Gamerescape Interview: Summons, Chocobos, Train Tracks and Rocks

[Dargoth_Draconia]

Greetings,

We would like to gather your thoughts about jump and how you would like it to be used (In combat? Getting around obstacles?) so we can pass them along to development team. Please let us know what you think. Thanks!

Personally I love the idea of jump and glad it is being implemented. I would like to see it used out of combat first and foremost though it would be nice to for it to have uses in combat, whether to instantly stop casting or if you can use it to actually jump out of ground aoe or to avoid some type of ground pound stun. (Titan anyone?)

I believe in that interview Yoshi-P said OOC uses for jumping down cliffs and up cliffs instead of having to run around the bump in the road and making a certain degree angle that you couldn't climb or jump on to. I kind of agree with this but make sure you take into consideration of how high the jump itself is and what would be reasonable to be able to jump up to and jump down from. Make sure to make it feel natural and not useless.

For traveling it should feel pretty balanced I would say you should be able to jump down to a further point than you can jump up too, not too far but not too shallow either or it will feel clumsy. For combat it shouldn't be forced except for certain type of attacks like I mentioned perhaps an AoE ground based stun or attack that you can jump over or move out of the range of. Also for interrupting spells etc.

Also if you do go to the extent of adding fall damage from jumping from higher than intended places maybe you can add a debuff as well if it doesn't kill you. Say a broken leg debuff which slows you down by 30-50% (on mount as well) and only way to remove debuff is either wait an hour or go to town and pay an NPC healer. This would dramatically add to the realism that you are afraid of losing sight of. Though my idea could be tweaked a little perhaps but it is an idea period