Disease Cloud agro nerfed?

[elwing]

First agro has reduced hate... Siphon str first then dc...

[Danth]

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

Noticing DC doesn't have crap for agro on green. Was this patched in the past year or 2 on blue? Was it classic? Jus started an SK on green, and wondering why I'm not seeing anyone else talking about this.

Since no-one else is actually answering what you brought up: Yeah, it's been noticed by some players. There was some discussion about it last fall. The cause is unknown. I feel that there appears to be some sort of level based effect at play possibly in addition to other factors. The discussion ultimately died down because in the long run the Shadow Knight still holds threat adequately so folks don't care overmuch for the most part.

Danth

[Dolalin]

Yes, your aggro on the initial pull is limited to like 25 hate. Pulling with Tash or Slow is actually a pro move.

[elwing]

Spamming dc+shroud of pain nearly gets the same hate as a warrior with attack off... No idea if it was nerfed but in anycase that's enough hate for anything...

[drfuzz]

I remember late in Velious on Live they nerfed the aggro of Disease Cloud when the Shamans started complaining about getting whacked on raids every time they cast slow on raid bosses. The devs nerfed the aggro on all disease based spells, and disease cloud went from being the SK secret weapon to being almost useless. But hey! Shamans didn’t die as much, so that was OK, right?