Have lower level mobs (-4) ignore you

Last I saw this was in CoH, but the idea was a good one. If you take your level 20 back to Ascalon it would be nice if the level 4 baddies didn't aggro you. They would of course aggro any other chars that pass into their aggro bubble. Just makes life a bit less annoying if you go back to lowbie land.

I'm thinking somewhere around 4 levels greater in difference would still make sense as you get minimal exp at that point. I'm not suggesting they run away, but instead they react like the pre-searing mobs do.

Sure running would be made easy for getting folks from Ascalon to the shiver peaks since anyone could do it... but is that so bad? Running to Droknars would still require a competent runner as the mobs are definitly within your chars level range.


Just a thought to toss out for discussion.

Sorta like in pre-searing? I think the idea behind that was to baby newbies in their conquests. I'd like to say that I've seen many runners get owned on the way from Piken to Grendich because of hexes/energy burn.

Yeah I hate it when devouer are nibbling at my lv 20 ankles doing -0 damage cause its annoying as all else. I mean, I get NOTHING from killing them off. It should be only lv6-8 attacking lv20 characters... I enjoyed walking around through the pre-searing areas with my lv 8 warrior and only being attacked by lv2-3 bears and wolves cause everything else ran in fear

I agree. It's not the first thing they should change though, there are more important things on ANet's mind

I guess I'm willing to give up that "fun" of watching those guys get owned.

There has to be a challenge in the running, i guess. thats...about it?

well a good runner won't get owned between grendich and piken if they stop and fight off a few.

Thats the one thing that really annoys me about running to yaks is all the imagined burdens and conjure phanatasms. Its like as soon as you get them off you they're right back on.

Yeah... but they are just casting that on you for the most part so swat them down with that mighty sword and take off running again. Its just as hard running from Beacon to Lion's Arch... these Mergoyals can slow you right to a crawl.

This doesn't make any sense. Why would monsters suddenly ignore someone? How can they tell your strength just by looking at you? THEY'RE MONSTERS - THEY WANT TO KILL YOU.

I just don't see a Mergoyle/Grawl/Charr saying "So Bob, that Warrior has that 15k armor, we probably shouldn't mess with him... but that guy looks like he just got out of the searing!"

same reason lower lv pre-searing monsters are not hostile... or is it they are afraid of Gwen...

CoH is a game completely dominated by level. Anything moderately below your level is meaningless, anything above it destroys you.

They've said they didn't want level differences to be as important in this game.

A change to this would be bad.