved whether this was a bug or the zone designer was a fucking moron?

Blackgate · 06-13-2008, 10:14 AM

That still happens although now it doesn't really matter if one comes or ten.

Pinski · 06-13-2008, 10:14 AM

This isn't a bug. It's a poorly designed trap. Basically when you zone in, somebody becomes the trapped person and every minute each mob has a chance to engage said person and wipe your raid. That is the entire purpose behind it.

Kall · 06-13-2008, 10:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Illuminator

You zone into TNT and everything bum rushes your raid, wiping it every time you pull until you separate, find the player the mobs are fixating on, and leave him dead till the first hall is clear. Was it ever resolved whether this was a bug or the zone designer was a fucking moron?

Probably one of the dumbest scripts in EQ2's history.

This zone was so awful in so many ways it's actually quite amazing when you look back at it.

Demosthenes · 06-23-2008, 02:49 PM

Holy crap - did a dev actually admit to this being the way the "trap" was planned and coded? /wibble

I've been leaving the raid assembled and plowing through the shitstorms of adds on the (dopey) assumption that there has to be a smarter way to get past any given raid-zone script, and I just hadn't found it yet... I dunno if it's possible to outsmart such a dumbass idea as this one, without doing something like disbanding. /hateonsoe

Pinski · 06-23-2008, 03:06 PM

Have you ever noticed the big red message showing up on your screen when they rush you?

Momolicious · 06-23-2008, 05:56 PM

If only you could have a person run forward to become the selected, and somehow not die but stop agro. Then get called back to the raid.

One can dream.

Arrarik · 06-24-2008, 11:22 AM

um, it was always my understanding that if you weren't on there stairs at the zone in while ou were pulling, you'd get bum rushed.....

We've never had that rushing problem becuase we stayed right at zone in

Kampfer · 06-24-2008, 12:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Arrarik

um, it was always my understanding that if you weren't on there stairs at the zone in while ou were pulling, you'd get bum rushed.....

We've never had that rushing problem becuase we stayed right at zone in

same here, stay close on steps and no problems.

Sharpteath · 06-24-2008, 01:03 PM

I have seen it both ways..Stay on the stairs, or bum rushed. TBH we just killed all the adds when they agroed. This was when it came out so I am sure a group of 80's could ruin that place easy.