“This is true even if some other part of the threat attack went away. For instance, sunder armor is a common pure threat attack. It places a debuff on the mob reducing its armor. Sunder armor, like all such attacks, has two components: the debuff, and the threat. They are not connected. If the debuff wears off, the threat remains. Threat is the key to understanding how to pull aggro from somebody. The threat rules are very simple: 1). If everybody in the party has 0 threat for a particular mob, that mob fixates on whoever goes into its aggro radius first. 2). If a mob is attacking somebody, it will attack another party member within melee range if that party member’s threat level rises to 10% above the current target (the “10% rule”). e.g., if a mob is attacking Tigornek and Tig has generated 100 threat on that mob, Rayford needs to generate 110 threat to pull aggro in melee). 3). If a mob is attacking somebody, it will attack another party member not in melee range if that party member’s threat level rises to 30% above the current target (the “30% rule”). e.g., if a mob is attacking Tigornek and Tig has generated 100 threat on the mob, Rayford needs to generate 130 threat to pull aggro at range. Those are the only three rules there are for describing how a mob decides who to attack. wow europe We are now ready to understand why a tank’s job is to generate as much threat as possible. Imagine you’re tanking some mob, and you’re generating 10 threat per second. Now imagine that you’re being assisted by a rogue who can generate 11 threat per second if he goes all-out on his dps. wow gold kauf What’s going to happen. If the rogue goes all out, he’s going to pull aggro according to the 10% rule.
Then he’s going to have to defend himself (maybe by feinting, maybe by popping evasion), or the tank is going to have to taunt the mob – after which the rogue will pull aggro again. gold wow Alternatively, the rogue can hold back on his dps. Let us be clear here: that means the rogue’s gear is going to waste. He’s painstakingly grinded the weapons and armor necessary to generate 11 tps, and he has to hold back to a mere 10 tps. cheap world of warcraft gold When he groups with you, he could get the same results by not holding back using gear that was a lot easier to get. ” “The question now becomes how a tank goes about accomplishing his mission of keeping everybody else free to do their jobs. Fortunately, there is a very simple answer to this question. wowgold To keep the dps’ers free to dps and the healers free to heal, all a tank needs to do is two things: a). make sure the dps’ers have to do an absolute minimum of holding back, and b). make sure that nobody but the tank is ever being hit.RELATED LINKS:
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