Incoming...

Liga · August 19, 2004, 08:10:55 PM

Anyone else sick and damn tired of incoming mobs heading straight for you? More than 50% of the time I am the one incoming mobs head to. It must be because of our lack of deagro, GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

(this is rants section so heres where i put this)

Mneumenth · August 19, 2004, 09:10:08 PM

I find it's because Im too damned sexah. :twisted:

Askyn · August 19, 2004, 10:08:12 PM

I personally always thought they were just jellous and are going to for the strongest member of the party.

You know, get the strongest one killed first the rest will fall type of thing =)

Xarilok · August 19, 2004, 10:36:02 PM

Group with a bard all the time, problem solved. 6 people standing about, mob agros on any of them, 3 seconds or less later, the bard is gonna do something that causes more agro than just standing there, and will of course gain agro. My poor bard was always the add-detector. If my health dropped, there was an add, period, lol. I don't think anyone else ever got hit by the adds.

Liga · August 20, 2004, 12:14:32 AM

Groups I never have a problem with. Its the raids that I am aggravated about.

Eatbugs · August 20, 2004, 02:29:29 AM

I always know why the mobs are heading straight for me - it's because I'm the fool out there trying to slow them before anyone else can get aggro.

Either that or they like trolls. :P

Jaeren · August 20, 2004, 02:54:13 AM

The gecko looks like a nice easy snack and you are between the mob and your gecko ;)

Dakat · August 20, 2004, 07:03:55 AM

It works by who is closest to the mob at the time the mob has been initiated.

As you walked near a mob and the mob agros. Its not pissed off at you. You have not done anything to it except step in his personal area and that pissed him off. Until you actually do something to cause it to be mad at you, it will not come directly to you. So just being behind the next guy will keep you from being attacked.

When a mob gets to camp, and you send pet while sitting, = instant agro.

When the puller goes out to get a mob, and you casted paragon just before = instant agro.

Your playing an aoe mana/hp regen song. Puller of the raid gets adds coming to camp = instant agro.

If you healed the puller while they are out pulling, IE bard song going that actually tics, each tic/pulse is a heal which is pissing off mob.

Xarilok · August 20, 2004, 07:45:35 AM

A puller with paragon on them will not gain ANY agro.

A puller with agro that gets paragon cast on them WILL gain you agro.

Paragon is a buff, just like any other.

Ever give a group SD and had them wipe across the zone, and have the mobs that kill them come training to you?? Dont think so. Having a buff from another character doesnt give that charater any agro.

Dakat · August 20, 2004, 01:12:05 PM

Did I say SD, NOT. DID is say Paragon, fraid so!

And what I said otherwise, thanks for clearing up exactly what I said.

Mneumenth · August 20, 2004, 01:22:44 PM

They go for the Bard because they exude the most fruity aroma. Its that or the orange and pink outfits they cant help but wear.

/flee

Liga · August 20, 2004, 02:42:54 PM

No, none of what you all are saying is my case. Im simply attacking the mobs from behind like a good moron. I even try to stay as close to its back as I can so Im not closest to pulled mobs. Yet they still come for me more often than not. It happens to all the beastlords in my guild. Maybe its the pullers FD'ing too quickly or something.

Rhaynne · August 20, 2004, 02:55:16 PM

Happens to me all the time as well =P

Kitvear · August 20, 2004, 03:33:16 PM

me too, the most evident "string" I can recall is with the tank (a war) doing double duty as a puller in HOH, he would shoot it with his little bow and arrow and run back to camp with it. The mob would run over to me and start hitting me then the war would snag aggro back, then I would back the pet off run behind the mob, sick the pet on the mob again, then I would slow the mob.

This happened pull after pull, maybe they just hate ogres more then they do barb warriors. Shrug, not that it mattered much but it was very noticable that for some reason or other mobs would go to me after they got in camp before they started to worry about the warrior that had shot it with it's arrows. This happens in LDON's too but in ldon's I tend to slow mobs as soon as I see them so it's harder to notice whether or not if I deserved to get hit.

a_moss_snake_001 · August 20, 2004, 09:30:57 PM

If you are in the middle of casting any kind of spell when it gets into range you will gain its attention over the puller. Happens everytime with me, if i start casting slow and the mob reaches the group i WILL get hit even though slow hasnt finished casting yet.

Spellcasting has some interesting aggro rules.