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Originally Posted by nilbog
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Fairly certain this was a Kunark-only mechanic. We're still working on and researching it.
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I don't know about classic but it was definitely in during Kunark along with the bard song "song of highsun". It's a song that gates a mob back to its bind-point, and then we used to say "it won't come back as long as it's out of chase-range". Same thing with Call of the Hero, if it gated you far enough mobs would stop chasing.
There's one thing about that though, that I'm not 100 percent sure. I don't believe it was a mem-wipe on mobs, meaning if you came back within chase range some time later, the mobs would still have you on their aggro list and start to bee-line for you again.
As far as the other things the OP said, I would like to point out that very recently, mob speed has been reduced.
was on the march 13th patch:
The live server has been reopened. You will no longer be able to log into your characters unless you are using the correct spells file. Please get the latest EQChanges V4 file from the Getting Started Guide.
Everything in the Beta Patch V0.9 that isn't kunark specific has been patched, as well as the following:
* Haynar: Fix for duplicate items showing on merchants, that share merchant item lists with other merchants in the same zone.
* Haynar: Adjusted NPC walk speed a tad, to go back to approximately the original walk speed, before mobs were made to run faster. They will still run faster and chase down newbies.
* Haynar: Slightly adjusted speed scaling, to make mobs jump a bit less.
* Haynar: Adjusted timer at waypoints, so mobs do not wait as long, if they have a 0 wait set.
So while we remember the mobs running faster than live "when we were newbies" he remembers them as being slower, because they have been slowed down, and I think a bit too much myself, with my ranger and feel like cat buff to have about 150 agi I was outrunning everything without strafing or jumping at all.
cheers!