by J_Th4ng » Wed Jun 22, 2011 12:49 pm
Not what I meant Ion. I'm referring to a visible icon or marker that will hang over a mob, and can be selected/allocated/moved by the Fellowship leader. You can thus have a battle commander that marks mobs for crowd control or attack, so that everyone knows who to target and with what, rather than trying to explain the calls over VoIP. It's quite a common thing in WoW AFAIK, so I'm hoping that there are similar options in LOTRO.
Seems that Geth has something on this though. This means that we should be very careful in appointing a Fellowship Leader, as that person needs to play the 'commander' role as well as managing their own character. Ideally it should be one of the support characters, as they aren't usually in the think of things. If Lee is playing his LM for example, it would be good to have him call and mark targets, as he will mostly be managing debuffs and crowd control.
@Stu - You need to do a bit of reading up on threat management. When we were instancing the other night, you kept generating too much threat and making the main mob target you. As a very high single focus DPS class, you can't just go all out on the attack against the main foe. You'll pull the mob right off the tank, and break the battle formation. I need to do a bit of learning in this regard too. My heals are generating way too much threat, even when I'm ~5 levels below everyone else.
Unfortunately, there's no threat meter available in LOTRO at this stage. There are constant debates/arguments going on in the forums about addons, a lot of people think that they break the game and make it too easy. So for now we're going to have to judge our own threat, and try to space out high threat generating skills in battle. Look and see if you have any skills that generate no threat, or even possibly reduce threat. Use these to keep things manageable.
Not what I meant Ion. I'm referring to a visible icon or marker that will hang over a mob, and can be selected/allocated/moved by the Fellowship leader. You can thus have a battle commander that marks mobs for crowd control or attack, so that everyone knows who to target and with what, rather than trying to explain the calls over VoIP. It's quite a common thing in WoW AFAIK, so I'm hoping that there are similar options in LOTRO.
Seems that Geth has something on this though. This means that we should be very careful in appointing a Fellowship Leader, as that person needs to play the 'commander' role as well as managing their own character. Ideally it should be one of the support characters, as they aren't usually in the think of things. If Lee is playing his LM for example, it would be good to have him call and mark targets, as he will mostly be managing debuffs and crowd control.
@Stu - You need to do a bit of reading up on threat management. When we were instancing the other night, you kept generating too much threat and making the main mob target you. As a very high single focus DPS class, you can't just go all out on the attack against the main foe. You'll pull the mob right off the tank, and break the battle formation. I need to do a bit of learning in this regard too. My heals are generating way too much threat, even when I'm ~5 levels below everyone else.
Unfortunately, there's no threat meter available in LOTRO at this stage. There are constant debates/arguments going on in the forums about addons, a lot of people think that they break the game and make it too easy. So for now we're going to have to judge our own threat, and try to space out high threat generating skills in battle. Look and see if you have any skills that generate no threat, or even possibly reduce threat. Use these to keep things manageable.