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Forest of Despair... Freedom of Movement

Post by Kaymon24 » Mon Sep 18, 2017 6:34 pm

Got a question about the area. There are things in the Forest of Despair area that can kill PC's if not accompanied by another PC and there are things that can entangle them. Do kensai or PC's with freedom of movement spell or maybe even druids/rangers get affected by this?

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Re: Forest of Despair... Freedom of Movement

Post by Iceborn » Mon Sep 18, 2017 7:04 pm

IF I recall correctly, the quicksand overrides your FoM, meaning that potentially just walking by with a low STR character, even buffed to high heavens, you can die.
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Re: Forest of Despair... Freedom of Movement

Post by Cortex » Mon Sep 18, 2017 7:05 pm

There are stll quicksands? I haven't ran into those in well over a year.
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Re: Forest of Despair... Freedom of Movement

Post by Kaymon24 » Mon Sep 18, 2017 7:18 pm

that kinda sucks if you have freedom of movement and you aren't completely free of movement

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Re: Forest of Despair... Freedom of Movement

Post by DarkDreamer » Mon Sep 18, 2017 7:36 pm

Having spent literal weeks running through the FoD, I have NEVER encountered quicksand. Though there are other random events in game that shall remain FOIG.

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Re: Forest of Despair... Freedom of Movement

Post by Iceborn » Mon Sep 18, 2017 8:48 pm

I haven't either, honestly.
I tend to avoid FoD like the plague since it swallowed my rogue/ranger.

Maybe they were, in fact, removed in one of those five million silent updates that the DMs will never tell us about.
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Re: Forest of Despair... Freedom of Movement

Post by gilescorey » Mon Sep 18, 2017 9:07 pm

I haven't seen the quicksand for a long time. I'm glad, because it sucked.

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Re: Forest of Despair... Freedom of Movement

Post by Kaymon24 » Mon Sep 18, 2017 9:18 pm

Haven't been seeing it either. Probably removed it since that forces parties in the area which parties are a good thing but sometimes I solo places and hope I find a party to join since have nobody I know on etc... Most likely got removed then if hasn't been seen for awhile

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Re: Forest of Despair... Freedom of Movement

Post by Dreams » Tue Sep 19, 2017 1:31 am

Quicksand was removed a long time back.

Druids, Rangers, Kensai and people with FoM active should be able to go through the FoD pretty easily without worry about the other effects.

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Re: Forest of Despair... Freedom of Movement

Post by Emotionaloverload » Tue Sep 19, 2017 2:05 am

Dreams wrote:Quicksand was removed a long time back.
Can we confirm this? Because I avoid the place as much as possible since it ate my lvl 30 monk/ranger way back when.


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Re: Forest of Despair... Freedom of Movement

Post by DarkDreamer » Tue Sep 19, 2017 2:06 am

I spent two weeks in there with Mathias, training him from lvl 12 - 20, NEVER encountered it.

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Re: Forest of Despair... Freedom of Movement

Post by Xerah » Tue Sep 19, 2017 3:00 am

There is just the entangle one now.
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Re: Forest of Despair... Freedom of Movement

Post by Peppermint » Tue Sep 19, 2017 5:53 am

Emotionaloverload wrote:
Dreams wrote:Quicksand was removed a long time back.
Can we confirm this? Because I avoid the place as much as possible since it ate my lvl 30 monk/ranger way back when.


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Confirmed.

Quicksand was removed on account of being pretty buggy and fundamentally unfun.

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Re: Forest of Despair... Freedom of Movement

Post by Diilicious » Tue Sep 19, 2017 2:00 pm

yea i remember going there like "ooh.. this place is creepy, oh im stuck... uh, im still stuck.. im dead.. okay."

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Re: Forest of Despair... Freedom of Movement

Post by JediMindTrix » Wed Sep 20, 2017 6:19 am

it was awful

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Re: Forest of Despair... Freedom of Movement

Post by Astral » Wed Sep 20, 2017 10:07 am

Speaking from experience. Nothing can lock you in FoD when you have freedom of movement (not roots, no quicksands, nothing) but you CAN get 5 trees spawning on your head and making unable to path through and you are stuck between them, getting beaten to death with little to say about it (and after you're god-saved you just die again when the sanctuary fades because you cant move). I don't mean to rant but that ~does~ happen even if you have freedom of movement.
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Re: Forest of Despair... Freedom of Movement

Post by Nitro » Wed Sep 20, 2017 11:23 am

Trees are easy to avoid though, just don't walk near any trees.

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Re: Forest of Despair... Freedom of Movement

Post by Kirito » Wed Sep 20, 2017 11:50 am

Nitro wrote:Trees are easy to avoid though, just don't walk near any trees.
Just avoid the forest area and you're fine ;)

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