Sanctuary fail? 07/10/2015 04:49 PM CDT
I have been largely very successful with Sanctuary. Whenever I cast it, it seems to completely keep the creatures out of the area.

However, lately I have been visiting the frostweaver/snowbeast area, and as far as I can tell Sanctuary isn't working at all on the snowbeasts. This is with a cast of 17 mana, and it's happened on two separate occasions. They can be kept away with a warhorn.

I am just curious, is there a hole in Sanctuary I wasn't aware of? Are some creatures immune, or was I perhaps very lucky before? Is it working as intended?

- Navesi
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Re: Sanctuary fail? 07/10/2015 05:02 PM CDT
Potentially stupid question, since I assume you would be aware of this... but are they arriving before the sanctuary is fully formed? It takes a few pulses before creatures should be prevented from entering.



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Re: Sanctuary fail? 07/10/2015 06:34 PM CDT
You're right, I should have mentioned.

I went back just now to count how many pulses were going through. I killed snowbeasts pretty regularly through at least nine pulses, probably several more that I missed. Only snowbeasts ever appeared -- never frostweavers -- and they appeared pretty regularly.

- Navesi
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Re: Sanctuary fail? 07/10/2015 07:07 PM CDT
I went and tested this myself, and it does appear to not be working against snowbeasts specifically either in the snowbeast only area or the gargoyle area as well.

I know that certain creatures are immune to certain Bard abilities due to their enraged state preventing their minds from being altered, so I went and tested Albreda's Balm as well but they're not immune to that either, which is normal for them and to be expected.



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Re: Sanctuary fail? 07/10/2015 07:26 PM CDT
I'd have to go do some digging but I expect it's a quirk of how the hunting area is set up - some of those old hunting areas are weird in how they handle spawn.

Just snowbeasts specifically? Does it work vs snowbeasts anywhere?

-Raesh

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Re: Sanctuary fail? 07/10/2015 09:30 PM CDT
<<Just snowbeasts specifically? Does it work vs snowbeasts anywhere?

I didn't test any other critters, but snowbeasts on either side of the gondola weren't being affected, and Navesi wasn't able to affect the ones that spawn with frostreavers.

I only used 14 mana compared to her 17 if that makes a difference.



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