This Thing You Call Aggro.

[Hillary]

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.
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Let me rephrase: When Sommli WANTS to manage his aggro, he can. :D But alas, at times he plays uber dorf and tanks. It doesn't help that the weapons he's wielding improve his crit strike percentage and do ridiculous damage. Rogue lands too many crits in a row and can't evade afterwards? Yeah. Nothing you can do to help them but shield, renew, and flash before moving on. Though I love rogues to pieces, they're my most expendable class. If the above brew o' healing doesn't keep them alive, not much any healer can do for them. Too much time on them means you're ignoring the MT, and that's just a no no.

I don't remember where we were - may have been LBRS - but Quark (who, as I said, is a great aggro manager) got a crit hit in, maybe 2, drawing aggro. He immediately went on evade. Even though it's a 70 percent chance of evasion, he got hit EVERY time. I can't quite recall if he died, but if he did, there wasn't anything anyone could do. Sometimes it just boils down to bad luck over poor aggro management.