This Thing You Call Aggro.

[vor_lord]

Sure it does, unless it's not tied to the primary mob in any way, and even then if the mage is within the secondary mob's aggro radius he sure does know about him.

But is he on the hate list at all, or just the aggro radius, meaning if no one else is left he will be attacked?

We need to do some follow up here. I was always under the same impression as Treesh. If you haven't hit the mob, or healed it's target (or perhaps healed anyone on its hate list), you basically didn't exist. You'd end up being targeted if all those on the hate list died and you're within aggro radius, but otherwise ignored.

Here's a test: two people needed. One person aggroes the mob. Second person steps within aggro radius, then backs out of aggro radius (but not so far as to invoke the evade mode return of the mob if you're not in an instance).

First person dies. Does the mob go after the second? If it does, just being in the proximity of the monster (not first) is sufficient to put you on the hate list, like you said.

Interesting question.

Seen it happen...

Regardless of the result of the test above, I'd have to see this demonstrated. I've not seen this happen, and our group should have if anyone does as we are a pretty heavy focus fire group, generally not caring too much about peels of the focus fire target as we bring them down quickly rather than recover them onto the tank, at least in what we view as non-dangerous pulls.

In all this time, I have never seen (by that I mean it could've happened and I just didn't notice) a secondary mob go after a DPS char when they are damaging a different target.

I'd love to know for sure.

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