Originally posted by Cemetary Crow:

Just got to black forest, having fun, and then aggro a troll that just wanders by when I'm fighting skeletons and he just follows me forever. Turn around and try to fight him and get instantly smashed. Seems very cheap and I turned the game off immediately. What kind of game design is that? Why do the trolls just aggro you forever and never stop following you?

To clarify further, I turned and ran completely out of the black forest and even used the Eikthyr power for high stamina regen and ran for awhile. Troll STILL followed me until I got annoyed and turned around to try and face him.

Mobs will only follow you "endlessly" if you don't manage to put enough distance between you and them... MOST mobs are much slower than player run speed and easy to escape from UNLESS...

1) the player has neglected to maintain HP / Stam bonuses (HP / Stamina "pool") which is gained by eating the best 3 foods possible at the time, (and refreshing those bonuses by eating more when they are about to expire) and allowing their HP / stamina "pool" to drop back down to default 25 points, or LOWER if player took any damage.

2) player allowed the rested buff (increased stamina / hp regen rates) to expire or player has become wet from either jumping in water or by rainy conditions, all of which, stops the regen bonus rates.

3) player spams sprint and/or jump continuously preventing regen to catch up EVEN with Eikthyr buff, constant running, jumping will drain stamina faster than it can regen especially if the "pool" is at the default 25 points or lower.

Sorry but it isn't poor game design, as it is quite easy to escape from trolls (IF you manage your movements properly), and very much a case of bad play on your part.

Judging by your comments on other threads, it's VERY obvious you don't think too highly of the game whatsoever, so I don't expect that any answer in this thread is going to change your opinion of it, but the fact remains that you didn't manage your stamina correctly. otherwise you would have succeeded in escaping and gotten far enough away that the troll would have broke off it's attack.