You have no idea how many times I've bene headed around a fest zone, trying to speed to the next boss. I'm running away from every fight I can, because I don't like farming enemies and only want to get the drops from bosses. I run into a themed, and, purely out of instinct, run away from it.


I can't even express how many times it's happened. Most were hiddens that I only discovered to be themed after checking my inbox and having gotten the task, but sometimes I've run away from a 1 or, even on one occasion, a 2 vis.

Can there please be some kind of way to prevent players that're going on mental autopilot from accidentally running away from a theme?



Note that this would only be for rare sylestis and enemies. Having an 'are you sure' for each flee would be obnoxious.



It would look like this:

This would be useful. I have come across a couple of themeds with a Themed Attractor on hand, and I don't even recognize the sylesties that I see as themed. Then I waste my attractor. This certainly would be useful, but it might give away a few important surprises...

making coding for themed only would be alot of work pretty sure. I say if you dont want to run away from themed battle everything

I believe this would be useful, as I've done it a few times myself. Considering that we have a 'rare enemy' entry in the zone history, coding an extra popup to coincide with said entry shouldn't be terribly difficult, but it's up to Krin.

I see your point, Kaitt, the problem is that:

I run into enemies every 1-3 squares. A whole run through the fest zone would mean having to fight a HUGE amount of enemies if I don't run away. I'd say around 3 times what I normally fight, since the flee-can't flee rate seems to be about 66%-33%. Plus, enemies still take down health. Not a lot with sylesties, but the human enemies of each zone are fairly strong. This means I'd have to waste my light pet's larger abilities when I want to be saving up stamina for the bosses I'm trying to reach.




And, more importantly: It's a waste of time. The reward for defeating enemies is very small and with my relatively slow internet it takes me at least a minute per enemy. This may not seem like a lot, but let me do the math for you:




Let's say that every enemy encounter I run into is a 1-party, and I don't fight any named. That's at least TWO AND A HALF hours (about 150 encounters x 1 minute per enemy=150 minutes, AKA 2.5 hours).

Now, let's exclude the lag; not everybody has bad internet, and sometimes my WiFi has good days. It takes me about 30 seconds per enemy if there is zero lag or stalling. If I everything else is still the same (no named, fighting every encounter), that's still an hour and fifteen minutes (150 enemies x 30 seconds= 75 minutes).

With me running away from everything, I escape about 2/3 of the time, or 66%. I know from experience this gets me around 50 enemies, including 2 and 3-enemy parties. Plus, I battle the 6 named, which take me 2 and a half minutes each. The enemies end up being about half an hour (25 minutes if you want to be picky), and the named are about 15 minutes. So, running away from everything I can, while still fighting named, gives me about 40 minutes total in the fest.


Why should I have spend, at the bare minimum, in the best theoretical circumstances, an extra half hour just to avoid the risk of missing a single themed? I have better things to do with my time than commit mass genocide.

Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes This MUST exist idk how many times I have done that!