Twintania and strange aggro behavior

[Siobahn]

It's not a bug. In a recent patch I noticed that when Twintania was pulled, if I used any kind of self buffs on myself (eg. Raging Strikes) before the OT established aggro on the adds, they would all flock to me. It's pretty common for a bard to pop 10 million buffs before they begin attacking so either make sure the OT uses his buffs first or just have the bard wait a second or two for threat to be established, as I am sure that powerup buffs now establish some low amount of enmity.

This was my first reaction. I told him to do nothing until the tank had aggro. The next pull, I watched him. He literally did nothing. No buffs, no song, no food, nothing. The tank also told me just now that his monster list showed that he was top threat on all adds, and the bard tells me his list showed all blue. This has to be a bug.

[ReplicaX]

I'm a bard and it happens to me as well. Zero buffs/actions, standing still, or even outside the arena.

Its a bug.

[Kuwagami]

I don't know if it's a bug or not, but there is a simple way of bypassing that. This aggro switch ALWAYS occur on the same person until you win or get out of the turn. That said, just run in once, see whoeveer gets the hate, then make that person run with the tank to the adds. They'll take a few hits but should survive it at that level.

[Lemon8or]

I don't know why last week they just decide to sometimes run to my static WHM. He was on SCH, got hate so we quit, went back in as WHM still got hate. :/ Just him, noone else. That's really strange indeed.

[Quiz]

This was my first reaction. I told him to do nothing until the tank had aggro. The next pull, I watched him. He literally did nothing. No buffs, no song, no food, nothing. The tank also told me just now that his monster list showed that he was top threat on all adds, and the bard tells me his list showed all blue. This has to be a bug.

This is how ours went.

Run 1. Eos does a poorly timed AoE buff. Everything goes for her. Everything shows red on my hate list.
Run 2. MT uses fight or flight on himself. Everything goes for him. Everything shows red on my hate list.
Run 3. No one does anything AT ALL. Everything goes for BLM. Everything shows red on my hate list.

Run 1 and 2 should technically have been green on my hate list, but run 3 shoulda still been red, and they were, but beating on the BLM.

I'm gonna be popping FoF the instant they all aggro me from now on.

[DannyNobuser]

My static has the same problem with our black mage they just make a b line right at him he has to auto follow me in order for me to pick up all the adds

[High_Timesw]

Forgive me if this has been posted somewhere, but I did a search and didn't find anything relevant.
My group was doing Turn 5 last night, and for some reason, when the tank pulled twin and her adds, the adds would all instantly aggro our bard. He had no song up, and he performed no actions. The 3 adds simply ignored the tank and went straight for the bard.
Anyone else seen this, and possibly know of a fix? I've seen a lot of posts on other websites, but nothing on the official forums. If it's actually an issue, I'll move this to the bug section.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-5-strategy%21

I tackled this in my Strategy!

The Hygeia do not care what you say or do! They attack who ever they want! Our party runs down together to the left (and runs past the mobs) while tanks go to the right. This way, who ever they pick, it won't matter everyone is close to the OT and he gets aggro on them.

This happens to our SMN just about every pull. and he does nothing at all.

[Dyssyd]

Happens to me every week as a WHM. If the OT body pulls, all 3 will target me and start running towards me, if he shield lobs, only 2 run at me. Then he uses a cooldown and takes all the aggro off of me before they can get too close. I haven't found an explanation for it, I don't even do anything for 10 seconds before the pull and 5 seconds afterwards. If it was something to do with whoever used an ability last before the pull, they should be going to our SCH, since he prebuffs Adlo on both tanks for the pull, which always happens after I have everyone buffed with stoneskin. No one except the tanks are moving or doing anything for the pull.

I guess my Lallafel just looks tasty. Those dragons want a scrumptious snack.

[Claire_Pendragon]

I havnt touched T5, but I have noticed this in Sastasha, and many other scenarios, where the boss has adds already out, before you pull.

In sastasha, when you pull the pirate boss, or his adds, usually shield lob/tomahawking the boss, would lead to the main boss (sometimes the adds, but usually the boss) dashing to the healer.

Both as the tank or healer, I can say its not off the GCD abilities triggering it, not normal actions, since i did neither. (I also watched my recorded videos, to make sure)

Just something causes nearly 10-20% of my fights to mess up during the initial pull.

[Velev]

Happens to us too.

We found our way to deal with this problem.

Cross over the purple line at the start of twintanias zone, now the party is on the hill right by the line and looking at twintania.

Have the OT tank move left so that he is nearly facing the last dragon on the left of twintania and once ready the OT runs down and targets the dragons from there, meanwhile have the MT go straight down from the group and pick up twintania simultaneously as the OT moves down.

Hope that works for you as it did for us.