Positioning

[Jonathan]

Diagram

[Sosa]

You tease... I totally expected this to be a tongue-in-cheek reference to SATA and melee "positioning" behind the mob.

Interesting. I'd assume the "feet" the diagram refers to is actually recorded distance accessible via windower... the problem is: it's relatively easy to approximate distance to a target; but substantially harder to accurately estimate a circle of radius from that distant point. The only way you would be able to do it accurately would be from a top-down or three-quarters view due to the distortion of distance caused by a lower-angled perception (looking closer to the horizon.)

[tempus]

I was hoping for an essay on the merits of reverse cowgirl myself...

Er, only 1 pic and nothing said about it? How brief (wham bam thank you?)

-t

[Jonathan]

fine, don't click any further links!

Because of the specific ranges of each ability, many of the more difficult battles in the game require very delicate positioning of players. In addition to the various AoE attacks, there are also Cone Attack which are directional in nature.

To the right is a scale diagram of a tank and a monster. Around the monster are three circles. The inner circle is the 10' radius, the middle is 15', outer is 20'. These are the three most common ranges for AoE attacks. Around the tank is one circle with radius of 20.8' which is the maximum range for Cure. As you can see, if the monster has both Cone Attack as well as 20' AoE attacks, there is only a very small area in which healers can stand (the green area) which allows them to avoid splash damage and still heal the tank.