ranged attack on every monster?

[Rinsui]

Peregrine evidently never got invited to the party in 11.
Maybe that was less about having the wrong job, and more about telling people ad infinitum how the game has to be and how the rules have to be when most of them have another opinion.
Just a guess.

If she's fine with goats snorting you to Valhalla and pugs sneezing you to death - well, to each one his own fantasy world. I prefer dragons that bite to those that cough me to the afterlife.

And for the record: I was a monk. And in Balista, I was shot to pieces from afar more than once. But If I got hold of any of 'them archers, they were dead within 3 seconds.

(...)

Go and try to tank a charging Elephant head-on. Your funeral.

[Rinsui]

People want the game harder not easier,and difficulty comes in many ways.

Yes.
And I prefer ways that are not artifical, contrived and ridiculous. Like tiny squirrels that are magically able to penetrate my 2-inch steel breastplate with an acorn thrown from a 50 yard distance.

[Kallera]

Yes.
And I prefer ways that are not artifical, contrived and ridiculous. Like tiny squirrels that are magically able to penetrate my 2-inch steel breastplate with an acorn thrown from a 50 yard distance.

You are playing a game where knights fight on ostriches, toads are the size of kiosks, and walking plants that have more teeth than sharks! Those squirrels need SOME way to kill you!

[Rinsui]

That's no contradiction. You actually *can* ride on an ostrich, giant toads are an *imaginable* thing nature could (and has, in the past) come up with, and whether Morbols are plants is... well... a good question. In my book, those squirrels and ladybugs are o.k. as LV 1 enemies, but once I use more than a loincloth to cover my body, I have a hard time trying to imagine *how on earth* they manage do chip away at my HP.

Fireballs: o.k.
Magic Samurai Dwarfs: o.k.
Pink Elephants floating in the sky: borderline
Goats killing a Paladin with... snot: no-no.

[Kallera]

That's no contradiction. You actually *can* ride on an ostrich, giant toads are an *imaginable* thing nature could (and has, in the past) come up with, and whether Morbols are plants is... well... a good question. In my book, those squirrels and ladybugs are o.k. as LV 1 enemies, but once I use more than a loincloth to cover my body, I have a hard time trying to imagine *how on earth* they manage do chip away at my HP.

Fireballs: o.k.
Magic Samurai Dwarfs: o.k.
Pink Elephants floating in the sky: borderline
Goats killing a Paladin with... snot: no-no.

Ants have been known to kill people.
The saliva of komodo dragons are a walking culturefest bacteria, making normally survivable bites deadly.
Impact screams have been used in games before.
Squirrel enemies used all sorts of attacks, including volcanic eruptions, and"L4 suicide" in FF7.
This is not the first, nor last "cute" enemy Square came up with.

They all can't be earth rending cinamatronic skylasers.

[Jericho]

Yes.
And I prefer ways that are not artifical, contrived and ridiculous. Like tiny squirrels that are magically able to penetrate my 2-inch steel breastplate with an acorn thrown from a 50 yard distance.

The squirrels aren't tiny anymore...

[Randis]

The squirrels aren't tiny anymore...

Yep... They stand waist high... and they are called Nutbiter for a reason

[Anty]

i also really hope that the mobs left useing ranged attack get a proper animation for it. not just have a 0,1 sec animation (or no animation) and see a "hit" on one of the party members as a result, thats lame.

nerving the range attack also doesnt mean that the game gets easier or spells like bind acutally get some use if they start to make the world/mobs more challenging. But not by adding range to all mobs, more like adding harder dots that need to be treated by a mage etc. more evil moves. Higher cooldown on cures. less spamming-playstyle please!!!! Ofc this needs a lot of work and a complete redesign of hate-patterns, mob behaviour etc. but atm this game is easier then any mmo or single player rpg i ever played. The only thing that can actually kill you is a mob that can one shot you, everything else can be done with cure spam...

[Misha]

i also really hope that the mobs left useing ranged attack get a proper animation for it. not just have a 0,1 sec animation (or no animation) and see a "hit" on one of the party members as a result, thats lame.

nerving the range attack also doesnt mean that the game gets easier or spells like bind acutally get some use if they start to make the world/mobs more challenging. But not by adding range to all mobs, more like adding harder dots that need to be treated by a mage etc. more evil moves. Higher cooldown on cures. less spamming-playstyle please!!!! Ofc this needs a lot of work and a complete redesign of hate-patterns, mob behaviour etc. but atm this game is easier then any mmo or single player rpg i ever played. The only thing that can actually kill you is a mob that can one shot you, everything else can be done with cure spam...

Exactly my thought... heck even goblins pick a stone out their *** and throw it xD Hehe... would love to get the crossbows back rather then a lame stone throw. Alot of mobs need their own ranged attack animation! Extremely bland and boring atm

[Honz]

What was SE's reasoning in removing ranged attack from mobs? Game is easy enough as it is, are they trying to make this game retard-proof?