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the_mo

well.. as long as your autoattacks and CAs hit its not much of a big deal i guess

Irgin

well..if you`d have just for once a fucking clue that theres an issue with melee rates you`d come to the conclusion that taunts are quite important especially against orange con mobs.

But congrats on increasing your post-count by 1, you worthless idiot.

@Permanent

Yes, there is an increase in taunt resists since gu #43 and especially on incoming orange con mobs it may cause death to the shielder for once and a while, but you get used to it.
Getting your taunts on M1 quality helps also. *cough*

the_mo

last time i checked, there was not a single orange mob in the zone he refered to. reading comprehension ftw i guess

Brightstar

from LU43

Epic mobs in Kunark will now have increased wisdom and resists. To compensate for the increased resist rate a number of debuffs have had their chance to be resisted lowered.

Would explain the higher resists on taunts as they are spells.

Shinzul

The resist rate buff applies to all epic mobs, not just orange cons.

the_mo

while that is ofc true i couldnt see any hitrate issues in yesterdays raids nor did i get any resist-rate complaints. if it wasnt for the lag the raids wouldve been like they were before lu43

Permanent

I've got my m2 taunt, a mix of m1's, and all ad3's yet pulls it was terrible (non-debuffed). It was noticable but not something you couldn't get used to, although Pally (OT) amends was just ripping agro right off about mid-fight which normally only happens once in awhile. Like KoS resist boost, they overlooked that our taunts were "spells" as well and needed to compensate for it with aggression.

I dunno.. maybe the lag was causing taunts to fire slower and my cast order was off because of it, but I noticed a difference.

Judist

I hope we're pulling with Decimate and Exact Strike. A taunt is the worst thing to rely on when looking to initially gain/keep aggro.

Also, start trying entire encounters (at a minimum trash) w/o touching a single taunt. Use reinforce proactively, but no taunting. If your breaking even on the hate list and loosing aggro often on mobs in T1-T2 zones, look into better ways to improve your hate mod/feed and personal DPS output.

If you find yourself having to spam everything like a madman to hold a mob, somethings wrong and its not taunting. Once youve nixed that problem, taunts can be used for the extra edge.

Mohare

I tend to only use my taunts if no other CAs are up or right after I use Block since I can't use a CA until it goes off.