When did they nerf Atiiki!?

[winchester20]

Granted, I have been leveling up a cleric for me and the wife for the last month or so, so I may have just missed this announcement, but last night I pull out my necro for a run thru Atiiki. I pop Lesson, pull an Efreeti Lord, no worries. I pull a sorcerer, and the damn thing summons a pet that makes a beeline for me. And i can't snare the damn thing. I can't even get a lifetap to land on the stupid thing and it's fast. I'm getting backstabbed by this P.O.S. while trying to do in the efreeti. Unbelievably, when the efreeti is dead, my pet actually tore through it without a hiccup (yeah, stop the presses). So I figure okay, I'll sic my pet on the mob's one as soon as he summons it and get on with business as usual. Low and behold, as soon as the first one was dead, the damn mob summoned another one. WTF? I was pissed when all the anti-kite whining on the Vet Boards seemed to find more of a listening ear than i would have liked with SoF content, but I'd made my peace with it. But the fact that they are going back to older content and messing with it, that really pisses me off. Non-kiters have no problems finding groups, whereas we do. Only time I get a group is when my guildies invite me, or I ask them and a spot happens to be open. What makes me the angriest is the kite-whiners suffer no hits to their ability to play, but by closing down some of our options, they make it harder for us to find a good spot, cause surprise-surprise, we aren't so popular in groups.

Yeah, there are still other places we can go to kite, but for how much longer?

[Nikkaphela]

Its not just Atiiki. It shows up everywhere now from Cleric and wizard mobs. Any mob of particular level to be casting those spells will be casting those spells.

[vanlor]

Wow... now that is beyond gay... I am not looking forward to coming back to the game this summer if I can't kite anywhere...

[winchester20]

Are you kiddin me!? So what are they tryin to do, totally kill any kiting in the game? If so, I don't see me continuing to give SOE anymore of my money. I can't believe they listened to all those whining assholes on the Vet Boards. I thought that they only read those to get a good laugh. Populations have been declining for a while now, so they have made it possible for more and more classes to be able to solo to a certain degree, and now they are completely reversing on that?

F**k Sony. You'd think they'd have learned their lesson when they "revamped" SW Galaxies and everyone in the gaming world told them it was the most asinine thing any developer had ever done. So they now have similar plans for EQ?

[Viko]

The pet has like no hps, your pet can 1 round it, I dont see the problem, I was kiting in atiki fine. I let it beat on me and or sicd the pet anytime he summoend one (It wasnt chain summoning them for me)

Based on how widespread it is showing up, they toggled a flag for some reason and it had the unintended side effect of giving almost every mob in the game the ability to summon a pet :P I dont see it being there next patch.

[winchester20]

Man I hope so. I play in the mornings, MST, and there are very few people on (at least in my guild) so soloing is a big part of my EQ life. If they take that away from me, considering how few times I get to play in the evenings when the majority of my guild is online, I may just be finding myself a new MMO. And I NEVER though I'd say something like that. Yeah, my pet chewed threw the thing without so much as a hiccup, but I much prefer my pet banging away on the mob that is going to render me xp. I just assumed with all the bitching on the Vet Boards by the anti-kite crowd that they had somehow managed to win the ear of the Devs. It was just quite the shock, and it really pissed me off. Anti-kiters really piss me off. I love nothing more than when a bunch of them try to steal my camp and I get to show them just what a necro is capable of. Yeah, I could still kite Atiiki, but it used to go a lot smoother than it did this last run. I've never wanted to be able to kite every mob in the game. But there was always a few named that the Devs gave us each expansion that we could milk for a few upgrades for ourselves and friends. So far as I've seen, there isn't one in SoF, and that lead me to believe this was something they meant to do. Jeb, anyway you could check and make sure this was an unintended kind of thing that is going to get resolved?

[Ecol]

these pets have crap for hp and dont hit very hard... if you cannot take this pet hitting you for the 1 minute or so of kiting you probably should be elsewhere hunting for much better gear... your pet will waste these things in no time flat... it is a minor change and will not affect your kiting in the least...

[DeadLikeMe]

What's up with mob pets outliving their owners? I think I was in Buried Sea helping a friend with hand aug quest on siren island.

[winchester20]

As I've said, our pets rip thru these things without so much as a hiccup, and under normal circumstances, even if you don't bother with them, no, they don't have much chance of killing you. As long as your kite goes without any problems. Should your mob dispel his snare, or you accidentally run into another mob who then proceeds to summon another pet after whacking on you a few times, or the pissant pets do a good job of interruptting your casts, things could get a little hairy. Kiting 2 or 3 mobs at a time, especially while running lesson, is gonna require a little bit more finesse than I'd rather have to fool with while just grinding. I guess the argument could be made that this is an attempt to take the monotony out of grinding, but I'm rather fond of the monotony. And yeah, the pets do not poof with the death of their master.

[Lylith]

/bug and /feedback it

imo, Atiiki! is old stuff. It should not be altered, not even 'globally' because it's older zone now. Less and less people will go there. SoF offers much better experience.

Since Kunark era, I always kill main mob then it's pet if it doesn't depop. Just lazy coders imo as the pet is summoned by the casters will/magic. No NPC caster, it makes so sense why the pet would even exist or care about you.
I left just after PoP was released until 2005, so I missed some stuff. And from what I heard, it was good stuff to miss, lol.

[Mortas Corpe]

Try the "swarm" pets that the "necro" snakes have in Katta.

2x 10(or is it 5?) second pets are nothing...Till they hit for 600 or so. When the spell lands toy get the "have been marked for death" crap.