Mob threat detection

As some know I'm always wanting Intrepid to push the envelope. One thing that has always really irked me is mob dumbness...
When I played Secret World many years ago, they did it right. If a mob could see you it was coming after you.
In WOW this was horrid. Especially in the dungeons. Even worse for final boss battles. You all walk in the room and there is the final boss....Just sitting ready to die. I guess he hasn't heard you fighting your way to him/her, especially the mobs right outside the door. So it just sits there while you get all ready and in position...immersion killer for me. Hated it, actually. I do hope Intrepid make better use of mobs than previous mmo's with their detection.
Did this ever bother any of you or did you just accept it and plow through them?

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Caeryl

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grisu wrote: »

The animal kingdom has lot's of examples supporting perceived threat as a survival mechanism. Animals that make themselves bigger, flash colours, change shape or move in certain ways to deter danger away by making themselves more noticeable and or threatening.

Petition to make neon colored armor add to your threat generation (/s)

Or colorful plumes on our backs like Peacocks open up as a taunt.

This sounds like a great idea.

If it happened, I can see DPS not referring to tanks as meat shields any longer. If they have plumage like a peacock, they will just be called cocks!

That one Kesha song plays in the background any time they use their taunt

grisu

@Balrog21 probably wasn't addressed to you then.
I haven't said a single thing against something new. Just that people shouldn't lean on the air thin opinion of "unrealistic and immersion breaking".

I have nothing to say to your post. It doesn't concern me. I play games to have an experience and fun, not psychoanalyse why I didn't get attacked 10 steps earlier by a demon of the ninth hell that refuses help of the other entities in the lair of evil. I go into a raid to slash up evil, preferably with a reason, a story leading up to it and some emotional investment. I'm not there to analyze the accurate representation of it's simulated near lifelike behaviour.

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