This Thing You Call Aggro.

[Treesh]

Quark's Ramala is an unbelievable rogue.  I've been very lucky with my boys.  Abattoir, Ramala, Sommli (NSD) and Yuen have all been very good to me, (I've been their healer a lot - miss Yuen, sniffles).  Arleas from CA has it down, too. 

Rogues that can manage their aggro are an asset and a half.  I'd take a bunch of them anywhere as long as they work like those guys. 

Imagine my chagrin:  my first dps character is giving me the hives over aggro management.  *shudders*  I feel like I've betrayed them or something.
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Well now I feel like a poor healer. GG and I went on a raid (mostly lurkerish people, but a few pickups to round out the raid group) to hit the baron. Guess who was the only one to die in that raid? Sommli*, and he was my responsibility too. Crazy bugger critted how ever many times in a row and basically ended up tanking the Baron. So since I was healing that nutjob rogue a lot, a wave of skellies came on me, I faded when I saw them coming, and after I saw them turn away, Sommli was dead. :( Ramala was in the other group so I never saw how easy it is to keep that rogue alive. ;) I just need to group with more rogues so I have more practice in healing them. When I play my rogue, I don't pay attention to just how my healer is keeping me alive. Of course, usually it's GG with his druid so I may occasionally get a HoT on me, but he tells me I'm usually pretty easy on his mana. Although, now that I'm using the blade flurry + slice and dice combo more, I'm having a tendency to pull aggro, but I'm careful with when I fire that off now that it's not quite as much of an "ooh look! A new toy!" feel. BTW, absolutely love that slice and dice and blade flurry speed increases stack in some way. I don't know exactly how the two different speed increases interact, but I do know that with both up, I get more speed than with just one or the other. Very much fun for a speed demon dagger rogue. :D


*Wait, did I die once too? I can't remember.