Fighting from the Air with Pet

MystiMonk - Sanctuary

I would like to know if fighting a land mob from the air with air pet is bannable offence.We were discussing this in my faction.

Dyskrasia - Heavens Tear

It's only bannable if the land mob isn't able to attack the pet. A few bosses have this glitch, so attacking them with an air pet would be bannable. Everything else is fine, though.

tweakz

It doesn't happen every time your pet attacks those mobs, and can happen accidentally even when you're on the ground due to terrain. I'm pretty sure what they ban for is intentional abuse of their flawed code. Shift target terrain just below mob then send pet to attack = intentional abuse. Pet accidentally doesn't get hit from 1/10 mobs you tab attacked = their problem.

MystiMonk - Sanctuary

Shift target terrain just below mob then send pet to attack = intentional abuse. Pet accidentally doesn't get hit from 1/10 mobs you tab attacked = their problem.

What do you mean by this if you keep constantly doing it and you don't have to heal pet?

Yindra - Sanctuary

Funny... so far I only noticed the bug the "other way". Sometimes, especially with the monster standing in water (i.e. ground pet in water, not fishes --- like in the Wraith Swamps area), my fly does almost no damage at all (apparently only the Bash gets through, but the normal attacks in between do not). In such cases I have to recall the pet and send it in again to fix it.
The monster has no problems hitting my fly in such cases.

It *seems* more likely to happen when I send the fly while I'm moving towards the monster --- i.e. when she comes in at a lower angle. This might also be the reason why recalling usually fixes it --- by the time I notice the bug I'm usually hovering above the target, so the 2nd approach is from a 90 degree angle...

So by now, I avoid ground monsters in the water, no matter whether I use the Golem or the Fly. Neither one works particulary well in those cases.

FoxyCleo - Raging Tide

fighting a land mob with a flying pet from the air is not bannable.
you can indeed gitch mobs, but it's not worth the effort. to position the pet correctly takes longer than the kill.

most bosses can't be done legit with an air pet (exception would be that one water boss for one of the cultis .. 79 i think it was). if you see a veno killing gouf from the air, she's bugusing, and THAT is bannable.

Solandri - Heavens Tear

FoxyCleo - Raging Tide wrote: »

most bosses can't be done legit with an air pet (exception would be that one water boss for one of the cultis .. 79 i think it was). if you see a veno killing gouf from the air, she's bugusing, and THAT is bannable.

The incident rate of the glitch on bosses is the same as on regular mobs. The vast majority of the time you send an air pet at the boss, the boss can hit back, so it's completely legit. I've been killing bosses with my phoenix for almost a year now, and I can only think of about a half dozen times where I had to reposition it because I noticed the boss wasn't able to hit it.

SerenityMare - Dreamweaver

If that's bannable then is that attack that clerics attack the Towerling with in FB/BH29 bannable too?
The Towerling can't attack or do anything, it just stays there. o.o

Searing - Dreamweaver

SerenityMare - Dreamweaver wrote: »

If that's bannable then is that attack that clerics attack the Towerling with in FB/BH29 bannable too?
The Towerling can't attack or do anything, it just stays there. o.o

The Tower (or all the mobs near it except the Lamp) don't do aything when you attack with a ranged attack, class doesn't matter. This is a different type of glitch because the Tower & Co. will never do anything when you attack via range so your only option would be to go in there and start smacking it with your wand.

MystiMonk - Sanctuary

I got help from a friend doing culti 49 and my friend used his Nix from the air and attacked the bosses all 3 of them.I do believe they as he was nuking from the air and I think his Nix died once as he didn't play for a month.I imagine this doesn't qualify as a ban.

xxxdsmer

i would imagine what would be bannable is abusing the glitch where ur fighting a ground mob with a flying pet and where the ground mob/boss cannot inflict damage to your flying pet, as i'd seen once when i sent my nix to attack something (i dont remember what).. but the mob/boss was unable to inflict damage to my phoenix, and i have not tried to recreate this as i already knew it would be a bannable thing if abused lol.

but a thing like that is what they would ban someone for (repeatedly positioning a air pet so that when sent to attack, the target cannot inflict damage on the nix)

pretty much, if the mob/boss you're fighting is popping up numbers over ur nix (or w/e air pet), ur good. if its not popping up any numbers over ur nix (not doing dmg to it), then its time to recall ur pet to you and resend it to attack (dont stow, b/c gouf or whoever would come after u lol, just tell it to fly back to you then resend it to attack, mby after changing position a little, and if the mob/boss starts inflicting dmg to your air pet, ur good to go)