This Thing You Call Aggro.

[Kevin]

"2-3 warriors are busy..."  Man, except for the couple if times Galreth's gone on runs with me, the very idea of another warrior in the group is completely mind-boggling to me.  There haven't been any other warriors to engage targets... ;)
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I've had another character wearing plate with me, I think 5 times. Skybreak in Scarlet Monestary for one run, Sharanna in Sunken Temple one time, Galreth and another paladin in the Baron raid, and Galreth and Sharanna in BRD. In 2 of those cases I was not MT and it was odd. I will admit I wasn't quite sure what I should be doing some of the time so I assisted on the primary target or intercepted mobs that couldn't be CC'd because all the CC options were in play or it was a type that couldn't have CC on it.

I pretty much never have a rogue or druid with me. I get a warlock here or there 2 hunters now and then, a couple of mages most of the time and the same priest always so far. So in some instances there is only one mob that isn't CC'd. In others the pull is me handling 2 to 4 elites that we have no way to CC. My normal core has become 2 mages a priest and then whatever else happens to be around, which means either a lot of CC or no CC. So this is where my heavy handed no one is expendable and I will chase that mob back comes from. Depending on positioning and what peels there might not be time for them to bring the mob back to me before they are dead or else the healer is getting aggro from healing them, or they put up mana shield and chew up much of their damage dealing ability for later. I know I need a lot of help in the damage department, I'm up to sustaining around 60-70 DPS in fights where I'm one hander and shield now I think, at L59. Of course with two mages we start using a lot of AoE even when all the mobs are elites. If the game had a better way to switch targets this would work out a lot nicer for me too. I usually only fail to keep 2 elites locked against AoE when I miss a target switch or I just miss with swings a lot.

The BRD run with 3 people spec'd to tank was quite different. The CC was the pally and me engaging other targets while the hunter and holy spec priest provided as much DPS as they could to the primary target. I had a lot of fun. Heck a lot of the fun I have is playing with a new group dynamic pretty much every instance I am in, except for sure I have Treesh with me as my healer all the time and I usually have the same two mages but not always. I expect with more Lurkers getting to 60 that I'm going to see even more different groups now.