Shaman's Phosphate

[Rhysling]

I didn't know where else to put this, so I'll ask here:

Why doesn't Phosphate work on mobs?

[Pein]

Good question. Could be a bug.

[Rhysling]

My shaman tried using it to find a hidden mob that I know is there (I don't see too many problems with soul sense if phosphate is tuned right). If it getting tripped by wandering mobs is too big an issue, would it be possible to set it like alarm, but only allowing pc or npc and limiting the number of rooms you can phosphate? I think alarm has a limit to the number of rooms it can be used on before it starts recycling, but I haven't used it in a long time.

I don't think this belongs in the Next Great Idea thread, so if anyone feels like transporting this thread to an area it's better suited to, the help would be appreciated.

[ink]

Last I saw phosphate works on mobs just fine. The mob has to walk INTO the room, you can't just cast it in the room the mob is stationary in.

[Rhysling]

I tried pinking most of the rooms in the jungle next to Temple of Isiira and didn't get the leopard or any of the other hidden mobs. Maybe I was just unlucky.

[Avarice]

Could just be bad luck. I don't think it makes any difference what level the mob is, or what level the phos is cast at. If the mob doesn't walk in or out tho, it won't hit the phosphate....

[pitt]

I don't think phosphate ever works on hidden things? Moving breaks hide, so the mobs aren't hidden in the instant they move into the room, they just hide again once they're safely past the phosphate.

Would be great if it did, though

[Anduin]

^ if you're following someone/something while hiding, you stay hidden as they/you move.

[Rhysling]

What do people think of being able to trigger phosphate to engulf a room? You'd have to be in the room to do it, so you could get caught by it as well. It would pink everyone/thing in the room. Kind of like faerie dust.

[Pein]

If you hide in a room with phosphate, it should pink you too. Either the mobs are moving then re-hiding which should pink them, or they're staying hidden while they move (which should IMO also pink them).

Try charming a mob, invising them then walking them into a room with phosphate. If they're getting pinked then, it might just be with mob hide. If you can order a mob to hide, the same method should work to check if they get pinked when they hide in a room with phosphate. I'd say that's a good way to narrow down what's going on with them.

Magemobs can be phosphated during AMMQ's though (I'm pretty sure, anyway) so it should be possible to do it.