Game Mechanics: Invulnerability Aggro Dump

[Doctor Jeff]

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

U mad bro?

no, enig just always complains that you put in fixes at random, and I always tell him its not random. It's whatever is easy, fun, or they want to work on.

[Daldaen]

I don't think their intent was for it to be an aggro dump, that was just the way for them to figure out the DA Tanking issue from earlier in classic.

The Cleric aggro issue on engages was due to a bad roll on the CH witness check and warriors not using click aggro on engage.

It definitely existed on Al'Kabor, and there is evidence about the tactic with bards using Group DA on bards.

While I do understand this would shake up the balance of the current meta, there are far more imbalanced things on P99 than this would be. The extreme use of clicky aggro and clicky instant CHs for example. Plenty of other Titanium client related things that also are imbalanced compared to the classic era like Cycle Target and scroll wheel to 3rd person.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9opZFThy95w

This Cleric does a group CH on Sontalak and immediately DAs and clicks it off a little after. As a way to burn aggro.

[Cwall 146.0]

that went out the door a long time ago m8

[Rogean]

It will never happen. Having DA on puts you in last priority on target selection, but only while it is active. Once it wears off you're back to where you were. It never was and never will be a complete aggro drop.

[Dolalin]

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

It will never happen. Having DA on puts you in last priority on target selection, but only while it is active. Once it wears off you're back to where you were. It never was and never will be a complete aggro drop.

Rogean, with all due respect, you're wrong on this one. A complete aggro wipe ala mem blur isn't what's been established:

Originally Posted by Daldaen

Again it should drop your to the LOWEST point on the aggro list. But not off the list entirely.

I'm just wondering if there's been a misunderstanding or misreading here.

[Doctor Jeff]

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

I'm just wondering if there's been a misunderstanding.

I definitely think there is...

This is a privately owned everquest emulator, not a democracy.

[Dolalin]

This is a privately owned everquest emulator, not a democracy.

That's pretty trite and unneeded. Rogean is obviously free to decide what he wants, but it's in everybody's interest (including the people who choose to play here, versus say Agnar) that the play experience be as close to classic EQ as possible.

[MaciejP]

I remember using Bard DA on live in the Velious era with a group full of wizards to drop there agro so they can nuke more.
It definitely did drop agro to min level as stated in this thread.