Aggro Mechanics

[Xaru]

I've searched around and can't find a conclusive answer to this yet. Do we know how aggro works yet?

Some monsters seem to be sight, or sound, or both. Some change behaviour if you slow-walk past them and their range seems to vanish or be really narrow. Others seem to leave you alone if you choco.

Am I just imagining this or is it all down to server lag?

[Niiro]

Yes mobs aggro by different means and at different ranges.

ex.
Yarzon; sound, huge
Imps; sight, narrow
Efts; stupid AI, detect from a reasonable range but move and recact like they've got the downs.

And yes, lag does play a part in a lot of things, often mobs won't detect you if they haven't loaded on your screen yet. For instance entering Cassie hollow the bats won't aggro if you run straight through and they don't have time to appear on your screen.

[miokomioko]

Gigantoads: sight, extremely narrow and short
Drakes: sound, pretty large
Wisps: sound, huge
Gnats: sound, normal
Skeletons: sound, kinda big
Diremites: sound, large
Antlings: sound, normal
Amal'jaa: sight, normal
Ixali: sight, normal

etc.etc.etc.

[Scary]

this is not conclusive, but here's some things i noticed while playing with others.

from lvl. 1-14 if you are in a duo pt, you will not pull a link.
but if you are in a trio, you will pull 1 link if mobs are close enough.

however, in a duo, if someone is lvl. 15 or above, you will pull 1 link.

i imagine the linking increases as more pt members are present.

Toads: Sight
Raptors: Sight

[tobbenlobben]

4 people can link 2 Extra mobs at 15+. a total of 3 mobs at the same time.
At 8 people i have gotten link4 with a total of 5 mobs at the same time. This was at 30+

[Niiro]

Also worth noting, something I just found out the other day, some mobs "link" in the same manner as XI (not the new link system, no animation, don't have to be in pt).

[miokomioko]

I have only had one link ever happen while solo and it was on an incredibly low-level mob that I probably two-shot. I think it was on an Aurelia in Shposhae... but I have fought tons of crap in Shposhae without one-shotting, and have never linked other than that one time.

Also, next patch (I think) was going to restrict linking to only the same type of mobs as the initial aggro. So pulling a drake in the Amal'jaa stronghold isn't going to link the 500 nearby Amal'jaa, only the nearby drakes.

[Niiro]

I never saw it happen till a few days ago, was passing by the apkallu in Coerthas and they link just like mobs in XI do.