This Thing You Call Aggro.

[Kevin]

Once again I don't really think our views or tactics are really that different. I think I just interpret you wrong all the time. :)

I'm a bit touchy with all my communication lately anyway.


Some general things.

I do let rogues play their stun games then take the mob back, that's assume the thing isn't immune to stuns from revenges already.

I have a tendency to save concussion blow against weak hitting mobs so that I don't have to run far against peelers. I will be delighted with the change in 1.5 that makes it instant. Of course against hard hitters concussion blow is part of my damage mitigation strat and may or may not be there when the mob peels. I will also at times chase a peel, stun it and then leave it since the 2-5 sec (depends on how much it has been stunned recently) of time can often be enough to make that mob irrelevant.

I said I take it off of paladins and warriors too, and that is true, but it depends on the mob and the healers mana bar. Most warriors I've been with are arms/fury and take more damage than I do. Pretty much all paladins take more damage than I do. So that means it is easier on the healer for them to hit me. I've let mages and warriors take aggro away from me at times on purpose too. There are situations where it makes sense (usually when the healer is low or out of mana and I'm low on HP, or when there are multiple mobs to deal with and that one isn't going to live very long anway). So there are times I've intentionally turned from the primary target early to start locking more on the other mobs and just let it run. I put up a piercing howl to slow it down but still let it go.

But I do a lot of target switching regardless. I play dangerous games with the primary targets level of hate with me. I love getting a revenge ready and then switching to hit something else becuase I dont' think anything causes more hate when I'm in def stance right now than a revenge does.

So yeah, I was overly strong in my earlier comments and as I led this out with, I just misinterpreted tal and Darian, with the way I've been lately it was probably intentional on my part without me knowing it too. So use your filters on my posts to get the good info out of them and ignore the rest.

edit: a few typos and I said dem shout when I meant piercing howl.