Gnome tanks should be able to do a collision mechanic of nut kicking. That's a lot of threat generated and damage done.

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Body collision reminds me to the days of a troll/ogre in lguk blocking the hallway to uguk while someone trained the live king / frenzy to zone.

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Yes, turn it on worldwide, as it was in SWG. Will fix a lot of the spawning errors and BG "safe spot" exploiting.

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This is one of the improvements over WoW that Warhammer Online will have. Players of the opposite faction cannot pass through each other. Its a great idea, too bad it never found its way into WoW.

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It would make 'traditional' dungeon groups fun again.
The Warrior up front, leading the way.
Archers or Rogues taking the rear.
Mages and Priests safely protected in the middle.

I would just hope that ranged attacks and sweeping strikes didn't follow collision mechanics. If they did, we'd have to learn how to aim past the 'solid' parts of other players to hit our targets that are behind them.

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The introduction of collision mechanics would cause problems for WoW as currently implemented, but there's no reason why the designers couldn't figure out creative and interesting ways to solve those issues. In fact, it might make their jobs more interesting for them!

I love the idea of everything having mass, i.e. frog < gnome < tauren < bog lord < Fel Reaver. If someone is blocking you, you should be able to push them ... auto-shove as a feature? Knockout gas to clear players causing mischief etc.... who knows...

Kinda silly though to have it only in PvP... I think you either have it or you don't. But it has about as much chance of getting introduced as flying mounts in Azeroth.

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It doesn't work. With latency being what it is in wow, your opponent would simply push around you before you even have seen him begin to move.

The only thing collision adds is frustration of bumping into things that aren't there due to latency issues.

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BTW, Bentley is a genius! Ruff la mayo!

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I wonder if they can and if it will improve PvP gamplay if they implement taunts so that the attacker(s) will switch target to the taunting tank for 2 to 3 seconds?

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PvP taunt = reverse fear. It's that easy.

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PvP taunt = reverse fear. It's that easy.

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I like the PVP/instance-area only idea of this, mainly because it would only take one n00b to stand in the Inn doorway in Goldshire and it could knacker alot of low levelers immediately.
Warsong Gulch could be a laff too - you get the ladder effect into play. One character sits down, another hops on top, then another and another. All stand up and the top one has a clear run on top of a building :D

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Lord, NO!

Sorry, but I'm thinking of the entrances to Drek'Thar in AV. Two warriors in each corridor, backed up by a priest of two will be able to hold off all of the opposing forces. Horrible. Six hour AV's, just what I wanted.

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Wouldn't work, and really even if it did wouldn't solve the actual problem, which is that the protection spec is useless in pvp.

Option #1 - Admit that every spec isn't a viable PVP spec and move on. Everyone in every possible spec and combination of talent points is NOT going to be viable in PVP and never will be. A protection tank just isn't one of them. respec or live with it.

Option #2 - As written early on here, make taunt work on players. I know it's been written here before that the protection warrior is really a CC class. They hold crowd control on one or more mobs while other people dps it down. Taking white damage threat and taunts away from warriors is taking away pretty much the only thing they can do. So make it PVP viable. Make Sunder a target interrupt which clears the players target, and have devastate be a taunt of 2 seconds per sunder applied. 5 sunders applied equals a 10 second taunt. That plus the other taunts and shouts should be enough to make Protection Spec more viable in PVP.

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As a warlock player, I'd like to be the first to say "Nerf PvP Taunt!" heheh! Nerf fear indeed.

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Any kind of collision detection in a game with a hojillion players is ANNOYING AS SIN. Take it from a FFXI vet, collision detection shouldn't be in an MMO!

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"Reverse fear" taunt could also increase the taunted player's damage against you by x % (in order to make it more fair).

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No, no, no. Any exploits currently available in PVP will pale compared to what this will bring. Everything in this game was designed without collison in mind. Do you really think it will just be a smooth patch?

Again- no, no, no way in hell.

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Sounds like a great bad idea. Next lets have rogues only do 10% extra damage from behind.

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That's a fantastic idea!

They should make it a 41 (or even 51 for WotLK) prot talent for Warriors, Pallies and Bears. Shield required if your not a big fat arsed bear.

Should be a stance or aura or an separate Bear form.

Blocks the apposing factions movements and line of sight, 6ft diameter, 3ft radius.

Reduces movement speed by 50%, cannot use charge or innercept type abilities (because.. lol)

Causes you to become flagged for PvP if the opposing faction runs into you. Also, you become moveable, the opposing faction can push you if they have 10x the tanks strength or a they are a tank themselves, in that case the two tanks would compare strength scores.

Suddenly all my tank friends would want to PvP again. It would change the way BGs are fought on a scale so huge it would shatter normal strategies we have now. You would want a tank on your team, actually you probably would not run anything without one.

There may need to be more down sides to not make the thing OP. But it really is a cool idea.

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