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I know a lot of complaints have already been made about how the ballistas shoot their owners, and while I do think that's dumb, I'm not actually writing this to add to that pile. I think what's even worse is that the ballistas are actually just useless even beyond that issue.

They practically can't hit any moving target. Anything smaller or faster than a troll is probably going to easily dodge almost every shot from a ballista unless it completely stands still. Out of a 20-shot ammo capacity, you'd be lucky if 1 or 2 of those shots hit anything other than the ground.

Fortunately I think there's a fairly easy way to rework them so that they're useful. Instead of tuning the tracking higher until they're an OP snipe-machine that can shoot dragons out of the sky, instead increase their aggro range and give the projectiles an AoE damage effect on impact, effectively turning them into a sort of artillery piece. That way, even when they inevitably miss their target, they'll still damage it. That will also make them more effective as crowd control weapons during raids.