Curse

jonnieboi05 · Jan 31, 2009, 02:32 AM // 02:32

So, my girlfriend was playing on her alt account (since her main account is afk in 9-rings) doing the festival quests for the quest rewards and then she randomly says "oh my god what the hell!?". Due to my surprise, I quickly ask her "what!?". She then replies with a short laugh and says to me "one of the "terrain creatures" (for example, an untargetable bull grazing in shing jea) suddenly just dropped dead as out of no where :\" Not only did I find this weird, but, she furthermore proceeded by saying it dropped loot for her. From what she said, it was on the very, very edge of her compass range so it dying definately had nothing to with her.

Anyways, I asked her to send me a screen shot of it and to make sure the screen had these elements in it so 'tards on GWGuru don't automatically give us that "0MFG YEW R T3H PR0 1337 L14R!!! DIZ EZ IMP0SS1BLE TO H4PP3N!! (aka: screen shot or it never happened) mumble jumble.

It shows the dead bull.

It said the Bull's name dropping the loot in the chat panel.

It shows her name (although the name is censored out) picking up the loot in the chat panel.

Anyways, here's the screen. Enjoy.

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/9346/lulzzy5.jpg

p.s.
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I am not really trying to say this is a bug, so, please redirect this to the correct place as you see fit. Thanks!

~LeNa~

isildorbiafra · Jan 31, 2009, 03:17 AM // 03:17

The bull is part of the quest...and i supect the minions killed it before she could.

Nightow · Jan 31, 2009, 03:17 AM // 03:17

I've seen snow wolves (among other tamable creatures) drop lunar tokens tonight. Only difference here is that a) the animal is not tamable and b) not selectable. Someone probably used a non-targeted nuke or an aoe nuke (like [ray of judgment]) on a nearby creature and that's what killed the water buffalo. Don't really think it's a bug but that's just my opinion.

Darth The Xx · Jan 31, 2009, 04:07 AM // 04:07

I had this happen too, but the bull was killed by my ele's AoE spell when killing the raging bull. duno if thats a bug

DJCoastal · Jan 31, 2009, 05:05 AM // 05:05

Quote:

Originally Posted by isildorbiafra

The bull is part of the quest...and i supect the minions killed it before she could.

Notice the other dead bull at the bottom left corner... that one you can kill... The other 3 around the main bull you can't even target it.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nightow

I've seen snow wolves (among other tamable creatures) drop lunar tokens tonight. Only difference here is that a) the animal is not tamable and b) not selectable. Someone probably used a non-targeted nuke or an aoe nuke (like [ray of judgment]) on a nearby creature and that's what killed the water buffalo. Don't really think it's a bug but that's just my opinion.

None of my heros had any kind of aoe spells. That alt account is such fail. So I gave them whatever I had that was unlocked.

I just found it weird that it dropped me something. T__T

But Olias made a nice minion out of him. O.0

jiggles · Jan 31, 2009, 06:08 AM // 06:08

death nova

12chars

jonnieboi05 · Jan 31, 2009, 06:14 AM // 06:14

Quote:

Originally Posted by isildorbiafra

The bull is part of the quest...and i supect the minions killed it before she could.

If you click this you will see that the "Water Buffalo" isn't even listed on wiki as an enemy (or any information about it, for that matter). The Raging Bull is what you are reffering to for what you need to kill to complete the quest. Notice the difference?

We're not noobs, we know what we're talkin' about. :P

_Nihilist_ · Jan 31, 2009, 06:24 AM // 06:24

1337 h4xx0rz. SS 4 proof owns the usual BS.

Gratz on killing the scenery and getting phat lewt.

DJCoastal · Jan 31, 2009, 06:42 AM // 06:42

Quote:

Originally Posted by jiggles

death nova

12chars

Nope. Not death nova. I have it on my minion master's bar but I have it disabled. He can't use it at all.

Zodiac Meteor · Jan 31, 2009, 08:12 AM // 08:12

I had this happen to me before. Any PBAoE, [[[email protected]] etc. that hits a cow he will take damage. I believe [[unholy [email protected]] will also hurt them.

jonnieboi05 · Jan 31, 2009, 08:54 AM // 08:54

Yes, I've done this before. Well, to be precise, I hit a bull w/ Death Blosson right outside Shing Jea Monestary when I was attacking a Mantid. It became aggressive (and even made a loud bull-yelp because it was a critical, I believe. lol xD) and started running for about a good 2-3 seconds and then became untargetable again. I didn't think it was possible to kill them, though, so that is why I was interested in the situation. The fact that it DID die **AND** dropped loot (since I am almost 100% sure the only loot it CAN drop are festivel items) makes me wonder if my girlfriend is perhaps the first one in GW history to pull this off (even though she didn't even attack it or was anywhere near it xD).

~LeNa~

JSpayde · Jan 31, 2009, 09:41 AM // 09:41

Its okay, I was amazed to see those non-targetable bulls even had HP. I found out when something with AoE triggered it, was kind of cool.

Now, if only it dropped something incredibly rare... like Balthazar's Beard.

Faer · Jan 31, 2009, 09:47 AM // 09:47

The item dropping is not a bug. Those WBs are considered killable creatures by the game, and all (or most) killable creatures have a chance to drop the Tokens (including silly things, like the dummies on Isle of the Nameless). As for the dying... Eh, who knows. But with the skillbars covered, and no proof that it wasn't killed by a player or Hero, I can't get into whether or not that is a bug.

In any event, instead of being closed or deleted, this thread is being moved to Riverside, where you folks can discuss this to your heart's content.

Mr.Kotte · Jan 31, 2009, 10:22 AM // 10:22

PBAoE also kills em... nothing new though.

draxynnic · Jan 31, 2009, 12:08 PM // 12:08

Quote:

Originally Posted by Faer

The item dropping is not a bug. Those WBs are considered killable creatures by the game, and all (or most) killable creatures have a chance to drop the Tokens (including silly things, like the dummies on Isle of the Nameless). As for the dying... Eh, who knows. But with the skillbars covered, and no proof that it wasn't killed by a player or Hero, I can't get into whether or not that is a bug.

In any event, instead of being closed or deleted, this thread is being moved to Riverside, where you folks can discuss this to your heart's content.

This is pretty much it.

The untargetable 'scenary creatures' have been killable since release - you just need to find a way of dealing damage to them without targetting them. PBAOE spells are a common solution.

I think one of the devs even suggested it as a 'think you've done everything, here's something to do if you're just that bored' at one point.

jonnieboi05 · Jan 31, 2009, 01:14 PM // 13:14

Heh, we are aware it is not a bug that it dropped the festivel item. Whenever events are applied to the servers, I am pretty sure that aNet makes everything that is killable (in PvE) able to drop an event item. Anyways, I just woke up like 10 minutes ago and I have to get ready for work. Bye, all.

~LeNa~

Gwmaster · Jan 31, 2009, 04:13 PM // 16:13

could it be possible it was the dervish hero?

Mars Dragonblade · Jan 31, 2009, 04:33 PM // 16:33

I had this happen to me today too, but it's nothing new. I just stuck searing flames on two ele heroes and blasted the bull, which in turn fried the buffalo and it dropped a token.

Alleji · Jan 31, 2009, 08:55 PM // 20:55

Blast those blacked-out bars. I wanted to steal your supersecret bull-owning build.

Sir Skullcrasher · Jan 31, 2009, 09:02 PM // 21:02

This would be insane if that bull dropped a gold item!