Being able to spam hit so and so is a bit retarded. Perhaps my view is skewed from a long while ago play the SojournMUD, TorilMUD style muds where only warriors received a skill associated with redirection and you would type it in, and you would have a round go by before you were able to successfully redirect. Of course in the beginning you could also have a chance to fail, etc. And any class could attempt the redirect, but you were more likely to fail if you didn't have the skill.
Just feel like there's no point in rescuing, or distracting when its just a matter of "hit target".
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