The Lost Art of "Waiting to Engange"

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When I group with my 34 warrior, nobody waits for me to build aggro. Perhaps its lack of patience, or maybe people are just used to alts that are twinked out the ass. Potential swing hate on this server is screwy, but it is what it is.

[SamwiseRed]

it comes down to people are morans. they rather have a healer throw heals all over the damn place rather than just the tank. this will ensure maximum downtime between pulls because the cleric is oom. more downtime = more forumquesting which is far more entertaining than the game itself.

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

more downtime = more forumquesting which is far more entertaining than the game itself.

lmao sig-worthy

[Tecmos Deception]

No one has forgotten about it, they just don't do it. Who is pulling aggro off of warriors usually? An epic rogue? A monk with an RFS? A twinked shaman who slows at 99%? All of them can probably take hits better than anything except an equally-twinked warrior anyways. A 10-second head start is hardly going to let a untwinked warrior keep aggro over any of these anyways unless he gets really lucky with procs in those 10 seconds.

Now if you're in a group full of untwinked characters, it would behoove them to let the warrior establish some aggro before attacking I guess... but meh. The untwinked groups I tend to see when I'm tooling around on an alt are usually like, a group of 6 relatively untwinked people at pool in MM when there's also someone soloing half of the mobs from ent to GY. Doesn't really matter who is doing the tanking or how much mana your cleric is wasting healing squishy dudes when you have a group of 6 level 24s only pulling 10 blue cons every 25 minutes.

[falkun]

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

a group of 6 level 24s only pulling 10 blue cons every 25 minutes.

This is why I don't understand why everyone loves MM so much. U/L-Guk has MANY more mobs for the same level ranges as MM.

[vulzol]

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

This is why I don't understand why everyone loves MM so much. U/L-Guk has MANY more mobs for the same level ranges as MM.

MM is outdoors and easier to train out than Guk thus the lower risk of dying negates the lack of mobs in the zone.

[Vega]

Originally Posted by susvain0362 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Back in the day it use to be the warrior would get aggro, taunt once or twice and attack a few rounds then hit a macro calling for people to assist/engage the mob.

??

Are you thinking of incite maybe?

[myriverse]

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

This is why I don't understand why everyone loves MM so much. U/L-Guk has MANY more mobs for the same level ranges as MM.

Don't underestimate the appeal of hot vampire chicks.

[Droog007]

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

??

Are you thinking of incite maybe?

Probably not.

1.1 dozen years later, it seems lots of people still don't understand the taunt skill.

[webrunner5]

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

The untwinked groups I tend to see when I'm tooling around on an alt are usually like, a group of 6 relatively untwinked people at pool in MM when there's also someone soloing half of the mobs from ent to GY. Doesn't really matter who is doing the tanking or how much mana your cleric is wasting healing squishy dudes when you have a group of 6 level 24s only pulling 10 blue cons every 25 minutes.

You hit the nail on the head on that statement. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]