Aggro Issues

WraithAzraiel

To all those who quest with friends on the regular, have you ever notices that if you attack a critter, that it immediately makes a bee-line for your partner instead of you?

My wife and I have been questing together pretty much since Early Access, back in the days where if you were in stealth and your partner aggro'd a critter, you'd be "Detected" even if you were no where near your combat-laden companion.

So I'm wondering, is this intended? Am I imagining this happened so regularly or have other questing partner configurations noticed this as well?

WraithAzraiel

Nobody else has this problem?

Natjur

What class/role are you and your wife?

The only time I have seen this is when the other person is a healer and has cast a HOT (heal over time)

So player A hits the mob for 10 damage, but the HOT procs for 20 healing.
The mob is more aggro-ed by the 20 heal then the 10 damage so goes after the healer, even tho the healer cast that spell BEFORE you attacked the mob and is miles away.

So off goes the mob to hit the healer.

Also, if one member of a group hits a mob, ALL members get added to hits 'hate list' and therefore automatically all members are detected by the mob (they see sneak but not invis) We had a group of 4 in a dungeon. Player 4 is AFK and sneaking at the start of the dungeon.

The rest are deep in the dungeon and wipe, the mobs then run all the way to the start and kill player 4 who has been away for 10 mins and was still sneaking.

This is the annoying part of being in a group. I could be on the other side of the zone and can not hop on a horse cause one of my group members is in combat even those they are 10 mins hard ride away.

WraithAzraiel

Oh this was happening even when we were working on our Nightblades in Early Access.

I'd hit something to get it's attention so she could flank it and murderface it, and it'd make a bee-line for her instead of the thing that hit it. Me.