Game Mechanics: Social / Charmed Pet Aggro

[Jete]

Currently there is an issue with both Social aggro and charmed pet aggro. What is happening is the charmed pet is somehow transferring much more aggro to its master than it should. As far as the social aggro goes, mobs for some reason do not assist each other when a charmed pet attacks one of their "friends."

This link leads to a video in the PoP era. Unfortunately, I was unable to find any videos older than this. This was a popular charm kiting spot during that time. At 55 seconds in you can see the bard casting charm, and its effects afterwards.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFuupjUBB3E

This video proves both bugs. First, once his pet broke, all aggro was on him ( he only had body pull aggro at that time ) however, once he recharmed a different pet and had it attack, all surrounding mobs switched to it. Proving that he didn't have more aggro than his charmed pet AND that same faction mobs do assist each other when one is being attacked.

In an excerpt taken from Reinnhard's Bard Kite Guide, found here on EQ Divas- (around 2003)

http://web.archive.org/web/200503142...27&ForumID=132

"In Swarm Kiting, the bard will attempt to pull as many mobs as possible into the pattern. There he will ‘charm’ one mob and make it his servant, send it to attack the other mobs in the pattern, assist where necessary, evaluate the relative health of his pet, reapply charm if needed and re-send to attack, and finally Chant Kite the former pet to death, thanking the other mobs following for doing all the brute work. Today's Swarm Kiting allows for any number of mobs to be engaged and eventually destroyed"

Again this is just a secondary source stating the same thing.

Here is a video of what is going on currently, I apologize that the video is so dark, as I am in training now and have to use a laptop with terrible graphic settings. Even with it being dark you are able to see "A Hill Giant" and "Broog Bloodbeard" go at it. I use the Hill giant as my pet. I allow them to fight for about 50 seconds or so to let my pet get massive amounts of aggro. ( with taunt on )

When charm breaks I recharm the Hill Giant, and although I never once hit or casted on Broog, my pet was unable to taunt him off me, even after 7-11 hits and 9 taunts.

Link - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5HLlJnxMsY (im re uploading this.. as I forgot to make it HD. Sorry.)

I am still editing an example of a swarm charm kite as of right now, so I will put that in this post tomorrow.

Street Cred-
A huge thanks to all the bards that came together for this bug report, there were so many of you that I am too lazy to list the names, and Shivis, who let me use him to see if the aggro bug also bugged pet classes. ( Which by the way, we found it doesn't. )

One last edit-
I say a lot of silly things in the video, and practically everything I say is in a joking matter, so don't take any of it serious.. I was just really bored.