Game Mechanics: Invulnerability Aggro Dump

[Daldaen]

Posts in the 2003 thread you linked:

And you know how? Besides, you're WRONG.

DA used to do "nothign else" and "do nothing to hate". This gave rise to DA tanking strat. In response, VI made it do SOMETHING to hate. So in that, you are very clearly wrong. That's why if you say, sat at a mobs feet while normal, the mob will hit you. While DA, if you sit at a mobs feet, it will still ignore you.

Before this change, if you sat at a mobs feet while DA, it did nothing to aggro; and that is why the mob would keep on beating the CLR.

I like how people state irrevocably how it works, yet the aggro affect on DA/DB is done serverside, and it is not contained in the Spdat.

So if you have proof, then show it.

BTW, to the person who said "pull multi mobs, CH, then DA, mobs will go back to you"...

I do this. I've tested this. And they don't. After DA they ignore me until i do something else. Sometimes one will come back to me, sometimes two. But usually they don't. And if it did nothing, 3 should come at me (the 4th is being occupied by tank).

My current theory is that it tinkers with a secondary part of the hate list, that is proximity. This would be why if you DA, you're effectively at the end of the hate list, but you are not. It lists you at "accross the zone" or whatever aggro.

Again I'm not saying you're wrong, but from all I've experienced most of what peopel are saying is completely different from my experience.

BTW, I tested it. Multi pull in POA in POP, DVA'd then did WoRevivis... All mobs on me (3), hit DA immediately, was at 40% HP... And took DA off. Mobs did not go at me, even though a few were still not tanked (tank death). They went after people who had done one heal, which i assure you is magnitudes less then a full WoRevivs.
Last edited by Schatze : 01-18-2003 at 08:48 PM.

01-18-2003, 08:50 PM #33
Heihachi
Ragefire Camper 2.0

Join Date: Oct 1999
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DA clears almost all aggro. I can easily toss a early CH on a multi-pull, DA off the aggro nearly instantly and click off DA to keep going. However if you were low health when you got your DA off, you'll probably be low health when it drops and you'll draw aggro again from health frenzy. Lately I've taken to just using DA or DB as much as possible.

They keep pointing out the mobs didn't go back to them, HOWEVER, with low HP/sitting they will. Which is often when people are DAing which leads to the common misconception you stay at same point in aggro list.