I think killing mobs that supposedly should be unkillable and the only purpose of them to exist is to create a safe zone for the friendly faction with them, is exploit. You can call that as you want, but it is and will always be an exploit.
If I was a dev or whatever has the power to ban, I'd give a 1-week ban to all the players involved in the exploiting, and if while the team is trying to fix the 1shooters, these players repeat it a 2nd time, then 1 month ban. If the team is slow (it shouldn't be the case) and the ban expires, and these players repeat the action again, then permaban. Three warnings are more than enough. They cared a lot when the CoS challenge chest was spawning in 105 t2 runs and that wasn't as bad as the 1shooters exploit, since after all, it's pve and it was just 1 more empowerment.
As solution to the 1shooters problem, I'd make 1shooters to be untargeteable (like some deers with 2 morale that you can find in the world that you can't kill) or apply a buff that negates all the damage. I'd prefer the first option, because then, you can't even confuse them. They can have 1 morale, it doesn't matter, they can't be attacked.
Not only hunters were attacking 1shooters that night. I have screenshots of a burglar fighting one of the 1shooters. As melee. And the burg died after 10s or so. This is a big lol for creepside.
Edit: I just re-checked the screenshots. The burglar used the "fellowship maneuvre" skill on the 1shooter. This is why she could fight him. 1SHOOTERS MUST BE UNKILLABLE, UNTARGETEABLE. A BOOST ON STATS IS A POOR SOLUTION BECAUSE THEY CAN BE STUNNED/CONFUSED/BUGGED. This is the ultimate proof that they were exploiting. If you want, I can post the screenshot showing how you can see a group of creeps fighting vs a burg that used that skill on the 1shooter. You can see the animation of the skill on the 1shooter. Ofc.. following LOTRO rules... I'll delete the names... since the names are already in all the reports that happened that night... riiiight?
Last edited by Fegefeuer; Jul 14 2019 at 08:42 AM.
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