MOB Health

i'd like to see mob spawns be a little LESS consistent when it comes to base attributes. every rogue in twins foothills has 850 health. not 849, not 851. 2% wiggle room in either direction would do a lot to make them feel a bit less interchangeable.

 

Maybe the mobs should have more random Str, Dex, Int, and the Hp differences would derive from Str, same way it works for players.

 

well if you want things LOGical they gonna have to start spending their focus.

 

That would be cool if the devs could make that work, but seems like they decided it's not worth the effort for the downsides (I still think it would be cool)

 

I believe the reason for unlimited focus was that players would make them expend their focus to make them easy kills. Too exploitable.

 

Yes, they said too exploitable for the effort in making it work, and they felt for the benefits, since they could modulate skill use based on timers.

However, as a player I would still find it fun to use the environment against a mob or tactics or skills against a mob in a way to wear him out, or at least make him yield. Something about that is enjoyable to me, and much more so at least than currently existing exploits, like having the DarkStarr corpion follow me around forever in circles, while I regen, once in a while quickly stopping to spam DOT on him (that's how I killed him -- sorry, DarkStarr)

 

In nature things like height, strength, etc. etc. tend to be normally distributed.

 

Another thing would to be to use a random amount of mobs for a respawn and a little less predictable spawn locations. As of now, mobs spawn in the exact location, with the exact same amount of mobs every time. This also goes for resources(ore, regs, etc.) Would be nice if those had say 32 possible respawn locations, which were randomly selected.

 

@Sorthious

More random locations for crates and barrels, too.

Heck, there are scenes where it might even make sense to randomize the location (or presence) of an entire bandit camp, or kobold or elf encampment.

 

and yet, they do have randomization possible. you go to a scene with a horse herd and the number and ratio of adults to foals varies.

 

Also, if you farm spots, I wouldn't mind seeing a named elite type mob spawn that would obviously be harder, like a mini boss or something. Can give him higher bag drop chance or a special weapon with possibility for crafting item or pattern on salvage. If you put one of these in certain areas for for each zone, would make people want to spread out more and get different spots instead of everyone framing the same thing all the time.