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

[Giralus]

Actually there is a reason. Your character is only level 50. Your gear makes you the equivalent of a level 110 character . But besides that his cast only has a chance to land on you , Dm rolls the 20d and mob Has a 1 in 20 chance it lands vs a lvl 50 character regardless of gear level. How man mobs do you run through that cast on you and they miss? . Add to that you can go go attack any S rank hunt mob alone and they will swat you down like a bug..but guess what ? You are still free to try and the mobs don't know the differance of a lvl 50 character in all crap gear that would die in sylph land with a bunch of mobs agro on them with heavy verses your geared out toon. The thing about your fancy gear is it does let you shrug it off like it's just an annoyance. the same as it lets you speed run dungeons that a group in craps gear would get wreaked in.

[Niwashi]

its therefore that you cant escape that easily from mobs. dont you get the point of it?

The problem is that it's not accomplishing that point. Heavy doesn't make it harder to get away from the mobs, especially if you're mounted anyway. I've never stopped to fight a mob just because it cast Heavy on me. You still just run on past, it's simply that you run a lot slower as you go past (then continue to run slower long after the mob forgot about you entirely).

The limited range within which mobs will follow you makes Heavy worthless in a chase situation where the mob hopes to catch up to us. Its usefulness lies in the opposite direction, when a ranged fighter wants to prevent his opponent from approaching into melee range. Neither escaping while chased nor approaching into melee range can be avoided, but either can be delayed a little bit. The thing is that there's no point in simply delaying the former, whereas delaying the later can be quite useful.

So the mobs that are using Heavy are using it badly. That's why it fails to make them any more dangerous and just makes them annoying instead.

If SE wants those mobs to have something that will concern players passing by them, it should be a ranged attack that does some real damage. Or perhaps a skill that knocks us off our mount, as that would be far more likely to result in actually fighting them than a slow effect does.

[BigPapaSmurf]

The problem is that it's not accomplishing that point...

That's exactly right. If the world had some teeth, that would be one thing. Right now, it only serves as an irritant.

I'm surprised SE hasn't made hardly any open-world changes.

Would've liked to have seen some packs of elite mobs move in to certain areas or set up new camps or something.

A lot of the Beast Tribes used preexisting mobs spare a few added FATEs here or there.

FATEs aren't the same as implementing deadlier portions of the overworld.

Mobs with farmable drops for crafting & the like even.

Or that need to be cleared to reach harder fishing locations or gathering nodes.

Or that're in the way to a rare-spawning elite Boss FATE.

Or that're in the way of harder Map Spawn Locations.

[BigPapaSmurf]

^we know the purpose of it... it's just that the mobs are not threatening whatsoever so it only serves as an annoyance & nothing else.

If they made the world threatening somehow, it'd be a worthy effect to force a fight on us.

Right now, a mob I can kill in 2 seconds flat is capable of Heavying me... it's silly.

I'm actually in favor of a terrifying over-world which' funny.

Heavy's problem is how any old mob can do it to you, even ones that you insanely outclass.

[KaosuNoTenshi]

Right now, a mob I can kill in 2 seconds flat is capable of Heavying me...

So... Expend 2 sec killing it, and... Problem solved??

SukuEni, don't remove Heavy, please just remove every enemy in every Map, so I can run and run...

[Jynx]

Take the heavy away and give me world mobs that can kill you instead. I'll take that.

[Chihaya]

I vote, instead of heavy, you get dismounted and face-plant into the ground leaving you with 1hp

[Trixxy]

I'd be happy if they simply made it unable to refresh the entire duration of the debuff if you keep getting hit.

[Fynlar]

FFXIV ARR openworld mobs became already trash mobs more or less in comparison to 1.0. version.

Which is exactly what makes the mount-heavy effect just pointless and annoying. Haven't you been keeping up with this conversation?

Actually there is a reason. Your character is only level 50. Your gear makes you the equivalent of a level 110 character . But besides that his cast only has a chance to land on you , Dm rolls the 20d and mob Has a 1 in 20 chance it lands vs a lvl 50 character regardless of gear level. How man mobs do you run through that cast on you and they miss? .

Not that many, really. Try riding through Sapsa on a mount 20 times and it wouldn't surprise me all that much if you weren't even able to make it through once without being heavied and you'll probably be cursing Water Cannon's existence by the end. Your ilvl doesn't matter, and your odds of being heavied are a hell of a lot higher than 1 in 20.

[Jynx]

I just remember when things like Treants were something you actually worried about engaging instead of finding level 5 ones outside the starting zone. The bigger monsters used to have that imposing force behind them.