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!

Quote Originally Posted by Teryaani View Post
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!