Game Mechanics: Sneak pulling revisited

[DMN]

Looks like a lot of contemporary testimony contradicts the idea sneak pulling ever being a thing, a least before they made changes to sneak only breaking when you got hit.

There were countless times back in the day where people would say things like:
"Casting a spell will pull less/more adds compared to X"
"aggro pulling will pull less/more adds compared to X"
" throwing/shooting will pull less/more adds compared to X"

Notice the pattern?

(Aggro pulling is just walking into aggro range while visible, sometimes called "face pulling" back then.)


Thing is, I'm pretty sure this all was the result of people not recognizing the level difference of the mobs they had this first "experience" with, yet they would always swear up and down that "that's the way it works". They didn't recognize that just gaining a level or 2 can completely change how man adds you got on a certain pull, or that many mobs have a wide range of levels while conning exactly the same. This lead to a lot of people claiming "myths" as gospel. or sometimes they just repeat the myth they heard someone else say because they wan to seem knowledgeable.

[Keebz]

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

Thing is, I'm pretty sure this all was the result of people not recognizing...

Conjecture, no matter how plausible, isn't useful in this context. Please feel free to provide proof.

[DMN]

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

Conjecture, no matter how plausible, isn't useful in this context. Please feel free to provide proof.

Proof of what? I merely suggested a common misconception in the game that would lead to a lot of people swearing something works, often time contradicting one another yet very sure their experience is true/correct, when in fact it was something else entirely going on.