Ranged height advantage

Per the patch notes, attacking from an elevated position now grants additional damage. In the example given, attacking from a tower with a bow would cause massive damage! Unfortunately, enemies have always developed an instant immunity to my arrows the moment we get separated by a ledge, fence, ankle deep water or abnormally dense air. So has anyone had any luck sniping from towers (i.e. places the enemies can't easily path to you) in r37?

 

none of my ranger abilities have worked at all yet, currently loading patch 522, HOPING *fingers crossed* that it fixes whatever issue was preventing my attacks from registering

 

You can shoot from above to mages and rangers as long they have the possibility to reach you with their magic/arrows. Melee will dodge it.

 

You can use elevated terrain without a barrier for the damage bonus.

 

Kinda seems silly the moment you find elevated ground to attack from the mob leashes and becomes immune, makes time spent on this mechanic seem silly.

 

This isn't accurate. Elevated doesn't mean behind a barrier.

 

But their example does, none of the towers I've been on have allowed ranged attacks, against melee enemies at least.

 

So, you have an understanding of the mechanics but pretend not to?

You can't attack enemies who can't reach you. It's not nothing to do with the newly added height bonuses.

 

I was trying to shoot the liches in the siege scene from the ramparts and all of my shots from there were "dodged" while their fireballs were connecting easily.

 

I have an understanding of the mechanics as of r35, introducing a height mechanic which wouldn't work like the example given in the patch notes suggests that they might have improved the underlying "AI too stupid to evade arrows" mechanic. However, you have verified that, nope, they just discovered that player location has a z component, slapped a damage boost on it and called it a day. Probably needed to spend more time setting the collision boxes for a new 'Peppermint Twist' emote due out for Christmas...

 

The inability to attack enemies who can't reach you hasn't changed. Hence my stating that you understand while pretending to not.

The height mechanic does work. It works in the context of an MMO that doesn't allow you to attack enemies who can't reach you.

 

Understood, in the the future I will endeavor to less forgiving to the dev's embellishments in the patch notes so I don't have to inconvenience the folks in these parts.

 

I have climbed into a tower, and shot down and gotten the bonus. The NPCs simply walked into the tower, scurried up the ladder and started attacking me.