Hello. Been a very long time since I have posted here and I hope everyone is doing fine :)
I try to find out most multiboxing answers to the questions I have at times on my own and this site has been a boon for that..but this one stumps me. I have searched this forum high and low, but there are so many threads to search, if it is here, I can not find it.
How do the melee shammy in this video do what they do..and do it consistently? They are like mini tornadoes and look like they cause immense confusion as they spin around their targets, attacking as they rotate.
1:52 to 2:02 in the video is a perfect example of what I mean.
Can anyone help me with this? Thanks in advance :)
I believe that's caused by Interact With Target, and not necessarily wanted or done on purpose.
You should check the video of Gruul from Svpernova to see this on a grand scale ;-)
basically when clicking IWT the slave toons just all try and get to the mob/player/mine/herb/thingy and sometimes start spinning around it.
09-26-2011, 10:40 PM
MageMe
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Originally Posted by Zub
I believe that's caused by Interact With Target, and not necessarily wanted or done on purpose.
You should check the video of Gruul from Svpernova to see this on a grand scale ;-)
basically when clicking IWT the slave toons just all try and get to the mob/player/mine/herb/thingy and sometimes start spinning around it.
Ty for the fast reply..and yes I am familiar with IWT, but have never seen it do this :)
09-26-2011, 11:24 PM
Khatovar
This is from spamming interact with target. When you use interact with target and click to move, the slave interacts by clicking on the area where the target is, or was at the time of the command. Many people build IWT into their spam key, so it's sent constantly.
If you spam it, especially while either the slave or the target is moving, you have a greater chance of "click slippage" where the click either happens in an unreachable location or acts like the mouse is being held down and moved, causing the slaves to overrun the target, hitting interact again or causes the slaves to turn around and try to re-reach the target, causing the orbiting you see.
People favor this in PvP because it makes things more chaotic for the opposing team, making the slaves harder to target and causing facing issues for the person they are attacking. In PVE, it's less used because running off ledges or into another pack of mobs sucks. Though I have used IWT spam combined with Jamba's Follow Strobing for vehicle combat like Trial of the Champion, which allowed me to launch my slaves off with Charge without losing them across the arena.
09-26-2011, 11:49 PM
Zub
Note, it's not only with moveable targets. I've seen this happen when sending my slave gather an herb or mine a node.
They run to the herb and instead of picking it they sometime start spinning wildly around it.
I think this might be linked to latency as well, as I usually play with poor latency (400ms+)
09-29-2011, 03:38 PM
MageMe
Quote:
Originally Posted by Khatovar
This is from spamming interact with target. When you use interact with target and click to move, the slave interacts by clicking on the area where the target is, or was at the time of the command. Many people build IWT into their spam key, so it's sent constantly.
If you spam it, especially while either the slave or the target is moving, you have a greater chance of "click slippage" where the click either happens in an unreachable location or acts like the mouse is being held down and moved, causing the slaves to overrun the target, hitting interact again or causes the slaves to turn around and try to re-reach the target, causing the orbiting you see.
People favor this in PvP because it makes things more chaotic for the opposing team, making the slaves harder to target and causing facing issues for the person they are attacking. In PVE, it's less used because running off ledges or into another pack of mobs sucks. Though I have used IWT spam combined with Jamba's Follow Strobing for vehicle combat like Trial of the Champion, which allowed me to launch my slaves off with Charge without losing them across the arena.
Thank you very much. This is exactly the answer I needed. I love the multiboxing communities. The normal player could learn a lot from these communities and the 99% 'non' troll mentality. Bravo for us! :)
Quote:
Originally Posted by Zub
Note, it's not only with moveable targets. I've seen this happen when sending my slave gather an herb or mine a node.
They run to the herb and instead of picking it they sometime start spinning wildly around it.
I think this might be linked to latency as well, as I usually play with poor latency (400ms+)
My latency (usually 33/70ish) is good 95% of the time and this happens to me as well. My toon spins around in a circle and will continue to do so until I manually stop it. I jump mostly..just to see how far I can launch him into the air. Ha.
