Combat Doll

Hi GGG,

I wanted to ask if there are any plans to introduce a combat dummy or training doll for our hideouts—similar to what’s available in League of Legends. It would be incredibly useful to have an option to set up a dummy that tracks damage, number of hits, and other combat statistics, so we can properly test our builds.

Is something like this being considered for the future, or is it completely off the table?

Thanks for your time!

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kemaloski#6604 wrote:

Hi GGG,

I wanted to ask if there are any plans to introduce a combat dummy or training doll for our hideouts—similar to what’s available in League of Legends. It would be incredibly useful to have an option to set up a dummy that tracks damage, number of hits, and other combat statistics, so we can properly test our builds.

Is something like this being considered for the future, or is it completely off the table?

Thanks for your time!

Sadly just doesn't make any sense for numerous reasons.

Firstly the game is about surviving the map, not beating it. True dps checks are pretty rare.

There are a LOT of conditional builds that cant be measured.
My thorn-warbringer especially would be impossible to measure.

Prime to stun builds up by any damage. Yes... even if the enemy triggers my thorn. Often I cant use Boneshatter because the enemy hit me so hard it stunned itself XD

Warriors use scavenged plate: enemies broken armour gives you stack that gives you armour + thorn.
Barb gem: if the enemy triggers your thorn, your next 4 attack will have added thorn value.

Just this single skill-gem combo would make a target dummy untraceble and unreliable:
- dummy don't hit me: no thorn. So you come to the conclusion that thorn build non-existent?
- scavenged plate stack:
Do you have 0 because you cant even rotate skills? Because white mob give 1 stack, magics 5 and bosses give you 10 stack.
- when thorn was triggered how many stacks you had?


Thats just a single build version. I am sure many other have similar unreliability on a dummy.

And the games majority is AOE swarm.
Even against a single target often the damage is splash damage from swarms.


The map is your "target dummy"
Often builds measured how far you can go into the game.

Thats why often say: if you can clear t15 maps with ease, can get your 4th ascendancy alone, and do t0 pinacle content your build is legit.