White mobs with insange range skills, what the point of them?

There are some white mobs that have skills that are stronger than Boss skills: they hit OUTSIDE your screen.

Priest of the Sun "Vaal Sun Laser"
Bearer of Penitence "Slam"
Filthy Crone "ground magic"
Lost-man casters "meteor"

They all cast OUTSIDE your screen (not your "light radius") and deal TON of damage, what the point of these insane ranges?

They are already hard as hell to see in cave environment, hit for massive damage and have "out of screen" range? Isn't that a little too much for "white" mob?

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Zhulong#1983 a écrit :

There are some white mobs that have skills that are stronger than Boss skills: they hit OUTSIDE your screen.

Priest of the Sun "Vaal Sun Laser"
Bearer of Penitence "Slam"
Filthy Crone "ground magic"
Lost-man casters "meteor"

They all cast OUTSIDE your screen (not your "light radius") and deal TON of damage, what the point of these insane ranges?

They are already hard as hell to see in cave environment, hit for massive damage and have "out of screen" range? Isn't that a little too much for "white" mob?

I guess their point is to make you sweat. I find them annoying, too, but in a good way. They keep me on my toes. Also, I realized it's probably good to use debuffs on those and so it makes me feel required to take some skills that debuff enemies.

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Naharez#3496 a écrit :

I guess their point is to make you sweat. I find them annoying, too, but in a good way. They keep me on my toes. Also, I realized it's probably good to use debuffs on those and so it makes me feel required to take some skills that debuff enemies.

The issue is that they are doing their attack off screen - you can't even see them, so debuffs don't help.

It's ok if they have big damage but their range has to be reduced.

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Naharez#3496 a écrit :

I guess their point is to make you sweat. I find them annoying, too, but in a good way. They keep me on my toes. Also, I realized it's probably good to use debuffs on those and so it makes me feel required to take some skills that debuff enemies.

Pray tell, what debuff skill are you planning on using against mobs that aren't on your screen that are one-shotting you?

Yeah white mobs should just be mindless zombies that hobble slowly towards me. That would be much rewarding gameplay

Gonna give bump, because I don't like to post same issues in various topics.

The Problem is not about the damage, it is about the INSANE RANGE this "1-shot" abilities have.

IF you are using tame beast, the beast can aggro this mobs without you knowing and they will use the ability on the beast, but will hit you because of the insane range.

Only ACT BOSSES have this range.



This one I ran into it to get the whole range, it looks easy to "avoid", but remember it is only one white mob casting it.



This is my main problem: how I gonna see this coming from outside the screen? And as I said, the Bearer is targeting my pet Beast.

Blue marks the mob position.


Are those ranges intentional? They look way too long for a WHITE MOB.

It's fucking dumb is what it is, but for some strange reason, a few people defend this like its good game design.

I also love the guy that can have his endless respawn minions get on you , and you have no idea where he is, cause he's screens away in 'whatever' direction.