Why did this happen to me? (a sad story)

[MaryForUo]

Let me start by saying that after about 15/20 chromatic totems I still have to get 1 2 slot nightmare red or green.
Today a nice green 2 slot appears in front of me, I was with a Cu + bow to kill faster nightmare.
I go away and release the CU.
After which I return to tame the 2 green slot nigthmare....but...the nightmare follows me so fast and I see the CU killing the nightmare in front of me, I tried to kill the CU, but nothing.... the CU killed the mare.... ok now i wanna die too... i'm so ....

 

[Keven2002]

Sorry to hear that.

For the "why" it happened is because a Cu is a positive karma mob and a nightmare is a negative so it auto aggro's I believe. I'm not sure of your build but if you were using a non trained Cu to help kill nightmares; it's probably quicker/easier to just throw eval/magery on your toon with high SDI and explode/ebolt/ebolt. That's what I do and 50% of the time the mare doesn't even have enough time to aggro me; takes about 5-10seconds to kill the mare.

I'm not sure what share you play (if it's super busy) but another option would be to use a 5 slot trained pet (you still have magery) to kill the mares and when a mare spawns you want just pop a gate to a stable (like Delucia or low other traffic) and stable your pet and walk back through the gate and start taming the mare... this probably would take you about the same amount of time as it would be to run down to release your Cu and run back up. I'd think you should be able to do that without "losing" the nightmare to someone else since the hotfix prevents other from killing/taming the mare from a totem BUT I don't know if gating in and out would change that (if there isn't anyone there though while your taming this won't matter).

Good luck!!

 

[MaryForUo]

thx for your suggestion!!
...[I'm still crying over the loss... which will never happen again]

 

[FishinFool]

I guess I am confused as to why people overcomplicate things. A decently trained 2-slot pet can make short work of your average mare. You keep control of the situation and can tame any that spawn.

 

[MaryForUo]

I guess I am confused as to why people overcomplicate things. A decently trained 2-slot pet can make short work of your average mare. You keep control of the situation and can tame any that spawn.

i know...

 

[Pawain]

I'll grieve with you.

It's like all the new hounds that are killed because the player has a pet and has to go stable it and return. And hope the hound is still alive.

 

[MaryForUo]

I'll grieve with you. View attachment 158172

It's like all the new hounds that are killed because the player has a pet and has to go stable it and return. And hope the hound is still alive.

thx @Pawain
all grieve with me

 

[skett]

I went to stable a mare I just tamed on one account and while i was gonna i got killed by a mare and my hiryu killed the red mare and then i got a rez and was rez killed by the next mare lol

 

[Pawain]

@skett Is that Kirin passage? If so yours looks different. Ya two accounts work, until you send one back to town and that happens.

I have not even drawn up a Void, so my miss kills are not so saddening.

 

[skett]

its vesper / cove

 

[MaryForUo]

today i got it
today i got it
today i got it

95% 2 slot Purple Void
Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot!

 

[Keven2002]

Congrats!

Curious - how many totems before you finally got it?

 

[MaryForUo]

Congrats!

Curious - how many totems before you finally got it?

30/40/more? i really lost count,,,, but a lot!!!