I've posted before that there should be more behaviors available to NPC's, not limited to self-preservation induced by fear, respect, or renown.

There should at least be a percentage chance that they will run in fear without having to have a skill inducing such (Trapping Webs Morph/WW roar, to name a couple)

The higher the intelligence level of the creature, the more likely it should consider it's own situation and welfare before deciding to continue/start the fight.

For the dumb ones, they'll still charge in (won't save you from Skeevers, etc), but this should lighten the load.

The other alternative, at this level, you should take no damage and no armor repairs, just the irritation from the 20 thinks trying to bite you ankle as you harvest jute. (I believe this is actually the case now - will little to no armor damage and health regen that should offset any nips that may take place.)

@Iradicus‌, just out of curiosity, why are you harvesting low level mats with a higher level character anyway? Are you crafting for others?

On the other hand, I think allowing high level characters to farm low level zones unchallenged could be bad for low level players. To answer the question above, refining raw materials of any level can grant rare improvement materials and lower level ones are easier to farm.

I do like the idea of enemies having an intelligence level that factors into their behavior. But it should be different for each individual type of enemy, rather than their classification. Say, bandits should be a bit more willing to preserve themselves than cultists. I also would think there would be a range set, so not every single enemy of the same type would behave precisely the same way. One bandit more reckless than the others, and so on. A pretty neat concept, I'd say. Probably deserves its own thread.

if you completed the quest surrounding that area where the mobs are hostile, they should turn neutral (yellow), this could also solve alot of the whole phasing mess, (now if you complete the quest the mobs are gone for example) I wanted to help out a buddy a while back, but since I completed it already, he dissapeared, if the mobs were neutal to me but hostile to him we would still be able to play together (first and last time I messed with grouping and phasing, what a mess)

bertenburnyb16_ESO wrote: »

if you completed the quest surrounding that area where the mobs are hostile, they should turn neutral (yellow), this could also solve alot of the whole phasing mess, (now if you complete the quest the mobs are gone for example) I wanted to help out a buddy a while back, but since I completed it already, he dissapeared, if the mobs were neutal to me but hostile to him we would still be able to play together (first and last time I messed with grouping and phasing, what a mess)

I was dumbfounded when this started to happen with some quests. There could be a Passive called 'Renowned or Revered Protection' that would exempt you from the lower level mobs and possibly give you group members some level of reduced aggro when traveling with you.

Not intending to have people use it as a get-out-of-the-fight-free card, but it seems reasonable that when travelling with a higher level character that some of the critters would think twice, or at least go for the little guy.

With phasing, I;'ve also had it go the other way.

Was in Grahtwood and had cleared out an area to the South East. Everyone was friendly, suddenly server glitched and a camp full of Orcs phased in and started pummeling me.

Guess the option to have scaled critters that only attack you phase in could make things more interesting too.

I certainly makes sense to adjust the detection radius based on how many levels above or below you are from the NPC/Creature.

If I am a VR10, I should be able to pretty much run next to a level 1 dreugh without it attacking me.