Sense mob aggro by X

[Alhanelem]

lol troll look whos talking. I dont need a link either.

You do need a link when you make claims with no basis- you make a wild and instigative statement, then when asked to back up your claim, you refuse. That's a recipe for trolling. Asking for proof of your claims, on the other hand, is not trolling.

They're not removing different kinds of aggro.

There hasnt been any spells besides the ones given to DOH to avoid mobs.

You avoid mobs by being clever and careful with your movements. That's more "complexity" than casting a spell to make aggro go away.

[KaplanHomahru]

(As far as I know)

Mobs will still aggro in different ways/with different senses.

Example: Some mobs detect by direct line of sight, others by sound. So you need a little knowledge and skill to safely navigate a group of strong aggressive monsters.

What you're requesting is a simplification - the ability to navigate safely simply by using an item/ability. They have already said that they will not be adding these types of item, IIRC.

Wait what am I doing this is a troll post damnit I'm bored. BETA PLEASE

[Cedri]

I just want the feature of "where the hell did that come from, I swear to god that wasn't there a second ago" to be removed. It's hard enough to sneak around as is. Jeez.

[Elexia]

so are mobs aggroing by specific senses being thrown out the window ? some of us like a little complexity with our games

It may or may not, but they are making this game fit in and having mechanics like that, sadly, just annoys the playerbase they're trying to target.

Mobs aggro sight and sound in XIV.
Mobs USED to aggro you but give you a "You're too damn close, you better back off before I eat you" type warning before eating your face.

Comparatively, in FFXI you have:
-Sound
-Sight
-Magic
-Blood
-Ability
-Job (Used only once as far as I remember.)
-Smell (Tracking mainly)

Of course throw in the true detection and well, that about covers the types. In XI some things also grow aggressive based on your actions, the Fomor mobs in Tavnazia area for example won't care for you until you start farming them, then they becomes true sound aggro and gain a boost to their defense down move (dropping your defense to 0.) or if you go to Tu'lia and step into the light..well, depending...that's your ass.

Just a large variety of mob detection that may or may not make its way into ARR since if you've seen recent MMOs, how much attention to detail were put in compared to when SE made XI and XIV? XIV had its faults but SE didn't skip on attention to detail.

You avoid mobs by being clever and careful with your movements. That's more "complexity" than casting a spell to make aggro go away.

You mean by hitting x or hopping on your chocobo/gobbue or using your DoL ability instead, right?

[Dannythm]

I liked that mobs could aggro by smell, and that you could wait for rainy weather to pass by them in FFXI.

[Altena]

On a slightly different but similar topic -

I think when a mob aggro's you, they should make some kind of sound. To make it a lot less work, an option would be to recycle a random sound the monster would normally make when delivering or receiving an attack.. This would not only give a more "immersive" feel but also reduce the "where the hell did that come from?" moments. It also feels more realistic as the monster is presumably "startled" or "surprised" when they first aggro.

I was trying to think back to any mobs that did this but the only one I could actually think of was actually Ifrit..

[Zoloe]

On a slightly different but similar topic -

I think when a mob aggro's you, they should make some kind of sound. To make it a lot less work, an option would be to recycle a random sound the monster would normally make when delivering or receiving an attack.. This would not only give a more "immersive" feel but also reduce the "where the hell did that come from?" moments. It also feels more realistic as the monster is presumably "startled" or "surprised" when they first aggro.

I was trying to think back to any mobs that did this but the only one I could actually think of was actually Ifrit..

You mean like they did in FFXI?

[Altena]

You mean like they did in FFXI?

Like they do in pretty much every MMO/RPG/FPS/Computer Game.

[Soukyuu]

You mean like they did in FFXI?

xiv too, until they started to remove collision/curious monsters. It was gone along with them for some reason, I even assumed they removed the different aggro types until I started hunting nodes for the achievement.

I can remember the dragons would light up and hiss at you before attacking

[Altena]

xiv too, until they started to remove collision/curious monsters. It was gone along with them for some reason, I even assumed they removed the different aggro types until I started hunting nodes for the achievement.

I can remember the dragons would light up and hiss at you before attacking

Oh they were in there during the curious mob era? I couldn't remember that far back. They seriously need to reimplement that. If not, at least give us "alert" / "aggro" sounds !