It's a bug
http://www.role-players.com/Eaxia/commu ... php?t=1374
It doesn't happen all the time, so it seems to matter who's advanced in what order, but I could never figure out exactly what made it bug out.
The worst thing is, as you outgrow your oldest minion, so do the critters you hunt, so your minions don't do any damage swinging, and only the Rhadam's kicks in, so the odds of this happening gets to an unbearable amount. Plinnya NEVER casts it on a ghost spider.
Although, I think it's a bit of a stretch to think that we should be able to let critters kill themselves in this way, so even though I've reported it and even bugged it in game, I don't push it much.
But it is a pisser not to be able to learn while you're hunting, so I learned to bugger off all my minions right before something died so I could take the last swing (If I had all the exp I lost on Patriarchs this way...). I'd like to see it fixed though, even if it's fixed so that a critter can't die of the damage done by Rhadam's, or can't go below 10% or something.
- Plinnya's people