Attacks of Opportunity

Gamer asks how attacks of opportunity will work:

If a PC is granted an AoO for any reason, do they have to click to take it? I can see situations where you might not want to take the AoO in order to save your one (assuming no combat reflexes) for a better target.

Attacks of Opportunity will be automated in Neverwinter. The instance you suggest of foregoing an AoO is a rare enough occurrence that we felt it didn’t warrant a manual AoO interface. Also, as the window of time in which an AoO can be performed is quite small, we felt that a manual interface would needlessly penalize those with low pings or slow reflexes.

Sound alright?
Rob Bartel

Are people with the combat reflexes feat going to just pop enemies repeatedly as the oppertunities come up?

To a certain point, yes. Given enough opportunities, your character will make as many attacks as can be squeezed into the combat animation system. If your character is in mid-swing against one opponent, for instance, a secondary opponent may be able to use that moment of distraction to make a safe exit. On the other hand, if your character is currently between attacks, that secondary opponent’s going to get clobbered on any attempt to flee. All of this might change during the testing phase, of course, but those are our current plans for attacks of opportunity.

Rob Bartel