Game Mechanics: Taunt Skill

scumbag · #1 10-20-2009, 04:12 PM

My warrior is level 23 and I am dual wielding:
Main hand: silvery war axe
Off hand: minataur axe

emubird · #2 10-20-2009, 04:39 PM

I would not base any conclusions on pet taunts, versus character taunts.

Pets in Project 99 are superpets, and do not seem at all in line with what they would have been in early classic, at least. Pet taunt, in particular, is much overdone.

I have not noticed any problems in groups with warrior taunt, specifically. Melee taunting seems to work, or at least it generally keeps hate away from our healers and casters. Players in our groups do not usually overdo things, however, to generate massive hate.

I wonder if some players are expecting their melee characters to behave as they did after taunt and hate changes had been introduced with the PoP expansion. After PoP, it was pretty hard for casters to pull hate off a taunting tank unless they seriously tried to do so. In classic, it was different.

Jify · #3 10-20-2009, 07:04 PM

Sorry.. I'm going to nit-pick this. Not trying to hijack! <3

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Pets in Project 99 are superpets, and do not seem at all in line with what they would have been in early classic, at least. Pet taunt, in particular, is much overdone.

Ahem. Pets are bugged, they do not duel wield, only double attack. They have NO TAUNT. It's useless, only thing that keeps agro is pet stun + DD. I've pulled agro at 60% casting a lvl 4 DD (at lvl 29!). This makes it particularly difficult to play pet cleric (but generally, the pet casts enough DDs to get agro). Duel Wield is the big one, pets are doing 50% of the damage they should be lvl 29 and up.

<3

Shin Noir · #4 10-20-2009, 07:39 PM

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They have NO TAUNT. It's useless

I disagree. "Taunting attacking, master". That's taunt. and it works.

Nagrak · #5 10-20-2009, 07:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Shin Noir

I disagree. "Taunting attacking, master". That's taunt. and it works.

Even if that looks like it is taunting, for all we know, that aggro gain could just be the fact of the OP pets doing too much damage to the mob. Which makes it seem like it is taunting.

The only people who know for sure are the ones who work on the actual source. Other then that, we are all pretty oblivious to the current state in which taunt is in for any class/pet.

sever · #6 10-20-2009, 10:38 PM

Taunt works, and it's chance to succeed goes up as your taunt skill does. There's one kicker, and it's that it only works on blues. Evens/yellows/reds are immune. What i'd like to see fixed is the taunt message only going off on a successful taunt.

For warrior agro, I only suggest picking up proc weapons. Obsidian shards work best for this, and begin procing at level 16. Until then, you're pretty much a rogue.

President · #7 10-20-2009, 10:41 PM

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Taunt works, and it's chance to succeed goes up as your taunt skill does. There's one kicker, and it's that it only works on blues. Evens/yellows/reds are immune.

How did you figure this out?

**Rogean** · #8 10-21-2009, 12:26 AM

Taunt IS changed in P1999, its actually changed to be exactly like it is on live, which has worked the same way since classic. Taunt is only used as a means to get to the top of the hate list. If your at the top, it generates no additional aggro. This is how it is on P1999. EQEmu SVN (PEQ is not a god damn source code, its a database, stop referring to "the PEQ Source") is wrong.