DanteTheDeviant wrote: »

sharquez wrote: »

There are addons that tell you when an attack is incoming and ping with dodge/block now.

How is that allowed???

Those only work in PVE and warn of major attacks from elite enemies.

DanteTheDeviant wrote: »

sharquez wrote: »

There are addons that tell you when an attack is incoming and ping with dodge/block now.

How is that allowed???

Anything that has a travel time or cast time is technically visible to the player anyway so the addons have access to that same information. The only real difference it makes is that it easier for enemies to dodge attacks that are coming from outside their field of view or when the scene is so crowded that most people would be overwhelmed by the sheer number of things happening. Lame? Sure. Cheating, hardly. That being said I would not be surprised if some folks have an extra layer of 'tooling' to automate the process of dodging when said events are raised given a set of variables to track (current resources, health, danger posed by the attack etc) - which definitely would fall into the category of cheating but how would you ever tell anyway? Most pvpers have developed pretty good senses and tend to dodge when they are already in danger or sense impending danger. These reflexes have just been honed over thousands of hours of exposure and practice.

EDIT: I am really starting to hate the supposed auto-correct that every browser comes equipped with these days. Please learn to spell and how to use proper grammar you stupid chatbots...

One thing I occasionally notice when fighting PvE mobs and bosses is that the XP earned from killing something will pop up in the bottom right corner of my screen a second or so before I apparently kill it. In other words, the server has just registered the kill but my client hasn't drawn the animation of me killing the thing.

Occasionally this works against me, such as when something is attacking me and I try to brace myself but fail to block the incoming attack, as though I'm trying to react to something that already occurred a second or so earlier.

I imagine there are various factors that can affect this-- the speed and quality of one's internet service, the speed of one's computer and graphics card, the amount of "traffic" on the internet between one's computer and the game servers, etc.

Anyway, there have been a few times when I was about to harvest a resource node but I got the message that "someone us using that"-- and then, a second or so later, another player comes racing up to the node and harvests it, as though they had started to interact with it while they were still some distance away. I assume this is the same type of situation-- my client was a bit slow to show the other player, such that where they actually were and what they were actually doing was a second or so "ahead" of what I was being shown by my client. And I'm sure it sometimes works the other way-- from the other player's point of view it's like I'm swooping in out of nowhere and harvesting a node that they were trying to harvest.

I imagine that this sort of thing must happen in PvP as well. Some players have top-of-the-line gaming rigs and a super-fast internet service, whereas other players do not, such that when you PvP it isn't just you against the other players, it's your rig and internet against theirs. And then there could be differences between your ping and theirs due to internet traffic and such.

Perhaps that sort of thing might partially explain what you're seeing?

Do you guys mean https://www.esoui.com/downloads/info3137-CrutchAlerts.html ?

Old combat alerts no longer work for pvp.

crutchalert does not work in bg


Wouldn't random dodge cost stamina?

Also if you repeatedly hit those guys, you'd notice they don't always dodge (not CC'ed), so it's hard to say they're cheating. I just spam my charge and it'd work one out of 2 times.


The odd thing is that, with the current level of resistance everyone uses, I sometimes found it pointless to dodge or block.

Dodge cost 3.5k. I could do 15k damage on an average opponent instead, as long as it stays within range, and I did hit people to death while immobilized.

Block cost less with S&B but otherwise doesn't seem worth against most attacks, comparing to spam heals.

NyassaV wrote: »

DanteTheDeviant wrote: »

sharquez wrote: »

There are addons that tell you when an attack is incoming and ping with dodge/block now.

How is that allowed???

Because audio queues exist. You can hear certain attacks coming. The addons will just make it more obvious. Helpful for people who don't have the game sound on and listen to music.

Also helpful for visually impaired folks that have trouble seeing the red/yellow lines for abilities with cast times(red interruptable, yellow stuff like heavy attacks).