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[Shiny151]

Originally Posted by provocating

If some commonality on the issue can be found it will be easy to fix. The more information on which ones do it and what was happening at the time will help greatly.

Indeed. That's what I'm trying to make sense of. Due to the randomness of it it's hard to pinpoint what may be going on. However, there is one other issue with clerics I noticed when I hit level 59. They continually cast Ethereal Remedy on themselves until they are at 50% mana. Once they dip below 50% they stop until they med to 50 and spam themselves again. It's almost as if they are misreading their hitpoint value and are trying to close the gap. I just hit level 60 last night and they are still doing it.

[provocating]

Originally Posted by Shiny151

Indeed. That's what I'm trying to make sense of. Due to the randomness of it it's hard to pinpoint what may be going on. However, there is one other issue with clerics I noticed when I hit level 59. They continually cast Ethereal Remedy on themselves until they are at 50% mana. Once they dip below 50% they stop until they med to 50 and spam themselves again. It's almost as if they are misreading their hitpoint value and are trying to close the gap. I just hit level 60 last night and they are still doing it.

It has been a year since I looked at bot code but even then Clerics would only heal when a player got below a certain amount. It almost seems like health and mana are getting confused, probably not though.

[Shiny151]

Well here's some further info about cleric mercs:

As the code currently stands; A level 59 cleric merc will spam him/herself until their mana is at 50 percent with what appears to be Ethereal Remedy (due to the, 'so-and-so's wounds fade away' message) until level 61 where it stops. I'm not sure if there's a problem with that particular heal/spell or there's something else buggy going on in level 59 and 60 but this our experience on my AKK's PEQ server updated repack.

Hope this helps.

[Shiny151]

Here's some additional info on ways to break mercs from the most recent pull-down compile from Akk's repack; (9096 I believe):

If your merc gets charmed by a mob/NPC and then the charm wears off, it basically leaves your merc just standing there broken. There's really no way to fix it in battle. Only a suspend or relog will reset the merc.

If anyone wants to confirm or test this, engage Lcea Katta in Katta Castellum.

[cannon]

Originally Posted by Shiny151

Indeed. That's what I'm trying to make sense of. Due to the randomness of it it's hard to pinpoint what may be going on. However, there is one other issue with clerics I noticed when I hit level 59. They continually cast Ethereal Remedy on themselves until they are at 50% mana. Once they dip below 50% they stop until they med to 50 and spam themselves again. It's almost as if they are misreading their hitpoint value and are trying to close the gap. I just hit level 60 last night and they are still doing it.

If you want a cheap fix for this. Provided your using the latest peq database for mercenaries. The merc level will still match the player level but will use the level 61 method for casting. i just narrowed down to the 7 healer and 7 caster entries for j1-j7.

update 'peq'.'merc_stats' SET 'level'=61 WHERE 'merc_npc_type_id'=11 AND 'clientlevel'=59;
update 'peq'.'merc_stats' SET 'level'=61 WHERE 'merc_npc_type_id'=12 AND 'clientlevel'=59;
update 'peq'.'merc_stats' SET 'level'=61 WHERE 'merc_npc_type_id'=13 AND 'clientlevel'=59;
update 'peq'.'merc_stats' SET 'level'=61 WHERE 'merc_npc_type_id'=14 AND 'clientlevel'=59;
update 'peq'.'merc_stats' SET 'level'=61 WHERE 'merc_npc_type_id'=15 AND 'clientlevel'=59;
update 'peq'.'merc_stats' SET 'level'=61 WHERE 'merc_npc_type_id'=16 AND 'clientlevel'=59;
update 'peq'.'merc_stats' SET 'level'=61 WHERE 'merc_npc_type_id'=17 AND 'clientlevel'=59;
update 'peq'.'merc_stats' SET 'level'=61 WHERE 'merc_npc_type_id'=11 AND 'clientlevel'=60;
update 'peq'.'merc_stats' SET 'level'=61 WHERE 'merc_npc_type_id'=12 AND 'clientlevel'=60;
update 'peq'.'merc_stats' SET 'level'=61 WHERE 'merc_npc_type_id'=13 AND 'clientlevel'=60;
update 'peq'.'merc_stats' SET 'level'=61 WHERE 'merc_npc_type_id'=14 AND 'clientlevel'=60;
update 'peq'.'merc_stats' SET 'level'=61 WHERE 'merc_npc_type_id'=15 AND 'clientlevel'=60;
update 'peq'.'merc_stats' SET 'level'=61 WHERE 'merc_npc_type_id'=16 AND 'clientlevel'=60;
update 'peq'.'merc_stats' SET 'level'=61 WHERE 'merc_npc_type_id'=17 AND 'clientlevel'=60;

EDIT: So I went back into the database to narrow down the healer mercs. you can change back any that obviously dont have mana, but I notice there is from what I assume J1-J5 casters (should be 5) J1-J5 for healers (should be 5), I have what I believe is 7 entries for each caster and healer.

[Shiny151]

Originally Posted by cannon

If you want a cheap fix for this. Provided your using the latest peq database for mercenaries. The merc level will still match the player level but will use the level 61 method for casting. i just narrowed down to the 7 healer and 7 caster entries for j1-j7.

Ahh I didn't try scaling up, I tried scaling down a while back and that didn't seem to work.

[cannon]

Originally Posted by Shiny151

Ahh I didn't try scaling up, I tried scaling down a while back and that didn't seem to work.

Trivial, but don't forget to restart your server after making changes.

[Shiny151]

Originally Posted by cannon

Trivial, but don't forget to restart your server after making changes.

Indeed. One other thing; notice once you hit 70 both the Apprentice and Journeyman cast Balikor's Mark rather than Hand of Conviction? That doesn't sound right to me and I'm trying to figure out the logic on that one.