Lots of encounters in EQ will spam spells, like dragon fear is on a very
tight timer etc. In order to eliminate the need to script all of these
encounters AI spells with a priority of '0' will be treated as "innate
spells." Devs have used this term and it is what I believe they mean by
it.
You can run update npc_spells_entries set priority = priority + 1 where priority >= 0;
to disable the behavior.
Improved grounding issues with NPC's during combat
Improved scenarios where NPC's need to be dragged out of the ground - they should correct themselves far more consistently
- Scenarios where an NPC is coming up from the bottom floor, or from the top floor, they will correct much better
- A video of these tests can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtC7bVNM7ZQ&feature=youtu.be
This commit makes combat much more live like. This is based on a lot of parses
done by TAKP and myself. There are numerous things based on dev quotes and
hints. Pretty much all combat has changed, spell effects correct, stacking
correct, etc.
This is the fist stage of the revamp, I will be trying to remove some code
duplication and make things generally cleaner.
Server ops will have to rebalance their NPCs. AC actually means something now.
Rough recommendations?
Level 50 "classic" trash should be no more than 115.
Classic raid mobs should be more 200+ etc
Other "classic" NPCs should be a lot lower as well.
PoP trash probably shouldn't exceed 120 AC
PoP raids should be higher
Devs have said the vast majority of NPCs didn't exceed 600 AC until very
recently. The exceptions were mostly raid encounters.
There really isn't a good "default" for every server, so this will be up to
the devs to find where they want their server stats to be.
