After coming from SL, where you have heaps of aggro-gaining skills through Taunt, coming back to PL with a bear only having 1 Taunt skill actually makes it difficult to tank.
It embarasses me being the bear having to chase down a boss aggro-ing a bird/mage, and only getting aggro for a split second after Taunt. Even worse if they die, we know how hard some of those bosses can hit.
Since that whole aggro-theory based on DPS thing is still very ambiguous, I tried doing a DPS setup to tank, although it's slightly more effective, it is also very much riskier for myself, DPS gear isn't tank gear.
That said, I wanted to suggest on adding the 'Taunt' effect on some bear skills. This will only work in PvE of course, so I don't see the harm in it. To be specific, I wanted to suggest Taunt to be added to the slashes of the bear. The regular AoE Taunt is more than enough to tank mobs, IMO. It's the single target boss that the Taunt isn't sufficient to tank with.
To prevent the result of breeding 'laziness' to birds/mages when a tank is there, that 'Oh I won't die, tank is sure aggro' mentality, maybe a % chance of Taunt in the slashes instead.
That's all, let me know what you think.
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