Lightning Shield + Guard Response

[deadward]

It seems dumb that lightning shield triggers a guard response. I'm walking along doing my thing, and I get attacked by somebody, and then despite the fact that I'm not responding and I have a latent buff on, I get attacked by guards. Seems bogus. But people are probably going to tell me it was like that in Vanilla. Just seems very dumb that when I'm not attacking I get punished by guards.

*edit. Also why do guards remember that I've fought somebody for such a long time. I fight somebody outside of town. I move into the town to go about my business and the guards kill me because I fought somebody at somepoint in someplace at sometime somewhere.

[Theloras]

It seems dumb that lightning shield triggers a guard response. I'm walking along doing my thing, and I get attacked by somebody, and then despite the fact that I'm not responding and I have a latent buff on, I get attacked by guards. Seems bogus. But people are probably going to tell me it was like that in Vanilla. Just seems very dumb that when I'm not attacking I get punished by guards.

*edit. Also why do guards remember that I've fought somebody for such a long time. I fight somebody outside of town. I move into the town to go about my business and the guards kill me because I fought somebody at somepoint in someplace at sometime somewhere.

was probably me as I 1shot reck bomb farm at light's hope chapel...

at any rate, don't use lightning shield there and the guards won't go after you - otherwise you're fair game and that's a fair game tactic - it's blizzlike and working as intended

[Bioness]

Another thing is make sure you have your pets on passive, other players like to take advantage of that as well.