The Key to a Successful Team Is...

"Change weapons?"

Black Cat was somewhat surprised by Fang Zheng's question.

"Isn't my scimitar good enough?"

"Of course it is."

Fang Zheng waved a hand.

"I admit you're good with that scimitar, and your skills are indeed outstanding. But if we're going to fight as a team, then I hope you can... take on a more important responsibility."

"Oh?"

Hearing this, Black Cat's eyes widened curiously as she looked at Fang Zheng.

"What do you want me to do?"

"I want you to be the MT."

"MT..."

Black Cat was clearly stunned by Fang Zheng's suggestion.

"But in this game... isn't the role of an MT pretty limited?"

As Black Cat had said, an MT was basically indispensable in an ordinary online game. But that wasn't the case in this fully immersive virtual game. The reason was simple: monsters in this game did not choose their targets based on "aggro," but on damage dealt and their own judgment.

It had to be said that SAO was a very "special" online game. Not only was it the whole world's first fully immersive game, but it also lacked the magic and ranged classes found in ordinary online games. Everyone was strictly melee. Moreover, none of those classes had skills like the ones used in ordinary online games to draw aggro.

Fang Zheng did not know why the game had been designed this way, though it was probably for the sake of "realism." After all, in the real world, just because you hit something did not mean it would stupidly stay locked onto you while a bunch of people ganged up behind it and beat the hell out of it.

Fang Zheng's experiments had also revealed that monsters in this game basically judged aggro by a target's distance within their field of vision