Please Make Players Immune To Heavy When Mounted

[fanservice]

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.

Having a chance to be hit with heavy when mounted was put there intentionally.

Same as the chance to be dazed+dismounted when taking a hit while mounted in WoW.

Same as auto-dismount when hit in TERA.

Same as the chance to auto dismount your space scooter (technically it blew up, and you were knocked down leaving you open to a classic stomping-out as if you were green lantern fighting darksied in JL: war) when hit in SWtOR.

Don't even bother asking for that. It has been a thing in mmos for nearly 10 years.

It's so mobs can continue to be some sort of threat to the player instead of magically skipping by everything in the world because you're on horse-bird-scooter-bipedalmecha-back.

[UBERHAXED]

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.

You are aware that you don't get heavied if you aren't mounted right? This was an intention obviously. But if you prefer instant death while mounted, then maybe SE will add that since you believe heavy doesn't add a challenge and it still doesn't make you attack mobs (that you are trying to skip).

[Boon_Pendragon]

You are aware that you don't get heavied if you aren't mounted right? This was an intention obviously. But if you prefer instant death while mounted, then maybe SE will add that since you believe heavy doesn't add a challenge and it still doesn't make you attack mobs (that you are trying to skip).

Except, no one here is suggesting instant death as an alternative. Because you know, that obviously wouldn't make any sense.

[UBERHAXED]

Except, no one here is suggesting instant death as an alternative. Because you know, that obviously wouldn't make any sense.

Clearly the open world according to you isn't dangerous and the heavy still doesn't make you get off and attack the mobs.

[Boon_Pendragon]

Clearly the open world according to you isn't dangerous and the heavy still doesn't make you get off and attack the mobs.

Yes. You are absolutely right. Heavy still does not make me get off my mount to kill the mob. But again, no one here is suggesting instant death as the alternative as you have stated. Other posters have indicated interesting alternatives to make it challenging without instantly jumping to the extreme of the alternative being instant death, which no one would suggest or want.

[UBERHAXED]

Yes. You are absolutely right. Heavy still does not make me get off my mount to kill the mob. But again, no one here is suggesting instant death as the alternative as you have stated. Other posters have indicated interesting alternatives to make it challenging without instantly jumping to the extreme of the alternative being instant death, which no one would suggest or want.

It doesn't matter what they add. A person like you (who tries to skip them) will ignore them until they pose a threat to you. What you want are easier ways to avoid them. I'm sure if these mobs dealt 10x damage while you are mounted you would get off rather than being sniped by an archer from a mile away (which is realistic, since you are trespassing on heavily guarded territory, riding on a chicken).

[Enkidoh]

It was actually in 1.0 too, but then it made sense as it was actually not heavy you were hit with, but an equivalent status called 'Lamed', as in, your chocobo was injured by the attack and would only move slowly (dismounting canceled the effect). Presumably due to the wider variety of mounts in 1.0, including mechanical ones (ala, magitek armour, the bomb palanquin), SE must have thought it wouldn't make sense any more calling it 'lamed' and so just changed it to the generic heavy. But yes, it has a reason to give a reason to actually be careful when running through the world on a mount.

[Boon_Pendragon]

It was actually in 1.0 too, but then it made sense as it was actually not heavy you were hit with, but an equivalent status called 'Lamed', as in, your chocobo was injured by the attack and would only move slowly (dismounting canceled the effect). Presumably due to the wider variety of mounts in 1.0, including mechanical ones (ala, magitek armour, the bomb palanquin), SE must have thought it wouldn't make sense any more calling it 'lamed' and so just changed it to the generic heavy. But yes, it has a reason to give a reason to actually be careful when running through the world on a mount.

I see. Dismounting to cancel the effect is fair.

[Tashigi]

I think world mobs should instead enrage and charge/stun you, then dismount you.
The heavy effect is more annoying than anything. It really doesn't penalize you in a threatening way, just an annoying way.

[LunarEmerald]

You really should not be punished for riding your mount.

Whenever I enter a beastman stronghold, I get off my mount because I'm just gonna get heavy'ed constantly.