Automatically Switch to Mode Kill

Baldric · **Posted:** Wed Mar 23, 2011 5:24 pm

Quote:

h glad
Your deadly wrath hits Gladinia's chest.
You miss Gladinia.
Your deadly wrath starts to melt Gladinia's chest.

[HP:100%] [ME: 46%] [PE:100%]
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Gladinia starts to concentrate.
Gladinia dodges your attack.
Gladinia dodges your attack.
Zala misses Gladinia.
Gladinia dodges a terror bird's attack.
A terror bird claws at Gladinia's right leg, tearing open a bleeding wound!
A terror bird misses Gladinia.
A terror bird claws Gladinia's stomach, cutting a deep gash.
Overall, Gladinia has quite a few wounds.

[HP:100%] [ME: 46%] [PE:100%]
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Gladinia glows with mystical energy!
Gladinia gesticulates and suddenly Zala is vomiting as her organs twist!

[HP:100%] [ME: 46%] [PE:100%]
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Gladinia utters the words, 'qpurr hajqp'.
Gladinia reaches out and touches you with her chilly hands.

[HP:100%] [ME: 46%] [PE:100%]
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You dodge Gladinia's attack.
Zala's freezing bite starts to melt Gladinia's chest.
Zala demolishes Gladinia's chest with her freezing bite.
Zala massacres Gladinia's chest with her freezing bite.
Gladinia dodges your attack.
A terror bird gets a wild look in its eyes.
A terror bird misses Gladinia.
A terror bird misses Gladinia.
A terror bird misses Gladinia.
A terror bird claws Gladinia's head, tearing open a bleeding wound!
Overall, Gladinia looks pretty hurt.

[HP:100%] [ME: 46%] [PE:100%]
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bb
You slam into Gladinia and send her sprawling!
Your bash knocks the wind out of Gladinia.

[HP:100%] [ME: 46%] [PE: 96%]
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Gladinia's deadly wrath is deflected by a set of etched curates from your chest.
Zala massacres Gladinia's chest with her freezing bite.
Zala's freezing bite starts to melt Gladinia's head.
Gladinia dodges your attack.
You demolish Gladinia's chest with your deadly wrath.
A terror bird claws at Gladinia's stomach. ENTRAILS fall to the ground!
Gladinia is stunned, but will probably recover.

[HP:100%] [ME: 46%] [PE: 96%]
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Zala starts to concentrate.

[HP:100%] [ME: 46%] [PE: 96%]
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info

You will fight to kill.
A deadly wrath destroys Gladinia as she falls lifeless to the ground.
Gladinia is DEAD!!
You hear Gladinia's death cry.
You get 2 gold coins from a corpse of Gladinia.
You get 6 silver coins from a corpse of Gladinia.
You get 2 copper coins from a corpse of Gladinia.
You split 2 gold, 6 silver, 2 copper coins.
Your share is 1 gold, 3 silver, 1 copper coins.

I've seen this so many times. Does anyone know what causes it?

metalman · **Posted:** Wed Mar 23, 2011 6:35 pm

When I first started playing, several of the people I knew in my high school said that entering combat skills during a time when you were in mode stun might put you back into mode kill. All I saw you do was bash once though...so that may not be right.

Rodwen · **Joined:** Fri Dec 26, 2008 1:22 pm **Posts:** 1648

Zala was concentrating and still fighting here. Maybe that's the cause?

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

No idea what causes it, but it's been around since I've started playing, around 2001.

Tragonis · **Posted:** Thu Mar 24, 2011 1:32 am

Dulrik wants you to KILL damn it.

Edoras · **Posted:** Thu Mar 24, 2011 5:56 am

Yeah, it's something to do with other people or NPCs in your group being on mode kill, causing you to switch to mode kill the next combat round after you stun them. Might be related to the fact that when you're on mode kill you're still considered "in-combat" even if someone on mode stun in your group stuns the target: So perhaps if you're either casting a spell at the next combat round, or are in command lag at the next combat round, it causes your allies to "assist" you, forcing them into mode kill in order to attack the opponent.

Teh_Peso · **Posted:** Thu Mar 24, 2011 12:29 pm

Actually, you can do this in a group by yourself, it is caused by certain types of weapon damage, in my experience.

Say you have an unholy damage weapon, and you are attacking someone of light aura, you are stunning, but the amplifier of the damage is what kills them, even though it may look like you are switching before the killing blow happens, it really is happening WITH the killing blow.

jhorleb · **Posted:** Thu Mar 24, 2011 4:53 pm

Peso may be right. I don't think it's what edoras says because it can happen even when everyone in the party is on mode stun (see multiple tom runs at zshar).

Edoras · **Posted:** Thu Mar 24, 2011 6:55 pm

Except it makes zero sense when dealing with this log: Baldric had already stunned the NPC in question, and a tick didn't pass or anything. Also, deep-elves aren't weak to deadly wrath.

HOWEVER, Zala -is- concentrating on a spell, and she may have been mode kill, thus keeping her in the fight, or she may have been on mode stun and yet because she was concentrating it kept her "in the fight" for some reason.

zala · **Joined:** Wed Jan 19, 2011 7:47 pm **Posts:** 168

I was going for the kill. *sigh* but didn't get the credit for it.

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