Charming in Lyceum

[MugnMo]

<DIV>Has anyone else had problems with the encounter resetting while having a mob charmed in Lyceum?  I charmed a pet out of the last large encounter, and while we were setting up for the last guy my pet went poof and the encounter respawned.  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>On the same oddities of charming in raid zones, I tried to charm one of the crab adds in the 2x crab zone and as soon as it landed, the group of 4 despawned, and 8 spawned in their place.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Has anyone else experienced these kinds of oddities while charming in raid zones or am I just having rotten luck?  This kind of thing makes me hesitant to try it again. </DIV>

[Raidi Sovin'faile]

For raids, I've only ever used charm for the duration of that fight. So once everything is dead, we drop charm and kill the last thing.I've run into your situation with charm in other areas, but that's mostly because of the time involved with charm and *i think* locked encounters. Ever since I turned off locked encounters, I haven't had any problems with it.Since epics are automatically locked encounters, that could be why you are getting this so often. Just use it for the fight and then kill it off.<div></div>

[Aoi]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> MugnMobs wrote:<BR> <DIV>Has anyone else had problems with the encounter resetting while having a mob charmed in Lyceum?  I charmed a pet out of the last large encounter, and while we were setting up for the last guy my pet went poof and the encounter respawned.  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>On the same oddities of charming in raid zones, I tried to charm one of the crab adds in the 2x crab zone and as soon as it landed, the group of 4 despawned, and 8 spawned in their place.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Has anyone else experienced these kinds of oddities while charming in raid zones or am I just having rotten luck?  This kind of thing makes me hesitant to try it again. </DIV><BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P><BR>Can you be more specific, as in which encounter in Lyceum?</P> <P>I think some of the named encounters are timed, which is an attempt to prevent zerging, but not exactly sure how the mechanics work.  If its a normal encounter, then it might just be the pet "poof" thing we've all seen from time to time (maybe a bug, not sure, but I see it in nizara nad nek3 a lot).</P> <P>Also, charming is just not allowed in some places, i.e. crab.  You wouldn't really want a pet in the crab instance anyway, as you would get 4 adds if he spiked the raid over 5k DPS on any occasion during the fight (which can be done w/o actually using a spell that does 5k dmg, FYI).</P> <P>Cyene</P>

[MugnMo]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Aoine wrote:<BR> <BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> MugnMobs wrote:<BR> <DIV>Has anyone else had problems with the encounter resetting while having a mob charmed in Lyceum?  I charmed a pet out of the last large encounter, and while we were setting up for the last guy my pet went poof and the encounter respawned.  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>On the same oddities of charming in raid zones, I tried to charm one of the crab adds in the 2x crab zone and as soon as it landed, the group of 4 despawned, and 8 spawned in their place.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Has anyone else experienced these kinds of oddities while charming in raid zones or am I just having rotten luck?  This kind of thing makes me hesitant to try it again. </DIV><BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P><BR>Can you be more specific, as in which encounter in Lyceum?</P> <P>I think some of the named encounters are timed, which is an attempt to prevent zerging, but not exactly sure how the mechanics work.  If its a normal encounter, then it might just be the pet "poof" thing we've all seen from time to time (maybe a bug, not sure, but I see it in nizara nad nek3 a lot).</P> <P>Also, charming is just not allowed in some places, i.e. crab.  You wouldn't really want a pet in the crab instance anyway, as you would get 4 adds if he spiked the raid over 5k DPS on any occasion during the fight (which can be done w/o actually using a spell that does 5k dmg, FYI).</P> <P>Cyene</P><BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P><BR>Per my original post, it was a pet of the last large encounter (with 8 heroic mobs).  </P> <P>As for the crab, I've never seen the 4 adds if your DPS is too high...I've always through that was a myth.  I'd have to see if I can find a parse of that fight to see what our damage looked like though.</P>

[Korrupt-W]

<DIV>heh definitely not a myth</DIV>

[mutschml]

<DIV>I had a respawn on our last lyceum run as well. I charmed one of the mobs in the first encounter, and used that for a while. On the last trash encounter before the essence, charm broke, and before I could recharm him, it poofed and the encounter I got the mob from respawned. Nothing really to worry about. Just had to clear the way again for the late people.</DIV> <DIV>I just wanted to admit, that the reset happened to me as well.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Bicia, 70-coercer on Kithicor</DIV>

[MugnMo]

<DIV><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> mutschml wrote:<BR> <DIV>I had a respawn on our last lyceum run as well. I charmed one of the mobs in the first encounter, and used that for a while. On the last trash encounter before the essence, charm broke, and before I could recharm him, it poofed and the encounter I got the mob from respawned. Nothing really to worry about. Just had to clear the way again for the late people.</DIV> <DIV>I just wanted to admit, that the reset happened to me as well.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Bicia, 70-coercer on Kithicor</DIV><BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR>I just assumed it was a wierd bug until someone else got it.  I tried again last night regardless and took a pet from the first encounter.  I kept it through the demented named and had no issues.  Charm broke on probably 3 or 4 occasions but I never had the mob despawn.  </DIV>

[mutschml]

<blockquote>MugnMobs wrote:I just assumed it was a wierd bug until someone else got it.  I tried again last night regardless and took a pet from the first encounter.  I kept it through the demented named and had no issues.  Charm broke on probably 3 or 4 occasions but I never had the mob despawn. </blockquote><hr>This was the first time for me as well. Usually I DC Wizard and coercer (means coercer is more a buff bot). But on lyceum playing a full-time charming coercer is much more fun. I only made a few runs so far like this, and the respawn only happened once, in now 3-4 runs like this.

[Korrupt-W]

<DIV>Had this happen to me as well first time this week with the first encounter</DIV>