Monk aggro

[Dantes]

Pulls come faster when you have a separate tank and puller.

I don't think Monks are broken. I always remember monks hitting hard and taking aggro. It's especially worse when they are a couple levels higher than the tank. But with a monk who's close to my level I can still take the majority of the hits. The same can be said about rogues. Get a rogue who's well geared and has like 3-4 levels on me... I may as well just break out the 2H for DPS.

[yaeger]

I know that tanks have problems with monk aggro since taunt doesn't work on mobs higher level than the tank.

But does pet taunt?

[Japan]

Is there any data on how much hate monk abilities generate? Someone told me to never use tiger strike in his group because it generates huge agro once, but i never validated the claim.

[Messianic]

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

Is there any data on how much hate monk abilities generate? Someone told me to never use tiger strike in his group because it generates huge agro once, but i never validated the claim.

That's silly superstition.

None of the monk special abilities generate "more" hate as a general rule - they usually do more burst damage than single attacks (and more damage = more hate), but no additional hate beyond that.

[Contact]

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

for a long time on classic monks were barefisted though, and almost noone used 1hb weapons - the fists innate delay is higher than the good 1hb afaik - if the monks in your group now are already dual weilding 1hbs with low delay etc, could that be the case?

I think this is the issue. On Live at this point in the game, Monks did not have as much access to low delay weapons. Using fists, I never take aggro, but 2 EBMs mean I am taking hits if I dont wait a LONG time to engage after the tank. And I dont even have FD yet.

[Kender]

as a career monk during the velious days on live, i can say for certain that this used to happen on live

Usually this wasn't a problem for me becuase i actually did very little actual fighting. I spent most of my time running out and collecting mobs to kill (both in xp groups and in raids)

however, when i did have to DPS i always had to wait 5 secs in an xp grp and then FD after 10 more seconds. on a raid all non tank melee waiting 10 seconds. i waited 10 more seconds before i started, then hit FD every cooldown


as a test one time on a vindi fight i waited until vindi was at 70% health before i started fighting. I didn't FD and i bagged agro when vindi was at 15% health. I did pull him (pull agro), but i was FD for the first 30%

[Curmudgen]

any old time monk should have this hot key:

/attack off
/fd
/stand
/attack on

could add an assist in there after stand. some had a pause added after fd, I never did.

Use this every couple secs or so. with no /pause used the dps loss is nothing and you constantly go down on the list. A good monk only gets aggro when they want it.

I should have said use this key everytime fd pops