Rogue bot aggro?

[Rats]

Ooookay been away a while, and finding it currently pretty much impossible to keep aggro off my rogue bot. Held the little guy behind a wall on guard until melee'd the mob to 90% (spamming sk ToV pants + draco shield clicky + dread gaze nonstop, meleeing with that poair sk hammer with anger aug), summoned the bot in, and he immediately jabs aggro and tanks the reminder of the mob. Taunt gets the mob off him for a second, but it immediately turns back. No amount of aggro clickies can get me the aggro back; same story on my warrior alt with rogue bot. Both bots got ifir dagger with pointed blade augs, secondary nightfall/exquisite pureorder essence with pointed blade augs also.

Something been changed about this? Do the lifetap augs give him the insane aggro or something?

[Noren]

Is Curses your SK? Looks like you have a good hate focus and some great methods to generate hate, so I can only think of one logical explanation:

the mob is rooted and your rogue has aggro by proximity.

If it's not that... then you've got me puzzled too. Seems like you're doing everything right.

[Warlgor]

I've heard a lot of people complaining in OOC recently that bots are pulling an insane amount of hate to the point that it's impossible to use them without them getting aggro. I've heard a few people say that even if they wait until 25% before engaging their bot, the bot will instantly pick up aggro as soon as it takes its first swing.

Vaion?

[bishbash]

I was having issues in Plane of storms with my rogue bot a few days back, i would park it, collect 24.9999 mobs then cyclone, attack and send in the bot. The mobs just seemed to love him and ignore me. In the end I just camped the bot. If i'm going to beat up mobs that cant hurt me, I want to be the one doing it, not my bot.

[Deadspirit]

Trollin, I didn't read preceding posts.


As of recently I backstab a non-rooted mob to initiate combat and do more damage then my rogue bot could possibly do in the entire fight yet he gets aggro and dies.

He seems like hes drawing way too much aggro.

The irony of seeing my "lifes" gnome dying so quickly is worth spawning him every ~4 mins.

Thanks for the giggles.

[Vaion]

I haven't touched bot aggro in months... but ill take a gander and see whats up.

[Rats]

Bump.
Made new toons here for funs, zerker bot same issues really. The bot just tags aggro off mobs immediately when sent into the fight.

Example: Fought sebilite protector. Playing a 70sk, power of the shadows buff up, using Brutal Sword of the Knight with Hate aug on it, spamming terror of discord and dread gaze nonstop until melee'd the mob down to 60%. Called in zerker bot at this point, undergeared, using Froglok Bonecaster Sword of Power, no augs. Couple seconds in prot starts spinning to attack the berserker who tanks the reminder of it.

EDIT UPDATE:
Aaaand today at Kael the zerker has no issues, and I'm not even casting any aggro spells. Noidea what's up with this really, at Sebilis he'd just peel aggro off everything immediately. Clr bot that I lvl'd up using would also be oddly spastic about aggro, sometimes it'd be impossible to hold mobs from going after him soon as he'd cast a heal, then few levels later there were no problems. Is this mob-type dependant or zone-dependant maybe?

FURTHER UPDATE EDITING:
Today's Kael experience zerker is peeling aggro on every mob again. No gear/buff changes were done to either the player SK char or the zerker bot. Cleric bot does the same thing, the moment he casts a heal in a fight the giants will summon him to them. Been trying all sorts of things to figure out what the story here is, but from what I can tell the bots just leap to the top of hatelist of mobs the moment they perform any form of action in combat. Taunt gets it off them, no amount of hate clickies does. Next action by the bot its back on top of hatelist again.