Supposedly, there are no "kill 10 ___" quests. So this is moot.

But also easy to deal with. If the mob leaves the current "leash" area, spawn another one. Without leashing, the other one isn't coming back anyway.

could not care less, oh lord there is no way you could make me care less

Immersion this, immersion that. My immersion suffers, my immersion is being hurt, immersion killed my dog

Only a fool thinks there will be no "Kill 10 ___" quests. All quests in games breakdown into kill, fetch, escort, and courier. Single player ES is no different.

I am not sure what type of quests there will be, but I made a statement based on my previous mmo experiences - sometimes things aren't where they are supposed to be. As for your second statement, the devs could do it your way or they could simply fix the tethering on the mob/npc in question.

The concept of immersion in MMO's is one of the slipperiest slopes in any game genre.

Look, 10 Angry Badgers milling around the same spot of land in perpetuity, if I kill one or all of them they magically reappear out of thin air and resume milling around the same spot of land to no particular end. What do they eat? What do they drink? I see no Angry Badger poop.

What if enemy players kill all your quest mobs? What will you do then

I now feel more immersed in the forums....

Skyrim did leashing perfectly. You would run away and after you got a realistic distance on the NPC or entered stealth. The problem of griefing can be solved by either preventing monsters from entering capitals, having strong enough guards, or placing a short leash on boss and tougher monsters. The last option is preferable, as a pack of wolves wouldn't exactly destroy an entire faction capital.

OP has a point, playing WoW I would just run past most enemies and they would leash. I would actively avoid combat because it became a nuisance, mostly because the combat in WoW is garbage and it takes 10 seconds of button mashing and auto attacking to kill anything, but leashing only increased my apathy towards the game.

It's less about total immersion than it is about keeping people in a mood where they want to keep playing. That'll all hinge on whether the combat is a fun and varied action filled affair like in the main TES games or whether it tries to usurp WoW's throne of repetitive auto-attack nonsense.

So you quit WoW because of combat but decided to throw leashing in the post?

I can not, for the life of me, think why someone would quit because of leashing.

Nothing, because you still get credit if you hit them

Have a much easier time completing my quest?

And once again we see the same arguments that greifing other players is 'fun' therefore it's okay.

It's not. If I go to an area expecting to find one type of creature, I don't want to find some idiot has trained a load of other creatures into the area. Thats just annoying and more often than not frustrating. The only person this is ever fun for is the greifer.

If I were a low level player and someone kited a world boss into the starting area, I'd be thinking about cancelling my subscription.

Like ganking, the only person having fun is the person doing it.

I usually find it pretty funny even when I'm not doing it/ happens to me

Yes, but what about the other nine players that didn't find it funny?

Who said it was okay to grief?

You don't want my opinion on that

learn how to kite in cirkels and not just in a streight line