Synaptic Static

[icecillam]

help synaptic
SYNAPTICSTATIC "SYNAPTIC STATIC"
Psionic Ability.

Syntax: synapticstatic <victim>
Area of effect: <victim>
Duration: Instantaneous
Aggressive: Yes
Class/Level: Psionicist 31st
Type of Ability: Telepathy

Synaptic static allow you to invade the victim's mind and scramble
his memories. Victims affected by the skill will forget memories,
people, and perhaps spells.

Skill level - mastered.
Forget memories/people does not seem to work.
Forget spells seems to take far too long.

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Your projection successfully scrambles an insane svirfneblin slave thoughts and memories.
An insane svirfneblin slave misses you with his hit.

Repeat 5x, same result. Think I drained his mana by then.
Repeat 3x with fail messages. Keep getting hit.

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Your projection successfully scrambles an apprentice sorcerer thoughts and memories.
An apprentice sorcerer misses you with his hit.

< 694h/694H 647p/712P 205v/206V >
< T: Icecillam TC: excellent E: apprentice EC: excellent >
You miss an apprentice sorcerer with your hit.
An apprentice sorcerer misses you with his hit.
An apprentice sorcerer starts casting an offensive spell.

Repeat 5x, same result, got bolted.
Tho noticed after that, failed 2 times and after that he stoped casting spells.

[Yayaril]

8)

Mobs don't cast spells via mana.

[Thrand]

Well 'someone' once told me that all this skill does is
-if successful- cause the mob to forget a random spell.
Since those snivelling gnomes dont cast it does nothing.
Btw I have used that skill till I mastered it at one point.
Even at master, I wasn't able to get even a low level
caster to stop casting at me. I guess it was forgetting
the wrong spells :twisted:

Ezza

[Xisiqomelir]

Synaptic static does nothing. It is a skill with no appreciable function whatsoever (as opposed to minor rejuve, which has a real, if useless, purpose).

[icecillam]

Yeah I know it does nothing Xisi, was hoping posting this would get one of the coders to go ah ha, theres a bug in the code, and miraculously it'll work.

[icecillam]

sooooo, is there something messed with the skill or is it functioning as intended?

[Chandigar2]

Dunno if this is part of the problem, but if you were trying to drain the memories of the svirfneblin it looks like the skill removes you from its aggro list.... however since you were still in combat, it immediately adds you back onto it. If someone else is tanking, the skill might remove aggro ppl not in combat....

[Llaaldara]

Was your Vicious tog'd on?

Have you tried using this skill when you weren't the tank or auto-engaged in combat. Left the room, and came back and seen if the mob still remembers you?

:?:

[icecillam]

Always vic off, no agro.
Usually get split second before mob engages when you enter room, which is when its used. Mob engages imeadatly after usage.

I think, mebe once in a hundred times, I use the skill and it didnt engage me. Or I could of been not remembering things correctly since this is an incredibly rare event.

[Treladian]

Wait, the mob is naturally aggro? If that's the case, then it's still going to attack you anyway. Being aggro in general and being aggro to someone in particular are different.

[icecillam]

No the mob isnt normally agro. Had to synaptic static him once to agro me (hitting it usually works too).