Aggro Icon

[Ekko]

Remove this icon. Learning about Eorzea and the lore surrounding you is part of the game.

If a mob aggro you sure next time you'll remember.

[Picasso]

I agree, but I still think there should be some sort of visual cue to tell players if a monster is aggressive. How about if the icon only shows up when targeting a monster, and not over their head?

If nothing else I think the icon really needs to be re-designed. It looks sloppy, as if one of the artists was just told to create something quick and dirty for testing, but a final icon was never implemented. If the colors were toned down and a more detailed, menacing icon were created then I think it would be easier to accept.

The visual cue is the monster turning towards you beating you down.

[Vackashken]

I absolutely, unequivocally, vehemently hate it. Its really rather peculiar how much venom shoots from my eyes every time I see it. What ever happened to players, I dunno, learning and having to remember what aggros and what doesn't.

SE must think we're all very stupid.

[Rhianu]

The visual cue is the monster turning towards you beating you down.

That's a visual cue which involves death and frustration. :X

What ever happened to players, I dunno, learning and having to remember what aggros and what doesn't.

Whatever happened to expecting a video game to be user-friendly and not needlessly bash players on the head all the time?

SE must think we're all very stupid.

Or maybe they just decided to stop living in the past and adopt the same basic mechanics that the rest of the industry already incorporated a decade ago. Just a thought.

[Ekko]

not needlessly bash players on the head all the time?

One time is enough. Or maybe the player could just be cautious and not play around tigers, wolves, dragoons walking around like a sausage with legs and asking himself, later, why on earth he was bitten ?

[Vackashken]

Whatever happened to expecting a video game to be user-friendly

Theres user friendly and then theres being completely incompetent. If you honestly think this is a matter of "user friendliness" you should stop playing and pick up GO-Fish in your spare time.

Give me a break, lol...

[Alos]

I'm just playing with /names on, that's all.

[BelgianRofl]

Now I'm running away from bigass icons rather than the monsters. It's like SE took away the only bit of adventure we had in this game.

[Kilta_Firelotus]

any link to a picture of this? i'm curious to what it looks like myself. (pc died b4 I could play ffxiv)

I kinda like the idea of one. As a long time ffxi player, telling newbies what aggros was a pain. Infact ppl stopped helping newbies all together. When I first started everyone had the mentor status, now barely anyone does.

So stuff like this helps out in the long run if your really think about it.

[Alexis_Arteme]

Just give us the option to turn it off. Simple as that.