AOW + Defensive

[Nirgon]

I didn't ever tank raid mobs in Velious on live so this is way out of my jurisdiction.

Just pushing this along, it was a very interesting stumble upon for me.

I think posting all combat logs we can find for analysis will be useful in assisting the box Emperor/theorycraftquest.

[koros]

Gore is bashing for 124 and 131 in your logs, with a 120 damage bonus that also looks in line.

[Nirgon]

Me feels like you'd drop aggro with a shield.

Again, didn't tank in Velious.

My point was you wouldn't want to fight with a shield for that whole fight because.. yeah great loss of threat.

[Artaenc]

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

Me feels like you'd drop aggro with a shield.

Again, didn't tank in Velious.

My point was you wouldn't want to fight with a shield for that whole fight because.. yeah great loss of threat.

Well, from the posts I found it looks like you would want to use a shield to maximize your defense and you would have less ripostes. Course these posts could be by people that don't know what they are talking about but there is multiple posts about it.

[Nirgon]

You could minimize ripostes more with a 2hander (hopefully with a proc for threat).

I'd rather have less ripostes than another 40 or so ac.

A riposte results in a spike.

A spike can result in a wipe real quick like.

[Nirgon]

Need a Velious raid batphone ppl can sign up for? Shit's gettin serious. I saw a bunch of people on there and no telling how many pop in, see no one there and log out.

[Rogean]

There is a difference between "Proximity aggro" (Which I prefer to call Proximity Bonus - Extra hate for anyone in Melee range) and "Root Behavior" where a mob would just straight up attack it's closest player target.