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Neil Cerutti <neil.cerutti@tds.net> looked up from reading the entrails
of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say:
>In article <6dk1119rec6ts66l9pf9b8m4ibso59l4pl@4ax.com>, Xocyll
>wrote:
>> Neil Cerutti <neil.cerutti@tds.net> looked up from reading the
>> entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the
>> signs say:
>>
>>>In article <ghuv011k2nu7cdiefg3789uaudvj6eqvuh@4ax.com>, Xocyll wrote:
>>>> I've never created a tanker _with_ taunt.
>>>>
>>>> No, wait, I lie, I did take it once in the hopes that it would
>>>> cause the taunted mob to close to melee and attack instead of
>>>> staying at range. [This was after a 5 minute standoff of a BP
>>>> shaman casting stone prisons on me while I was in Unyielding
>>>> stance. I couldn't move (pre I3) and he wouldn't come within
>>>> range.] It didn't do that so it was respeced out the next day.
>>>
>>>I like it very much, now, even solo. Nothing ever runs away as
>>>long as click it every couple of attack cycles..
>>
>> I don't find runners are that much of a worry these days.
>
>They're not a worry, just an annoyance. My non-Tankers never even
>bother hunting Trolls in Skyway, for example, because almost half
>of them run away.
When I was hunting trolls with the wee stone/axe tank i'd run up near
the group, wait till the chicken ran off, then attack the remaining
ones.
Less incoming damage, and since mostly they weren't hassling people
there was no influence bonus from a grateful citizen to get for killing
them all anyway.
>> During that day or so of experimentation I used it quite a few times.
>> Not once did it ever induce a ranged attacker to close to melee.
>
>True, it doesn't do that.
Which made it pretty useless when combined with status protection that
immobilized. Hell it didn't even reduce the mobs accuracy.
It IS supposed to be making them angry and goading them.
>> Not once did it ever pull one guy from the edge of a group, it
>> always brought the whole group - even when the target mob was
>> 10 or more game feet away from his closest friend and I was at
>> max range of taunt.
>>
>> It's a waste of a power for anyone who doesn't play a taunt-bot
>> meatshield tanker.
>
>I'd say that's overstating it quite extravagantly, but I can see
>where you're coming from.
It doesn't pull well since it's AOE now and it doesn't cause a change in
ranged/melee attacks so it's only of any real use for taunting strays
off squishies and that is the "taunt-bot meatshield" most people seem to
think is the tanker's role.
A tanker that's actually going to fight and damage things doesn't really
have the power and slots to waste on taunt, especially at the low levels
since it's not going to be of any/much use for fighting.
Yeah it _might_ possibly affect a runner, but that's hardly worth giving
up an attack or defense for in the under 20 game.
Xocyll
--
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a cautionary example if you'll FO And Get Chronically, Incurably,
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