Birds are aggro machines

[Veltis]

My bird can kill up 5 or mobs (while everyone else is the on boss) before I attack a boss and still manage to rip aggro from someone 8 lvls higher than me lol

[jonboy]

And .......?

[Veltis]

And .......?
I just think its crazy it seems no matter what I do I end up tanking the bosses. I didn't make it to tank. And I end up using boat loads of pots lol. I'm not complaining I just think its amazing.

[Fyrce]

I notice aggro but I'm not sure it's that much of a problem. Just walk away for a bit or hit harder or get the bear to stun a bit more. Oh yeah, you can try stunning also...

Birds and mages get aggro all the time. You get used to it.

[FluffNStuff]

Take two steps back. Did that with my mage and bow bear and stopped dying. If you are fighting a mele boss, and you right up against him, he will kill you.

[MoarPewPew]

And .......?

Is that a complete sentence? Lol

My bird is squishy. And never gets aggro....

(must be because I'm always AFK.... Lol Jk)

[addiekai]

The thing about that is, Birds deal too much damage, that's why aggro stays on you.

Hit and Run my friend :)

[MoarPewPew]

The thing about that is, Birds deal too much damage, that's why aggro stays on you.

Hit and Run my friend :)

Or... We could try and Watch our damage out put so the tank holds aggro. :)

[addiekai]

Well, from what I have seen so far, Tanks don't keep aggro that well anymore.

My Mage gets raped most of the time :(

[MoarPewPew]

Lol Soo true.

[Veltis]

Well I found out what was wrong just has to get a real tank in the group I just did a few runs with a real tank and I wasn't ripping away that much. Guess real tanks are hard to come by lol.

[Sickofwork]

It'd be awesome if they added some items that increase/decrease hate/aggro gain. Like along with all the regular stats of a particular item, it'd have +2 to enmity, or -2 to enmity. Something like that. Perhaps it's something that'd be difficult to do from a programmer's perspective..?

[addiekai]

This game basically deals with aggro in a very simple formula.

If the mob thinks you are dealing the most damage, it goes after you. It's a very realistic system, by basically eliminating the biggest "threat".

Applies to the real world too :)

Unless its a 7-foot guy with 9 stories of muscles :p Then you'd best be running :)

[Vyvin]

Ikr
What happens when we spam skills is we hit rly hard
Like a bit more than bears and that faster
So mobs come At us cUz we be doing dAmage
/Vyvin

[Survivorfan]

nice sig vyvin

[Necrobane]

Sickofworks idea is the best solution. In the next in the gear for the next campaign there should be -2 Threat on the archer pieces. -1 Threat on pieces for mage gear and +2 Threat on warrior gear.

[addiekai]

That would then lead to re-writing or adding the aggro code on ALL mobs in the game.

That be tedious...

[Sickofwork]

True, but they've gotta have a way to 'apply all' if you will, to eliminate editing every single mob present in game.

[addiekai]

That would still mean testing for all their values, making sure that it works for the amount of aggro if they would implement items to define their aggressiveness.

A ton of work IMO.

[TOASTYTorpedo]

I don't know if the majority of players will want + or - aggro on their gear. Unless they only put +/- aggro on specific pure tanking or pure dps gear.