Mimic!!!

[sephiroth1084]

Agreed, But this adds more randomness to it.. the traps like the Fire eles in rainbow and the traps in monstary are all known. this can happen at any point.. +, i would love if the shrine in part 4 shroud suddenly attacked and made it unusable, it might acually give shroud a challenge*well... maybe on elite?*

That's an issue with repeated play of static quests, not direct features of those traps or situations.

I'm sure many people have been in that situation and have died to the elementals in Rainbow for lack of foreknowledge of the quest.

Also, I'll say that any object that turns out to be a mimic should be restored to its original, intended object, after the mimic dies. It shouldn't rob a party of a chest, collectible or shrine if they bother to kill it.

[sesobebo]

Now if we can get the Devs to insert some code that gives a small % chance for any static, non-boss related chest in ANY quest to be a level-appropriate mimic...

That would be true awesomesauce.

Including guild chests!

[Deissa_Ironhand]

For underground or WW denizens...good ol carrion crawlers or slithering trackers...yeah, lets go way back...how bout violet fungi or even shriekers...that would cause a DA to go up...other fav's i would like to see....umber hulks,shambling mounds,ropers,cloakers,green hags,annis,invisible stalker....etc...too many oldies to add...

[Carpone]

Mimics eat chest blessers.

[Robi3.0]

Agreed.

Joke or real info? If the latter, where from?

Its a joke. It would be cool though, well, everything except losing raid chests and selling mimic begone.

[Truga]

Mimics eat chest blessers.

If you bless a mimic you get dominated and start beating on the closest caster. Said caster being a party member does not prevent this effect.

[parvo]

I'm not excited. Knowing Turb, they will put it in one specific place. After your first run, or even on the first run if you have a "guide", you'll know where it is. Meh... Turb wants you to memorize, not react.

[fuzzy1guy]

Shrine's might be pushing it too much into something the majority of people wouldn't like.

But chests, collectable node furnature, blastable doors, switches, levers, barrels!, boxes, trap boxes!!!
Awesomeness!

Plenty of real good locations.

But lets start with chests. Get that workin great first. And then sprinkle in the others.

invisible stalker

We have those already. But being invisible... most people have no idea where they exist in game.

[Cyprine]

http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/SRD:Mimic
mimics are fluffy.

[Maxallu]

better not be static that is all. i want some element of surprise.

[Hendrik]

Read by a dev.

Thank you FF.

If you take anything away from this thread, let it be this;

We are VERY excited to see more iconic DnD monsters!

If you have not already, PLEASE do not limit Mimics to U10 content. If at all possible, please find a way for them to appear in ALL content.

[edgarallanpoe]

Reminds me of running White Plume Mountain in pen and paper when the party came to a portcullis... mimics can take many forms

Wow...huge +1 for bringing back awesome memories.

[Stitch78]

Be prepared to Diplo chests... again.

[cdbd3rd]

LOL!! Would give +1 but got the spread it around more message so virtual +1 for you Sable ....

Covered for ya. (prolly 'again', as I haven't finished thread yet.)

Can you imagine if any chest in the game could randomly be a mimic??? That would be so awesome. Having to buff and prep before popping any chest! lol. Make the mimic scale to the level of dungeon, hahaha pop an Epic chest to be an Epic Mimic. God that would be fun!

That'd be truly the awesomest. Chests sitting where they always do, but sometimes get attacked by it. Only gain access to the real chest after defeating the mimic'd version.

(I feel dev eyes lurking...)


edit:

Read by a dev.

Yup. I wuz right.

[cdbd3rd]

Crateos is technically an Animated Object.

My ex- has...


erm, nvm.

it's A Gazebo!!!!!!!

Adorned in Galoshes and a Bulbous Bouffant?





(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uuCNAwXGaQ)

[Myriam]

Fun with myths:

1) Start sneaking up on chests when you're in newbie pug groups
2) Explain that since Mod 10 introduced mimics, a small % of chests can randomly be mimics ... but if you don't alert them before you open them, you get l00t instead of a fight.
3) ?
4) Profit: a whole crop of newly capped 20s who insist on sneaking to every chest in the game

Love it!
Tried to +1 you but it said I needed to spread some rep around before giving you more.

[zwiebelring]

Meh, don't like chance on Mimics when doing lootruns. In general fine and fun for first time but I hope Mimics are just a well placed obstacle and not a real lootkiller.

[Memnir]

If they were to have a random mechanic for Mimics replacing chests game-wide (perhaps level dependent) - I'd like to also see that when the Mimic dies, the regularly scheduled loot is um... removable... from the Mimic's innards.

I'd hate to be going for a Bloodstone, get a Mimic at Thirty's chest... and then have no shot at the 'stone.


Just my thoughts on the matter, but objects in my mirror may be closer then they appear - or so I'm told.

[Pape_27]

I'm not excited. Knowing Turb, they will put it in one specific place. After your first run, or even on the first run if you have a "guide", you'll know where it is. Meh... Turb wants you to memorize, not react.

I really hope that this isnt the case...

It would be sooooo much cooler if mimics were randomly generated replacing various chests through out every dungeon. lol, Imagine finishing shroud, looking for a large scale and instead you get a mimic chest you have to fight off after half the group has recalled out.... Oh how sweet it would be!

_

[sjbb87]

If they were to have a random mechanic for Mimics replacing chests game-wide (perhaps level dependent) - I'd like to also see that when the Mimic dies, the regularly scheduled loot is um... removable... from the Mimic's innards.

I'd hate to be going for a Bloodstone, get a Mimic at Thirty's chest... and then have no shot at the 'stone.


Just my thoughts on the matter, but objects in my mirror may be closer then they appear - or so I'm told.

Who knows, after killing the mimic, the original comes with a +2 bonus loot?