Combat Medic Archive
Thread: Problems with aggro?
Theoretically, someone is supposed to pull aggro off of you. If you heal any other member of your group, the new AI targets you.
Since I spent my last session as a CM going, "What the heckjust hit me?" and being totally unable to figure out what it was, I got incapped before anyone could pull aggro off me.
I cannot tell you how frustrating it is to go from being able to keep a 20 person groupalive to being unable to heal myself enough to stay upright, much less useful.
Its a real pain, since warcry is broken, intimidate only takes about 100 damage off each hit, and taunt almost never works. I usually just end up tanking everything, trying to keep myself healed with a jedi healer healing me to, while everyone else picks them off. Even when I was TKM/Master pikeman, i could never taunt the mobs off the healers fast enough to be worth while. Serious relook into the AI targeting the healer of the group, needs to be done. I mean if Taunt actually worked, it might not be so bad. Maybe if taunt was like a status effect allowing, the creature/npc only to hit one target for 30-45 secs it might be worth while. But we will see what the Devs think
Message Edited by fareone on 05-05-2005 01:47 AM
MissMargaret wrote:
Theoretically, someone is supposed to pull aggro off of you. If you heal any other member of your group, the new AI targets you. Since I spent my last session as a CM going, "What the heckjust hit me?" and being totally unable to figure out what it was, I got incapped before anyone could pull aggro off me.
This is a big problem. It was extremely difficult to target what you wanted in the old system, but at least you could tell what was mad at you by the bar over their head. Now you jsut have to guess which mob is after you and hope you can target it. I am not sure why they removed the ability to target your attacker in any way.
Additionally, if you are attacking a mob and change targets to a goup member in order to heal him, there is no way to get back to your target mob for debuiffs or poisons without pushing endless tabs trying to get the orginal target outof thepack, or try to target the mob with mouse which is often impossibble with a large group.
They have a reasonably good target system in the space expansion. I wish they would have made the land based system more like it.
Message Edited by Krosc on 05-05-2005 07:11 AM
I was hunting with my guild tonight and ended up getting incapped several times, and died once. The agro is terrible, I understand we should get some, but it's crazy.
Mariska/Awra
chilastra server
/agree
I was hunting on Kashyyyk last night, threw a bacta toss at a group member and the whole mob (6 of them if I remember correctly) turned and aggroed me. Taunt had no effect, all I could do was heal myself as fast as I could and watch my health drop anyway. Maybe instead of Carbineer I should switch to a melee prof since I'm tanking for the group anyway. 