Here is a post after SZ had been out 5 months and wormoct was long gone. I especially like how the poster's complaints corroborate what i said about los casting and targeting people zone wide.
If only wormoct could remember acurately. If only he would have played much. If only he hadn't made extreme claims. If only he hadn't made statements that could be proven wrong with 9 yr old posts. If only everyone else didn't remember.
Broken or poorly designed aspects and strategies in pvp
Posted: 10-30-01, 10:23 PM #1
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This thread is meant to provide a list of the ways in which pvp is messed up and suggest solutions. Its from a rogues perspective so I'm sure there are problems from the casters classes too that I'm not as aware of.
Charm poofing pets. Currently any charm cast on a player pet will get the message that this npc can't be effected but when it wears off the pet poofs. As a result of this the classes that depend on pets. Mages and Necros lose them when fighting any class that can charm but especially bards since their charm lasts only seconds.
Solution-Its a bug figure it out and fix it.
Pet kiting. This is where a pet class runs around in a circle with their pet on a melee who can't hit back because of the melee range bug. This is extremely lame since the melee has no chance ot hit back.
Solution-Either fix the melee range bug so that melees can hit moving targets or give pets a large % penalty to all damage done to moving players. The same one that exists for the melees.
/Pet Attack Name /Assist. This trick allows pet classes to target players from afar. Vs other casters it gives you the ability to always land the first blow even if your not smart enough to actually find and target the person. Vs melees it allows you to kill or hurt the melee without ever comming into view because you can simply target them and spam a spell till they walk into range which is more troublesome as it is very unfair to the melee.
Solution-add a new response if the person being targeted with /pet attack name is not close to the pet in question AND in sight. The pet should say I cannot see him/her master. In order for this not to ruin coh /invite name should be made a valid command so you can invite people from anywhere in the zone.
Casting through walls. Again the melee is denied the chance to fight back. This is not fair and is very poor design and not helped by the fact that the pet attack name assist trick exists.
Solution- Ever noticed you can't nuke an npc through a wall or ceiling? Thats because it uses code to prevent casting on npcs not in line of sight. This same code could protect players without limiting the use of heals and buffs to los.
Hill bugs. Sucks to have someone run up a hil and disapear then start nuking enough said I think.
Solution-Its a bug fix it!
tldr: wormoct lost again
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