Update 66 Preview 1: AOE Ranged Attacks
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Woodyrocker
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IT WORKS! they need to be realy close to each other and BOOM! ALL DEAD!
Woodyrocker
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Mate! go test! Its amazing! Much more reliable than it was before! Much more Useful!
Woodyrocker
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If the devs team need me to help evaluate the new system i can help testing more! My main toon is all focused on Archery using longbows and Arcane Archer Elf tree!
Woodyrocker
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in AF the shot kills all the mobs at once, if they are packed together, Hunts end and Imbue arrows from AA elf work too!
droid327
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No, I mean if you're in AF, can you pass the shot through a mob and trigger it around the target mob in back, a la Precise Shot
In IPS it should trigger on the first mob encountered, but AF isn't in IPS
Sophie The Cat Burglar
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Oh. My. Goodness gracious.
Steelstar.
You need to build an entire class or tree of whatever around this. Foooooom BANG! Foooooom BANG! Just like the archer class from Torchlight with explosive arrows. Foooooom BANG! Foooom BANG! Foooooom BANG!
You must bring Fooooom BANG! to DDO. It is your destiny.
Steelstar.
You need to build an entire class or tree of whatever around this. Foooooom BANG! Foooooom BANG! Just like the archer class from Torchlight with explosive arrows. Foooooom BANG! Foooom BANG! Foooooom BANG!
You must bring Fooooom BANG! to DDO. It is your destiny.
Mindos
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This is what I was talking about! So with this change, it's a secret nerf! You won't be able to pin in a line.
Marshal_Lannes
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I don't know if it's possible, or if you want to build this out on some sort of archer archetype, but could the shatter effect change graphically depending on what type of imbue you have? For example, a light imbue charged shot would be a flash of light, fire an explosion, poison green goo, and so forth.
droid327
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This makes the most sense since, again, passthrough is a property of Precise Shot, only strikethrough is a property of IPS
nenetteblackmoor
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Does the developer want to make DDO more of a Ranged Combat Game than it is now?
It's like pulling a pin from a pineapple and throwing it, so I don't see any issue with being able to perform area-of-effect attacks with projectiles.
However, melee characters wielding Two-Handed Weapons are required to have Strikethrough despite performing area-of-effect attacks.
This is just absurd and unfair.
It's like pulling a pin from a pineapple and throwing it, so I don't see any issue with being able to perform area-of-effect attacks with projectiles.
However, melee characters wielding Two-Handed Weapons are required to have Strikethrough despite performing area-of-effect attacks.
This is just absurd and unfair.
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rabidfox
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Melee have cleave feats and abilities beyond strikethrough for AoE.
songswrath
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If your given ranged builds aoe. Holy moly are you going to unbalance ranged vs melee. Better be cutting their ranged power in half
Technically, AoE for ranged has existed for a few years now: The Everstar and Frozen Terror both do AoE on ranged attacks. However, the damage is so low as to be virtually unnoticeable. These new abilities do more significant damage... but with a single attack on a cooldown. There is no telling what the final damage amounts or cooldown durations will be. Thus, this could be anywhere from game-breakingly OP to essentially useless.
The important point is that it is a 'new' capability that actually works and fills a niche that has been lacking (i.e. letting ranged characters do group CC and/or AoE). How the damage and/or CC levels are scaled is simply a matter of tuning.
Shear-buckler
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Please fix this before it goes live to spare us from the crying when it is inevitably nerfed.
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