08-17-2004, 04:33 PM
Quote:Yes, "Mana Burn", "Stone Skin" and "Immune To Physical" spawned way too often.
"Immune to physical" doesn't really spawn as such. Stone Skin causes monsters to gain an additional 80% physical resistance (and higher defense), so if it turns up on a monster with more than 19% Physical Resistance normally, you'll get the physical immunity.
With that in mind it ought to be safe to give Toorc his Stone Skin back, as I don't think council members have that high a physical resistance (and it could be reduced if they do, anyway).
Quote:The excessive "Mana Drain" of "Wisps" and "Wraiths" are yet another example where the patch programmers went way too far in 1.10
The code readers seem to think this is a bug, and that 256 times the amount of mana damage is being done than was intended.
Quote:I've activated "Thief" for "Lord De Seis" again, but couldn't notice any effect so far. Maybe it's also disabled in the game code. What exactly did "Thief" do, and what were the chances that it has an effect?
It probably is disabled in the code; someone like Myrdinn on the AB or some of the PK people can probably confirm this. What it did was cause a potion to be dropped from your belt onto the ground whenever you were struck by a projectile from Mr De Seis; back then he had oblivion knight minions, so you'd be getting pelted by a lot of projectiles and thus being able to drink potions was a necessity. It was removed for being buggy - if you were struck when your belt was inaccessible, such as during a leap attack or whirlwind, you'd cause a crash. Needless to say I didn't really experience that problem playing in single player 1.02, but it happened enough for Blizzard to disable it, rather than actually fixing it. Shame.
You don't know what you're talking about.