I honestly wasn't sure whether to make this a thread on its own or add it to the threat of problems having to do with the maintenance, because it's been so long since I explored anywhere in Esior's Haven. So I apologize if this should have been posted there.

Anyway, I was exploring in Sweet Blossom Orchard and running from the majority of the enemy encounters. After a while, I started to notice that despite hitting the button to run away, I was still fighting every single battle. Over a period of forty minutes, I did not manage to flee even one battle, despite hitting the run button for problem 85% of them. Now, I now it's chance, but really, that's a little ridiculous.

After completing the tasks, I exited the zone and re-entered to see if it had just been a one-time thing, and then spent another ten minutes moving randomly throughout the zone, this time running away from every single battle. Once again, I ended up battling every single time.

Everything seems fine to me and works for me.

Did you have a low level pet in your party?

Er, yeah, I was leveling up my Aeri. But she went from level 1 to level 30 over the course of the hour. Would it have made that huge of a difference?

Depending on your sylestie's level and the enemies level then that affects the chance you have of been able to flee
So the level difference is good to keep in mind and if you want to level up one low level in a high level place I recommend you also have a high level in your party to allow a good chance of fleeing and still level up the low level well...

I did, though. I had one low level and two at level 60. Which is why I'm confused, because it seems like not being able to flee at all is a bit ridiculous, especially since I've leveled up pets like that before and never had the same issue of not being able to run away.

Oh...
Well I have no clue then >_> Maybe you just have bad luck? Or there is a small glitch....

It takes into consideration your lowest level pet, not the average. The thought is... your party can only go as fast as the weakest member. So if you have a low level pet, it will slow down the entire party.

To the point where over a course of fifty minutes I don't successfully run away from a single battle? I suppose it makes sense, though I don't remember having similar issues before. But thanks, Krin!

There's probably a threshold (and I'm pretty sure there is) of where the chance of running away becomes 0 or 100% (depending on the level difference).

So if one of the pets is really low level, you will have a 0% chance to run away. At least, with how it's currently calculated.

Okay. That makes sense. Good to know. Just, question, though? Is it the same for all the zones, or just some? Because during the last fest I leveled up a pet in the fest zone and was still able to run away from battles when he was a low level, which is why I was confused this time.

... Although I suppose with the level scaling in the fest zones, it might be different even if they didn't scale down because of the two level 60 pets.