Game Mechanics: Sit-agro mismanagement

[bartly]

Wow so now I will get faction hits for medding near a guard when someone else is killing it in town?

[Nightblade]

Sitting agro, while patched, is by not means 'fixed'.

I was in an Efreeti group last night with a bard, cleric, and warrior. An enchanter was charming the protector imps outside while we hosed the camp.

Every time charm broke in EITHER case, from EITHER class, if ANYONE was sitting, the mob immediately beelined for them, bounced to whoever else was sitting, and returned to the bard/enchanter who initially charmed them. Sitting is either generating so much on the hate list that it's overriding everything but warrior taunt (or several), or charm has suddenly been given a mem-wipe component. We nearly wiped on multiple occasions because the cleric was simply afraid to take a seat to get mana back during some of the fights if we ended up getting more than one mob.

[Vega]

Originally Posted by Nightblade [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

or charm has suddenly been given a mem-wipe component

I think it's some of the latter here actually (although not ruling out sit aggro still being off). If charm breaks, a single stun or snare will cause the mobs to change targets to the caster. I played with my brother's chanter a lot on live, and if a mob broke charm, it had A LOT of hate, much more than it seems to take here to peel them off.