Incapacitation is fun! The lodestone article on incapacitation lists some examples of how incapacitation affects some mobs. I've personally gotten the additional loot from the Magicked Bones, including the Skull Eyepatch+1.
What I'd like to do is gather more information on the effects of incapacitation on various mobs. Hopefully this will give us more interesting fights to try. The lodestone article indicates mobs will suffer from these effects:
Weaken the monster
Prevent the monster from using its special attacks
Influence the type of loot dropped
- Does incapacitating a mob always do all three things listed?
- Will there always be a visual difference?
Hints in the chat log. Here are some snippets from my chat log.
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Your Concussive Blow II hits the lone wolf's head for 274 points of damage.
Your Concussive Blow II hits the roselet's maw for 232 points of damage.
Your Concussive Blow II hits the roselet's maw for 238 points of damage.
The roselet's maw is incapacitated.
Your Concussive Blow II hits the roselet from the right for 247 points of damage.
Your Concussive Blow II hits the roselet's maw for 255 points of damage.
Your Concussive Blow II hits the roselet's maw for 410 points of damage.
Concussive Blow x2 fails to take effect.
The roselet's maw is incapacitated.
The roselet is defeated.
You gain 4 experience points.
You gain 37 hand-to-hand skill points.
Your loot list now contains a red landtrap leaf.
Your loot list now contains a red landtrap leaf.
Your loot list now contains a cotton boll.
Your loot list now contains a dodo skin.
You obtain 6 wind shards.
You obtain 3 lightning shards.
The lone wolf is engaged.
Your Concussive Blow II hits the lone wolf's head for 181 points of damage.
Your Concussive Blow II hits the lone wolf's head for 171 points of damage.
Your Concussive Blow II hits the lone wolf's head for 171 points of damage.
Your Concussive Blow II hits the lone wolf's head for 179 points of damage.
Your Concussive Blow II hits the lone wolf's head for 178 points of damage.
The lone wolf's head is incapacitated.
Your Concussive Blow II hits the canopy galago's head for 239 points of damage.
Your Concussive Blow II hits the plains footpad's head for 244 points of damage.
Incapacitation
You do get a notice in the combat log. The chat filter is the same one that shows/hides the damage you've done. I believe it's called "Successful attack". It's early in the filter list. I'll post the exact filter names when I'm at home.
No longer incapacitated
The combat log also shows that mobs can lose the status of being incapacitated. This shares the filter with self heals (strangely).
Part specific damage
Another thing to notice is the slight alteration in the combat log for mobs that *can* be incapacitated. Instead of:
Your Concussive Blow II hits the lone wolf for 178 points of damage
It now says
Your Concussive Blow II hits the
lone wolf's head for 178 points of damage
Damage from the side/rear obscure the hint messages
If you attack a mob from the side or rear, the combat log no longer shows something is eligible for incapacitation. I'm doubtful this actually prevents incapacitation but have not tested extensively.
Lower ranked mobs
It appears incapacitation works on lower ranked mobs too. However, I have not observed any noticable effects on loot or dmg done.
Let's collect some data points
Magicked Bones
- Concussion Blow II incapacitates the skull
- Visual effect: Skull gets knocked off
- Affects loot: Now has a chance to drop Bronze Chain and Skull Eyepatch (Black)
- Weaken Monster: did not notice any change
- Prevents special attack: did not notice any change
There are also a number of mobs where I was able to successfully incapacitate, but did not notice any effect in in loot, mob strength, special attacks or visual indicators of incapacitation:
- Curious Galago
- Lone Wolf
- Firestarter Imp
- Dodo
- Roselet
- Plains Footpad
- Amateur Footpad
- Downcast Hippocerf
- Antling Digger
I hope I'm wrong and simply missed the indicators, but I haven't seen much. And the only exciting loot so far has been the Magicked Bones. I'd like to hear others' experiences.