Quote Originally Posted by Malamasala View Post
This is actually wrong. I've yet to figure out the exact behavior, but I've seen more than a fair deal of "Now avatar runs and hits mob, but mob is chasing someone else". Last time actually was last week during voidwatch when my ifrit ran off to "Save me" while Havahava or whats his name was walking around killing others after tanks had died.

That is unless by "top" you meant something like "top 5" in which case you wouldn't be wrong, potentially. In any case the coding for Summoner is very random and one usually has to wonder if it is a bug or just crazy coding.
lol... just no.

what korpg said is absolutely correct.

Avatars auto-attack the moment the Summoner hits the top of the hate list, even if for a split second, which means to say they don't necessarily have to exhibit obvious actions against the Summoner at all. The avatars just know it.

However, once they are set in motion, they won't stop unless you command them to do so. In such cases of instantaneous hate shift, you'll have no problems retreating the avatar. But if main hate is still solidly held by the SMN, you're really not going to be able to retreat the avatar properly, if even at all.