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Old 08-13-2014, 10:43 AM
Daldaen Daldaen is offline
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Originally Posted by zanderklocke [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
The one way I've seen swarming sort of work is if you charm a mob and send it into one mob in a train. It'll pull one mob out of the train and start attacking it; the mob will leave the train as long as you don't have too much aggro on it from a snare or another high aggro song. If you run the train back over that mob you charmed, all the mobs on the same faction as the mob you sent your charmed pet after will then attack your charmed mob.

I'm guessing this isn't how it worked in classic?
This may be a factor of the "3 second delay" mobs have on aggro. So when a freshly spawned mob enters the world, there is a small delay where it will not aggro anyone. This is noticeable when you turn in your pearl to Ragefire and he goes KoS.

Possibly the mobs consider a charmed mob, freshly spawned? And they won't proxy aggro it for 3 seconds. Or it's something else entirely.

But yea, it didn't require a second loop around during classic. It would immediately swap over to your mob the second your pet hit any social mob in your pack.