Being attacked every time i AFK so i tested out a theory

[Quest815]

Every time i afk or begin to med i can hear my character getting hit, from the other room or while alt tabbed. This is strange i thought. So i tested out a theory.

A lvl 20 wizard and myself were hunting scarecrows in WK last night / early morning and she showed me a safe area (a farm house, the one with Henina Miller to be more specific) free from the pathing bears and mobs in the area that was ok to med in. This proved to be useful as in the 2 hours or so we were there we could kill a scarecrow and go back to the farm house to meditate with no problems.

Now, today. I go back to this same area that we were in last night for the 2 hours, that i was told was safe (and in fact was). As soon as i afk / begin to med a bear starts to attack me.

Usually the mob is lvl 7-8 and green even though i am currently at lvl 17, but it never fails on this green server that wherever i am meditating or AFK i am attacked from out of nowhere immediately.

So, in addition to not being able to camp out to character select (issue still unresolved). I am also unable to AFK and step away from the keyboard.

[Tunabros]

mobs attack people who are sitting down regardless of level

you new to this game, buddy?

[Quest815]

mobs attack people who are sitting down regardless of level

you new to this game, buddy?

you.. might want to read my post again :(

[Quest815]

I think maybe because im lvl 19 now, the bears etc that path through Henina's farm house are no longer attacking. But its weird, like i said. When she showed me the camp and said it was a safe spot it looked normal. The next day the bears pathing through the farm house dont look normal as they go through the wall, get stuck etc.

Inb4 should have picked the DE master race for AFK hide / medding :D

[Quest815]

I think maybe because im lvl 19 now, the bears etc that path through Henina's farm house are no longer attacking.

:p got attacked in Qhills by a lvl 3-8 bear while medding today so that throws that theory out of the window about them not hitting me anymore at lvl 19. Unless the higher lvl bears that path through the wall of the farm house like me now.

So it seems inconsistent, some bears walk by as i med and do nothing, others attack. And the pathing also seems to have changed from one day to the next.

Almost makes me want to lvl Blacksmithing as a Wizard, just because i can make so many paddings. JK.. im not going to lvl blacksmithing.

Anyone WTB skins ?

[Quest815]

I tell you, every bear in the game finds me as soon as i med :p

[Pootytangx]

Try crocs in Oasis then afk med in pillar 1 in the water. You could always cast invis on yourself before you afk med but the low level is prone to randomly fading

[Tunabros]

drugs

[Quest815]

drugs

yeah.. so ?

[Quest815]

yeah thats some crazy stuff man, weird pathing changing day to day and mobs getting stuck in farm houses that they never even pathed through before.

[area]

:p got attacked in Qhills by a lvl 3-8 bear while medding today so that throws that theory out of the window about them not hitting me anymore at lvl 19.

Any character that sits will appear as a level 1 to any NPC wandering by. This includes sitting to meditate. This means that at level 19 if you are standing and a KOS mob wanders by "20 feet away" it may not attack you (because it takes your level into account). But as soon as you sit, that same bear will make a bee-line to you from the same "20 feet away" and attack you. It sees you as level 1.

You can test this with a level 60 vs a level 19 against KOS mobs. The mobs will have a smaller aggro radius to the level 60 player than the level 19 player (meaning a mob will come attack you from further away at level 19 than they will at 60). But the aggro radius when sitting will be exactly the same for the 60 player and 19 player.

This is not a mistake or bug. Unless you have in era evidence that shows otherwise.

[Quest815]

For those saying it was sit aggro. Where does the mob come from ? Pathing has been mapped out at the same camp for hours the day before.

[Tunabros]

Everyone here thinks you are on drugs

stop wasting nilbog's time

[bomaroast]

Clearly the devs are fucking with you. Better do more drugs about it.

[Quest815]

Clearly the devs are fucking with you. Better do more drugs about it.

lmao. Ive seen alot of posts on here about scripts, devs (and other people) "fucking" with people.

I have not accused any GM or dev or any player who may know my location of "fucking" with me, not once on this forum.

The only thing i said is that we mapped out the pathing a day in advance and we were in a farm house with a quest NPC where no mobs pathed.

[Gustoo]

Is this a real thread?

Your pathing map is wrong. The pathing isn't that consistent in those hills.

If you go way up on a hill at the edge of the zone you are less likely to get a roamer to walk past you.

[Quest815]

Is this a real thread?



I like how everyone seems to like my threads so much (considering that this forum is a treasure trove of quality threads / posts). More like abuses which should be reported to the authorities. I guess, in time, the quality of my postings will get better to be on par with your level of real threads.



Your pathing map is wrong. The pathing isn't that consistent in those hills.

If you go way up on a hill at the edge of the zone you are less likely to get a roamer to walk past you.

If you took the time to read the thread (i completely understand if you did not) Im also taking about an instance in the Karanas by the scarecrow farm. and a farm house that had mobs morphing through the house and getting stuck. That did not path through there the day before.