Enmity Management, Do we want it back?

[Marxam]

Leave things alone on this front. It's fine as it currently is. The only thing bringing ye olde enmity back will accomplish is further incentivizing morons to engage in random aggro pissing contests.

You do realize it still happens right? The only difference is instead of actually doing a rotation since enmity was heavily tied to damage output, you just spam your ranged and you have instant aggro. S ranks are the worst for this.

It's why threads like these pop up, because when you can effectively maintain aggro by just spamming one button, what is the point of enmity?

I've stated before, I wouldn't be surprised if enmity is just baked into the tank mastery trait so they can avoid the whole "tanks stance on" That would officially be the day that tanking truly died in this game and you are just a dps with higher defense.

[Absurdity]

That would officially be the day that tanking truly died in this game and you are just a dps with higher defense.

That's already all we really are. Except we're a gimped dps because the tank damage calculation has a built-in nerf, can't have the budget dps step on the toes of the real protagonists after all.





From Akhmorning back in Shadowbringers, I assume CBU3 did not change the fact that Tank Mastery actually nerfs our attack power.

[Absimiliard]

You do realize it still happens right? The only difference is instead of actually doing a rotation since enmity was heavily tied to damage output, you just spam your ranged and you have instant aggro. S ranks are the worst for this.

It's why threads like these pop up, because when you can effectively maintain aggro by just spamming one button, what is the point of enmity?

I've stated before, I wouldn't be surprised if enmity is just baked into the tank mastery trait so they can avoid the whole "tanks stance on" That would officially be the day that tanking truly died in this game and you are just a dps with higher defense.

Enmity was heavily tied specifically to your tank stance modifier and abilities with enmity modifiers, not necessarily to your raw damage output in and of itself. The maneuver was to go full tilt on your enmity generators while your tank stance was up for a bit, then turn that garbage off and stick to an optimal DPS rotation for the rest of the fight/until a mechanic or adds forced you to use tank stance again. Provoke could come in pretty handy for continuously escalating enmity too.

Spamming the projectile now is basically just a more gimped version of being one of those morons back in the day that didn't ever shut their tank stance off. Is it annoying? Yeah, but it's also not as common as tank stance Karens were way back when. Except for in hunts, apparently, where very little seems to have changed. But outside of that? Enmity pissing contests are much less common.