Mirri has 100% pulled aggro on enemies I wasn't close enough to aggro myself before. One of the most recent examples was during the Zenithar event, where myself and a friend were farming WBs in Deshaan. Mirri wound up aggroing one of them, idr which, even though I wasn't near enough to actually do so. And no, I wasn't still being detected, because she ran pell-mell at the thing even though there were none of the little red warning flashes that let you know you're about to pull enemies. She just charged straight at it out of nowhere.Companions does not pull aggro, same is true for combat pets. Try to sneak.Sevalaricgirl wrote: »
but they will attack hostiles like enemies spawning or if you engage / get detected.
However if you pull on they will follow.
FluffyBird wrote: »I'm going for a slight necro here, because I just did a celestial rift in Craglorn with someone and the final boss, I kid you not, was just running back and forth between out Embers totally ignoring us.
This is broken.
FluffyBird wrote: »I'm going for a slight necro here, because I just did a celestial rift in Craglorn with someone and the final boss, I kid you not, was just running back and forth between out Embers totally ignoring us.
This is broken.
"just running back and forth between out Embers"
English is not my native language
Can you please explain in more detail ?
I especially struggle with what "out" means in this context.
Thanks in advance
FluffyBird wrote: »FluffyBird wrote: »I'm going for a slight necro here, because I just did a celestial rift in Craglorn with someone and the final boss, I kid you not, was just running back and forth between out Embers totally ignoring us.
This is broken.
"just running back and forth between out Embers"
English is not my native language
Can you please explain in more detail ?
I especially struggle with what "out" means in this context.
Thanks in advance
It's a typo, I meant "our". Thanks for catching it!
We both were with companions, and his Ember and mine took turns stealing aggro
FluffyBird wrote: »FluffyBird wrote: »I'm going for a slight necro here, because I just did a celestial rift in Craglorn with someone and the final boss, I kid you not, was just running back and forth between out Embers totally ignoring us.
This is broken.
"just running back and forth between out Embers"
English is not my native language
Can you please explain in more detail ?
I especially struggle with what "out" means in this context.
Thanks in advance
It's a typo, I meant "our". Thanks for catching it!
We both were with companions, and his Ember and mine took turns stealing aggro
Thanks for clarification
And if I may ask: what weapons & armor trait do you mostly use for the taunting duo ?
FluffyBird wrote: »FluffyBird wrote: »FluffyBird wrote: »I'm going for a slight necro here, because I just did a celestial rift in Craglorn with someone and the final boss, I kid you not, was just running back and forth between out Embers totally ignoring us.
This is broken.
"just running back and forth between out Embers"
English is not my native language
Can you please explain in more detail ?
I especially struggle with what "out" means in this context.
Thanks in advance
It's a typo, I meant "our". Thanks for catching it!
We both were with companions, and his Ember and mine took turns stealing aggro
Thanks for clarification
And if I may ask: what weapons & armor trait do you mostly use for the taunting duo ?
Mine has specifically not-taunting setup (I checked) and I've never built a tank companion yet, so idk. Their - no idea, it was just some random player. We are talking here about companions stealing aggro, not about cases when they are supposed to taunt.
drsalvation wrote: »If you really want to keep aggro, slot a taunt skill.
I'll also add to this because companions and pets pulling aggro for seemingly no reason has had me questioning how aggro even works in ESO for a long time now and I have yet to figure it out, outside of hard taunts.
I've witnessed my twilight matriarch (she does single target damage) get completely ravaged by adds plenty of times, especially in world boss fights that summon them. They'll just beeline straight for her more times than not the second they appear. Companions also take aggro whether or not they have taunts, are doing minimal to maximum damage, no matter where they are positioned.... it's an all around mystery. For example, just recently while doing a bastion nymic with a friend and our two companions; one of the bosses weirdly just focused my support build Ember (she has a lightning staff, CC, and minimal heals) while my friend, myself, and my friends DPS companion attacked it very aggressively. The boss didn't stop focusing her until she was dead then switched to me for the rest of the fight. Why my Ember would ever be the priority target is baffling because she doesn't do a lot of anything, haha. My friend and I not only heal more passively, but even with our burst heals that we were in fact using while trying to keep Ember alive while she face tanked the boss.... and we definitely both do more damage.
Also, people should not have to run taunts for companions. They don't make that big of a difference to warrant changing your build for. In my opinion, having to do something like that defeats the purpose of a feature like companions to begin with because my friend and I didn't need our companions to do that bastion nymic.... I actually have never needed a companion for anything, they're just kind of flavor for me and that's it. Flavor that dies, a lot.... and I can't even imagine how often things like twilight matriarchs and companions will get completely slaughtered in endless archives with their current mysterious aggro numbers.
Yes, but that doesn't make the current state of aggro okay or excusable.... and it definitely doesn't solve anything for sorcs whose class heal is tied to a thing that gets targeted by adds for no reason, because this is indeed a problem I have witnessed with the twilight matriarch as well like I wrote in my original reply.Necrotech_Master wrote: »companions are bound to get nuked in endless archive anyway purely due to boss mechanics they cannot handle lol
they already have significant issues in many of the group dungeons because of this
Yes, but that doesn't make the current state of aggro okay or excusable.... and it definitely doesn't solve anything for sorcs whose class heal is tied to a thing that gets targeted by adds for no reason, because this is indeed a problem I have witnessed with the twilight matriarch as well like I wrote in my original reply.Necrotech_Master wrote: »companions are bound to get nuked in endless archive anyway purely due to boss mechanics they cannot handle lol
they already have significant issues in many of the group dungeons because of this
Also, I've said it before in another thread but I don't think companions should "die" simply because they do lack the AI and programming to follow mechanics. They should have a knock-down system similar to Skyrim followers where they'll get up and join the fight again once they regen enough health. Especially considering from my experience, it is never worthwhile to take the time to res a companion. Not once would that have been the smart choice, haha.
cherryskary wrote: »Doing a supreme necro on this thread to point out IT'S STILL NOT FIXED.
Why does every boss refuse to pay attention to me and always goes straight for Ember. She DEFINITELY doesn't do more damage than I do, and she has ZERO taunt abilities slotted. But I cannot get a boss's attention off her.
@ZOS_GinaBruno
Why is running with a taunt on my bar the only option for running with companions? PLEASE FIX THIS, WE'VE BEEN COMPLAINING ABOUT IT SINCE YOU RELEASED THEM.
I'll also add to this because companions and pets pulling aggro for seemingly no reason has had me questioning how aggro even works in ESO for a long time now and I have yet to figure it out, outside of hard taunts.
I've witnessed my twilight matriarch (she does single target damage) get completely ravaged by adds plenty of times, especially in world boss fights that summon them. They'll just beeline straight for her more times than not the second they appear. Companions also take aggro whether or not they have taunts, are doing minimal to maximum damage, no matter where they are positioned.... it's an all around mystery. For example, just recently while doing a bastion nymic with a friend and our two companions; one of the bosses weirdly just focused my support build Ember (she has a lightning staff, CC, and minimal heals) while my friend, myself, and my friends DPS companion attacked it very aggressively. The boss didn't stop focusing her until she was dead then switched to me for the rest of the fight. Why my Ember would ever be the priority target is baffling because she doesn't do a lot of anything, haha. My friend and I not only heal more passively, but even with our burst heals that we were in fact using while trying to keep Ember alive while she face tanked the boss.... and we definitely both do more damage.
Also, people should not have to run taunts for companions. They don't make that big of a difference to warrant changing your build for. In my opinion, having to do something like that defeats the purpose of a feature like companions to begin with because my friend and I didn't need our companions to do that bastion nymic.... I actually have never needed a companion for anything, they're just kind of flavor for me and that's it. Flavor that dies, a lot.... and I can't even imagine how often things like twilight matriarchs and companions will get completely slaughtered in endless archives with their current mysterious aggro numbers.
alanmatillab16_ESO wrote: »
Treat companions as if they are the type of player that does a boss fight with one eye on the damage meter and one hand down their pants when they see the DPS number and always stands in the stupid because moving would "waste a GCD". Once you are used to that then they become far less of a problem.