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Old 07-20-2013, 02:31 AM
kaev kaev is offline
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Yeah, it's an issue for Warrior...

So many twinked Rogues and Monks out there, hell so many twinked everything out there. Very little disciplined play, because so many chars are so overgeared that until you're 40+ often the only "penalty" for all-out attack all the time is maybe getting bitched at by a lazy healer. (Well, people do manage to wipe in Mistmoore at L30+ despite being absurdly overgeared, mostly because they haven't had to actually start playing half-competently until then and it takes time to get used to it.)

Agro is just tough for a Warrior on p99 until you've got a haste item and good weapons. Even then there'll be groups that overwhelm content with gear 10-15 levels higher than anything they could possibly earn, and so the Monks and Rogues (and Shamans) won't bother to play very disciplined and will draw a lot of unnecessary agro (it's hard, very hard, to feign or evade or wait a few seconds to slow, don'tcha know...)

Dual wield, btw, definitely appears to be the correct way to go for agro from my experience. Even without agro procs dual wield appears to produce noticeably more agro with less damage output than using a 2hander.

I'd recommend avoiding dd proc'ing weapons (stun+dd proc like ykesha is ok), as your casters can root mobs to allow you to hold agro via proximity. dd procs give the mob extra chances to break root while adding comparatively little agro to your melee threat. Stun+dd like ykesha is ok because it is a very high agro generator.

Good luck.