I like the Mob vs Mob mechanics

[Jynx]

(I haven't spend much time around the other beastmen strongholds so I can't say much about those)

It's purely a math thing, there is no real AI behind linking.

It's just a switch that if the monster can see/hear you attack a monster that is X levels below you he is allowed to join the fray. There is no familly, or pack mentallity present in the game like there was in 1.0 or almost every damn MMO that existed before this.

[Seif]

Greetings,

Thanks for the feedback on the mechanics you’d like to see for FATE battles! We let the development team know and they will be taking it into consideration.

That is NOT what the majority of people in this thread asked for. You are twisting the message of the community if you ignore the comments about open world content.

I appreciate the difficulty of your job but please reconsider the message you're sending to the devs taking into account not only this thread but dozens of threads around the forum pleading SE to make the open world battles more interesting.

[Felis]

It's purely a math thing, there is no real AI behind linking.

It's just a switch that if the monster can see/hear you attack a monster that is X levels below you he is allowed to join the fray. There is no familly, or pack mentallity present in the game like there was in 1.0 or almost every damn MMO that existed before this.

Even in 1.0 every monster linked with everyone regardless of monster type.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...31-Link-system

While they indeed do start to link, the higher level beastmen do not (presumably exactly because of this mechanic).

Like I mentioned before, you can fight standing an Amal'ja's tail and he still won't join the fray. You can even kill off only one of the Amal'ja sitting around a campfire, and the rest will just continue chatting like nothing happened. I believe the Sylph are a bit more social and will gang up on you, but as it stands the Amal'ja just stand there and look in a different direction

(I haven't spend much time around the other beastmen strongholds so I can't say much about those)

Was you solo or in a party there?

[Canadane]

I would love to see a bit more personality in the every day overworld mobs. Not just FATE ones.
Different species that attack each other (like in some FATEs) and getting to know their natural order and food chain, so to speak.

[Jynx]

Even in 1.0 every monster linked with everyone regardless of monster type.

Sadly this is true, it's one step backwards that was in 1.0 that baffled me at times.

[Autumnfire]

Isn't there a FATE near Quartermill where the Goblins and Poachers are fighting as well?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe one of the cool things about that is that depending on the outcome of that fight, it determines what FATE comes afterwards?

[Alice_89th]

Was you solo or in a party there?

Solo, as I was doing dailies

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe one of the cool things about that is that depending on the outcome of that fight, it determines what FATE comes afterwards?

Looked it up just now, the name of the FATE is "The Negotiators".

If the it fails, nothing starts (I think).
If it succeeds, "Hide and Seek" starts. If that succeeds, "The Coeurl King" starts.

[Shneibel]

They had that in 1.0 for normal Mobs as well. The Mob AI in 1.0 was way better than the current one, not only the actions they did against each other, also they reacted different to you depending on if you walked by them/ran or stood still.

mobs behavior from 1.0 still in 2.0, only thing had been change are the mobs vs mobs behavior only appear in certain FATE, not OW anymore

[Synapse]

The whole mechanics was trashed thanks to people QQing about goats following them(i was complaining too) but scrapping the entire system was stupid as hell.

All they had to do was just re input the codes(remove the goat follow) and it will make the game a bit better.

[Theonekitten]

No.. not fates... true open world content please and thank you. Only one person in the thread to this point asked for it as a feature of fates. Just about every other poster mentioned open world (or instanced) content.

We are talking about things not defined in limited circles

I totally agree. This is proof that they are only reading what they want to read. People are not asking for more FATES. Please work on reading comprehension.