Fear spell busted?

[oteb]

You complete your spell...
You summon a diamondine golem's shadow to rise and wrap it in its chilly embrace.

< 519h/734H 111v/111V >
< T: Obibble TC: few wounds E: diamond EC: nasty wounds P: std > use wand golem

You miss a diamondine golem with your hit.
A diamondine golem misses you with its smash.

< 520h/734H 111v/111V >
< T: Obibble TC: few wounds E: diamond EC: nasty wounds P: std > You direct some cool wand at a diamondine golem.
You scare the bejesus out of diamond diamondine golem!

< 520h/734H 111v/111V >
< T: Obibble TC: few wounds E: diamond EC: nasty wounds P: std >
A phantasmal tendril loosens its grip on a diamondine golem.

< 520h/734H 111v/111V >
< T: Obibble TC: few wounds E: diamond EC: nasty wounds P: std



No flee, no nothing. Happened twice with same mob. First I thought reason was it casting a spell but second time it wasnt. Question is why?

[fotex]

They don't always flee when the fear spell lands either. Don't know if this is by design or not, probably is though.

[oteb]

Uhm can it be by design? I get a message of spell landing and nothing happens. Looks really borked to me

[rylan]

Can tendrils keep it from fleeing maybe?

[oteb]

nope tendrils dont have that effect

[Ambar]

is it a sentinent mob issue? where the mob is designed to only stay in that room?

or is it with other mobs too?

[oteb]

It was in fact a sentinel mob but I have tried the spell on other sentinel mobs and they flee as they should. They just come back real fast. This one just ingored the spell.

[Sarell]

does it work on golems/undead?

[oteb]

doesnt on undead. And has different message

[sotana]

I've seen this happen with mobs before when I was playing with fear spell. Sometimes message would say they were scared but they didn't flee, then as I cast again it would say they were scared and then they DID flee. I just assumed that the spell had three options of operation: not scared at all, scared but not enuf to flee, and REALLY scared so they hightailed it out :-P I never noticed a pattern for mobs that tended to be scared but not flee more than other mobs but I'll play with spell some more and see what happens.