Soloing Siren's Grotto Mechanics

[kingpinner]

So, I've been soloing mermaids in SG the past day going for my neriad shawl. Although an incredibly tough zone, I've been able to make things work by taking advantage of the in/out of water aggro mechanics.

A few times though, it seems those mechanics just went out the window and I got insta-killed lol. Twice this evening, I was out of the water on the ledge and had my mermaids fighting down below. One time, my pet broke and I was double backstabbed on the ledge out of water... instadeath. I assume I must of been too close to the water or something, but the pet literally warped to me to kill me.

A second time, I had 2 fighting and a mistress pather came thru the wall and added into the fight. I broke my pet manually to let them all reset and expected them to lose aggro on me like they do every other fight when I'm out of water. Instead, I was summoned and quadded by my VoGed pet and the 2 merbs.

I'm mostly curious how the aggro mechanic works exactly and why in those two situations did I get aggro even though out of water. 95% of the fights, when i break pet, it just goes un aggro and paths back. Those times though, it said fuck it.

Was I just unfortunate or is there a part of that mechanic I'm missing?

Thanks for the help.