RDM and Diversion/AoE

[Rongway]

how, exactly, does Diversion work? I use it whenever I see yellow on my enmity list, but i've never been sure exactly how it functions.

is it an instant decrease in emnity? is it gradual, reducing a set amount of enmity over time? or does it just cause your spells to generate less aggro for the duration?

I use Lucid Dreaming for MP recovery, the enmity decrease I consider a bonus. perhaps I should not use it in this manner.

Diversion is an enmity suppressor. After using it, all your actions generate only 50% of the enmity they would normally generate. Note that you will generate a little bit of enmity just from activating Diversion, 455 points, and this is enough to get something to look at you if the tank hasn't poked it yet. But after that activation, your enmity generation is halved for the duration of the ability.

Lucid Dreaming is an enmity drop. It will instantly reduce your enmity by half, and then give you 455 points.

The 455 extra enmity in both cases is because any ability that applies a self buff will generate about this much enmity.



So Diversion is typically better early in the encounter, when you haven't generated enough enmity yet to make Dreaming worth it, and Dreaming is better later in the encounter when "half" of your enmity is a lot.

[JMadFour]

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so...I've been doing it wrong. gotcha, I'll keep this in mind.

[Thela]

I use Lucid Dreaming for MP recovery, the enmity decrease I consider a bonus. perhaps I should not use it in this manner.

Unless you're using a lot of vercure or verraise you should never have an MP issue, it is primarily an aggro dump tool, the mp refresh is just a bonus.

[RaizeGraymalkin]

Maybe you should stop talking about "doing your job" when your job includes tools to increase overall group dps that you choose not to use. Yes I'm talking about diversion. If all the dps use diversion and mitigate as much aggro gain as possible, the tank can do more damage while still holding aggro, increasing overall group dps and improving clear times. Suggesting that tanks should always be in tank stance and just hold aggro is the biggest scrub advice ever, an untrained monkey can hold aggro in ffxiv.

Seeing as how many tanks bitched about aggro before they buffed emnity I'm gonna say no, but please continue to be a sterling example of this wonderful online community.