What a great link pringles. It gave me a lot to think about and reassess.
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Hate from procs is capped.
From the February 21, 2001 patch notes:
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— We reduced the amount of hate that can be caused by a proc. Due to
the high proc rates at upper levels, the amount of hate generated from
procs, and the spells that were selected for those procs, made keeping
the attention of the creature much too easy a task for the tank.
Simply, it nearly eliminated the challenge of keeping a foes attention
at levels above 50.
You can also see this in some old hate research here: http://www.elitegamerslounge.com/hom...?f=307&t=90781
This affects not just stuns, but also slows and snares and presumably any of the effects with hate that scales with NPC hitpoints. The scaling spell hate portion of a proc is capped at 400-- any damage component will stack. I used a swarmcaller on a 3600 hp NPC and the proc did ~236 hate. The proc on a 11.5k hp NPC did 400 hate.
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It means my historical assessment of hate values in raid situations was way off but the math I posted earlier about the current situation is completely accurate in the context of a raid.
I like this patch even more now, it matches what happened on live (at least as far as what happened to agroe from weapon procs) and is very balancing. Red blade of warrior epic is a real agroe weapon now. Maybe tanks will have to actually compromise and use agroe weapons in ToV instead of tanking with two 100hp weapons and or a shield.