Donagoness

This is mainly intended to target the higher end guards, preferably in avatar guilds.

How many of you struggle to keep agro off your guild on named mobs, specifically avatars, with a dirge + assassin / swashbuckler + coercer in your group?

Or is agro relatively easy to keep?

Salarionn

Even with all the disarms, detargets and other fagatory shit Avatars do, they are usually the easiest mobs to hold agro on. You dont have any that are straight burns. You have adds, AE's and other shit going on all the time.

You find somebody creeping up the agro meter ( for those who left it up), a AE is due or adds pop, you build your hate right back up. If you cant hold agro for 15-30 seconds you shouldnt be tanking Avatars anyway.

Most of your DPS in a Avatar guild have thier agro dumps in thier casting chains some place. I know some dont use them, but most try to at least once in a while. I like to tell myself this anwyay.

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Yojimbosan

The only aggro problems I ever have are with SK's. I remember parsing 10-12K on palace trash with 59% hate gain Guard/Templar/Defiler/Dirge/Coercer/Swash MT group and an SK parsing 6-8K was pulling aggro off my constantly. Other DPS parsing 15K+ never pulled aggro off me. Our SK has since learned to control his aggro much better so it's not as much of an issue anymore but it still happens from time to time.

I also agree with Salarionn...the harder the mob, the easier it is to hold aggro.

Muraha

For starters the cap on hate gain is 50%. If you don't know this you probably dont know its the same for hate transfer. If you have trak shield make sure you have the Templar, Defiler and Dirge cancel it off them with a macro. That way you siphon 10% hate from high hate parsers and make up the rest with coercer and swash transfer.

Other than that I agree, SK is the one I lose agro to the most but only because he is our off-tank and is trying to stay second on the hate list

salle

Muraha there's 2 different types of transfers, you take and they give, each have a cap at 50%.

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