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Little jerks that get in the way of targeting

  • RexMoonD
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    As soon as you are marked as being in combat, all vermin are marked as non-targetable...
  • Necrelios
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    babylon wrote: »
    Necrelios wrote: »
    ...They could even do this like with fish, where you can just pick up a rat and carry around a stack of rats in your pocket until you decide to open them up and collect the guts later on...

    Only if they also have a chance to breed while inside your pack.

    Haha, yeah that would work too! Make sure to carry some cheese so they don't go hungry either ;) .
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  • Aquanova
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    +1 OP, I totally agree!
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  • magnusthorek
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    More frustrating than wasting a one-shot ultimate in an environmental creature, which is a valid target from the POV of the current targeting system, is to waste one without any target at all, like when looting an container.
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  • CreepySpydre
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    I had to laugh at all the posts here, so glad I am not the only one that this happens to. Shoots a Crushing Shock to interrupt NPC attack, but instead hits rat....... ouch, at least I got this shiny 2-handed sword out of the rat, and his guts, for fishing.
  • UltimaJoe777
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    "Stand by to execute....Stand by!!!......EXECUTE and ULTS NOW!!!" (Rat in front just ate those meteors like a champ)

    Awesome ult drop on the rat! - Said no MMO player ever

    "And they never saw it coming either" - Said the Rat in Oblivion after becoming the Daedrats we now keep as pets.

    Wanna know how players really responded though? Like this:
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  • Didaco
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    Hey, at least they make your proxy det stronger, AM I RITE?!
  • UltimaJoe777
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    Didaco wrote: »
    Hey, at least they make your proxy det stronger, AM I RITE?!

    It's funny because that is literally the only skill that can kill multiple vermin in 1 go.

    Frog pit? Detonate!
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  • ContraTempo
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    LOL

    At least Meteor is AOE. I've Jesus beamed rats in a few fights. That's a surprise.

    I think what I hate most is when you use an AOE on a group at the shore and then you have 3 crabs join the mob, sucking up some of your attacks.
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  • Eiagra
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    My sister runs into this problem more than I do, but we've both suffered it.

    For all the grief those little rats and spiders and other little critters give us, though, I would almost rather keep it as-is just for the comedic factor...

    Turning them into harvestables might be handy, but I kinda like how multiple people can get loot from them. Makes collecting those particular fishing baits in a party faster! :)
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  • byrom101b16_ESO
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    You are forgetting the trick of using a critter when someone stealths, by dropping a meteor on the rat and killing the stealthier. I have actually used this...
  • anitajoneb17_ESO
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    I have a question..... What is the purpose of the rats, spiders, etc? With LAG issues the way they are, why load up with this pointless @#*&^?

    Rats and spiders... I miss again!

    They are the reason why the environment feels "alive". They're the source of movement.

    There are too few NPC/mobs to generate this feeling. Without all the critters, butterflies and all, we would have the feeling to be the only moving thing in a dead static landscape (feeling we experience in Cyrodiil for instance).
  • Fischblut
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    It happens often when I gather few mobs around me and rely on auto targeting :D

    But my most hilarious fail was when my DK was approaching a dolmen with lot of action going on. I thought "nice, it's time to leap into fight like a boss". I leaped on rat instead, and it was far enough from mobs to negate all my impact B)
  • Van_0S
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    Seriously, just think how much more interesting PvP would be if there were rats and snakes on the battlefield.

    lol! :D

    Incapacitated strike on a rat !!!! xD
  • JKorr
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    More frustrating than wasting a one-shot ultimate in an environmental creature, which is a valid target from the POV of the current targeting system, is to waste one without any target at all, like when looting an container.

    Change the key.

    Accidentally using my ultimate when I wasn't even in combat made me remap the key. My ultimate is now 6. Weapon swap is 7. Going for the 1 key and hitting the ` instead got old just as fast as accidentally triggering the ultimate with R.
  • cyclonus11
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    RexMoonD wrote: »
    As soon as you are marked as being in combat, all vermin are marked as non-targetable...

    I just "tested" this on multiple occasions, and it isn't the case. I am in the heat of battle and SQUEAK! ... dead squirrel. :(
  • Volkodav
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    I have been sabotaged so many times by those little guys!! I go to kill with my ultimate and suddenly a rat screams! Not my enemy.
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  • STEVIL
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    Today, earlier running along the beach in Hew's Bane fighting that ankylosaur-nock-off whatever its called, my nightblade got her Assassin's Will proc, turned, fired...

    and a stupid, suicidal HERON had cut in between us and BLAMO HERON takes 20,324 damage (saved the cap from the after-action) saving the Anylo-whatchamacallit (for a few more seconds.)

    HERON!!!

    I consider this PROOF that dinos did spawn into birds in Hew's Bane evolutionary history and the HEROn sacrificed itself to save its master.

    20k+ to kill a HERON!!!

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  • Volkodav
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    Danksta wrote: »
    The fact I knew what this was about by only reading the title suggests this is an issue worth looking into.

    Noo,it's too much fun talking about it. XD
  • Volkodav
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    RexMoonD wrote: »
    As soon as you are marked as being in combat, all vermin are marked as non-targetable...

    Then how come I kill so many rats by accident? And they arent innocent NPCs either.
  • Epona222
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    Didaco wrote: »
    Hey, at least they make your proxy det stronger, AM I RITE?!

    It's funny because that is literally the only skill that can kill multiple vermin in 1 go.

    Frog pit? Detonate!

    Is that like the ESO equivalent of dynamite fishing? :D
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  • KingWhyteboi
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    Seriously, just think how much more interesting PvP would be if there were rats and snakes on the battlefield.

    i hope that never happens lol
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  • Volkodav
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    Seriously, just think how much more interesting PvP would be if there were rats and snakes on the battlefield.

    i hope that never happens lol

    I'd love to be a spectator for that.Lol!
  • Runs
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    What pisses me off about them... They will screw you over on your targeted hits, but they can't be hit with AOE attacks... If one is possible, both should be.
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