Find Item not RIPing...

[DudSpud]

Find Item not RIPing...

So Uli was heading down to Nihilthak's lair to teach that snake a lesson, but he was fearful about Nihily's dreaded Corpse Explosion. Uli thought that he could use Find Item, following the advice of his mentor Halciet and backed up by the sages of the Arreat Summit, on the corpses before they could be exploded, thus preventing a nasty demise.

However, much to Uli's surprise, horked corpses were still blowing up all over the place. It became very messy very quickly, so it was hard to tell if the explosions were coming from the horked corpse or one just near it that was obscured by all the pieces. So after dispatching Nihily, Uli went to the Blood Moor and hunted down some fallen and a shaman. Sure enough, the horked fallen were still being revived by the shaman...

Has anyone experienced this before? This was on USEast expansion ladder. Now that I think about it, perhaps it doesn't work with FI, but only FP (and Grim Ward?), the way the knockback only works with Leap and not Leap Attack.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,
DudSpud

 

[AdunaCCDanimoth]

I'd use Grim Ward just to make sure his corpse exploding tomfoolery stops once and for all. Drop one close to him and send those little enslaved he summons into a 40-second state of panic, easily long enough to use Necroman as a training dummy.

 

[DudSpud]

Aduna, your suggestion to use GW is a good one - after first seeing the recommendation in Hal's ConcBarb guide, I gave it a try and was impressed. It has gotten me out of some real tight spots.

But what bothers me most is that I wanted to use FI to get rid of corpses primarily so they couldn't be revived. The Arreat Summit says "[font=arial,helvetica][size=-1]Use Find Item on a corpse to prevent it from being raised by monsters such as Shamans." This didn't work for me, and I am wondering whether this was a one-time bug, I'm an idiot, or AS/Hal (who first brought this possibility to my attention in his very nice guide) are wrong. I can accept the AS being wrong, but if Hal is, I'll be crushed...

DudSpud
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[AdunaCCDanimoth]

Chances are its just a bug in the game because this is the first time I have ever heard of anyone trying to FI a corpse near Nilhathak. I have always used GW to deal with the Corpse Explosions because then I know theres nothing to explode.

Honestly, don't worry about it. Just merrily set up your GWs and laugh as the worst spell Nilly can throw at you has been made useless.

 

[longwood]

I saw a post about this on the forums at battle.net Some people did some testing and its a definite bug in the game. This is also correct with using natures peace and good ole nith still use CE. It's a definite bug and I'm pretty sure its been sent to blizz.


Longwood