Idea for the AoE indicators.

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Originally Posted by Saziel

How is that being lazy? It makes no sense. In fact, it's almost the opposite of lazy in that you can continue to perform actions and attacks and then move before you're about to be hit (which is what I was doing in the red AoE fields, and would continue to do)

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It's lazy because instead of learning about enemy attacks you're being spoon fed how they work by a giant countdown.

It's already bad enough that people don't have to do something horrible like actually learn the range and shape of enemy attacks. They should manage figuring out how long they can risk standing around on their own.

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Originally Posted by myahele

I'd much rather be able to change the color to what ever I want.

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I'd love it if you could customize the color to any you'd like to make it a color that's easier for each of us to see as we wish. The ground in some boss fights really clashes with the color of the AoE. Would be nice if for say, Titan, we could change it to a bright blue, or something. Twintania could be a bright green.

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Originally Posted by PlanckZero

It's lazy because instead of learning about enemy attacks you're being spoon fed how they work by a giant countdown.

It's already bad enough that people don't have to do something horrible like actually learn the range and shape of enemy attacks. They should manage figuring out how long they can risk standing around on their own.

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Not everybody wants to memorize every single aspect of every single fight. Maybe you're okay doing that, but not everyone is. That doesn't mean those people should be penalized. As it stands, the current AoE attack indicator is just random pulsing that's nonsensical. Having it be in sync with the cast timer would actually allow us all to play more strategically.

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Originally Posted by Saziel

Having it be in sync with the cast timer would actually allow us all to play more strategically.

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Or you could actually look at the cast bar on the mob. the only people who wouldnt be able to do that are healers, and 99% of aoe in this game has a shorter cast time than a heal spell that isnt instant and should move as soon as the red pops up.

Really like this idea, not hard to implement as well. SE PLEASE MAKE THIS!

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Originally Posted by Saziel

Not everybody wants to memorize every single aspect of every single fight. Maybe you're okay doing that, but not everyone is. That doesn't mean those people should be penalized. As it stands, the current AoE attack indicator is just random pulsing that's nonsensical. Having it be in sync with the cast timer would actually allow us all to play more strategically.

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That isn't playing strategically. That's like playing computer chess and hitting the hint button every single turn. You're not learning how to play and devising your own strategy, you're letting the system dictate how you move rather than relying on your own common sense and intuition.

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Originally Posted by Moheeheeko

Or you could actually look at the cast bar on the mob. the only people who wouldnt be able to do that are healers, and 99% of aoe in this game has a shorter cast time than a heal spell that isnt instant and should move as soon as the red pops up.

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Healers can keep the boss on focus or on their primary target and use mouse over macros. So they are not given a free pass to stand in aoes just because they are healing.

The pulse is there to improve visibility for people with colour-blindness. Making it slower and hence harder to notice is going to kinda defeat the point of having it.

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Originally Posted by Iymala

Healers can keep the boss on focus or on their primary target and use mouse over macros. So they are not given a free pass to stand in aoes just because they are healing.

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I wasnt aware of that (and my main is whm) but nowhere did I say it was ok for them to stand in aoe, In fact I said the opposite.

Haven't been able to try it out personally yet, but does this make it easier to see monster aoe while standing in water?