Pixies Ruin Latent Effects - Add to Blockaid Feature Please

[Windblade]

I use a Rogue's Ring when farming so I can get Steal +3 with its latent effect, which requires 75% or lower Hit Points and fewer than 100 Tactical Points. But if I run past a pixie with 75% or less HP, I get a free cure, even when I have /blockaid on! While I know the pixie means well, it does ruin my day.

My suggestion is to have /blockaid apply to pixies as well as other players. Otherwise I'll have to run around with a big supply of venom potions to keep myself injured.

[RAIST]

yeah...this is a potential problem for mages that want to trigger latents too---but at least those guys usually have macros set up to quickly drop their hp back again.

Not sure how much of that gear is available to THF, should be a handful of accessories at least that can drop a couple hundred off real quick. Might be an option to look into instead of perpetually poisoning yourself.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

Um, wasn't it 75% or higher HP and less then 100% TP?

[Windblade]

According to FFXIclopedia:

Active while HP ≤ 75% and TP ≤ 100%.

[Windblade]

And why was my post moved to THIS forum? I wanted it to be a SUGGESTION because it IS a suggestion. Now the developers might not find it if it's over here in the battle content area.

[Economizer]

And why was my post moved to THIS forum? I wanted it to be a SUGGESTION because it IS a suggestion. Now the developers might not find it if it's over here in the battle content area.

I'm not sure where this was before, but if I had to guess, this was in the "Forum Suggestions" section, which is for suggestions about the forum, not the game.

[Ihnako]

It was moved because you mentioned "Rogue's Ring" and that's a THF topic.
And like RAIST mentioned before, make yourself a low hp trigger macro for that purpose.

Disabeling Pixies from spending free cures cause one player doesn't want it... ;p

[Hikarino]

The request wasn't to disable pixies from giving out cures. There's a function in FFXI called blockaid, which allows you to automatically disallow cures being cast on you from people not in your alliance. He simply wants the feature to be extendable to pixies.

And before you say, "I know what it is", you either don't know, or chose to ignore what he was actually asking to try and start a fight. Okay, done feeding the trolls...

Back on topic, odds are good they won't add pixies to the blockaid function... Players and monsters are different entities, and the code probably recognizes them differently. A seperate function MIGHT be more plausible, but I wouldn't bank on it, either. I'm not saying it wouldn't happen, just giving you warning that this may be functionality SE doesn't have time to implement based on such a low demand.

That said, if SE does happen to read this... By all means, please do. The function would only improve gameplay, and being optional, everyone would have the choice.

[Kristal]

I use a Rogue's Ring when farming so I can get Steal +3 with its latent effect, which requires 75% or lower Hit Points and fewer than 100 Tactical Points. But if I run past a pixie with 75% or less HP, I get a free cure, even when I have /blockaid on! While I know the pixie means well, it does ruin my day.

My suggestion is to have /blockaid apply to pixies as well as other players. Otherwise I'll have to run around with a big supply of venom potions to keep myself injured.

Pixies cure you because they love you. Make them stop loving you, and they stop curing you. Eat their babies, slaughter their elders, eviscerate their sisters, exenterate their mothers.

Or.. pack a few HP/MP swap pieces.. for a few gil, you can create a 400 HP difference, more then enough to get HP to 75%. Put some of those illgotten gains to good use!

[Ihnako]

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.