[TIP] If you're going to be an Archer

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Originally Posted by Tenkiei

Hold threat.

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Um...no...threat does not work that way.
A Tank doesn't just run up to a mob, slap it with a combo, and hold threat forever.
The amount of threat built is somewhat larger than a DPS, but not massively so that it becomes a non-issue.
If a BLM or a Brd choose to go nuts and not make any attempt to manage enmity, then they're probably going to die, and they do deserve to die.
The tank can only do so much regarding threat in this game.
It isn't WoW or RIFT or EQ2 where you can just pop threat builders/finishers and then go grab a beer.

Funny, a healer yelled at me for not kiting mobs once. I am so confused now.

Huntards all over again.

If a BRD is kiting a boss it means the tank has either a) died or b) let the situation get out of hand. The brd in question is probably not the only one, once things get this desperate, who is ahead of a tank in aggro (especially in a FATE), so I'd rather deal with the "inconvenience" of slightly limiting the mdps by kiting (and thus making himself an unkillable tank, if he's kiting correctly) and take my time then have him let himself die so all the other dps can wipe and start over.

That being said, a bad BRD is bad, but I don't feel like that's worth mentioning. Bad kiting is bad/Good kiting is good. Bad anything is bad :P

I'll run where I please.

In my case I kite the thing around the tank when he slips up and loses control. Y'know, so he can wail on the thing to regenerate his lost aggro.

>_> I'm kiting because the tank(s) are dead or retarded. Sorry...

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Originally Posted by Leiron

You cannot provoke a FATE mob or most regular mobs actually.
So if you run around kiting AND shooting the mob, you make it that much harder for a tank to get the mob off you.

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I did not know that - now I do, thanks!

This thread amused me. You can tell the good archers/bards from the bad just based on their responses.

Get a better Tank, for the time being I'll be here being awesome repelling all over the place, running and throwing arrows because I'm l33t baby.

If you are kiting it means you are still attacking the mob instead of trying to drop aggro. If you are running in circles without attacking the mob then thats a bit more acceptable.