"You Learn Something New Everyday"
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Colorless Green
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Shortly after the screenshot I posted, I fed my merc a potion to check for exactly this. I watched his life shoot up to about 350 then fall back down to 0.
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Gambitsreturn
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Hmm... I just always assumed that mercs will die to poison unless healed but your characters life will stop at 1 hp when poisoned. Crazy.
TheSilence
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l've known about the minimap arrow key feature since D1, and the Atma healing pretty recently. Something l think not many people know is you can access the stash with telekinesis. You can also activate and use waypoints with it, and enter town portal while in town.
Could it be possible that your merc the moment exactly prior to you entering the portal has 0 life causing the death, but because the corpse can't (can it?) be stuck in limbo it appeared in town? :undecided:
(My first post since more than a year.) :wave:
--maxgerin
Colorless Green
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I suppose it's possible, but I brought my merc back to town with about 50% life and watched it drain away, then fed him a potion to gain back some then watched it drain away again.
sirpoopsalot
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On the issue of a merc being in town with 0 HP, poisoned and alive, isn't it possible for the Merc's natural regeneration rate to exactly cancel out the HP drain from poison, leaving it at 0 but not dead?
Then again, how would he get to 0 at the first place if the regen is keeping the poison in limbo? Argh, my head hurts =p
But I can confirm that they can die in town of poison.
(this is getting a little off-topic, but I had an idea for an amusing screenshot involving this. 8 player game, one person hasn't done the save the barbarian quest. The other 7 have, and hire a barb merc each, who they bring to town poisoned and let them die at Qual-Kehk's feet. Player finishes the quest, and gets the 'thank you for saving my men' speech. Uh, Qual-kehk? They're dead =p)
Then again, how would he get to 0 at the first place if the regen is keeping the poison in limbo? Argh, my head hurts =p
But I can confirm that they can die in town of poison.
(this is getting a little off-topic, but I had an idea for an amusing screenshot involving this. 8 player game, one person hasn't done the save the barbarian quest. The other 7 have, and hire a barb merc each, who they bring to town poisoned and let them die at Qual-Kehk's feet. Player finishes the quest, and gets the 'thank you for saving my men' speech. Uh, Qual-kehk? They're dead =p)
Gambitsreturn
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Skinhead On The MBTA
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You can also shift+right click the potions in the vendor screen and they will fill up your belt. Not something that I learned today, but relevant to the previous posts I feel.
No, he had some life left. he stayed alive in town for a couple secs before dying.
/jumps into the "hello max" wagon
Holysinner
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I was thinking about starting a new post to discuss this, but was afraid it might be widely known and I'd be ridiculed, so this seems a good opportunity to bring it up.
I just realized that ethereal weapons and armor have a strength requirement 10 less than their non-ethereal counterparts. The same applies to always-ethereal uniques (ie. Ethereal Edge has str req 156, while normal Silver-Edged Axes are 166).
Note: I play 1.10, so I don't know if this applies to other versions, though it does apply to 1.09-found ethereal items I have on 1.10 characters.
I discovered this when running Meph with my Blizz sorc, wearing an ethereal Skulder's Ire. Meph dropped a gold Russet Plate, and when ID'ed it had a red background. I knew she was wearing a Skulder's so I couln't figure out why she couldn't wear the new one that dropped - until I checked the str req of both armors! The eth one has a str req of 87, normal is 97, and my sorc has 88 str.
I just realized that ethereal weapons and armor have a strength requirement 10 less than their non-ethereal counterparts. The same applies to always-ethereal uniques (ie. Ethereal Edge has str req 156, while normal Silver-Edged Axes are 166).
Note: I play 1.10, so I don't know if this applies to other versions, though it does apply to 1.09-found ethereal items I have on 1.10 characters.
I discovered this when running Meph with my Blizz sorc, wearing an ethereal Skulder's Ire. Meph dropped a gold Russet Plate, and when ID'ed it had a red background. I knew she was wearing a Skulder's so I couln't figure out why she couldn't wear the new one that dropped - until I checked the str req of both armors! The eth one has a str req of 87, normal is 97, and my sorc has 88 str.
Same goes for dex requirement, so you'll be saving 20 stat points in many cases.
EDIT: Some of you have the keyboard shortcuts wrong.
Pot to merc: SHIFT + (whatever hotkey you have your pot at, default 1234) <-- Doesn't work in 1.07
Fast sell at vendor: CTRL + Left Click
Fast put pot to belt: SHIFT + Left Click (don't do this one wrong, CTRL will sell it, and right clicking will drink it...)
Fill belt with pots at vendor: SHIFT + Right Click at vendor's pot. (For health and mana potions, this will fill whole belt with potions, except the rows that have something else in the first row. Also works with scrolls, but scrolls will only fill it's tome, and a belt row that starts with that kind of scroll)
I assume everyone knows that you can customise just about any key to do anything in the later patches.
EDIT: Some of you have the keyboard shortcuts wrong.
Pot to merc: SHIFT + (whatever hotkey you have your pot at, default 1234) <-- Doesn't work in 1.07
Fast sell at vendor: CTRL + Left Click
Fast put pot to belt: SHIFT + Left Click (don't do this one wrong, CTRL will sell it, and right clicking will drink it...)
Fill belt with pots at vendor: SHIFT + Right Click at vendor's pot. (For health and mana potions, this will fill whole belt with potions, except the rows that have something else in the first row. Also works with scrolls, but scrolls will only fill it's tome, and a belt row that starts with that kind of scroll)
I assume everyone knows that you can customise just about any key to do anything in the later patches.
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LozHinge the Unhinged
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I never knew that! All this time, I thought he was an ungrateful bugger, legging it out of Tristram and not even leaving his portal for me to use. I guess I've misjudged him ...
... nah, I can't stand his voice, to Hell with him.
