Warrior aggro issues...

[Rhuma7]

Damage Modals:

For two handed weapons ...
(2 * weapon damage + Damage Bonus)/Delay


For mainhand weapon 1hander ...

(2 * weapon damage + Damage Bonus)/Delay

For offhand weapon 1hander ...

(2 * weapon damage) * (dual wield percentage)/delay

Add the two.

The formula to calculate your dual wield percentage for warriors is (LVL + DW Skill) / 500

for monks, (LVL + DW Skill) / 400

A warrior and a monk both dual wield jade maces at the same level, same exact gear. The monk will generate more aggro due to higher dual wield skill = more hits.

Let me also mention that the wurmslayer will generate better aggro than a lamentation until lvl 60, to which it actually matches the wurmslayer at a 1.53 rating (because of damage bonus)

AGGRO IS GENERATED WHETHER IT HITS OR MISSES.

It has been PROVEN that weapons over 28 delay also have a slight multiplier bonus for aggro generation due to being slower.

If you are a warrior for the first time on p99 and have no idea what the steel warrior is, do not give tanking advice.

Obsidian shatter is a crap proc and won't help you in the least. The best way to hold aggro is group with people who know how to play.

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With all that said, use wurmslayer/whatever til 37, pick up 2 short sword of ykeshas/ykeshan war clubs at 37, at 50/51 pickup a sarnak warhammer and silken whip of ensnaring. Then you're on the delusional path to epics.

Good luck young warrior.

[ncapatina]

I'm glad as a true newbie I didn't decide to roll a warrior (went cleric), expensive as hell.

[Tycko]

Best advice is to always EXP in areas where all mobs are blue to you. Seems obvious but a lot of times if you just stick to camps that have blue con mobs a lot of these issues are mitigated. ( Nothing you can do against high threat monks other than get great weapons like those listed in this thread)

[Servellious]

I used root tanking a lot with my warrior

[Buellen]

chime


48th Level Half Elf Warrior Garue

Rhuma7 post should clear everything up. From my personal experience your weapons should be fine. YOUR Group should know what to do so that you are taking the chunk of the damage.

As some have posted talk to your root casting classes in your group and have them root the mob. As long as you are closest pc it will attack you no matter how much dps the rogue /monk twink is putting out.

I duo a lot with a shaman friend I can always pull agro from him using just simple Lamentation and shimmering partisan OR Staff of Battle for last 12 levels. The few groups I have done I have run into monk/ rogues who constantly pulling agro until healers ran out of mana. after a 4 or 5min of meding the monks/rogue got the clue after they was bored from watinig on mana regen without a chanter mind candy.

[Poetic]

Just from experience, two lammys held aggro better than two ssoys with pros even, due to having low dex.

[Cecily]

Think I'll do ok with seb dirk / edge of the night walker? Really high ratio dps weapons. The proc weapons available bore me...

[Hitpoint]

Originally Posted by Beefy [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Taunt seems to only work on blue mobs and even then it's only some of the time.

This is your problem. As a tank you should not be camping in a place where there are mobs that con yellow or red to you. All mobs should be a few levels below you really.

[Beefy]

Appreciate all the responses guys. Looks like I'm in for a life of root tanking and using crappy weapons just because of a proc. :|

Would the proc on Blood Fire (http://wiki.project1999.org/Blood_Fire) help as much with aggro as a ykesha proc or is it not as good?

[Poetic]

Not as good. But fungi and 2x bloodpoints allow you to solo marginally. Whoops read that wrong. Only time I used bloodfire was to proc the dot and swap back to yak. Not worth buying imo