Mobs chasing you on 2.0

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And again, even when danger is clear and present, I've had more than my fair share of jobs and classes that can obviously raise trample over my corpse. One doesn't have much to do with the other.
After playing MMOs for over a decade, I still don't understand why these words are used over and over. I'll leave it at that.
This I can agree with, but as always, there are parameters to play within and lines that should not be crossed. If we were talking about a set of zones designed to be dangerous (believe it or not, I can see places like Mor Dhona being like this after some revamps in monster placement and a couple of other changes), I'm willing to toss around ideas.

What the OP was going for is mob trains to the zone line, which is something I am staunchly against. Mobs having a territory and being leashed to that past a certain distance makes sense. Though if you really want chasing about, I'd add the exact same mechanic mobs in pre-WotLK WoW had: DoTs and damage received override the leash script in the mob's AI, thus allowing the mob to go beyond its pre-assigned territory under certain conditions (this is how some bored players kited the likes of Gamon and other mobs to the wierdest of places).

Taking a step back to what I mentioned earlier about my buddy and his wife, I also do not want something like the TAU zones that repeatedly punish players between mob placement and mob design.

People use those words because, often times, they are the best ones to describe the situation.


I fail to see how a system based on the mechanics of real life wouldn't work here. Most of the time, if an animal is chasing you it is due to a flight response or doing so in order to chase you out of its territory or away from its offspring. After a certain point is reached, it gives up and goes back home if it hasn't caught you (with exceptions of course).

Intelligent races don't have the same limitations. A band of thieves or brigands will chase you until they catch you, you fight them, or you get away. I feel the exact same about the undead, but with even less wiggle room. As popularised by centuries of fiction on the subject, the undead should never tire of chasing you because they never tire period. I thought the daylight mechanic in XI was a good balance to this sort of system.

As to your inablitly to see eye to eye with me on how a more dangerous world can create a tighter sense of community, you have proven my point with your comment. Even when someone is walking over your dead corpse and can raise you, but chooses not too, thats still very much a level of interaction. When people did that to me in Xi I had a tendancy to remember who they were. This in turn could change my outlook on a situation said person could then find themself in which would benefit from my help. Snubbing people is still interaction even if its not the kind your looking for. And quiet frankly, I would prefer that sort of system over the one we have now. I'm not looking for the areas outside the cities to be brutal, but there does need to be some sense of chaos and random events that take place to ensure that I don't have 100% control over what happens to my character each and every time I go outside. Thats just plain boring as hell, which (I am told anyway) was a major complaint about this game at launch.