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Nestor wrote: »

This usually happens because the mob moves towards you after you fire the skill. Probably because the mob senses the skill like anything else magical and aggros. Since your target is really a point on the ground, not the mob, you end up on top or behind the mob.

One thing you can do is animation cancel the charge. As you approach the target, give a backwards (I use the S key on the keyboard) and that is where you will stop. You still deal out the damage or stun or whatever. It takes a bit of practice to time it right but you can place your self in front of the mob and continue your attack.

Thanks, I haven't tried that.

Nestor wrote: »

This usually happens because the mob moves towards you after you fire the skill. Probably because the mob senses the skill like anything else magical and aggros. Since your target is really a point on the ground, not the mob, you end up on top or behind the mob.

One thing you can do is animation cancel the charge. As you approach the target, give a backwards (I use the S key on the keyboard) and that is where you will stop. You still deal out the damage or stun or whatever. It takes a bit of practice to time it right but you can place your self in front of the mob and continue your attack.

Most of the time this happens to me, it's not because the mob moves toward me after i fire the skill.

I'll try your technique of canceling the animation. Thanks.

Nestor wrote: »

This usually happens because the mob moves towards you after you fire the skill. Probably because the mob senses the skill like anything else magical and aggros. Since your target is really a point on the ground, not the mob, you end up on top or behind the mob.

I've been noticing how this happens for me. Thanks for pointing it out. One of my theoretical problems with this behavior is that if the mob isn't aggro'd by me at my current distance, then activating an ability at that distance shouldn't aggro the mob. They shouldn't be aggro'd until they're affected by the ability. Take the bow skill Snipe, for instance: it can take a long time to arc to the target and the target doesn't aggro until it hits them. The same should be true of gap closers - they're basically a form of "sneak attack", meant to almost instantly transport us to our target. Choosing to charge a mob outside of aggro range shouldn't aggro a mob. An argument can be made that they should be aggro'd once we enter aggro range, but most gap closers move so quickly that the reaction time within that distance should be close to nil (and, i might argue, counted as nil).

The objective of a gap closer is to quickly put you at your target. Having gap closers aggro your target when you fire the skill rather than when you reach them contradicts that purpose.

On the other hand, i understand the realism of action combat targeting - if i target a mob then fire a skill and the mob moves before the skill reaches them, i miss the target. With gap closers, the onus is on me to target the mob in a group that isn't likely to move after i fire the skill (ie: a caster).