EQDiva

anyone else having trouble on looting chest and stuff seems after i get the thing open it wont let me loot cause some mob knows of my presence? any ideas

yeah, this is simple, you just have to zone out and back in...or if you can evac ... anything to clear the aggro again.. Groups I'm in always leave those for the end, then 1 tank and I open them...we run out to clear aggro, and someone loots.

well i lucked out and the guild cleric i often ldon with has goten her curse trap spells and its either me or the guild rogue that deals with traps unless we hit a magic trap we are good oh btw use the inspect command it can often reveal some info on what kinda trap it is. like if it says runes are ont he item more then likly its a cursed trap least on the MM runs i been one for so long

There are 2 ways to be able to open chests that give you that aggro message thing. Lull the chest with a pacify song or spell. Use Fading Memories. One or the other always works.

Actually the easiest is wait till the end of the adventure and if you get that message do the roll for the item and have th winner just relog. Agroe will be cleared and you can get the item np.

hehe yeah but since i got both my cure songs and trap skills are maxed rogue gulidie is near maxed and the cleric has her trap spells not to mention my insane pulling rate 50 mobs in 40 min anyone :D we usualy have time to work on a chest with little repercusion especially since we can figure out what kinda chest it is via sense and inspect only chest we cant work with atm are magic

Sorry to drag up this older topic ... but I am having problems looting these chests/boxes/barrels. Most groups I am in are pick up groups and no-one seems interested in the chests. So generally I try to get at them quickly so I can still meet the group to split loot at whatever designated zone in a timely manner (I can usually beat some of them back even after attempting a chest or two). Which brings me to my main question. I have used the camp out method which won't work in my case because I don't want to leave the group ... I have tried the lull thing but that doesn't seem to work. Is there any other way? Also if I zone out after we have completely the adventure can I zone back in or does the "instance" of the dungeon expire? Thanks in advance.

In my experience this 'residual aggro' is due to traps that have fired, but had their targets run out of range. I presume this leads the trap to remain in existance. As for why traps are considered an aggressive NPC, I do not know. Perhaps it is the way in which they are coded; I remember once missing an 'aedispelltrap' in Velks while shooting arrows in the lower dogs labyrinth. I will admit this is anecdotal and I've not done any test. The only situation I have to back my theory is a case is one LDoN mission in which someone mentioned they couldn't loot the chest. Being that I wasn't interested in what was in it I was heading back to the zoneout and disarmed a few traps along the way. Without camping or otherwise dropping aggro the person was then able to loot it. Also, there have been instances where I've zoned out on my ranger to run back to attempt to loot a chest. Usually I end up passing some traps that trigger but do not land, and as I now expected, I was unable to loot the chest. Thin, I know, but it seems plausible and it is my only guess as to why it happens. As for Corgar's specific post: Short of having Fading Memories there is no easy way of clearing your aggro to loot the chests. You can zone out to clear your aggro, but if my theory is correct and you trigger a trap without it despawning (presumably after it lands), you will encounter the same problem.

Sound theory, and after testing it a bit more I'll be sure to /bug it with a passion (for all the good it'll do)

I used to run around pulling ldon hards with AOE slow going... then I got charmed a few times and beat the crap out of my group mates. Damn barrels were charming me.

Hmm group had finished a dungeon and everyone was running out I spotted a chest in a room with 3 mobs. Paficied the all (cleric) and then removed the cursed trap and lock. But said I could not loot it because of awareness. Mobs pacified so they could not be aware. Had no aggro from these guys earlier so that was not the problem. Never thought to actually atone the chest though. Its an interesting though.