Outrunning Aggressive Mobs

[Skies]

One thing that you also don't take into mind here is that 'zone' in this game (at least right now) means 'the entirety of Eorzea save instances'.
I'd actually love to see you, RahJah, chased all the way from Mor Dhona to Ul'Dah by a L80 hog.

I will also add that having stuff chase you forever and ever until you zone is still lame in my opinion regardless. Not only istwildly displaces mobs, completely undoing the concept of 'mob placement', it also allows training, MPKing and other similar goodies. That and it makes no sense for a wild beast to chase you across the whole wide world just because you stepped on it's territorry, it'll chase you away but that's it.

And it is also sincerely bothersome and doesn't even add anything to the dangers of exploration. Specially if they're full of range and faster than you, all it means is that you're essentially blocked from exploring anywhere where monsters you can't slay by the buckets are.

[Charismatic]

*Death music plays*

Actually, that's something this game is missing... I would certainly like to get me some death music up in here.

[Onidemon]

I didn't like being chased around the whole map ~.~... I like the whole.. Your on my Turf? YOU BETTER GET OUTTA HERE!! and then they start chasing you till a point then they say " YOU BETTER RUN AWAY YOU CHUMP!!"

This is something we can agree on.

[Krausus]

True, but I still feel like I can explore way too far into the map without having leveled. I ran from one nation to another before rank 10 when I started this game. To make matters worse, there was hardly any lore attached to any of the pretty but hollow feeling maps. Something is missing I thought and I think that being able to outrun the aggressive mobs is part of what is missing.

there are no hard areas between nations, take a trip out to fogfens on your level 10, we do it every other week for our drunk fishing game, one of the rules is if you die finish your drink.

[elreed]

i think what the op is saying is that the mobs dont have the enough will to kill you, i remember back in XI in the outpost near sandoria, there was an elevator so if u aggroed a mob in the level below it made all his way to your spot to kill you so it was fun seeing how that mob was linking with others to kick your ass, at the end if you didnt notice that, you could see all the outpost heading towards you, lol

[Starlord]

This is something we can agree on.

It's amazing! Party of 8 anyone?

[Gukie]

Lv.90 agressive mobs exist. They don't take kindly to us even on mounts. We are like desert while our chocobos are chicken dinner.

right now theres no point of going in those stupid areas... hence theres no point of even exploring it >.>- the adventure should be from city to city- where it should be though getting there.

[Gukie]

Er. You can still get your ass one-shotted if a mob has a ranged attack. Some still do.

lol sure you can but those monsters are pointless -.-... it's no fear- your dead ... at least give us a fight where we got fight it to survive or try to run it to zoneline

[Krausus]

its amazing how many people complained about ants in thanalan until they where moved now people want them back ><. wait for 2.0 the world will drasticaly change and zones will probably not be so large, could you imagine a mob chasing you from the ferry to the black shroud o.O

Seems to me XI's design was a flawed mechanic that folks got used to so they never changed it.

[Chiper]

I'm shocked nobody has mentioned the fact that it does seem some what "cheap" that players can basiclly power level themselves with the current retreat system that mobs have. I've seen far too many players (mages mostly, since they can get away with it) that just group up a bunch of monsters, cast their first AoE spell, run away until that group retreats (and they'll still all be clumped together), AoE again, run away, and rinse and repeat the process with little to no HP loss. There needs to be some kind of penalty. A group of mobs should be laying the smack down on you.

Increase the distance at which mobs will continue to chase you, unless you're on a leve quest (since they are timed, you don't want to run down the clock, mind you they only take about 10-15 mins to complete anyways with a bunch of spare time left over) or anything else where time is of the essence.