Some Crazy Aggro Ideas

[Kevin]

Well, if I've read you correctly, should a hunter doing a pull do so with the biggest DPS build and aimed shot with as much instant hitting he can muster, then FD right after the tank taunts? (If the mob is not immune that is).
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Actually was refering to the cases later in a fight where you have the warrior at say 1000 threat, and a hunter/rogue at 1050 threat, a mage at 1015 threat, and a priest at 1080 threat.

The mob is still beating on the warrior because of the 10% barrier. The hunter/rogue gets a big crit and jumps to 1120 and pulls aggro then feigns or vanishes as the case may be. The mob will not go back to the warrior in that case it will go eat the priest and then the mage if taunt is resisted or it is taunt immune or the warrior can't get up to 1188 threat real fast to get in front of the priest again. That was interesting to see tested and conforms with things I've seen in the past as well.



The frontloading aggro by another class to transfer it to the warrior via taunt does have some interesting uses but as mentioned may cause issue if taunt is resisted or if FD is resisted and the warrior can't make up the 10% (which shouldn't be a problem even with a crit aimed shot for 3K damage) as that is only 300 threat more the warrior needs if the tuant hits and sunder for a defiance warrior is 260 * 1.45= 377 so the hunter can do 3769 damage and a single sunder after a tuant will get it back. But it still could have some good uses. It won't matter much in MC because in MC you sill have to be generating threat faster than the DPS to keep hold anyway.