I'm missing one and being a grumpy old fart
In pvp I'm trying the other worldly staff with messmer talisman off hand. Flame give me strength + terra magica buff then Messmer orb into a timed explosive ghost flame is a nasty ambush.
I mean I can code and all but this is a very different beast. Coding would be the right first step sure but lots of other game dev specifics to solve the big stuff, really a lot different than the usual things.
Kharzette I'm sure has way more perspective.
Edit: oh nvm, speak of the devil...
Honestly I think they can't elaborate on their specific inner workings but based on hailing NPCs and their responses when the zones are heavily populated, that's my best guess. They made a massive improvement and prob one lil Eureka away from something mega smooth in 80+ player zones.
Dealing...
I remember talking to someone working on optimization of one of the emulators. For him there was some entity list (players, NPCs, etc) and how that entity list was notified of events was the issue. It would take 3 seconds of delay in a high population zone.
He solved it by going the route of...
Do what you can to support this with finding any issues or any good feedback my friends. It's one of those things where it's nearly once in a life time that your hopes for something will be answered.
The "MMO" "options" (quoted separately because they really aren't true MMOs nor is there much...
Best and most minimal sweeping pvp change would be reduce cc duration with pvp DR
30 second mes and long ass blind felt a little unfair, but would be "classic"
Speaking as a person in a group going around and dunking ppl with that setup
All over the grave plain, southern area of continent, castles, dancing beast, rellana, lost for a long time finding fragments, messmer, currently exploring all over (less lost than previous lost phases) shadow keep and still finding new areas in it
Like someone said, think Orphan of Kos. Almost exactly. Once you muscle memory all the roll patterns, it's matter of never screwing them up. But let me say from trying to help some randoms get through, people are just spamming roll and praying. That might work if the fight was half as long...
Tl;Dr as a caster solo you're gonna be looking at a 5-7:1 dodge to short cast ratio for some of these (very high hp!) bosses
It still owns on trash if you manage sniping well, correct spell picks
He's washed up and does this "regret purchase circle jerk" thing for Blizzard. It's cringe.
Im plinking a long and need to do a lot of side area exploring again. Keeping the caster dream alive.