A “Call for Help” Difficulty Option

[Haijinx]

On 1/5/2020 at 1:55 PM, gameboy1234 said:

This is copied straight from the original Everquest:

 

"Runners" in EQ used to fetch help.  You could develop huge trains this way.  In EQ it was crucial to stop runners before they got to a second group because they'd cascade: now with more mobs it's even harder to catch the low hp runners, who fan out and bring more, who then cascade onto you.

 

So I'd add that mechanic: runners who take off at low HP have a small pbaoe "taunt" that transfers their hate-list to any mobs they run past.  Such new mobs will then proceed to attack (and move towards) the players they now hate.

 

To prevent this from being completely off the hook, when a runner gets enough friends ("enough" being left to AI programmers and balance) it stops being afraid and also returns to fight the players.

 

Nice.   

 

Yeah maybe limit it to Lts or Bosses and make it a percentage chance.  

 

If possible, this would be both cool and immersive.