Funny PvP happened on a PvE server?
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I think it was that fourth exclamation point that really sold it for me.
WrongâŠit did not. I get this all the time as a hunter from my pet and it NEVER happened in vanilla. EVER. You need to engage the mob in some way for it to aggro you. I can literally be standing afk and mobs will attack me if the leash from another player in my general area.
Stop making stuff up.
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Lol I do this to people who try ninja my quest Item or ore That I cleared the mobs to get to and they think they are going to run in and grab it I will try get agro on them hope it was worth it lol
No its not. Please tell me where you received your information from?
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I dont really see anything wrong with this myself.
Itâs a dangerous world, if you are sitting there and hostile mob comes by
and loses itâs target, well it has some anger it needs to burn off.
Iâve got mob rushed by someone elses train quite a few times.
Before WOW launched in 2004 i was playing EverQuest, and hostile mobs would smack anybody, if there target died and there was a train of 20 mobs, you did not want to still be standing there.
And they did not leash, they would follow you all over an entire zone, the only escape was kill, die, or zone out.
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not making stuff up. many mobs do an AOE demo shout or call of fear. or boost⊠if you are in aggro range when that happens. you get pulled into combat.
Aggro problems happen all the time in situations where none of your examples apply. Actively muddying the waters and claiming this is how it worked in Vanilla is making stuff up.
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Too bad I only used three. 
They completely bugged aggro. Donât let people lie to you.
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#onlybadchanges
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yeah, i had this happen.
I know.
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Always been that way, I do it on purpose as a Rogue. I round up as many mobs I can and run them to you and vanish.
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Iâve experienced this phenomenon since launch, so itâs not something that happened after a later patch.
Can anyone explain to me why this is such a terrible thing?
I was talking with someone in game about it, and they could not explain why it was bad, they said it just was.
Now here is my thinking on it.
Small band of Orcs is doing recon into Ashenvale.
Suddenly crashing through the trees comes a Nightelf, who totally ignores the Orcs, because he is being chased by 4 Rabies infected Grizzly bears.
The nelf shimmies up a tree 10 feet away from the Orcs.
Would those 4 bears say, oh darn, and go home?
No, they are going to take it out on the next closest thing.
Swap the word Orcs for hikers and Night Elf for jogger if it makes it easier to visualize.
Seems totally plausible to me, doesnt make me feel angry that the game screwed me or something.
I had it happen a lot lastnight in stormgarde keep, it was crazy, made for some tense but fun moments
This happened a lot in vanilla. It was called training (like a choo choo train of mobs) and was written about in one of the guides if I remember correctly.
Not sure if itâs more or less now but seems to happen more often with humanoids or basically any mob that have AOE abilities.
This happened to me on my baby mage yesterday. I was AoE grinding worgen in Duskwood when another mage had trouble with their mobs and ran to reset them. As soon as they leashed off the other mage they came charging back toward me when I had been nowhere near them and hadnât touched them.
My experience has been that as long as I do absolutely nothing while the mobs are going past, they leash and skip right on past me. However, if I do ANYTHING, toss a buff on myself, even make bandages, then my action seems to add me to their combat/threat table.
(No clue if it was like this in vanilla. I played most on a lower population RP realm, so the volume of people running from mobs and them leashing was much much smaller.)
Personally, and some/many would probably disagree, i would have no mobs leashed except perhaps special cases.
They would pursue target until target either dies, or escapes out of aggro range, at which point it will attempt to walk back to origin, and if it is an open hostile mob (RED), anyone is passes in the process is fair game.
If mob is out of its origin for X amount of time and is not in combat, then it will despawn and repop back at home, that way the zones are not forever strangely populated.
Yes, you might find BaghÄ«rÄ temporarily wandering far from home in elwynn Forest, or Bhagâthera as he is reincarnated here
No worries, some brave soul will go slay him.