This Thing You Call Aggro.

[Quark]

Just had an interesting Scholo run right now. The biggest problem with raids is that players, even the best, have bad habits because they can get away with it. Well we shouldn't have gotten away with some of the stuff that happened tonight.

We managed to get a huge chunk of the exploding zombies with the room's mini-boss (our priest was too anxious to pull). I couldn't see where Galreth was, so I said "Alright, I'm tanking Lorekeeper." A Healstone, heal pot, 2 evasions later Lorekeeper actually died before some of the others (they were being kited). Sommli helped out with his own aggro steal and evasion, and the druid in our party did a nice job of covering us.

I really couldn't tell who was attacking what in the chaos, but it just proved that a Rogue can hold aggro if he wants to. Strangely it's not the first time I've tanked in that very room (did it versus Gandling once). So while we can talk about how to do perfect play in this thread, keep in mind that when things go wrong, a style change might be needed. Those who didn't want to get attacked must decide "tank's down, do I sacrifice myself?"

You'll find the supposed sacrifice often doesn't end in death if you do it right, and the rest of the group can handle themselves too :)