Exploding Tar Potion how to use?

[kvhokuto]

Hi sorry if this has been covered but do Exploding Tar Potions do anything? A dev said they are a "forced walk potion" but I haven't been able to produce this effect. All testing was done with red unguilded character vs mounted and unmounted chars.

thanks.

 

[GarthGrey]

What's next ? The Mr T Mohawk Grenade?

 

[kvhokuto]

Well they nerfed pot targetting so the least they can do is give us a pot to slow ppl down, too bad it doesn't seem to work.

 

[Zalan]

I never used one. However, I would suspect after hitting someone with a Tar patch potion throw a fireball at them. They may catch on fire.

 

[Flutter]

Hi sorry if this has been covered but do Exploding Tar Potions do anything? A dev said they are a "forced walk potion" but I haven't been able to produce this effect. All testing was done with red unguilded character vs mounted and unmounted chars.

thanks.

Did you try having the person aggro you first?

 

[Death Adder]

I started to test them but I only had 9 and all of them were "resisted" by the target (most with 120 Resist but two of them on an 88 Resist char).

I plan to test more to see if they affect chars without Resist, but I haven't gotten around to it. I was very excited when I heard about them but if they have no effect on chars with Resist then they'll be very limited in use, IMO.

 

[Pinco]

these potions are for pk... to use againist pvm char without resist

 

[kvhokuto]

I tested them against zero resist, they performed exactly like a regular explosion potion.

 

[Stupid Miner]

I tested them against zero resist, they performed exactly like a regular explosion potion.

Strangely unsurprising.

 

[Death Adder]

Remember that I only had 9, but the first one I tried in Trammel and it worked like a GE potion. I took them to Fel to test and they worked differently -- no countdown timer and a target cursor. They would fly to their target and impact but then I'd get the message "your target has resisted the potion" (and the target got a similar message).

I will test these further tonight. It occurs to me that they might be more effective against ninja forms, gargoyles in flight mode, and targets with 0 (or 20 for human) Resist, so I'll try out all these permutations.

 

[Trevelyan]

The only entries I have found so far in the localisation strings are:

• Exploding Tar Potion
• You resist the exploding tar potion.
• Your target resists the exploding tar potion.
• Exploding Tar
• Movement slowed.

So my guess would be that, if the target doesn't resist, it would slow the movement (hence, forced to walk instead of run)

 

[Zosimus]

If its for making movement slowed then they are just adding alike a snare spell in the game like they do in their other games (warhammer and daoc). Quite annoying sometimes when Im the victim but great when ya can chain them on the enemy lol

 

[kvhokuto]

So... Nobody has got these to work? If so, what's the secret?

 

[Surgeries]

I am pretty sure it's a two part process.

They just need to give us the "Bag of Feathers"....

 

[Death Adder]

They're buggy... last time I tested they were working like GE pots -- pop them, get a 3 second countdown, throw them and they land on the ground, then explode for fire damage. The time before that, I'd pop them, get no countdown, throw them directly at the target, and was resisted EVERY time by a target with 120 resist and twice out of two against a target with 88 resist.

I'll test them again... last time I wanted to see how they work against a 0 resist char, but like I said they were buggy last time out.

 

[uoBuoY]

First, throw Tar Potion
Next, get some feathers...

 

[Airhaun]

Tested using 10 Exploding Tar potions against a char with 120 Resist. I had the target aggro me first. No effect no message.

Perhaps I'm doing something wrong, anybody have any ideas or get different results? If not... how embarrassing and waste of time for the devs.