Heavy-Status... can you please remove it now or respond about it?

[Viridiana]

some people in this thread who have the opinion of removing "heavy" also say its "pointless" that monsters do have ranged attacks..

That's cool. Still waiting on a video of you mounted running through Zahar'ak without aggroing any archers or casters. Put up or shut up.

[Teryaani]

That's cool. Still waiting on a video of you mounted running through Zahar'ak without aggroing any archers or casters. Put up or shut up.

With the patrolling fortune tellers there, you're going to aggro something. I've gone through the zone without being heavied. That can be done, especially if you take advantage of LoS breaks of which Zahar'ak has many. Deeper in Sapsa though? Forget it. I'm sure people have gotten through that area without a heavy on them, but I can't remember ever doing it.

On topic, yes heavy is annoying, I curse it regularly. That said, I'm of the opinion that it wastes less time than a forced dismount > break tether or forced dismount > flare all the things would.

If your aggro circle was based on gear score that may help reduce the chance of dealing with it ("that's some shiny armor, I'm not messing with that"). Or they could cater to the danger lovers. Maybe have your gearscore increase the number of mobs linked to an aggroing mob. So when that FCOB geared tank traipses through sapsa like he owns the place, he ends up with the entire zone trying to repel him.

Just throwing those out there. I'm genuinely curious what the dev team is going to do with the new open world mobs though.

[Viridiana]

With the patrolling fortune tellers there, you're going to aggro something.

Yeah, but his proposed solution is "Pay attention and don't aggro things."

[Teryaani]

Yeah, but his proposed solution is "Pay attention and don't aggro things."

Yeah, the latter part of that isn't possible in certain parts of some of the zones. Paying attention may help you avoid the heavy, maybe. Or, we could all play ninjas!

[LineageRazor]

I think it'd be interesting if the Heavy effect came with a stacking Vulnerability Up debuff. The more often Heavy procs, the more damage you take. Upon getting hit, the traveler needs to decide carefully whether they want to keep going, or dismount and deal with the mobs before the vulnerability gets out of hand!

With the patrolling fortune tellers there, you're going to aggro something. I've gone through the zone without being heavied. That can be done, especially if you take advantage of LoS breaks of which Zahar'ak has many. Deeper in Sapsa though? Forget it. I'm sure people have gotten through that area without a heavy on them, but I can't remember ever doing it.

Actually, as someone who used to fish regularly at the Reaver's Hide for maps, there's a path through Sapsa to the Leviathan Aethercite that will typically get aggro from no more than one mob along the way (possibly two, depending on the way another mob is facing when you ride past). You can still get gravitied by it, but that's still better than Zahar'ak. Most of the Sahagin guarding gates, you can slip in from the side and avoid detection. It's not at all unsual to avoid getting Heavy by taking this route.

I can try to describe it:
- Halfstone: All the mobs here are evadable, though sometimes the ones who patrol will be positioned and facing in inconvenient ways.
- Entrance to Sapsa: Hug the right wall, and the first gate guard won't catch you.
- Past the first tunnel: Bear left and enter the closer gate into the narrow tunnel, rather than bear right and enter the farther gate leading to the wide-open area. The guard at the bear-left gate is pretty much unavoidable. This is your one guaranteed aggro.
- Ride through the tunnel: At the end, turn right. Patroller at the end of the tunnel MAY be facing the wrong way, and is the possible second aggro.
- Exit the tunnel: The tunnel exits at another gate, but at an angle where you can slip behind the guard.
- Open area: Hug the left wall. There are some patrolling Elbst here which may aggro you, but as they have no ranged attack they're not a big deal. Hugging the left wall, will let you slip behind another gate guard.
- Reaver's Hide open area: Bear right to skirt around the aggro range of the two conversing Sahagin.
- Whelk Ballistae: Ride to the left of the Whelk Ballistae. The Sahagin tenders of those Ballistae are all facing right, and won't detect you. By hugging them close, you can slip behind the Aethercite gate guard.
- Aethercite: You made it! Time to fish!