Quote Originally Posted by Jandor View Post
You swipe as they charge up the attack, no auto attacks because they still do the full cast and then it fails to activate at the end.
Some enemies, like the horse dudes in the vault, don't focus solely on me. If they're pacified they're not aiming at the black mage forcing him to move around.
Theres no reason to do that though? Ok so--you swipe while they cast, it wont interrupt them. You did less damage than having kept up goring or done an RA. Its ok maybe for some aggro on a secondary target (which is mostly why I might use it, although in multi situations a flash is probably a better bet--and blind works in dungeons). Now if your argument is the attacks that they target onto the raid, those -tend- to also be avoidable by the party (i say -tend-. There are some that are not--however many of those are spells. Pacification wont stop spells----the horses and animals, knights etc however do not cast spells).

In a situation where your tanking two dudes and one runs away to pull off a special attack on a party member....I think thats fine? I mean--he wont hurt them that much, sharing damage isnt a bad idea, and it significantly reduces the damage your tanking. The mob will run away(or turn to target) then run back (if it ran away). All periods your not tanking damage. You can build on the other target, etc.

The horses in the vault are a pretty rare exception to the rule, however what I prefer to do (given there is a scene transition after each set of knights) is build threat/keep them stun locked until its pointless to do so (good dps should have them burned down by then). It's still a pretty fringe case to build an ability around. I would much rather have something useful much more often given the ability procs so often but generally is something you are safer to ignore pressing. Makes me sad really -.-