Quote Originally Posted by Foo01 View Post
I finally made it up to level 30 on my GLA, but haven't unlocked the PLD yet. But I was running Haukke, and I don't know what I am doing wrong. There was this level 31 arcanist (not level synced, in fact no one was) that was constantly get more aggro. It was happening so much that I asked him to use his topaz carby so whatever peels off at least stays on the carby.

I was doing shield lob, flash, flash, fast, savage, and rage of halone, and rotate to the next mob, and repeat. This all I got, and I do this as much as I can but still some mob always peels off and goes after the arcanist. I can provoke it back and shield lob, but the next one will peel off and then I can't do much about that. We cleared haukke without wiping, but it was a real hairball when the adds showed up in the final boss. I can't aggro all of them together for any amount of time. At least the topaz carby was there to help, and it seemed to help.
That's just the way it is. acn get bane which is stupidly threat induced panic, and their own fault. You won't be able to compensate for extreme threat production on multiple monsters until you get shield oath at 40.

But nothing hit very hard till around then anyway.

But the best way is to shield bash, and move back to getting hate. Never use lob except pulls or range, It's threat is too low. Almost all threat is based on damage X threat modifier. The more damage you do the better.

One advance trick if you want to learn is know that flast blade does not have a threat modifier, but savage and halone does. So you can use fast blade on your main, highest threat target, and spread you combo follow ups on other monsters to produce better and more even hate faster for those annoying AoE people.

Again once you get shield oath it is a much easier process.