Taunt

[mukkel]

Melkor and I were chatting last night about taunt - A number of events have been giving us (and by us, I mean me) issues with aggro and we were wondering something about taunt:

Does taunt set you to 1 point of aggro above the next highest person? ie. If I'm 500,000 "aggro points" ahead of the next person, will taunting reduce that down to 1 or does it just add a certain number of points?

Live used to just knock you up (or down) to one point above the next person and was mainly used for snap aggro.

Thanks!
/fitzor

[Vaion]

It places you 1 point above and adds an additional amount of hate dependent on the skill level.

[mukkel]

Time to stop using taunt unless I need some immediate snap then!

Thanks sir
/fitzor

[antihero]

this makes me wonder if a +50 Taunt stat on an item would give you 51 additional hate over the base of 1. i love EQ theory.

[vip00]

wow, I had no idea taunt worked that way o.O I've gotten used to just spamming taunt all the time on my SK

thanks for the insight!

I wonder how much the "extra" aggro from taunt skill is... I doubt it's a huge amount though

[Vaion]

Also remember that if you arent on the top of the hate list and hit taunt, then it will still add more hate.

[Jugganot]

So what if i am at the top of hate list and i hit it. Will this in turn take me back down to +1 over top agro ? or will it just add 1 agro point to my current agro ?

[antihero]

If your tank's hate was at 400 and your dps alt was at 200, you would hit taunt and your tank would be at 201. I don't think the current skill mods for taunt actually add agro either. I would assume +%15 taunt mod just makes it harder to fail.

[Jazar_Wolfheart]

Okay, shouldn't your tank be top aggro? I don't think you lose hate for hitting taunt. Vaion just said that as well.

If your tank is at 400 and your top DPS is at 200...you would get top aggro plus one....meaning 401, right?

[Melkor]

No, it would put you at 201 (assuming it's instant aggro + 1 hate, which I think Vaion said it was more)

The purpose of it isn't to generate tons of hate, that's what your weapons and hate procs are for. Taunt is used to instantly gain aggro off of a caster or another tank who has aggro built up.