Dear Devs: A request re: threat mechanics discussion

[Itachi83]

Actually, I distinctly remember evidence that some mobs agroed on healer types before others.

Of course I have nothing but anecdotal evidence for this, so it really would be amazing if we could get a dev to comment on the specific mechanics of certain threat situations.

Indeed.

I'd appreciate the players just bumping the thread instead of spamming it with speculation and wild guesswork and conjecture.

That is slightly rude.

[Xeraphim]

That is slightly rude.

I don't understand. I'm being analytical. There is nothing rude about that declaration when the topic of this thread is considered, to my knowledge and perception.

As for Healers, they do seem to be targetted as the highest value target of the group on occasion, and clearly at random in other cases. Individual monster type aggro may be at work here, but that's speculation and blind conjecture as well.

This quandry can only be truly absolved by a Developer with carefully selected information dumping.

[Itachi83]

I don't understand. I'm being analytical. There is nothing rude about that declaration when the topic of this thread is considered, to my knowledge and perception.

As for Healers, they do seem to be targetted as the highest value target of the group on occasion, and clearly at random in other cases. Individual monster type aggro may be at work here, but that's speculation and blind conjecture as well.

This quandry can only be truly absolved by a Developer with carefully selected information dumping.

Eh, I am not going to argue with you.

I can't see it from your perspective, so it is entirely possible that I misinterpreted your declaration, and the intentions that were behind it.


I agree that it would be positive if we had a dev come in and help with this issue.

[lugoman]

Actually, I distinctly remember evidence that some mobs agroed on healer types before others.

Of course I have nothing but anecdotal evidence for this, so it really would be amazing if we could get a dev to comment on the specific mechanics of certain threat situations.

More anecdotal evidence: the hardest time I ever had hate tanking suuly was while being healed by a melee'ing fvs. The fvs had decent dps but their dps alone shouldnt have grabbed the agro he did.