Guild Wars 2

Is it just me or does anyone else experience this problem?

Every time I do dungeons it seems like the monsters will easily switch targets onto me. Is it because I’m a necro or some glitch? Because I keep having the same problem. No matter what boss we’re fighting, the boss immediately targets me and I have to kite while my allies do the main attacking. Or is it because I have the lowest health?? What is it, I’m totally clueless as to why I always seem to direct the aggro.

Oh, and say I leave the area because I died… as soon as I come back into the room the aggro goes back to me, so wtf?

Is it happening when you use Death Shroud? I’ve noticed when I go death shroud and use skill 1 or 4, I get a ton of mob hate.

Also, bear in mind, you’ll probably get high aggro as a conditionmancer, mobs seem to attract to players doing high condition damage for reasons unknown.

There’s a looong list of threads about agro mechanics in this game, go read some if you want and get a little better understanding of how agro works (although most of it is still just speculation at this point). The agro in this game has a mind of it’s own sometimes, but that being said it does have professions it prefers over others within certain situations and necro is one of them.

Some mentioned conditions, ect that’s a big one, but also , if you’re initiating the first few hits each fight then you generally will have a lot more agro problems. If you want more details and info about it than that, you’ll have to go read the agro threads, there’s just too much to put here.

No, what I’m doing is being targeted down w/o even attacking.

Take TA for example. The first boss… the worm. Say I die and tp back. AS SOON AS I ENTER THE ROOM AGAIN the worms auto-aggro onto me REGARDLESS of me even attacking. Take note that this happened on multiple pug groups so either the dungeon was glitched or it had to do w/ me playing a specific type of necro… I was running conditions and wells.

Anyone else have any ideas on this? Thanks.

I’m join everyday some dungeons runs … (d/f)
Mostly i hold the aggro of bosses or “healthy” mobs … when I’m in trouble/ getting low -> going DS and get some distance to the boss to heal …. my def and vit is not that bad … so i enjoy this way of aggro swapping

Now, I didn’t say I didn’t mind taking the aggro… a lot of times it helps my group since they all-out melee the mobs so that’s a GOOD thing.

The problem lies in the fact that I don’t have to do anything to aggro the mobs. All I do is enter the room. WTF?! Sometimes it’s not a good thing; especially if you have broken armor. It would be a-okay to have the mobs aggro onto you when you attack them w/ massive condition dmg, but as soon as I enter the room I get all the aggro??

Some bosses like the toughest char in the room, some like the glass cannons. Are your stats noticeably different from your mates?

From what I can tell there are a few things that cause aggro. As Nay said above, aggro is a bit of a mystery, but there are a few things that cause increased aggro, both initially and in general.

• Mobs are attracted to players with lower health pool or high condition damage (unsure, but it may be as simple as having a high condition damage stat, not actually doing the damage). Particularly low health and high toughness seems so be a strong set up to “tank” when combined with damage abilities, hence Guardians being the closest to tanks in the game.

• Mobs tend to lock onto the first player in range or the first to attack them

• Guardians have an innate increase in aggro generation, I believe it was 25%

• Stealthing drops aggro completely, but leaving stealth and attacking can regain the aggro. Leaving stealth and not attacking doesn’t seem to regain the aggro.

• Death Shroud (Necro skill) – Deathshroud skills seem to generate a large amount of aggro. I have no idea way, except maybe skill 4, being high AOE and life drain on the mobs.

From personal experience, stats matter on alot of aggro tables, especially toughness and armor.
Ask people in your group about their values and try to lower the one you have above everyone else.

Also, that nightmare vine tends to attack ranged targets more often than melee ones.

Same here everything always attacks necro! Its a bug 100% perhaps certain skills trigger it or something, tell me are you a minionmacer? For example in about 20 times I was killing Lupi he always and I mean ALWAYS, each and every time targeted me without switching to anyone trough phases 2 and 3.

Catcrafter.3917:

Same here everything always attacks necro! Its a bug 100% perhaps certain skills trigger it or something, tell me are you a minionmacer? For example in about 20 times I was killing Lupi he always and I mean ALWAYS, each and every time targeted me without switching to anyone trough phases 2 and 3.

No, I run a wellomancer build, but it’s like a glass cannon. My three main stats are: power, condition damage, magic find.

I had the same prob w/ Lupi. Today he kept chasing after me and killing me asap so I would have to kite him while my allies attacked. It was good that he wasn’t attacking anyone else, but it can be annoying sometime… especially when you’re low on health and DS is on cooldown.

ThCakeIsALie.5306:

No, I run a wellomancer build, but it’s like a glass cannon. My three main stats are: power, condition damage, magic find.

Thats prob your main problem right there, glass cannons have a big problem with snatching agro, and add the fact you’re plopping wells everywhere for aoe, you’re gonna send your agro through the roof. It’s just the mechanics of the game, not trying to sound like an kitten but get used to how it works and rethink your tactics based on that if you wanna keep that build.