03-06-2006, 11:40 AM
Hannibal777,Mar 6 2006, 12:02 PM Wrote:There has been talks of using damage meter for exactly this purpose. To track how much damage you are doing and tone down if you over damage, which is proportional to hate.
Damage meter has its dark side as well as good side, too. :)
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I have to agree here, I use damage meters to control my aggro on many fights. I am a warlock and know that with my imp out I have 20% threat reduction. As long as I keep myself doing less damage than some dps warriors, I tend to be safe of overaggroing. Its just a matter or clearing the damage meters before each boss fight and using common sense. why to use warriors for controling purposes? A good dps warrior tends to be pretty high on the dps charts, they do normal dps in battle or zerker stance, so its easy for a warlock to equalize damage 1 to 1.
Of course it also depends on the boss fight. For example the broodlord fight, being one critical fight for locks/mages, as we can not shed aggro. Yet I have noticed that my personal aggro ceiling for this fight is 36k damage, over this I have to be careful. So, as long as I remain sensible in the fight, I know I can get to this amount of damage done, before having to stop the damage, or be ready to die if needed.
damage meters is really handy, you just have to use it for the right purposes :)