About Staff Merc

[Aree Soothsayer]

How the heck do I stop him from throwing ranged attacks he doesn't have? I want him to go toe to Toe with mobs not run around like a chiken with it's head cut off.

[#itsmeSnek™]

Staff and Magic Devices merc have Power Wave added to them, so they will shoot from far unfortunately.

[Aree Soothsayer]

Jeeze. I can understand attacker. Moving around is good. however itt should be disabled on defender. They need to stand their ground when not dodging red aoes.

Also, Blue AoEs are bullshet.

[Karnage]

I'm not sure I understand your complaint. After all, ranked tanks have the advantage of being able to retain aggro on mobile enemies. That's the very reason staff and bowgun tanks exist in Toram.

[Aree Soothsayer]

Play a caster and say that when your tank brings the enemy over on top of you while you are recharging Mp and cannot cancel it.

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Originally posted by Aree Soothsayer:

Play a caster and say that when your tank brings the enemy over on top of you while you are recharging Mp and cannot cancel it.

That usually means that you're too far away that the merc always follows you and has a low attack speed. If it's a tank merc just remove their weapons when you use them and they'll have a 1.1k aspd so they'll continue their attack and will generate AP. Also you should get the evasion guard skill to evade mid-casting.

[Aree Soothsayer]

You know there are bosses with insanely huge AoE attacks that reach just shy of the max casting range. So that is not viable.

[SEAF Signaller]

Originally posted by Aree Soothsayer:

You know there are bosses with insanely huge AoE attacks that reach just shy of the max casting range. So that is not viable.

Don't be bloody stupid and beef yourself up then. You whine about merc bringing boss closer to you, but guess what? some of them can (and will) toss absurd amount of random sh@t in your face even if the merc is standing still. And aoe zones will still end up being too big to evade. (Yes, Venena-chan mk1-2, Hexter, Rephton, and many others)

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Originally posted by Aree Soothsayer:

You know there are bosses with insanely huge AoE attacks that reach just shy of the max casting range. So that is not viable.

They will likely follow you if the merc has low attack speed (since instead of just standing still waiting to attack they'll move instead). I didn't mean to get close, I mean just bump up your mercs attack speed (which is doable by removing their weapon).

[Aree Soothsayer]

Heh. 2k Aspd. So that isn't it.