Guild Wars 2

I’m standing near a mob but not touching it. I’m letting my pet auto attack it. I’m doing zero abilities, no signets activated to help the pet, etc. Suddenly after a few seconds the mob decides to ignore my pet and attack me?

Maybe that’s called smarter AI, ever thought of that?

I have to agree with Tiger but in a less condescending manner. I feel like it makes more sense for the enemy to attack the King instead of the pawn and in turn making it more of a challenge thus making you strategize a bit more.

Well let’s think of some tips for the guy, eh?

One thing that helps me is to focus on making it easy to attack my pet and hard to attack me. You can accomplish this with several methods.

First, apply a slow of some sort, so that chasing you around becomes more work. This is gold on melee enemies; after they are crippled they won’t bother trying anything out of arms reach.

Secondly, keep going in and out of enemy range. Let’s say that they attack every 4 seconds. If you aren’t in range for their next swing, they won’t be targeting you, will they?

Finally, dodge. I can’t prove it, but it seems like missed attacks in general push them towards changing targets.

Lastly, don’t stand on your pet’s feet. Many attacks hit multiple foes in front of them, and standing in the line of fire just adds you to the target list. Strafe to the side or behind and get a clear view of who your enemy plans on hitting.

I also noticed that OP’s post assumes that aggro actually exists in this game. As far as I can tell, aggro does not exist as veteran MMO players understand it. Instead, we have enemy AI.

@spayced And yet, most rangers refer to the bear as the “tank.” Pets are a great mystery to me. Up until a day ago I noticed that my bear would hold (real or imaginary aggro) and I was very rarely attacked or able to pull (alleged aggro) from the bear.

Now the bear is worthless to me as of yesterday…he spends more time chasing mobs around who are in turn chasing me. I don’t know if something was changed or…what…

It’s not a complaint, just an observation.

I never really did play Hunter in WoW – I tinkered with one…but I do agree that a lot of us former WoW players need to change our understanding of certain terminology we have become accustom to over the years playing that game.

We need to be “de-wow’d.”