C major and sanctuary.

ObjectivistActivist · **Posted:** Thu Oct 14, 2010 12:10 pm

Quote:

An arot'xlotl sucks at your left wrist, causing a big gash.

[HP: 81%] [ME: 62%] [PE: 84%]
> dance
You begin to dance.

[HP: 81%] [ME: 62%] [PE: 84%]
>
You continue to dance.

[HP: 81%] [ME: 57%] [PE: 79%]
>
You dodge an arot'xlotl's attack.
You claw at an arot'xlotl's head, making a small scratch.
You claw at an arot'xlotl's chest, barely scratching it.
An arot'xlotl dodges your attack.
You claw an arot'xlotl's chest, cutting a small but painful, wound.
You claw at an arot'xlotl's head, causing a small but painful wound.
An arot'xlotl dodges XXX's attack.
XXX claws at an arot'xlotl's chest, causing a deep gash.
Overall, an arot'xlotl has some small wounds and bruises.

[HP: 81%] [ME: 57%] [PE: 78%]
> cc
Your aggressive move destroys your sanctuary spell!
The white aura around your body fades.
Your C Major chord makes an arot'xlotl's heart rattle in its chest.
XXX dodges an arot'xlotl's attack.

The names and cabal abilities have been edited out, but this log snippet shows that sanc + bard chords is messed up. Even if engaged in combat, and untargeted, using c major will break sanctuary.

grep · **Joined:** Fri Apr 17, 2009 9:50 pm **Posts:** 5522

Does fireball? My understanding was that if your move would initiate combat (aka aggressive spell) that it would break sanctuary.

ObjectivistActivist · **Posted:** Thu Oct 14, 2010 1:20 pm

No idea, but I can't see how the two are related.

ObjectivistActivist · **Posted:** Thu Oct 14, 2010 1:41 pm

grep wrote:

Does fireball? My understanding was that if your move would initiate combat (aka aggressive spell) that it would break sanctuary.

If you are already engaged in melee combat, and don't target the spell (i.e. hit the target you're already fighting while under sanc) it won't break sanctuary.

Edoras · **Posted:** Thu Oct 14, 2010 7:25 pm

Actually, I always thought that if you were in combat you couldn't break sanc regardless of whether you targeted someone or not. I remember seeing paladins train by flamestriking new NPCs a room away before they killed the NPC they were fighting, so that they wouldn't lose sanctuary.

Ironically, if you're fighting someone and say, cast spear of faith on them, but then the combat round passes and they kill whoever they were fighting, then you'll break sanctuary spearing them even though you cast it without a target because it's seen as starting a new combat.

ninja_ardith · **Joined:** Wed Sep 24, 2008 12:21 pm **Posts:** 4452

The code for sanctuary is quite screwy, and I've never really quite understood why it works the way it does, or anything about it, really. It's just a nice buff for tanks.

grep · **Joined:** Fri Apr 17, 2009 9:50 pm **Posts:** 5522

I've been told that sanctuary has some group-affecting properties, I've always not understood that.

What I have understood is that it is a useless PVE spell when many monsters just track you until they get through anyway.

Edoras · **Posted:** Fri Oct 15, 2010 10:02 am

Damage reduction is always nice.

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