Mobs leashing

[Alestorm-grobbulus]

So, this started with the last patch, there was an horde running away (mounted) from like 4 mobs and he passed me with all the mobs chasing him. I ignored that, after I walked like 30 yards or something and all of a sudden I got killed by 4 mobs that came from nowhere, then I realised it was the mobs that were chasing the horde, I ignored this and kept doing my business.

Later on another place the same thing happened, but this time it was two mobs that came from nowhere, then I saw an ally running away (mounted too) that it seems used the path where I was, this keeps happening today, anyone having the same issue?

[Nfection-rattlegore]

I get aggro from other people’s mobs all the time for no apparent reason. I’ve learned to run when questing in densely populated areas if I see someone else accidentally pull too many. If the other player dies or manages to escape, that pack will almost always run to me next.

[Harmondale-whitemane]

This was NOT how it was in vanilla. Not only are they not fixing the huge, game-breaking bugs; they are actually introducing MORE!!!

[Naofumisama-amanthul]

Ive noticed this as well, ive dies once or twice to this. I have even dotted my mob (tagged as mine) and it went off and attacked some priest that didnt even touch it, like, wth!?

[Blunttrama-whisperwind]

it happened in vanilla. alot.

Use scrolling combat text. or keep and eye on your resting/combat button.

If a bunch of mobs roll by and it says " entered combat"…
run the other way.

[Kramdinh-suramar]

it happened in vanilla. alot.

I don’t remember this way at all. In fact people used to try this to grief us all the time by training mobs onto us, (PVE server, so they had to get creative) but unless you did something to one of the mobs directly they wouldn’t just aggro you.

[Blunttrama-whisperwind]

it happened in vanilla. alot.

I don’t remember this way at all. In fact people used to try this to grief us all the time by training mobs onto us, (PVE server, so they had to get creative) but unless you did something to one of the mobs directly they wouldn’t just aggro you.

or if the mob does something to you .
IE : in range during them using a demo should or AOE ability.
works the other way as well. i can stand next to you . while you fight a mob. if they do a “Screech” or howl. it puts me in combat…

Also the anvilrage guys outside BRD that are elite near pyromancer…
are programed just like the mobs inside. they are Elite. and Aggro anyone in range of them the same way they do inside the dungeon. you can have you a buddy follow you from outside BRD through redridge and into gold shire… no problem. no leash. nothing… ohh and if you pass a lowby. he will aggro them by proximity . with out them doing anything.

give it a shop.

[Kramdinh-suramar]

or if the mob does something to you .

Yeah true. I have been put in combat in Classic for reasons that don’t seem to fit either of those scenarios.

[Ravid-whitemane]

@Blunttrama-whisperwind

Also the anvilrage guys outside BRD that are elite near pyromancer are programed just like the mobs inside. they are Elite. and Aggro anyone in range of them the same way they do inside the dungeon

Then they are programmed incorrectly

@Ravid-whitemane

Exactly, mobs who have evaded shouldn’t attack another player until fully reset back to their original location. They should never attack a player simply because that player is close while engaged with another player, unless that player somehow assists the agroed player or happens to be hit by an aoe ability that mob casts while in combat

obviously the only exception to this is in an instance, where mobs have an agro radius even when engaged

[Goon-yojamba]

As a hunter if my pet has agro on a mob as I’m running with pet on follow, when agro drops off my pet it starts chasing me for ages like it just started chasing again. It shouldn’t even agro onto me when I’m not doing any threat generating abilities and It should not drop agro from pet then keep chasing me for twice the distance that it should.

[Brokenwind-grobbulus]

I suspect that there are some serious out of sync issues with the servers. This issue, the randomly sprinting mobs, the crazy aggro range of some. I think it all boils down to mobs not actually being where their visual is.

[Barbera-pagle]

I’m pretty sure this is due to this attempted bug fix by Blizzard.

Bugfix for Solenor the Slayer and Other Enemies

We’ve implemented a bugfix this week that should now be live in this region. Fixed a bug that caused creatures such as Solenor the Slayer to misbehave when pursuing the player. Groups of creatures that commit to combat as a group will now all continue to pursue whenever any one of them are struck by a player attack or ability. Solenor the Slayer should no longer reset if the player strikes the adds that he summons while he’s rooted, or if the player strikes Solenor himself. And now, if you ag…

Combat, aggro and leashing all seem pretty messed up at the moment. I’m pretty sure mobs that spawn a pet don’t even have an aggro radius of their own and will only attack you if defensively or when their master attacks.

[Velara-gilneas (Velara)]

Weird, shouldn’t happen unless you aggro one or more of the leashed mobs. If you just ride by and don’t aggro them, when they break from attacking the escaping player, the mobs should just run back to their original positions…

[Gythriel-windseeker]

I have seen this, but did not consider that it was or might be a bug
as i just figured that well, other guy got away, and angry mob was walking back and said angry mob saw me, and i was after all a valid target, so mob decided me no get to hit him, now me hit you instead.

It just kind of seemed logical i guess?

[Kramdinh-suramar]

It’s different than vanilla for sure but I think blizzard just can’t get it working right easily so they’re just waiting for us to “get used” to all these bugs over time.

[Azazil-kurinnaxx]

It’s working as intended.

As others said run quit standing there expecting mobs to run by you.

[Gythriel-windseeker]

If not as intended, i would say as should have been.
It is logical, hostile mob walking back, sees you standing there, you are a valid target, so hostile mob pounds you in the head.

Before WOW launched in 2004, i had been playing EverQuest
and it was a normal thing, mobs never gave up until you died, or zoned out (in EQ you did not seemlessly walked between zones)
and anyone in their path when they lost their target was fair game.

[Thequixote-staghelm (Thequixote)]

Had this happen to me. Seems if a mob runs by chasing someone any aggro you generate on anything puts you on the aggro list.

Maybe you’re on the list with 0 aggro, but you’re on the list now and they come for you next.

Would makes sense for that to be the bug. You can be added to aggro list with 0 aggro and they will act on people with 0 aggro.

[Nfection-rattlegore]

As a hunter if my pet has agro on a mob as I’m running with pet on follow, when agro drops off my pet it starts chasing me for ages like it just started chasing again. It shouldn’t even agro onto me when I’m not doing any threat generating abilities and It should not drop agro from pet then keep chasing me for twice the distance that it should.

I’ve also seen it work the other way - I’m running along on my Hunter with my pet on passive and I accidentally body pull a mob. It will sometimes switch to my pet for no reason and chew on him after hitting me a few times.

[Orctank-atiesh]

I was on my troll holy priest yesterday doing the 16 Satyr horns quest in Ashenvale. A gnome mage ran right by me with 4 mobs chasing him and he frost nova’ed right on top of me and ran away. When the nova broke they instantly turned on me and killed me. A few minutes later I saw the gnome doing it to someone else. Thats just playing dirty on purpose.