Flows of essence prevent my animate from attacking - ??

[Goat]

"The flows of essence around a dhu goleras prevent your muscular supplicant from attacking it."

This happens on dhu gholerases, storm griffins, and moulises. Every time that I've seen. Pretty annoying. Annoying know what the criteria are for this?

(This is not the message you get when your non-undead animate tries to attack something undead with an unblessed weapon.)

[Kerranger]

What weapon is your animate using to attack it?

[Goat]

Almost always a plain claidhmore. In the case of the dhu gholeras tonight, I also had him drop the claid and he swung the greatsword he spawned with.

[Kerranger]

Get him a magical weapon. Some creatures can't be hit by normal ones. I think that's your problem here, but its been a while since I have seen the messaging. Use a cheap vultite lance or maul or something.

[Fallen]

Kerranger is spot on. E-bladed Lances are fantastic weapons for animates.

[Goat]

Funny, I thought I had tried eblade a while back. I'll try again, thanks.

I know one of the solhaven festival merchants is selling lances (prob 4x?), but are there permanent shops that sell them?

[spork]

The Solhaven weapon shop sells plain lances.

[rolfard]

Someone put a temp ensorcell on an animates weapon and let us know!