Wall Kill

[steve]

How about spawning an 'invisible man' NPC on the other side of the wall after the event is started, and have this NPC cast the same AEs at the same intervals?

You could use a signal for when the main mob dies so the AE NPC depops when the event is over.

[Dantes]

Wait, so is it a spell range issue or does the wall block the AoE spell? If it's the former, that is very easy to remedy. If it's the latter, I'd go with Steve's suggestion.

[Dibalamin]

Just have him mem blur every 10 seconds or so =p. Or have him blur constantly if there aren't at least X people in line of sight.

[eqwarrior]

I thought about spawning invisible man tactic before. Was hoping there was less of a quick fix that I could implement on all my bosses. The Boss Cast a PB AoE that has 300 Range that does massive damage that the users are trying to avoid. Hmm, mem blur, wonder how that would work or be effective.

[trevius]

I haven't looked at the code yet, but maybe the cast spell commands could just have a bool option added that would make them ignore LoS. Or, if it is an NPC casting from it's own spell list and not from a script, then maybe a new NPC special attack code could be added for unavoidable AEs. It would definitely be a great thing to have both of these options for creating good boss encounters.

Until that happens, maybe you could just have it use the GetRandomClient() quest object to get a random nearby client and then have them actually cast the AE, so it will hit anyone near them. It would probably be hard for a whole raid to hide behind walls from everyone in the raid at all times lol.

I think you just use it like:

my $MyX = GetX();
my $MyY = GetY();
my $MyZ = GetZ();

my $RandClient = $entity_list->GetRandomClient($MyX, $MyY, $MyY, 100);

Then, use the $RandClient to cast a spell on a timer or something with something like this:

if ($RandClient){
  my $ClientID = $RandClient->GetID();
  $RandClient->CastSpell(spell_id, $ClientID);
}

I haven't tested that, but I think that would make them cast the spell on themself, which should effect both them and anyone within range/LoS of them.

[Capheus]

Would be interesting to see if that would work. How would the EMU handle this as the player casting the spell? Would it actually allow hits on other players or would it AE NPCs only?

In UQUA I am using $client_search->CastSpell(5051,$list_check); and to the best of my knowledge it doesn't hit other players.