Celtic Heroes

Here's how the Target Lock will work.

A Mob/Boss will 'Lock' to the FIRST person to aggro its' group and that group will get the kill, therefore the drops. Anyone can hit the mob or boss and do damage as they currently do, but instead of it being the group that does the most damage gets the kill, it will be the group that's member takes first aggro.

The only flaw with this that I see could be power levelling.

Example:
Level 60 Druid runs through mobs in stonevale and hits each one once, level 150 rogue following 1hits everything, level 60 Druid gets all the kills. Is this a problem? Maybe. Will people be doing it? 90% sure, yes.

But here is an example of how it will work well.

Example:
Group 1 prepare to take Stonelord. 2 Druids, 1 Warrior Tank, 1 Support/Luring Mage, 2 Rogue, 2 Rangers. (ideal boss group).

Group 2 Show up. 4 Rogues.

Currently - Group 2 Takes the boss through pure dps and rob Group 1 of their hard-work.
Future Target Lock - Group 1 can proceed to take the boss un-interrupted as long as they don't wipe out, but may have to start the fight a little earlier than they want to, to make sure they take first aggro.

Another example (based on previous experiences).
Example:
Clan 1 prepares to take Aggragoth, Tanks, Druids, Mages, Rogues and Rangers all there.
Clan 2 see's them preparing and shows up with 4-5 High level rogues.

Currently - Clan 1 is unable to take the boss as they have less DPS than Clan 2, so must leave the boss and hope to take another day. (the people that have stayed up half the night or woken up at 4-5am to take the boss with their clan, have to suck it up).
Future Target Lock - Clan 1 proceed to take the boss without having to worry about being ksed.

I look forward to it. I guess the Top, TOP clans on their server may not like it as it gives other people a shot at a few bosses. But i'm all for sharing

For me, target lock would ruin the current game for me. Of course im not a pro-kser and yes i am in the top clan of Morrigan (Avalon) but i am a pure tank and my only other charac is a druid and even if ive been ksed sometimes obviously it wouldnt help at all. Plus for devloppers theres no point in putting target lock since if a group of rogues try to ks they will obviously use pots/idols and the first group uses some too but with target lock you would just need to pot the boss till ur clan arrives so just 1 group uses plat. Also for the aggra issue if you take an hour to kill it ur not strong enough for it. Our clan did it over 20 times and our average time is less then 13 minutes our record under 11. If 4-5 rogues try to ks just warp to tower a rogue cant survive dragon fire. For the lvling issues target lock wouldnt help since high lvls who ks the lower ones (i think there stupid) but they would still continue to do it and high lvls would power lvl their alts on the mobs that a lower main would kill. Thx for understanding my point of view

Dannak

me and dan agree for once i agree with just about everything

Personally I am in the top top clan on my server and I am anti ks at all cost. But I do like the way 2 bug clans can gather at a boss and fight to see who is currently best at dps.

I do not like the idea of gathering the clan while some ranger manages to kite lavalord when he is full stat with a few pots untill there tank gets there. Just seems a crap idea to me and take all competition out of game

Also i had made a private message to admin asking to make sure it was at least gonna get tested in beta and they assured me it would. Now i see it wasnt real and i am ready to do as my initial idea was if they were gonna do it ; a plat cut. I dont know if it would work or if people would join me but that would be my contribution

Target lock is what it is : The perfect CRYBABIES CAMPING LOCK, design for bull clan and poor level campers or players now running around all day long, shouting constantly "ks ks ks" or "plzzzzzz pleasszzee pleaaaaaaaaze i need for quest" or "i want in group plzzzz plzzzzzzzzzzzz" I also have some examples for you :

EXAMPLE 1 : Shadowkrar camp at falgren spot : Deadroot spawns, Shadow fukking lock it, i turn on my second ipad, yes my rogue s007 happened to be there, and wtf falgren just spawns just right next to him and succeed to lock it too... i called my clansmates, they run fast and yes they arrive in time... We locked both fal and deadroot... I received billions of insults and group resquests.... But we prevail... And yes ! we just get all the drop for us ! Surrounding us a mob of 60 noobs, campers, crybabies and their mama writting for them on their devices because they see them crying at home are all shouting : LOCKERS ! BERSERKERS ARE GREEDY FRIKKING LOCKERS !

EXAMPLE 2 : Crazy player with 6 devices with one warrior and 5 autobots druids lock a new dragon armor boss. he does nearly no damage, but manage to survive. After a long 6 hours boring fight, the selfish greedy LOCKER, succeed to get all the drops. Result, drop rate falls, as the mad guy repeat this over and over. Seeing this, more selfish guys on multi devices repeat the same thing. They place all their robot druids next to a spawn place.

We have peace on Lugh, and we respect strenght, Ancients and Berserkers get along pretty well, and we define some rec to be in groups. When we are too many (aggragoth, before 140 drag) we dice the drops.

But yes you have some low useless players, who instead of grinding, and instead of getting along with a strong brotherhood, just loose their time running from one boss spot to another, or camping and now we exclude them, it pushes them to level up.

But as it seems too many also spent their time crying on the forum, OTM finaly answered their their wishes with the crybaby lock, even though these weak players spend zero time leveling and don't buy plats, are just worthless ingame and for OTM financial interests.

I am not dreaming, 5 high levelers in a row, who spent their time and plat to level their azzes, are all in agreement : this target lock is just plain ***.

CAMPING STRATEGY :

Admin talk about new strategy, but i just talk about camping technics. Some no life player with many devices will be specialist in camping the spawn place of bosses, and will get rich and will make mad all crybabies :

All the frikking crybabies who are now complaining, will also be crying to mama admin about : "now we try to lock, but there is a player with multiples devices who also lock all the boss, and kill them with his high level alts"... "so with our low level useless alts we are still crying a lot".. "So plzzzzz ! plzzzzz ! OTM remove our crybaby lock, we prefer to be crybabyksed like before.... Wouinnn wouiiiiinnnn."

My initial thought is it will suck. It will create different type of competition than exists now but I doubt they will be fun. Gonna suck for other clans when I hold a boss as long as I need to until my clan arrives but that's just a guess because we do not know what it will be.

We have no idea how the target lock will actually work , everything in this post is a guess , might be an educated and well thought out guess , but a guess none the less.

I guess we have to wait and see.

I'm not sure how beta actually works , will there be high level players in beta in opposing clans to compete for bosses ? Or will it be a half ass test ?

Before we make assumptions, we should see target lock in the game.
Some of these assumptions seem pretty accurate but we still need to see how this is going to work out.

If it doesn't work out, OTM can always remove it right?

it will take another update to remove (im guessing, as it seems to be a system thing)

if it really is that bad, it wont make it through beta im hoping