Grieving

[Aeternitas]

So i haven't really seen many posts here about the grieving possibilities of the black orc. (i remember one post about it but can't remember it). Does anyone have any info on

Outta My Way!
Action Points: 130
Range: 0-10 ft
Knocks an ally away and causes them to detaunt all enemies around them, reducing the damage that the enemies deal to that ally by 50% for 10 seconds.

Is it only usable in combat and such or can i knock a gobbo off a cliff?

Thanks for the replies :p

[Gemini]

When we first saw that ability there was a multiple page thread on it, maybe two. It was later asked about at some convention of something, and the devs said they did not want that at all and were looking into it. Wether they prevent it one way or another or just ditch the ability remains to be seen.

[Krulltak]

Wait a minute, why the hell would you want to send an ally down a cliff? That's just asshattery.

[Gemini]

Wait a minute, why the hell would you want to send an ally down a cliff? That's just asshattery.


Yes it is, and people online tend to be asshats. Not all of them, but more than anyone would like. Which is why we want to prevent it.

[Aeternitas]

Thanks for the replies. I dont want the devs to get rid of it. but i know that if they dont look into it then we will see QQ posts like crazy when WAR is finally released. Make it an in-combat only skill. Then at least lowbies wont get thrown off of cliffs. Also i dont want to know gobbos off of cliffs, just i know some people would love to do that. Thanks again.

[Accipiter]

Gah! I looked at the title of this thread and thought the Black Orc players were grieving about something.

On topic - It would be easy to fix. Just make it so that the player cannot throw people off things, much the same way that one can no longer fear enemy players off cliffs in WoW.

(I remember the good old days when I was jumped by 3 Allies on the lava mountain in Ungoro and hit my priest's aoe fear skill. All 3 of them jumped into the lava and died. :) )

Currently if you fear someone near a cliff, they just run around next to it. They could do something similar with this Black Orc skill. The gobby would land just shy of the cliff's edge, no matter how close he was to it to begin with.

[Axxar]

I guess a preventive "fix" would be to simply stop the player being thrown when the ground has a certain height change. Similar to how mages in WoW can't Blink out from cliffs.

[Krylzay]

Thats a solution but it seems to much work for something you could do fast, I think the easiest way to fix it is just make the skill Combat only. Plus I believe currently they have to be in your party for you to use it because it is a buff. In a past podcast they mentioned that buffs only affect people in your party. That means random people can give everyone in town a buff.

[Moose]

Thats a solution but it seems to much work for something you could do fast, I think the easiest way to fix it is just make the skill Combat only. Plus I believe currently they have to be in your party for you to use it because it is a buff. In a past podcast they mentioned that buffs only affect people in your party. That means random people can give everyone in town a buff.

But if they just made the skill combat only, what would stop players from knocking allies off cliffs during combat? I know it sounds like a dumb thing to do when the Black Orc should be worrying about his enemies, but there are no limits to the asshattery of MMO players.

Although if you're right in that you can only use it on players in your party, I think that would pretty much solve it.