Patch Notes, Sunday Morning, February 14th, 2010

[guineapig]

Originally Posted by drplump [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Hate is based on how much damage each player has done to the mob. This happens a lot on raids especially. If 5 people did 10% of the mobs HP in damage and you nuke it for 14% its going to come after you.

This is an oversimplification and simply not true. There are many other factors involved in hate then damage. How do you think the lowest DPS classes like Paly and SK manage to keep agro? It has absolutely nothing to do with their damage output. Hell, even warriors have always relied on stun and debuff procs for max agro generation.

Also, I can't think of many raid mobs where a single player can do 14% damage to the mob with one nuke (until later expansions with higher lvl caps, AA's focus effects and such). If you meant over the duration of the fight then it's also moot because hate levels are constantly changing with each player character during the duration of the fight.

So I'm not sure where you got this idea from.

/threadjack off