Target Dummy in Hideout Pretty Please

Yep.

+1, with a counter of some sort

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BUT

Whilst putting a dummy with DPS meter + Last damage instance display is easy. Issues start when we try to make such dummy universal.
We would need at least few dummy types to cover everything i think.

Ex.
- On-kill bonuses - one dummy type would need to be actually killable with some respawn timer built in.
- Parry/block - another dummy would need to perform hitting abilities
etc.

Also, while imitating a normal/magic monster is easy, Bosses and Rares are quite different from each other.
So
- Regular monster dummy
- Boss dummy with capped resistances or option to modify the dummy's resistances.

+1. Terget dummy with presets for boss resistances..

Only reasoning or justifications I've ever seen for GGGs refusal to implement a training dummy is that they supposedly don't want people to focus on min maxing and overly worrying about dps optimization and keeping the game organic.

All laughably bad excuses imo, which leaves me helpless but to take the most negative interpretation. I think they just don't want to implement the training dummies because they don't want customers to be able to offer objective proof of broken mechanics/skills that would be easily identified by players, because then they'd be rightly expected to fix things in a timely manner. Same goes for them not wanting to give the info on what killed a player.

Unsure why people tolerate this.

I think you'd quickly find out that things dont work the way they're supposed too. Thats the reason you dont see target dummies.

I also want something to test my damage/defense against. Trying to figure out if altered flesh is helping or harming some of my builds has been very annoying. But personally dont like the idea of target dummy that prints out numbers like path of building.

I understand its got a lot of upsides. But I want stuff like "can I melt a tier 'x' map boss?" to be best answered by fighting that boss(or similar encounter), and not by a gizmo in my hideout.

I'd prefer something that fits in with the world somehow. Like a zone full of various 'golems' with known life/defense #'s, and traps with known damage #'s and types. could maybe even reset/calibrate them somehow.

ATM I really think ppl who ask for a target dummy don't know Path of Building...

And I know it's outside the game...
But we have a lot of things "outside" the game and it works fine.