Guild Wars 2

Is it just me? I was playing earlier and even last night, it seemed that the aggro ranges on enemies are huge. Huge as in, they can spot me from across the field. Today, I was in this scortched out area in the flame legion homeland and my fiance and I had cleared out the area around an event spot. I went ahead of him to get aggro of one ember that was at the top and the entire section agggroed me, there were about 5 embers and the other 6 guys that were down there, plus the names on. I was using my greatsword so I didn’t use any spells or ground things (I’m a warrior) and then there was stuff that had already spawned behind us, no more than 3 seconds after killing it all. we had at least over a dozen things on us. We barely made it out of the place alive, and then we were by the waypoint there and then about 5 devoureres came at us from the edge of the field. Now, We didn’t aggro them, they weren’t there when we backed up. We had been standing there for a good 2 minutes trying to figure out if there was something in the forums and they came from nowhere. this is happening now in the lower level areas too.

I was just wondering, is it just me, or is this happening to more than just me and my fiance? Because, if it’s suppose to be like that, with the hugely linked mobs and aggro ranges, arenanet needs to fix that because that is crazy lol.

I think it varies from zone to zone and mob to mob, but in general I do agree that the aggro radii are rather enormous.

Fortunately, this game has, from my experience, well working and logical line of sight rules, so if you can keep a rock between you and an enemy, you can pass by them within feet undetected. Its come in handy more than once.

Mob aggro ranges are also influenced by the level difference between you and the monsters in question. If you are a lower level character trying to make their way through a much higher level zones, mobs will come after you from much further away than normal. And when I say “lower level character”, I mean relative to the level of the mobs in your area.

They also have a ‘field of vision’, so you can sneak by mobs by running behind them

Edge.4180:

Mob aggro ranges are also influenced by the level difference between you and the monsters in question. If you are a lower level character trying to make their way through a much higher level zones, mobs will come after you from much further away than normal. And when I say “lower level character”, I mean relative to the level of the mobs in your area.

I was wondering if that was just my imagination until now.

Quick Mouse.7635:

They also have a ‘field of vision’, so you can sneak by mobs by running behind them

Stuff like this really makes me love this game.

I would always laugh, when playing WoW, when I’d be in some dungeon, killing a bunch of mobs, and 25’ away, in eye/ear shot, would be other mobs not even noticing what I’m doing in the same room.

Good info in this thread!

Also, I believe many mobs have the ability to call others within a certain range…you’ll even hear them. The skritt yell “many skritts help!” the risen cry “more, come here!” and so on. And more often than not, if there are other mobs nearby they will come running.

It was quite an adjustment for me coming from LOTRO with its “blind mob” aggro range, where you can swat a warg on its hairy fanny before it notices you.

:)