Animals should attack players with higher stats

[donatas081294]

What do you think about this?
Like for example if a weaker player is attacked by a stronger player and they are fleeing animals near by like boars and other hostile animals would attack the stronger player instead of the weaker one.

[Nightdawg]

... some people literally aggro foxes or deer to fuel their bloodlust when chasing someone. And they used to aggro other animals when the game had that bullshit 50k stats crap world aka World 10.

If you run into a bear or a pack of wolves when being chased, it's your fault and you should get punished for it, the same way you get punished when you run into a huge ass cliff or get stuck somewhere.

"If I swim in the middle of the ocean while being chased by a player with higher stats, it should be them that take the drowning damage, not me."
See how stupid that sounds?

Just pick speedbuffs and keep drinking, you literally can't be caught unless YOU screw something up.

[VDZ]

To add to Nightdawg's objections, this is just asking for people to spawn naked alts to aggro animals to then transfer the aggro to griefing targets. (In old MMOs this was a genuine griefing tactic called 'dropping': Aggro monsters and run into a portal to teleport elsewhere, and all of the monsters immediately attack anyone near the portal instead.)

[Sevenless]

I think a solution to this issue (weak+strong player, weak player gets attacked when he doesn't want to tank) could be a simple taunt ability so that players can encourage and/or force NPCs (CHARISMA USE ANYONE?!?!?! EH? EHHHHHHH?) to attack them as opposed to someone else. I can think of many desperate fights in mines/dungeons where it's a race to DPS before the target player gets KOed since we lack meaningful tank taunting options.

I don't know that it's the end of the world for pvp to change this. Other than being able to steal people's bloodlust foxes XD

[Nightdawg]

Animals/Mobs/NPCs prioritise the one who has their hitbox closest to their own.

In pvp, we'd taunt animals off eachother non-stop to fuel our bloodlust, if we were able to.

In mines/dungeons, you can just get in front as close as possible and they should switch to you.


I don't think taunting would fit too well in hnh with the current combat system. When a miner gets ambushed by 50 slimes, the problem isn't "not having a nearby fighter be able to taunt" as much as it is "why the fuck do 50 slimes spawn on the miner" in the first place.