Herding

Summary

• Players can use the Herding skill to select a creature or player and designate it as the target of Focused Aggression for that player's tamed or summoned creatures
• A player's tamed and summoned creatures (including Blade Spirits and Energy Vortexes) deal increased damage against a target their owner has marked as the target of Focused Aggression
• Players can passively gain Herding skill while fighting with tamed/summoned followers that deal damage to a Focused Aggression target (skillgain chance is scaled upwards based on creature's control slots for balancing purposes)

Focused Aggression Damage Bonus

• Focused Aggression via the Herding skill provides a (22% * (Effective Herding Skill / 100)) Damage bonus
• Players receive a bonus to Effective Herding Skill based on their equipped Shepherd's Crook or the best Shepherd's Crook in their backpack, as follows:
  • Shepherd's Crook Effective Herding Skill Bonus = (PvM Accuracy Bonus + PvM Tactics Bonus as %)

A player's Effective Herding Skill Bonus, however, is capped by their own Herding Skill value though (so a player with 0 Herding would receive no bonus from the mechanic, or a player with 20 Herding could receive a max Effective Herding Bonus of 20, and so on)

• For example, an Exceedingly Accurate (+20% Accuracy) Shepherd's Crook of Power (+20% Damage) would provide a (20 + 20) = +40 Effective Herding Skill Bonus
• A player with 120 Herding and +40 Effective Herding Skill will receive a Focused Aggression damage bonus of (22% * (160 / 100)) = +35.2% Damage

Focused Aggression Targeting

• Focused aggression targeting (via double-clicking of Shepherd's Crook) will now be treated as declaring a "Harmful Target", meaning the Client's Razor Assistant can now use Random Enemy Target and similar targeting mechanics for declaring potential targets for Focused Aggression
• Note: it will NOT be considered a criminal act if you target a Blue player with focused aggression (it will only be a criminal action if you make your pet itself attack a blue player)

PvM Bonus

• Tamed and summoned creatures deal (22% * (Effective Herding Skill / 100)) additional damage against creatures marked by their controller as the target of Focused Aggression

PvP Bonus

• Tamed and summoned creatures deal (12.5% * (Herding Skill / 100)) additional damage against players marked by their controller as the target of Focused Aggression