Discussion on magic user summons auto target vs melee targeting
Ok so last night we had an event on Sonoma and it was great. They divided us up into two different groups end effectivly diminished the lag. It was nice that way. But for awhile now, its concerning about the targeting methods of summons that can auto target in a mass crowd. They can just go directly toward a hostile mob and start attacking, which effects looting rights and overall damage. Now the melee cannot do this. He can cycle through his tab targeting, which targets all the magic summons like energy vortexes and risen collosus. You attack their summons and not the mob you are trying to attack. You control/shift to try to grab a tag, but there are so many tags do go through to just even get to the mob you are looking for, and by the time you get to it its half dead or completely dead. Its kind of disheartening. Anyways just wondering if anyone else has feelings about this. By the way, Rowena Rocks, and Sonoma loves her.
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1. He made the boss appear in the air so players could grab the bar before they could attack, then it fell to the ground so we could attack.
2. He made the skin of the boss from The rock Titan. Everyone could see it because it stood above everything.
A few weeks later he went back to skins that blended with the crowd.
But if the GMs do one or both of those two things, we could all target it fairly.
@EM Thrixx
Thank you very much for these suggestions Pawain. Greatly appreciated.
According to Mesanna/Kyronix at the M&G (and a few supporters here) the targeting on non-hostiles doesn't happen. IE - nothing to see here - everything is working as expected.
Perform some sort of area attack, this will normally only attack valid hostiles and not red summons, then your char should swing at that target, so if you have chiv then holy light, if you’re human I suggest doing the spellweaving quest as you can cast t-storm at jack of all trades, might fizzle a few times. You can throw a conflagration potion (problem is only 1 person can do this at a time as they won’t stack on the floor) or an explode potion, (or supernova if you’re in VvV). You won’t need a free hand for these.
most other players just install a third party client that has fixed the targeting bugs in the game you pay for, so they are able to get event items drops while you miss out because certain devs have never even played the game so won’t understand your issue”
but you will find on EC too if you have macro for attack nearest hostile you too will hit red summons”
If you are using SmartNearestTarget you can have it ignore summons by unchecking the Summons option under the Mobiles Bar tab