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Originally Posted by Extunarian
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At this point in the timeline it is impossible for pet or player to taunt an NPC of a higher level. This will change in Velious
My light blue shaman pet taunts all greens and some light blues off of me. Working as intended...for now.
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Which only reinforces what has been said above. Pets (and most likely anyone with the taunt skill) at this point in time can only taunt mobs which are below their level on P99, which is becoming all to painfully obvious when you play a mage and use anything else than an earth pet to root your pulls. Hit a mob with a 5 dmg nuke and your pet has to beat the mob down nearly 20% until you can finally sit. I played several pet classes here and it has been the same for all of them, pets don't hold aggro worth anything and you have to encourage mobs with root to stay on your pet. Fart in the general direction of the mob and you're aggro for life (which in the case of a mage isn't very long).
The aggro problem alone does not lie in taunt alone, but in pets probably not generating aggro for damage but per round of attacks and procs, as has become painfully apparent on the mage I started a while ago. The pet needs at least two rounds of combat to gain aggro from a level 1 pull spell in your 30ies and at least three to four rounds of attacks (regardless of hits or misses, damage done etc, procs from weapons and pet specific procs count as additional aggro) before you can sit down, if you then do anything to the mob (nuke / debuff / whatever) before the mob is as low as 30% you'll get instant aggro again.
I still remember from my fear kiting days on live that you feared the mob not to get it away from you, but to get it away from your pet (with taunt off) to keep it alive, only later in the kite the mob would be really pissed at you and ignore the pet for a while once fear wore off. Here it's to get the mob away from you as the pet is nearly totally ignored.