This Thing You Call Aggro.

[KiloVictor]

Could one of you clarify this please?

Generally with my hunter, unless I'm filling in as main tank or main healer, I've found that it doesn't matter too much what I choose to do, so long as I do it quickly. Whether I help the main assist kill the main target fast or grab some stray that's found its way to our healer and off-tank with my pet. In my dps role it seems to me that the quicker I eat up the monster's green bar the better

It sounds to me that you have the idea that the hunter would be trying to shoot something that we'd subsequently need to sheep. That doesn't make much sense to me since why start shooting something that the mage is going to heal to full?

So far it seems to me that my role in groups is either
1) to assist in quickly killing the main target. Serpent Sting helps here and there is no prospect of the mob being sheeped
or
2) to engage a mob that is attacking a squishie with the pet and basically solo it while the rest of the group carries on with whatever it was doing without something eating the healer. Again there's no point sheeping it and Serpent Sting speeds the job up

I'm not saying you're wrong Drasca, but you seem to be assuming a third role for a hunter which I haven't figured out yet
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Not speaking for Drasca of course, but I think the point he was making is that once you've got a DoT ticking on a mob, you're committed to killing it because you can't CC it further. At best you'll have to offtank it or kite it around, and that takes one of your DPS players out of the fight.

In UBRS for example, our Hunters can't solo offtank for very long before they wind up dead, so they chain trap for CC instead. If a mob breaks for the healers or casters, their standard routine is Distracting Shot/Scatter Shot/Feign Death/Freeze Trap to get the mob locked up wihout offtanking it. That allows them to focus fire back on the MA's target sooner (they usually leave the pet on the MA's target all along for a bit more DPS), which is of course a Good Thing.

If somebody's DoT is ticking on the mob, it doesn't work. So our rule is no DoTs in the first five seconds or so, until we're sure that everybody's on the same target.

Kv

edited: "a mobs"? Sheesh.