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Originally Posted by Jimjam
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The comments said things like it needed to be repeatedly cast. Obviously the current implementation seems to have underboiled the egg, but the previous was equally wrong.
2 DCs and MAYBE a shadow and you were keeping aggro an entire fight versus very twinked out melees. I don't think that fell under the scope of 'repeatedly'?
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Depends on the fight... if I'm grouped and the mob is gonna die in <30sec, then yeah 1-2 DC's was prob sufficient. However, for raids I was not only spamming DC but using GCD to weave other spells in for extra hate, all of which was necessary. Your assessment is a gross oversimplification and really only applies to shorter duration fights. No SK on P99 would have held aggro on a raid target for >a minute or two with 1-2 DC casts prior to the patch.
The way DC was functioning was as intended. It worked extremely well in group situations (SK's have always been group tank gods) and it required nonstop spamming during raid tanking. There was nothing about it that needed to be changed, and live EQ only dropped it when they were ready to implement its replacement, the terror line, which preserved SK's as aggro gods.