Taunt....
 

Someone was saying in my Group the other night that Taunt if you keep pressing it will wipe the aggro you have generated . Is this correct ? It was my understanding that if you are a tanking then pressing Taunt will just move you to the top of the hate list, so if you want aggro repetitively pressing taunt will just move you to the top of the hate list. The only thing is if you loose aggro you wont have to to snap it back right away.

Your friend is mistaken indeed! You are correct that taunt moves you to the top of the hate list, but you don't want to continually mash it. If you're on the top of the list, you won't need to move it to the top! You only need it for when you lose that aggro to another character (ie. chanter mezz, taunt, then hit mob). It's also not guaranteed to always work, depending on mob con and failure rate.

Taunt moves you to 1 hate above the highest person on list.

For some reason some people believe that if your the highest person on the list taunt ignores your hate and instead puts you at whoever is second on the list +1 hate.

In my experience, I don't think taunt is working as intended (and that's probably on Verant/Sony more than it is p99). I press it and I know for a fact it doesn't put me +1 over the person on the top of the hate list sometimes. Sometimes it does. It's a strange phenomenon.

This is partially why SKs and paladins make good group tanks, though. Their spells generate a lot of hate, plus they have taunt as well which helps.

taunt can fail

Understood. But sometimes the mob even says, "You will not interfere Grynde!" and still doesn't turn to face me.

Could be rooted.

Nothing worse as a tank than the dps hugging the mob when an unwelcome root won't break :p

Rogues/monks/etc... keep your distance, for the cleric's sake :)

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