Arelith

So there is a bug when a caster casts darkness, wall of fire, or any AoE spell that I may not know about that can trigger this. When these spells are cast, the shadow has a tendency to attack that party member. Ever on that party member is hostile until the shadowdancer summons a different shadow.

Normally when a weak summon like that does this I think no big deal and use a healers kit. But, since shadows have crippling strike it is the most obnoxious, frustrating bug to deal with.

Solution: If it is difficult to make a summon have a script to stop attacking casters that cast this spell (all the other summons don't do this. Just the shadowdancer summon), we can just remove crippling strike from the shadow so players don't have to burn all their restorations on a hunt then get stuck with dealing with being encumbered since the player in party who summons it refuses to remove it. This can cause people to disperse and separate as well which is very silly to break up rp over.

I hope my voice is heard and this bug gets fixed. Very frustrating one to handle indeed.

Thanks.

Oh. This old bug. Yeah, darkness and I think maybe grease had to be turned into a nonhostile spell to prevent city NPCs and party summons from randomly executing the caster with extreme prejudice that can't be be stopped with commands or playertool1. Same for properly hostile spells like wall of fire for summons. Something probably went wrong in the latest update.

Actually, lately -guard is barely working as well. It seems like some scripts got collectively messed up.

it's just that shadow's crippling strike man! That's what makes it so frustrating every time: Strength drain. You know how many restoration scrolls I burned up? lol