Regarding open world Heavy

[Jynx]

Or...don't run headlong into aggressive monsters?

[Gerolan]

Or...don't run headlong into aggressive monsters?

You haven't done sylph dailies I take it? Since it's absolutely impossible to avoid them as one points one way, one points another

[Jynx]

You haven't done sylph dailies I take it?

I do them all the time, I still don't see your issue, I can avoid pretty much all agro if I actually use my eyes and survey my suroundings instead of burying my head into my map display.

the few Sylphs that are hard to avoid agro can also be easilly outrun long before you get the heavy debuff, it's not the first hit that applies the debuff.

[DarkStar]

I see the Trolls are out in force lately...

On Topic: The only thing more annoying than a monster you could pummel into a greasy smear on the ground impotently flailing away at you is when they actually manage to inflict Heavy on you with said impotent flailing. Sometimes I'll dismount and do Eorzea a favor by removing them from the gene pool, other times I'll just keep riding on and wonder why SE ever thought this would make me think the open world was dangerous, when it clearly isn't.

[Kiokin]

I do them all the time, I still don't see your issue, I can avoid pretty much all agro if I actually use my eyes and survey my suroundings instead of burying my head into my map display.

the few Sylphs that are hard to avoid agro can also be easilly outrun long before you get the heavy debuff, it's not the first hit that applies the debuff.

Sometimes it is the first hit. That's the problem.