"Bug" thread + miscellaneous nitpickery, Was for V4.1 Options

[leonidas]

So, in the spirit of pedantry, I thought i'd start a bug thread, because some of this stuff was bothering me.

Firstly, Brennan Risling's thac0 is too high, the poor bastard only hits backstab on criticals and had trouble killing a skeleton (i know thieves suck, but this seemed odd).

The description for the circlet of golden flowers mentions an ability called "critical mass curing," but the item does no such thing.

Raamilat, the drow f/m in Suldanesselar, can't use scrolls. The emote appears, but he carries on attacking straight away. Everyone else I fought was fixed by 4.1.

Even if you have all the components for the truth long sword, cromwell won't make it (cespanar does, however).

Not sure if this one is by design, but captain egeissag has infinite (i think, at least 20) absolute immunity spells, is unbreachable and un-lower resistance-able, and is only killable via lots of luck. In fact, come to think of it, there are a few enemies that dispelling magic (ruby ray, breach etc) doesn't work on for no apparent reason. There was a bunch, but atm only draconis in dragon form springs to mind.

That is all.

This post has been edited by leonidas: Apr 22 2007, 12:26 PM

[thetruth]

The problem with Ruby Ray is that (as stated in the description) it will always remove the highest level of spell protection on the target (when 2 protection spells are of the same level then the choice is random).

For example the target has Spell Truning + Spell Deflection + Spell Trap + Minor Globe of Invulnerability + SI: Abjuration.

We want to remove his SI: Abjuration in order to dispel his combat spell protections like Stoneskin or PfMWs.

Unfortunately 1 Ruby Ray is not enough. Actually we will need 4 of them.

The first 3 will remove the S.Trap,Spell Turning,S.Deflection.
The fourth will remove the SI and a 5th Ruby Ray would remove his M.G.of Invulnerability.

That's how it works.

Of course this can be exploited by modders like Sikret who want to make our life difficult , but fortunately it can also be exploited by the players .

I hope you understand now why a Fighter-Mage is a so powerful class .

[Raven]

For example the target has Spell Truning + Spell Deflection + Spell Trap + Minor Globe of Invulnerability + SI: Abjuration.

Am I right that if that was a Globe of Invulnerability instead of Minor Globe then Ruby Ray would remove this before SI too as the Globe is 6th level, meaning you would need actually 5 Ruby Rays to get rid of SI?