Cool i got infracted :}
btw:
@Joltz.8596, I dont see any problem in that, what is exactly your problem, that mobs are agressive and hit you, if something hits u will enter in combat, is that it????
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Getting knicked from a salamander drake for 5 points of health trying to run past it shouldnt make me run slow for 10-15 seconds
That’s nothing compared to the 60 Second blindness/slow if you get within 10m of a dust mite.
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Getting knicked from a salamander drake for 5 points of health trying to run past it shouldnt make me run slow for 10-15 seconds
Why not? A hit is a hit.
(In fact, this is a tactic in WvW against a fast opponent: nip them so they are in combat and can’t get away as easily.)
When I’m running past drakes, I go slightly out of my way and time my dodges so I don’t get hit. They have a big animation and very slow attacks.
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Getting knicked from a salamander drake for 5 points of health trying to run past it shouldnt make me run slow for 10-15 seconds
That’s nothing compared to the 60 Second blindness/slow if you get within 10m of a dust mite.
But this a condition you can remove right away. Not talking about conditions, talking about plain damage hits BUT, another part of it is even after your condition free it still takes forever to get back to normal speed.
That’s because you are still in combat. Combat doesn’t end until you either kill the enemy, put enough distance between you to break aggro, or the enemy gives up pursuit (they all have a “leash” and will return to their normal position). You can speed up the process by increasing your own movement speed with swiftness, movement skills, or using terrain (jump up/down ledges that they will have to path around).
Just messing around with a few different types of mobs, it seems that they’ll usually chase you for a distance you can travel in about 15 seconds, give or take a couple depending on their speed/casting animations/etc. Combat speed is 1/3 slower than out of combat speed (200 units/sec vs 300 u/s), so that translates to adding around 5 seconds onto your trip by aggroing a mob. Of course this will be longer if it puts any movement impairing conditions on you. The end result is that a 5 minute run would be increased to about 6:40 if you managed to stay in combat for the entire run.
Sure, it takes a bit longer to reach your destination, but this is hardly something I would refer to as “snail speed”. And the situation above is looking at the worst case scenario of 100% in combat time. Unless you’re traveling through some of the most densely populated areas of the game, you will spend far less time being in combat. Even if half of the time is spent slowed by combat, the trip is still under 6 minutes. I think that’s a quite generous estimate of combat time from what I usually see in my playing. And it’s a rather long travel time in general, as you could run all the way across most maps in that time. Your A-to-B travel times are most likely going to be far less than full-map trips due to waypoints.
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I guess its just an overall feeling of sluggishness in movement for me. Some dont mind it, some do i guess. Maybe i just feel it more comming from different mmo’s in the past. Perhaps a very slight movement speed increase in everything would do the trick. In any case i still enjoy it as is but i think its something that would improve the overall game experience. Purely preference.
You keep talking about being sluggish in combat — instead rethink it to remember that this game gives you super speed when you exit combat.
The two ideas are mathematically equivalent; neither is any better than the other. However, my ‘world view’ allows me to enjoy the game more while your phrasing seems to lead you to be more frustrated.
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