Rubbinns wrote on Jul 4^th, 2017 at 2:05am:


Available in store along with the +saves tomes that somebody (I think Ellis  ) was
asking for...

And to top things off, here's Sever'd-limb / AKA - Lil' Miss do-nothing, explaining the massive sweeping changes in the aggro overhaul.

https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/487635-Calrification-on-an-aggro-chang...



Qezuzu

    "If a monster kills or loses their primary target, they will now aggro correctly on who has the most hate next, instead of the closest target."

    Can you get some clarification on what "loses" means? Based on some admittedly limited+sloppy testing with a hireling, I don't see any difference in how mobs behave when they lose a target, at least with how I personally define "lose," which is where a player is sneaking/invisible and the mob no longer has the red-eye icon when targeting that player, and must start search (attacking the air.)

    Was the intended change made so that mobs more quickly change targets when that happens? If so, it doesn't seem to be working, at least when the only other available target is a hireling. If not, what is the intended change; what does "lose" mean?





Severlin

    When the lead character of a group approaches monsters and they detect the players, the monsters should now, most of the time, have the nearest character at the top of their initial threat list instead of the furthest character.

    Sev~




Qezuzu

    Thanks for the response, and that's a good change, but I don't think it really addresses the question I had, which is what happens when a mob can't find its current target.

    Also, I assume this change (in the OP) also prevents mobs from attacking dead players?


Severlin

    Nothing else should have changed except the described behavior.

    (We don't have a bug for monsters attack dead players as far as I know, so if you see that please report it.)

    Sev~




Seriously, did SSG just watch the movie Office Space as their training video...?

That shit has been going on for over a year. The especially bad origin was in Stormhorns where the griffins would attack anything. It eventually got debugged but fix one thing, break 10 other things is the modicum of efficiency Turbine would abide by back in the day.

I'm still trying to formulate my ghost hate aggro 'tank' build.

Always be a 1st lifer

Female caster

at least one lvl cleric

death pact

To build hate and aggro, cure light wounds, mass cure light wounds

*Rubbinns alt mod*  Run around in circles shrieking like a naughty lil' brussel sprout being run through a juicer seconds before dying.

remain in soulstone form til party kills mobs and/or boss

Skoodge wrote on Jun 28^th, 2017 at 10:45pm:


He is all of the posters.  Including you.  Fuck you KNN!  You suck a lot of dicks.