I noticed the other day that mobs were waking up and assisting after the bard in my group had just slept them all. I assumed it was a bug but it worked the same way in another area. What is the point of a change like this? I understand having mobs rewield their weapons and so, but this just seems an arbitrary piece of code designed to make the mud both less realistic and more monotonous by eliminating a useful ranking tool?

Realism. How often does this actually come up while ranking? Usually bard sleep duration is enough time to kill every mob in the room. The main drawback to the change is that you can't sleep nasty auto-assisting mobs (Akan guards) an expect them to stay permanently asleep. Doesn't seem like *so* huge a deal.

It's not like blackjack where they wake up after the duration, they're waking up RIGHT after you sleep them.

I misunderstood you. Yeah, that sucks. If they're magically slept they should be magically slept. Out of curiosity does the same thing happen with necro-slept mobs?

Maybe its a bug.