Hakk'n'slash

I am thinking on taking Impede as my lvl 72 M2 choice.

As Silicate Loams are insanely priced / hard to find, I am trying to avoid making the equivilent of 12 Plat mistakes (loams are running close to 6 Plat per).
If anyone has better suggestions, please speak up.

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Hakk N'Slash
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Poyzon Zu'Makk
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Jokey Joker
Lvl 80 Swash
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Chumann

There's really only two choices to be considered... Impede or the Return to Combat. The decision is arguable imo. It really depends on how significant you think 120 extra HP (that's the increase from A3 to M2 of RtC) is for you.

Taunts are rarely used at this point because they're actually one of our smallest hate increasing abilities, surprisingly enough. Most guards will probably tell you that a combat art is better used in place of a taunt in every situation (me being one of them). However... mathematically, taunts are still our most efficient form of hate other than auto attack as far as power comsumption goes. So if they're timed between auto attacks, the power cost is minimal compared to the hate gain.

That being said, I only taunt when nothing else is available because my power is better spent with damaging combat arts or defensive abilities.

I chose Impede because at 13k self buffed HP (which is not difficult to obtain after raiding for a decent time period) 120 HP doesn't mean more to me than the resistability gain I get from M2 taunt when I need to use it.


** after reading what I wrote, I find that it's a little confusing and conflicting, but this is the best way I can put it while I'm on my short lunch break **

Conqueror_Beld

Impede and Return to Combat are the 2 popular ones. You won't find either one of those on the Guk broker so it's a toss up for more initial aggro and less resistability from the taunt or more health for the MT group.

I picked Impede but I already had the Return to Combat M1 disco on Guk.

Edit: posted at the same time as Chu, but we basically said the same thing

Chumann

Ya, if you have RtC at M1, Impede is the best choice imo.

Anap KaSplat

I picked Impede first, then decided to play with RtC. I actually find very little difference in resists between Impede ad3 and Impede M2, so I stuck with RtC.

If I come across RtC M1, I may swap back to Impede M2, dunno yet... I really don't find myself using taunts so much anyway. Decimate on first contact ftw.

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Muraha

A guildy gave me Impede M1 on the first day of the expansion so the choice was easy for me. I think if I got RtC master 1 I would change for the better resistability but that is because we spend most of our time killing level 86-88 mobs. If you are still not in VP yet you probably would benefit from the HP better than the reduced resist