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FFXIV v1.18 Enmity Testing (Part I)

Aug 06, 2011 21:47

Overview

The v1.18 XIV patch brought about the first sweeping changes that will ultimately decide the game's fate when it is eventually released for the PS3. Among the many things changed in v1.18, the enmity system was completely overhauled along with the introduction of the enmity display icon. Since the start of XIV, I had wanted to test the ( Read more... )

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Typo at the end of Test 4b anonymous August 18 2011, 04:50:13 UTC

At the end of Test 4b, you say, "The non-decay enmity of Silena, Paralyna, and when used by a Lv50 CON is 41." I think that's supposed to be 9, not 41.

Re: Typo at the end of Test 4b kanican August 18 2011, 05:36:55 UTC

Fixed, thanks!

Re: Typo at the end of Test 4b anonymous August 20 2011, 20:43:04 UTC

You probably meant to put 'Poisona' in that statement too. The writing and research flowed so well that most people mentally inserted it I suppose! Excellent research!

anonymous August 18 2011, 21:34:51 UTC

Also, 3 lines from the end of 4b, you say the enmity of purge is 9. I think that is supposed to say the enmity of silena is 9.

anonymous August 18 2011, 21:35:57 UTC

At the end of post 4b, I think it is suppose to say the enmity of silena is 9, not the enmity of purge,

anonymous August 19 2011, 21:38:13 UTC

We've tested enmity with respect to pure aggro and the behavior is similar to XI. You can cure bomb a person that has been aggroed but not on the enmity table without drawing enmity.

kanican August 19 2011, 22:44:28 UTC

Yes we reached the same conclusion. Also, if you think about it, it's actually covered in this conclusions of this post already.

"- Enmity cannot be generated from buffs and cures on mobs that are in "yellow" unclaimed status"

When you aggro a mob, it gives you a flashing red hate, but it's still yellow. Hence, any cure bombing will generate no hate by the "yellow' mob rule.

anonymous August 22 2011, 18:39:00 UTC

What about when you aggro mobs who are grouped together, IE leave mobs.

If you were to attack a group of puks. The one you attack obviously has hate equal to the damage used against it, but what about the others that do turn red and are grouped together? I assume that will be apart of your next testing.

What we've found is the rest of the undamaged mobs have less than the amount of hate than the mob that was attacked, but more than 1. I guess further testing is needed.

kanican August 23 2011, 04:01:55 UTC

Haven't tested against any mobs that "link" (or collectively all turn red when you hit 1 in a group). So I honestly couldn't give you an real meaningful answer at this point. I'm hesitant to rely on any "eye-balling" at this point.