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There is a hidden animal faction, and getting Ranger gives you -5000 automatically doesn't it?

Running around with Teranus all this time it was interesting to watch non-agro creatures jumping him for no reason, or stuff that should agro the person attacking the lair attacking him instead while he sits there not attacking anything..

Now, ever since -I- picked up ranger, I am getting attacked in the same way... non-agro animals when I am not attacking anything... this is just wrong I tell you...

so tell us the truth.. or if you dont know, please ask the devs (since they love rangers so much) why they taunt us with this animal faction but dont let us see the level its at..

sigh

/sarcasm

I still say that creature to hit bonus applies to THEM hitting US!

Its our innate rescue ability.

I've never noticed this. In fact when i go hunting with friends, it's them that get attacked. I can sit all day shooting creatures, when i'm mask my scent they just go for someone else even though i'm the closest one.

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JBMat wrote:

See, I am not totally insane.

I have been saying this from day one of Ranger. Just having Novice Ranger somewhere in your available titles ensures you are the target of any and all aggro.

I first noticed this the time I was healing, 150m from a target. The group hit the lair, and I got aggro'd. Never shot, never moved, was still maskscented... yet I am the Ranger Lunchable. Was fairly funny.

Since then, my usual hunting partners know that I am gonna be the magnet. They know to stand back from me and let me take the brunt of creature charges.

RANGER spells LUNCH

JB

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Thats exactly how it has been running around with Ter.. I tap the lair and the creatures agro on him.. he even has a special "run away" macro designed around me being able to taunt and rescue him from the biggies so he can go back to ranged .... but I train up novice ranger and BAM... sitting idle doing NOTHING to atract agro and I get it...

At one point last night while helping out a new player to get her "10 kills" for her newbie mission she attacked a non-agro creature and 5 times, -FIVE- times during her assault on the critter it tried to switch agro to ME, 40m away just peacefully watching...

/grumble

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Calculus_Entropy wrote:
/sarcasm

I still say that creature to hit bonus applies to THEM hitting US!

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lol, I can take the hits... its just clear that the devs have it in for rangers.. ;(

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Samtha wrote:
There is a hidden animal faction, and getting Ranger gives you -5000 automatically doesn't it?

Running around with Teranus all this time it was interesting to watch non-agro creatures jumping him for no reason, or stuff that should agro the person attacking the lair attacking him instead while he sits there not attacking anything..

Now, ever since -I- picked up ranger, I am getting attacked in the same way... non-agro animals when I am not attacking anything... this is just wrong I tell you...

so tell us the truth.. or if you dont know, please ask the devs (since they love rangers so much) why they taunt us with this animal faction but dont let us see the level its at..

sigh

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Hehe, I informed Sam last night of the secret Ranger aniaml faction. /whisper and it's a lot more then -5000. I have sat at 60m with my rifle while the TKM(samtha) hits the lair. Things pop out of the lair run past her and straight to me.

I agree with Calc. It's a bonus to hit US.

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Samtha wrote:

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Vorpaks wrote:
Its our innate rescue ability.

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lol... I have /taunt for that

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Ah yes, but that is still a slash command! This is just built into our title! "Thou shalt draw all creatures, no matter what!"

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Vorpaks wrote:

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Samtha wrote:

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Vorpaks wrote:
Its our innate rescue ability.

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lol... I have /taunt for that

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Ah yes, but that is still a slash command! This is just built into our title! "Thou shalt draw all creatures, no matter what!"

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It gets frustrating.. I was sheparding a new player last night.. showing her how to tap lairs, helping her get combat xp.... and when the stuff at her combat level agros me as a TKM I cant even hit /peace fast enough to not kill it in on shot..

heh, I tried a trap on one creature and it killed it too..

Knowing how the devs work, I can just see them with a mistake in the code that calls for a /rescue at all times...

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Vorpaks wrote:

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Samtha wrote:

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Vorpaks wrote:
Its our innate rescue ability.

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lol... I have /taunt for that

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Ah yes, but that is still a slash command! This is just built into our title! "Thou shalt draw all creatures, no matter what!"

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Cohen001 wrote:

It always seems to be the little creatures that auto aggro from any range, from my experiance. I can't walk around any of the newb planets without being accosted by the little critters yet the big stuff dosnt show any interest even when you stand underneath it and flick its love spuds with a wet towel. Only yesterday i tracked a ancient krayt and stood Underneath it while those that asked me to track it arrived. It went for them before they got of there bikes and totaly ignored me, yet the kreetles will coming swarming from 60m away to try and kill me.

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I have seen both small and big.. for me last night it was all the way from blue to red con stuff on tat... recently we had a tea party spawn from a spider lair on endor where they all spawned near me (tapping the lair) and ran 50m over to ter and jumped him...

Twice..

When we hunted the Gorax the first one we attacked headed straight to the master ranger (ter) and our doc and stomped them into the cloner.. and -then- moved on the rest of us...