First Impressions

[Jim]

Hi

FYG...Let me try to answer some of your questions & I hope this helps you on your Adventure in the MMORPG world...BTW I Still have in a Diablo folder...>
Jarulf’s Guide to Diablo and Hellfire version 1.31 by Pedro Faria / Jarulf :D

I don't know of any specific taunt option.

In EQ Taunt is a SKILL, as Thenryb pointed out & a Good one, since both War Mages & Mage Clerics can not wear Heavy Armor, I never could understand this, but that is the way things are in RPG...They can wear Leather, Cloth or Lite Armor...>[Gandorf the Grey only wears a White Bath Robe to fight in]

Anyway, a monster will pick and switch targets as it is attacked. As a rogue I try to get up behind a monster to do a back stab attack. I think there are more into target selecting than actually who attacked last but I can be wrong.

Monster Ai is set for switching attacks based on "DAMAGE" Received, that damage factor might be "Total Damage" per Hit or getting hit more than ONCE by the SAME Attacker, like you stabbing it in the Back 3 times.

One thing that doesn't work is if you are getting beaten up, you can't simply run back and past others to have the monster switch to them, it will continue charging you right through others. You need to have them actually attack the monster, at least in most cases I have experienced.

Monster Ai includes "Memory" IF you turn & Run [BTW running is my favorite tactic] the Mob will follow you till you DIE or you reach a Safe Zone outside the monsters SPAWN Area...in Asherons Call a monster will only follow you till you reach the EDGE of your COMPASS within the Mobs Spawning zone, while running you watch the compass & note when the Mob disappears of your compass...the Compass is kind of like RADAR.

FYG running Close to other players in the game to Throw off an "AGRO MOB" chasing you is NOT GOOD & you will most likely receive a Message from that Player, because that monster Returning to his Spawning Zone Will NOW attack that poor player it Remembers it passed by while chasing you...There will come a time when your Running and say 10 Monsters are chasing you, it is Polite to send out a Message like this...> TRAIN <...in MMORPGs WE all know what a train of AGRO MOBS is.

In EQ the MOBs Memory is so Good that in order for you to return to where your party is you need to Log Off to erase the Ai Memory of the Monster who btw is Waiting for you on the other side of the Safe Zone, like in Diablo 1 when you use a Town Portal to escape the Butcher, ...in EQ or Dungeon Seige you can also run to Guard & have the Guard help you.

What is great having are potions...Monsters heal often faster than yourself if you break away for a heal.

My Melee fighter carries both Health & Stamina potions, since both get depleted during a Fight. YEP Monster do Heal same as you, some Bosses even faster, I hope Boltys Mage has a Spell that can Slow Health Regeneration.

As for corpses, I would say they stay even after you get back and "resurrect" from ghost to person. It is thus more an indication of were people have actually died. No idea for how long they stay and if one can have lots of corpses in different places.

Each Game be it MMORPG or a MP Game have their Own way of dealing with CORPSES...Your corpse might have some of your Best Equipment on it & you will Loss it ALL if you don't get back to it in Time...TIME is Usually "X" amount of Minutes or Hours Per character level depending on the game...Remember your in a "ON GOING" [Persistent = Never Ending] WORLD, TIME does not stop when you Go to Bed it keeps going & going, so a High level characters can get their Corpse tomorrow, you can't :(

HINT: Never DIE in a Spawning Zone IF you know your going to DIE, RUN try to Die a safe distance from the Spawn.