DPS ignoring hate/threat/aggro

[ZDamned]

Rex, I can't sympathize with you, but I can offer you a quick bit of advice. =)

First off, if you notice people are AOE crazy, Just ignore your attack combos, and Flash till your out of MP. Then Riot Blade till the fight is over. Flash generates Gear indiscriminant enmity, and AOE DPS is far lower than focused DPS, so you should be able to hold threat fully until you get the gear level gap closed.

Finally, start each instance off with a friendly reminder than you were absent for a while, and your gear level is not as it should be compared to players who have been playing since Launch. So for obsses, they should allow you to get at least Rage of Halone off before they start. (Make message a macro you can easily hit right away!)

Those both together should make your like MUCH easier in the DF runs.

Good luck!

[Kitru]

Flash generates Gear indiscriminant enmity

Actually, Flash's enmity is based off of your attack power, which is determined by your gear (STR and Det). There's some potential that it could also be affected by your weapon's magic attack power (it's a hidden value for DoW weapons much like the physical damage of DoM weapons is hidden).

It's important to realize that attack power and damage are not the same. Fight or Flight buffs your damage by 30%, which means that it doesn't affect Flash at all. If PLD had access to Berserk, on the other hand, it would actually increase the enmity generation. Since PLD doesn't have any attack power buffs/debuff and debuffs are pretty much always damage debuffs as opposed to attack power debuffs, this really just means that FoF doesn't affect Flash.