(12-04-2014, 03:43 PM)Gegenji Wrote:Combat RP can get so tricky.(12-04-2014, 03:40 PM)Val Wrote: Val actually has fought a dragoon in game that decided he wanted to just flip around. All he did was step to the side the entire time until the dragoon got tired. Straight-line attacks where you commit everything from a distance and just kind of ride out the attack just won't work against small, fast targets.
Err... if I may counterpoint: bows and guns. Granted, I doubt a Dragoon is going as fast as one of those (or maybe they are, who knows!), but there is the idea of "leading" a target and aiming for where you assume them to be at the point of contact. So just sidestepping might now always work, if your opponent anticipates it, much like if any opponent anticipates your movement. You just have less control of snap changes if you guessed wrong.
People who can anticipate your move, roll backwards, and move someone into the way of an arrow shot at their back. Totally could be a dragoon who anticipates the backstep movement.
The point is that in a dragoon vs other player character situation, the odds are almost always against a dragoon landing the charge or jump when they haven't done some maiming or crippling... or haven't had help to keep the player character focused on something else, not the dragoon.
(12-04-2014, 03:44 PM)Berrod Armstrong Wrote:(12-04-2014, 03:40 PM)Zyrusticae Wrote: It's about on the same level as claiming you can fly because aether. There is absolutely zero in-game evidence for either assertion. Yeah, thanks, but no thanks, buddy!There's actually a certain cutscene...
*cough*
But you're like in blue space then. :c
