The Aritisan and the Druid - Sticky Tick Tocker emote

Suggestion for developers: PLEASE make all raid mechanics visible to all players.

Message: "A small ticking device clings to your soft skin."
Action: Run away from raid.

We've done tests and everyone SWEARS their GINA triggers are work yet we have some folks blowing up the raid.

Question:

Does anyone know what chat channel this message falls under? In an effort to cut down on log file spam lag I think its possible folks have turned off what ever chat channel this would go to.

Never seen an issue personally.
You may want to look at a trigger of: "Ogna, Artisan of War begins casting Sticky Tick Tocker."
That will at least tell you the effect hit the raid.

I dont think its a runaway, this is the one when you get on you, get a rune cast on you Im pretty sure.
Mom's Love Anniversary Rune clicky works as well for those that can't cast their own.

EQ players are just bad.

This is correct, alternatively if they dont have a rune run from raid

This is the real answer. I have not raided since being parsed the the highest dps for the second (maybe 3rd but pretty sure we were 2) game wide kill on the ToFS raid during ToV because I got in arguments with the guild leader because his buddies in the guild kept failing the achievement for one of the last TBL raids we needed to finish all the achievements. He wants to say it was for other reasons but I know how political things in EQ are with so few players left and I know that is the real reason he kicked me out. Given I am a very vocal person so I do piss people off alot of times speaking my mine but odd that he never really cared about anything until I starting saying openly to others in the guild and pointing out times his buddies completely screwed us over.

I so wish the original guild leader for that guild never had to leave, I would still be in the guild raiding today.

Here is what I have for this part of the event:

Emote: Ogna, Artisan of War begins casting Sticky Tick Tocker.
Action: Enchanter MGB's rune on the raid

At the same time 4x people will get hit with the actual spell:

Emote: A small ticking device clings to you soft skin.
Action: Wait 10s then run away from raid.

Those 4x people have "Stick Tick Tocker"

https://www.raidloot.com/spells?name=Sticky Tick Tocker&effect=&class=&level=&view=

[54448] Sticky Tick Tocker
Restriction: Cannot Remove
Target: Single
Range: 1000'
Resist: Unresistable
Can Reflect: No
Focusable: No
Casting: 0s
Duration: 30s (5 ticks), Dispelable: No
Max Hits: 1 Matching Spells
21: Cast: Mended Skin if Hit By Spell
22: Limit Effect: Rune
23: Limit Effect: Melee Rune
24: Limit Effect: Absorb Hits
25: Cast: Tick Tock Boom on Duration Fade
Text: A small ticking device clings to your soft skin.


From the description if you get a rune then it casts Mended Skin:

[54451] Mended Skin
Restriction: Cannot Remove
Target: Caster AE
Range: 1000', AE Range: 200'
Resist: Beneficial, Blockable: No
Focusable: No
Casting: 0s
21: Increase Current HP by 100000
Text: As your skin hardens, the tick-tock is absorbed, healing you.


If you do not you hit the raid with:

[54449] Tick Tock Boom
Restriction: Cannot Remove
Target: Target AE
Range: 1000', AE Range: 100'
Resist: Unresistable
Can Reflect: No
Focusable: Yes
Casting: 0s
21: Decrease Current HP by 750750
Text: The tick tocker explodes.

I'll have to try that next time. Valia's Unyielding Bravery didn't work for me.

I dont think all clickies or spells do, but I know Moms Love clicky does.

That should block damage on you, but it will still blow up the raid.

Is [54448] Sticky Tick Tocker directional? So in other words if you're on Ogna's backside when it's cast it will not hit you?

Where do you get that it is directional? as far as I know it's cast to 4 people. Just have the raid stacked and cast MGB rune once boss casts the spell or have individuals with the gina trigger to cast a self rune when they get the debuff.
Run away condition is just a last resort if the individual can't be cured, and it's 100 yards which is reall small area but if the 4 individuals run to the same spot they'll kill themselves, so you would have to set 4 different run away spots, like Elemental blast emote on Axefen where you set 3 spots (2 if you are smart and eat one of the ae which aren't raid killers individually).

Personally I like that it's punishing, it could have emote calling names? Sure. Then it would be trivial like the Axefen's emote.

I like that it's a punishment that implies a cascade; one guy fails, it's ok, raid won't wipe, but if two people fail it's a raid wipe.

Well, I like it because it's the harder we got on this expansion (meaning the expansion is easy as ).

Imho, we should have raid wiping silences, mana drains, AE Dt's, and movement emotes that are really is punishing if an individual fails to move 10 yards or react under 5 seconds.

We have interesting stuff that isn't punishing. See "What is it for" pull emote, where you have 1313123123 seconds to move away and yet you can eat the AE and it won't one shot you... kinda... pathetic how forgiving it is.

But we have that mechanics, so lets enjoy it.

If you have people failing the Tick tock mechanic while having a gina calling for spell landed on you emote means they aren't using gina.

Usually, mechanic driven by emotes are "safe" because people not using triggers just read the emote log and react when seeing their name.

Do we want raid mechanic that rely on triggers triggered by spell text that go to spam window or raid emotes? Axefen and Tick tock are the examples. Do your pick.

It was a question. Someone on our weekend open raid mentioned something about it being a frontal a couple weeks ago so I thought I'd ask. I might have misunderstood what was being said too.

I think that it's that kinda mechanic that are scripted and not entirely tied to spell functioning, so based on spell data, yeah, it could be directional. All I can say for sure that it is cast to 4 targets (correct me if I am wrong), dunno about other conditions.

It is not directional.

I don't mind that it is punishing. 30s is a LONG time to get the cure and/or move.

What I'm curious about is if folks are missing the EMOTE because its FLAVOR text.

I am going to summarize what I have been reading so far, so please correct me if I am wrong.

From what I am reading following this thread is that the 4 people that get it don't need to run.when the emote gets called and you are one of the four people that get the sticky tick tock debuff, just use Mom's Love (which I don't have) or MGB rune. I think that part of the issue is that when I've gotten sticky tick tock, I have run, but the other people don't. We have GINA triggers that tell us the sticky tick tock went out, but most of the time we have another debuff on us, so it may be that people aren't paying attention to a second one, if indeed this is a run emote. If this is just a matter of a self rune or a MGB rune, then the GINA triggers we have should be enough to alert the enchanters to do their thing. What about Geomantra, could this be used as an alternative?

Your summery aligns with my understanding of the event.

Personal Emote ( Flavor text ) - 4x people hit with debuf -> 30s to "cure" or blow up at end.
Global Emote -> enchanters MGB rune to cure anyone in range.

If no MGB available, personal runes will "cure" the debuf.

Other than Mom's Love, what other items give a self-buff rune (getting ready to head to work, so don't have time to look them up now).

Bard rune song Dirge of the Onokiwan works and is group wide. Nice to see a song Ive never used finally get some use.