Please Make Players Immune To Heavy When Mounted

[Boon_Pendragon]

While I can understand enemies inflicting heavy on characters during battle, I cannot fathom the purpose of having enemies inflict heavy on mounted characters. Getting hit by heavy while traveling from one point to another is annoying and a waste of a player's time. It gets especially annoying when one gets hit by multiple instances of heavy (which refreshes the debuff timer) while moving through an area. I do not see how this adds value to the game.

Please consider making players immune to heavy while mounted.

[Kerberon]

No it's one of the ways they can make you have to pay attention to the world. I'd also be for buffing mob movement speed.

[Seif]

No it's one of the ways they can make you have to pay attention to the world. I'd also be for buffing mob movement speed.

This would be a great argument if those mobs were even a slight threat to the player but the places in which this happens is just lvl 50s being slowed down by completely irrelevant trash that wouldn't amount to being a threat even in packs.

[Kerberon]

This would be a great argument if those mobs were even a slight threat to the player but the places in which this happens is just lvl 50s being slowed down by completely irrelevant trash that wouldn't amount to being a threat even in packs.

Ah but they don't need to kill you to make you pay attention to them. If they can make you run slightly around to avoid the aggro radius to avoid the heavy which lets you get to where you are going faster, the mechanic has done it's job.

[JatohCynn]

Ah but they don't need to kill you to make you pay attention to them. If they can make you run slightly around to avoid the aggro radius to avoid the heavy which lets you get to where you are going faster, the mechanic has done it's job.

By being flat annoying, adding no enjoyment to the game what so ever, and incentivising a player to avoid any interaction with mobs at all?

Might as well just remove the mobs altogether and just apply heavy at random intervals for no reason and save us all the processing power.

[Tharian]

Not going to happen. The debuff can only be applied when using the mount command. It does not come into play when riding one of the chocobo's you get from the Chocobo Porters, as those are untargetable by Enemies. The thing you have to realize is that this is working as intended. The Developers want you to get off your chocobo/mount and kill the mob when you get targeted by them. That was the entire reason they installed the feature to allow you to activate your mount while your companion is out.

EDIT: Kerberon, your sig is freaking me out. The Angels are still the only thing that gives me nightmares when I watch Doctor Who.

[Xieveral]

The Developers want you to get off your chocobo/mount and kill the mob when you get targeted by them.

Then an attack should knock the player off their mount and engage them in battle, not mildly inconvenience them on their way elsewhere.

[AiChyan]

Heavy is SE's failed way of making us feel that there is a challenge in the oudoors. Its obviously simply an annoyance which I deal with by standing until heavy is gone and then go my way. I don't even bother esuna-ing it anymore.

[Nalien]

Heavy is SE's failed way of making us feel that there is a challenge in the oudoors.

Would you prefer being outright killed in a game with no Reraise? Or having to dismount and kill the enemy for every single one you aggro? Do you really think the majority of people are going to prefer the annoyance of dying while trying to do dailies, to getting hit with heavy?

Only thing I'd wish they'd do is give the Heavy effect while mounted diminishing returns.... Heavy is about to wear off, you get hit with it again for the full duration... Seriously, that's the only aspect of it that annoys me. I actually quite like it otherwise, it's enough of a annoyance that I'll attempt to avoid aggro completely, but not so punishing that it becomes too annoying.

[AiChyan]

Do you really think the majority of people are going to prefer the annoyance of dying while trying to do dailies, to getting hit with heavy?

Why is it always one extreme or another in this place ? Dailies areas aren't supposed to have deadly mobs in the first place, at least IMO. I wouldn't mind deadly mobs at areas like the Fog Fens or the outskirts of Mor Dhona, this issue here is with the debuff itself. and you see, you idea of diminishing returns would make it 10 times less annoying.
The dailies areas have mainly mobs which are under 50, and shouldn't be aggroing us at 50 with high ilvls in the first place anyway. I actually grew into the habit of gathering as many mobs as my WHM can handle and holy the hell out of them. Saves me and people around me tons of annoyance.
I'm no game designer, but I know that applying a heavy debuff isn't exactly the best idea of introducing challenge and immersion into an area.