Pixies Ruin Latent Effects - Add to Blockaid Feature Please

[Kristal]

Actualy I think Pixies are the counterpart of undead mages.
They don't cure you cause you have lowHP no, they attack you with their only accessible spell and then deaggro.

So in the end - it would be impossible to extend a block to NPCs at all.

Not so much agro, more like curiosity. Hpembe will follow you for a while, which was actual agroing without attacking, but pixies are more like those tiny mandragora that follow you around. Carbuncle doesn't seem to freak out about that.. maybe because they are cute tiny sprouts and not frickin' huge floating goldfish?

At least, I never saw a carbuncle running around with a dead pixie in it's mouth after the foul fey dared to cure it's master...

[Hikarino]

Actualy I think Pixies are the counterpart of undead mages.
They don't cure you cause you have lowHP no, they attack you with their only accessible spell and then deaggro.

So in the end - it would be impossible to extend a block to NPCs at all.

Mmm, no. They have access to many more spells, which you'd know if you fought one (not reccomended if you like your free cures).

You do have a point about the block of NPCs, though; it'd be difficult to implement a block option to pixies. You couldn't block cures without blocking aggressive actions as well. Adding an option to "block" them would be abusable by anyone looking for easy exp.

Maybe an option to get a status that adds a certain amount to your pixie hate, not to exceed a certain level? Your natural hate could still surpass this limit, but it'd put you at a point where pixies wouldn't cure you any more. Make it last until you change jobs and obtainable from any signet/sigil/sanction NPC, or even from your moghouse moogle. It wouldn't be impossible.

[EDIT] just some fixes.

[Ihnako]

Sure it wouldn't be impossible but as mentioned earlier - there are several ways allready implemented to a) lower your HP through gear and b) let them stop curing you.

[Windblade]

Call me schizophrenic, but even though pixies are just pixel wads, I feel guilty killing them. It literally hurts my feelings, so I guess I'll just deal with the issue and try to avoid them. I'll also just make more venom potions and consider them a farming expense. ...not that Steal +3 actually seems to work. I have a hard time stealing wool off sheep even with all my Steal+ gear equipped.

Thanks for all the replies.

[Tamoa]

Mmm, no. They have access to many more spells, which you'd know if you fought one (not reccomended if you like your free cures).

You do have a point about the block of NPCs, though; it'd be difficult to implement a block option to pixies. You couldn't block cures without blocking aggressive actions as well. Adding an option to "block" them would be abusable by anyone looking for easy exp.

Maybe an option to get a status that adds a certain amount to your pixie hate, not to exceed a certain level? Your natural hate could still surpass this limit, but it'd put you at a point where pixies wouldn't cure you any more. Make it last until you change jobs and obtainable from any signet/sigil/sanction NPC, or even from your moghouse moogle. It wouldn't be impossible.

[EDIT] just some fixes.

I swear there is no such thing as "pixie-hate" - I killed the things en masse for their Stygian Ash back when I camped DI on a daily basis, and they have never not cured or raised me.

[Alderin]

Tamoa is correct. Pixie hate is a myth.

Killing pixies simply lowers their population in present & past zones. Releasing a bottled pixie to the spring (like for the cure pot staff trial) builds their population overtime. Their population is dependent on server wide hate. If people kill loads of pixies - less will pop.

On a side note, although this suggestion makes sense - I personally think that it is more effort / time spent on developing something else then it is worth. Just because the OP ran passed a pixie once at 75% due to a latent, doesn't mean it's worth spending the dev's time on something that can be avoided by simply running around them.

[macross]

Just kill the pixie.

[Windblade]

On a side note, although this suggestion makes sense - I personally think that it is more effort / time spent on developing something else then it is worth. Just because the OP ran passed a pixie once at 75% due to a latent, doesn't mean it's worth spending the dev's time on something that can be avoided by simply running around them.

Well, it's easy to run up on them, like over a hilltop where I can't see the pixie until I go over the crest of the hill. And then pixies on the move can sneak up behind me and cure me.

I only suggested it because it seems like it would be something easy to add to the /blockaid feature with just a line of new programming code. This would be more like BASIC, but:

IF CURESOURCE=PIXIE THEN CAST=0

The programming code already exists in the game for this type of thing. That's why we cannot cast Refresh on people not in our party. Just do the same thing to Pixies with Cure.

[Ihnako]

IF PC.hp < 75% THEN cure(x, pc)
Counter
IF PC.hp < 75% AND npc.cure(x, pc) THEN gearswitch

[Kristal]

Well, it's easy to run up on them, like over a hilltop where I can't see the pixie until I go over the crest of the hill. And then pixies on the move can sneak up behind me and cure me.

I only suggested it because it seems like it would be something easy to add to the /blockaid feature with just a line of new programming code. This would be more like BASIC, but:

IF CURESOURCE=PIXIE THEN CAST=0

The programming code already exists in the game for this type of thing. That's why we cannot cast Refresh on people not in our party. Just do the same thing to Pixies with Cure.

It's easy to write a shakespearian novel, the words are already there!
It would be far easier -and cheaper- to just ban anyone asking for this.
No, really, do the math.

Things like this are NEVER easy. One wrong decimal, and you got NPCs dealing 22000 damage, or receiving 99999 damage from Cure I.