MOB LEASHING - a Discussion

WoW Classic WoW Classic General Discussion
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I was in a full group the other day doing Tremors of the Earth (pt 2) in Badlands, which involves killing two lvl 50 elite dragons that spawn on top of each other.

Our intention was to continue attacking one as we ran away, expecting the other dragon to run back to spawn after some distance so we could deal with one dragon at a time. Instead, the untouched dragon bounced his aggro between each member of the party every 20 yards or so, despite no threat being caused (no heals, no auras, no thorns, etc). We ran around in the narrow environment for about 5 minutes, other players joining in, then running away, contributing to the chaos as both dragons chased everyone around the ravene.

Has anybody had any similar experiences? I’m sure everyone has experienced somebody dying nearby with 5 mobs on them and they all turn to you although you were minding your own business.

Also, is anyone aware of any official word on this topic?

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I’ve noticed this with my pet. If someone has threat and keeps running, the mob will go after the nearest person that’s still in combat.

If my pet has aggro and i make it come to me and start running, the mob will eventually drop all threat on my pet and start going after me.

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ive also noticed this

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Oohhh I can see how this mechanic is a lot more frustrating for pet classes…

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Spawn the dragons, die/run and reset, and then you can pull one dragon at a time.

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This is how it always worked. If you are in combat at the same time as someone else who dies, you end up on the mobs threat table. Training mobs is thing and people do get bans for it if done intentionally to wipe someone.

I think that’s what your questioning at least?

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Welcome to Classic - it was like this in vanilla.

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Yep, just don’t remember it being a thing, but guess it was =)

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For kiting mobs, it makes things easier, actually. If my pet has all threat dumped, i can send her right back in to keep doing damage while i run around.

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Open world threat is messed up. Even being in proximity to a mob in combat with someone else suddenly drags you in to its aggro table.

There are several things that IMO would have improved the leveling of Classic but wont change. To much #Nochange hype.

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I actually got Pm’ed and called a cheater because I had this mob hunter pet whacking me as i rolled around killing other mobs because i couldn’t be assed to kill it as it was just hitting my bubble. Dude tried to pull too much healed himself a bunch to compensate and ended up pulling the pet mob off me and it wrecked him. Reported me, and called me a cheater because i was exploiting to give him my aggro, then he blocked me before i could reply ‘lol’

I specifically remember this stuff in Vanilla in the murloc camp in elwyn leveling up, At least enough to have PTSD. It would always be someone else trying to pull a camp of murlocs while i’m chilling on the outside of the camp taking on solos. The guy would die i’d get his aggro and we’d both die when I did nothing wrong.

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Yesterday I was working on some Badlands quests… flew into Loch Modan with one of the elite dragons you speak of being kited around the town. He was killed although it took a while.

Last night I was finishing the Attack on the Tower quest at Stromguard… after I got the 3rd chest and ran outside to blink away and after I dropped combat the train of ogres that was following me aggroed and killed the 2 horde players who were outside.

I kinda felt bad because they didn’t interfere with me while I drinking and fighting mobs inside the tower while clearing to the top.

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I’ve noticed mobs dropping aggro in dungeons. I’ll round up a massive pull and by the time I get back to my group some have lost aggro. I don’t remember this happening in vanilla.