WTD Troubles

[Zkull]

I have searched several sites for an answer to my problem, but no luck. OK, here it is.

I have been aggro kiting murks and dragorns in NC. Good exp BTW. I ran a few AA's and finally put the 5 into WTD. I have tried on multiple occasions to get this to work, but keep getting the "Ability Failed. Timer Reset" message.

I have patched and repatched, and still no WTD.

Talked to several necs who said, "you must be interrupted". No, tried perfectly still, and even with DMF off. "you are too far away". No, tried standing on top of the corpse. "You looted already", may have been a initial problem, but when I did not loot, still had the same message.

Is there some component for this AA? Do you have to be flagged in a certain PoP zone to get this to work? Is NC just the wrong zone, or a bug in this zone?

Has anyone else had this problem, and found a cure?

Zkull
65 Nec of Bertox

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[Dranul]

You could be too far away from the corpse you're trying to wake, though you mentioned standing on it...

Ok, just to make sure we're on the same page. You must cast WTD on the target you want your pet to attack, and a corpse has to be present at the moment WTD finishes casting, so a corpse near it's expiration timer may just poof on you.

[Aryse Andenter]

Like Dranul, one of the only things I can think of is... you are targeting your mob right, not the corpse?

Other than that I'd try posting about it on the soe tech forums.

[Brahman]

i might suggest trying it out in a different zone. afterall NC has misc problems with AAs all the time. then when you KNOW you are using it correctly try it in NC again.

[Xislaben]

If you are targetting an agroable mob and there are corpses within some relatively close range, then WTD should wake it and it should come running. Of course you cannot move at all when casting WTD, which used to have a rather lengthy cast time. If you move the cast fails, if you are not targetting an agroable mob the cast fails, if there are no dead mobs/pc's withing WTD range the cast fails.

Oddly enough I've seen WTD not wake corpses that were within a range of say 100 (and I get only 2 of 3), and at other times the woken mob comes from as far away as 300 or so. Maybe it's a LoS and a range issue, and I know for a fact that LoS is screwed up. I've never tried it in NC though, haven't been there since I bought the aa's except to hit raid targets.

[Jebasiz]

Zone back into dranik scar, and kill something..target another mob and hit your WTD hotkey, just be sure to be in range.

Remember now, for wtd to work you have to be both: within range of a corpse and your targetted mob.

[Zkull]

Thanks all.

I think my problem was a combination of range of both corpse and target, and somehting in NC. I moved to DS and no problem. Now working in NC as well, and now wroking on that all important faction.

Zkull

[Aryse Andenter]

Good to hear its working for you now. Good luck on the faction!