Guild Wars 2

Take the Colossus Rumblus fight in Ascalon Catacombs explorable. One of his attacks is a conal AoE. This attack has a 270 degree cone at point-blank range, and a 60 degree cone at range. What does the graphic show you? A measly fourty-five degree frontal cone, and no indication of the point-blank cone whatsoever. Please fire whoever was responsible for matching attack graphics to hitboxes. They did a kitten poor job, and made this fight a living hell since you never have any idea if you’ve dodged the attack or not.

Another problem with the dungeons, who would of thought?

This is one of the few things that The Secret World did perfectly. A large graphic appears on the ground that outlines exactly where the hit is going to land.

It took me a while to find a screenshot, but here’s the best example I could find:
[img]http://www.aganazzar.com/ha/wendy/tsw/tsw_bonbon_scr010.jpg[/img]

And the inner lines of the graphic even swing inwards. Once they come together, the attack lands. It’s a great mechanic to alert players when and where the hits are going to land. You can go up against any big mob and even if you don’t know what their AOE abilities are, you still get enough of a heads up to get the kitten out of the way.

WoW has started making more clear impact points as well with many of their boss abilities-particularly the more nasty ones that will put you 6 feet under if they hit you.

Rainer Fenixhart.1357:

WoW has started making more clear impact points as well with many of their boss abilities-particularly the more nasty ones that will put you 6 feet under if they hit you.

i hear they’re also going to implement a robot-control function, where you can just press “r” and your toon will win for you. that way you don’t have to do any kind of thinking or take anything into account except how skilled you are now.

that will be awesome!

but then how will we auto-run? to the explorers this will be a nerf!