The Hidden Forest

I pretty much exploded last night about fear.
I did my usual thing, pull 20+ trash to slaughter and on my pull I riposted a mob for a mega truck load of 538 points of damage.
Amazing I know. /flex paladin dps pwns all
So I get summoned.
Ok [1] wtf last I checked 538 shouldnt trigger summon.
Ok no worries I can drag it to my camp slowly if needed....
Nope suddenly I get chain summoned by everything else that I had yet to damage.

From there I started busting things in the face for pissin me off but the CT punt kind of put a kink in my plans and obviously I died.
Normally I can live with a mistake but to see something summon me that has taken zero damage doesnt make me very happy.

Only mentioning this because today I saw this same behavior.
Pull roughly 20 mobs. Mob 1 takes damage cause I am at my spot killing, however mobs 20-24 stop outside of my true command range and have taken no damage, they are casting gimp spells that wouldnt land on Firenze or even Antihero. (wink wink Love you monks)
However they too start to summon me.

Did something change?

Nothing has changed code wise for summon in a long while (last change was back in may (?) timeframe)

Anyone else seeing similar issues?

I have never seen anything different in Fear. I have always been summoned by mobs no matter if i cause dmg to them or not. Once i pull them they start summon, i just got use to it and stopped pulling more then 4-5 mobs

Its the first time I've had that happen. Also had it happen in icewall when working on alts 2.0
One of the guys up near dains throne was standing up in the door casting on me while I killed all the royal guards, then decided to start summoning me.

i do believe things changed with the trash in Fear. the other night, we cleared the zone and i was getting chain summoned by trash without doing a single point of damage to them. and for the record, i took no damage from any of their gimp spells, although i still got dispelled to beat hell. that hasn't changed a bit.

Yep ill add to this one. Pulling groups just by running by them I was getting summoned all over the zone. Good thing I have a real tank, cant imagine how those poor Pallys feel. Must get confusing with all their fingerwiggling.

Happened to me. It happened near the temple when pulling the army's. I only had 4-6, made it back to the group which was just outside the fire ring, but the only thing I did is get within argo range. Had no DS on and did no damage.

Interesting... I can't seem to get this to replicate for me.

The summon code is fine, double checked that. I'll keep looking through the minor details to figure out where its happening at.

Didn't the %hp that a monster starts summoning at get changed within the last few months?

well, more like 6 months ago. According to the August 28th update, 2011:

NPCs will now summon at 97% not 94%

Maybe this trash is truly trashy and 538 takes its hp down to 97%?

Vaion wrote:Interesting... I can't seem to get this to replicate for me.

The summon code is fine, double checked that. I'll keep looking through the minor details to figure out where its happening at.

Same for me, V. I went into Fear as requested by one of the guilds that seemed to have trouble with that. Of course, as soon as I came in it worked perfectly for them

I tried myself and worked well for me, so I am kinda lost atm