Dear SE. Monster knockback attacks needs a lookin into.

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Originally Posted by Bayohne

(Also gonna move this over to battle mechanics, too)

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Yes, thank you. This needs to be done more to get people to post in the proper section.

There should simply be a cooldown timer set after the first knockback so the player doesn't get spammed with it 3x in a row. I, too, hate the nanny goat knockbacks, it doesn't in anyway feel challenging (just annoying as hell).

I'm not necessarily having any problems with cactuar 100 needles. Seems for my gladiator that I'm able to just about survive each 3x cactuar battle with a sliver of HP each time. Could be adjusted though just a tad.

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Originally Posted by Bayohne

This was adjusted in a hotfix on October 29th. Are you still experiencing it?

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I played GLA a lot before and after the patch in question and noticed that they'd only get 1-2 moves off before dying. Before it was 3-4, and I had to pop potions regularly.

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Originally Posted by Griss

could you pass along that while the change to 100 needles for low level cactuars was very helpful. they will constantly spam the move. my current record for chain 100 needles used on me is about 7. During leves with grouped cactuars, all of them can go absolutely nuts using the move. Making a ko bit more prolonged then it use to be but still inevitable.

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I see your point but it wasn't nearly as bad when they 1 shotted you everytime with 1k needles. Atleast the leves are doable now solo if you have a simple cure spell.

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Originally Posted by Bayohne

I checked with the development team and let them know about the concerns here about enemies spamming knockback. They said that they'll be making adjustments based on all of your feedback so please let them know anything else related to monster actions that you would like fixed. I see things about gnats listed here, too. And the moles... (Also gonna move this over to battle mechanics, too)

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Many thanks for this. And sorry for not posting the right place.
But yeah, the mobs seem to spam TP moves, regardless of their TP gain and abillity cooldown.
Sure, mobs have always been known to "cheat", just like in FFXI. (Casting while moving, wich players couldent do and longer attack range).
Still thou, this spamage could use a wee bit tweaking.

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Originally Posted by Bayohne

This was adjusted in a hotfix on October 29th. Are you still experiencing it?

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Now that you mention it, Not so much. please excuse my herp de derp. =P

I don't know if you fixed this also but i'll mention it anyways. When doing The All Seeing Eyes leve in camp Nine Ivies, the Ahrimans there spam petrification like there is no tomorrow, making the battle really slow and frustrating because basically you can just land 1 hit then be petrified for 20 second since they alternate the casting on me :(

knockbacks are a bit overdone yup i agree op

also time to take away all the ranged abilities of every mob.
we cant pull properly without running a mile and therefore being 3/4 dead by the time you get them in place (with stoneskin, prot and shell i may add). we could engage where they stand so we fight amongst 34 other mobs and never do an aoe move, but thats not a solution lol

mobs should come to us instantly, period. only exception should be magical mobs.

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Originally Posted by Bayohne

I checked with the development team and let them know about the concerns here about enemies spamming knockback. They said that they'll be making adjustments based on all of your feedback so please let them know anything else related to monster actions that you would like fixed. I see things about gnats listed here, too. And the moles... (Also gonna move this over to battle mechanics, too)

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I'm not sure if this has been mentioned, but when you fight Mountain Peistes (and other Peistes I would presume) and they use their breath move...you can see them charging, just like with raptors, which indicates a good time to move, but Peistes seem to release their breath attack much faster than Raptors. I'm not sure if this is intended or not, but it's nearly impossible to get behind a peiste (or out of the cone) like I would with a raptor to avoid the move.