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Syblitrh wrote: »

From what i seen all ranged type mobs have homing projectiles, correct me if i am wrong. That's why i made the comparison with the Ball lightning, which is a spell projectile, but without homing.

Yes, all of them so far.

This topic would be a great question for the monthly q&a. Do Intrepid plan on adding ranged mobs that will have action abilities?

Jamesson wrote: »

It is ok to disagree, but I am apparently not the only one that thinks this, and it in my opinion needs to be addressed.

There are others, yes, that share your opinion … that’s why those other discussion threads exist.

But, it’s not the opinion of the majority of players. Nor is Intrepid likely to change the payment model.

The cash shop in modern MMOs is a concept that won’t be going away anytime soon. We can be thankful that there’s no P2W.

A method of tracking buff support contribution can be done through tank and dps methods. When a dps or tank has a buff from a support, a percentage of that "dps score" or "tank score" will be contributed to to the support. This is done in Team Fortress 2, where the healer gets points when their heal target gets a kill. Since buffs are aoe, it can't be a 1-1 point contribution.

But this really depends on what the leaderboards are tracking. Is it resource contribution to nodes? pvp kills during war? dungeon bosses killed? All these require different methods of contribution tracking.

As most people here probably know, I am a big fan of the idea that literally every action a player can take in the game should be tracked, logged and be able to be looked up - at the very least by the player in question, but ideally by their guild as well.

If there are leaderboards for any one thing, I see no reason to not have them for every thing.

Virtek wrote: »

For healers and supports:

• Bonus damage provided by buffs
• Bonus healing provided by buffs
• Bonus mana regen provided by buffs
• Hot uptime
• Buff uptime
• Skill combos
• Overhealing (the lower the number, the better)
• Friendlies saved (shielding or big heal that arrived within ~1-2 seconds of damage that would have killed a friendly target)
• Strategic CC (CC that affects an enemy within ~5 seconds of their death)

I'd be interested to see a Revive Counter, too.

Basic attacks on mobs guaranteeing damage is fine. As long as mobs have some variety in abilities with player interrupts, cc, burst damage, etc allow for some varied gameplay and uniqueness to different mobs. Actively dodging every single skill in the game is pretty meh. Games like GW2 feel extremely spammy due to the active dodge, ridiculous overall movement, and class design.

Hands up anybody who actually made it all the way through that...