arieste

I am not a tank. But yesterday, a member of the most dominant raid guild of my server posted the following:



It says "many raid tanks no longer have taunts on their hotbars".

I am curious, how many of the fine raid tanks here, no longer have taunts on their toolbars?

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Shandreya

With a 0.2 second casting time and very small power use, there's little reason not to use them. I very much doubt that many tanks actually abstain from pushing those buttons unless they are exceptionally lazy. I'm sure that the person you quoted was just exercising a little hyperbole - compared to auto attack, or reactive taunt procs, the hate they generate is tiny, which is likely the point they were making, though I find it hard to believe a 'high end raid tank' would pass up more hate unless their raid was doing no dps at all in which case they wouldn't be a high end raid tank.

Skaer

Endgame tanks still taunt. I don't think I've ever heard of this geeglin tool.

http://eq2players.station.sony.com/c...erId=145522109

I hope this wizard never plays a tank, or if this is true Strike must DPS incredibly low.

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Skaer

Procs are that, procs. Auto attack is the largest hate generating factor for a tank. With full taunt proc gear (meaning shit off hurricanus too) chances are proc aggro would probably equal out to taunt aggro.

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Stereotypes we fought them
Just by the places I had brought him the life of intolerance was shortened
I guess society had missed him when they counted out the citizens
they build a house of freedom but
somehow they couldn't fit him in.

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Shandreya

I was referring to skills such as inflaming defense, and not gear.

Manyak

As a guard i only taunt in 2 cases:
1) I'm pulling/tanking a group of mobs. Or trash. On single target named pulls, especially the orange ones, I still use a CA with a really high hit rate so that theres no chance of a resist or something.

2) When nothing else is up. Hitting a taunt is still better than hitting nothing at all.

The best way to hold aggro is through DPS, not taunts.

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Wozamil

It is true that the best way to hold agro is through DPS. I wouldn't say that tanks aren't using taunts, especially in the beginning of fights with all the mages with itchy trigger fingers.

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Jaraxx

Taunts are pretty fucking useless, I don't use shit like confront ever and I only use protection on pulls. Everything else is a waste of power, right now I can't fucking keep my power up unless I have 4 chanters going thru a rotation on me. Taunts are just a fucking joke.

I won't say I never use them. but I can't afford the 50 power it takes to use them =)

Jaraxx

Not sure who you are and I don't really care, but you are 100% right our dps sucks ass. It's because I can't keep agro =(((((((

Falkur

Paladin's Amends FTW!