swimming mobsFollow

Most will follow you into the water. Unless your swimming is over 100 you will not be able to use this as an escape method (and even then it is risky - I would not want to die in the water just for CR issues).

Not trying to flame, but I don't think mummies need to breathe.

All mobs will follow you into the water. Also all mobs have no need for air. So you can't stay under water and expect the mob to suffocate. I know with a 200 swimming skill I can usually outrun a mob in the water. Maxing your swimming skill is not hard at all so everyone should do it.

It's just one of the many insane powers that NPCs have. Just like being about to cast while there are 20 people hitting it, being able to cast on you from 3 miles away, wonderful pathing that makes them pop up behind you when you pulled them from right in front of you, can quad you for hundreds with their bare fists when you know the mob is a wizard.…..so why shouldn’t they all instantly grow gills and be able to swim like a fish? Haha

Greenblood Zombies in the Feerott spawn uderwater but will follow you on dry land.

Agree 100%, mobs will always follow you into the water and unless you have very good swimming skills, most are faster in the water than you.

This also works in reverse when a fleeing mob jumps in the water, often they can outswim you unless you do enough damage early to drop them to reduced speed. Nothing worse than getting a mob down below 20% only to have it swim off into the sunset (and then show up 5 minutes later fully healed with friends while you tank some other mob).

My frog pally sometimes seems to go faster in water than on land LOL.

Work on swimming, you never know when you will need it and it isnt a hard skill to get up.

They are really "insane powers". They are things that the devs have to allow the NPCs to be able to do to compensate for the fact that no one has yet invented a really good AI.

If mobs couldn't swim, then you could simply float in the water a distance away and nuke/dot/bow them to death all day long with no risk to yourself. Kinda silly? Yup. So you have to allow them to go into the water.

If mobs can swim but also drown, then anyone with a sow and EB up could kill any number of mobs simply by agroing them getting them to follow them into a lake, and then running them around in circles under the water until they all drowned (which wouldn't take long given how drowning works). Huge exploit.

Most mobs can be interrupted when casting spells. Um. But some mobs certainly can cast spells with 20 people beating on them. You wanna know why? Because they are raid level mobs and there are going to be 20 people beating on them. Be kinda silly to give a raid level mob casting ability, but not give it some resistance to being interrupted. It's all about balance. Mobs designed for single groups to fight can generally be interrupted just fine.


All of these are things to prevent players from exploiting the game and the NPCs to trivialize encounters. Weird pathing or warping happens when the path from the mob to you is blocked. If the game allowed NPCs to get stuck in the environment, then you could once again easily kill them by trapping them in a corner and nuking them over and over. Instead, they will warp through walls and such to get around obstacles. Spell casting is the same. While a mob can't start casting a spell on you unless you are in range and in LoS, his spell will land on you no matter what range you are, or what's in between. This is also due to mobs not being smart enough (and players are). If that didn't happen, you could nullify a spellcasting mob simply by running around a corner whenever it stopped to cast. Mobs follow specific agro rules, so a mob will never deliberately run out of LoS to avoid a spellcast, players certainly will, so the rules have to not allow that.


Every odd bit of the game in terms of mob abilities generally has to do with ensuring that the mob requires some level of work/skill/whatever to defeat. Nothing really amazing about it.

When I first started playing I learned the hard way that jumping into the water wasn't a good escape plan... That was a fun CR >_<

LOL I did that. My little druid got killed in OOT while I was on the aviak island...tried to swim for it...learned that lesson right there...damn birds swam faster than a little wood elf.

So, I port myself as close to a bank as I could get and rummaged through every pack only to realize that I had the corpse finding rod on my corpse (it had been in a bag I had taken out of the bank when retrieving something else...stupid little druid).

A nice necro gave me a hand and I got my bod back.

I think humanoid water creatures are the only ones that will follow you out of the water. You can get away from sharks (or if you are a noob, fish) by climbing out of the water. Although, sometimes you cannot stand right on the water's edge...those csharks must be able to jump up and bite you.

I am not sure about the Black Ravengers that are in Swamp of No Hope...do they climb out of the water? The look like fish, but the also look like those flying sperm/polywog thingys as well.