Please buff Quelling Strikes

[Ruethryl]

Honestly, this sounds like a DD that can't manage their enmity worth a damn. I mean, really, it's not that hard to do. If it looks like you're about to draw aggro either switch targets or slow using abilities till the tank can reassert themself in the enmity hierarchy. If you can't shake enmity with Quelling as it is now then you clearly never learned proper enmity management and should endeavor to learn.

That's going to vary by tank of course, if you're used to playing with tanks that you can throw a brick wall at the mob without it blinking your direction and then get one where if you sneeze on the mob you have aggro..

I've also had runs where it didn't matter how easy I went, I've still nearly pulled hate off mobs (quelling or not) with every pull.. main thing then ends up being don't run around like a chicken without a head
(unless the tank is dead ^^

As far as the 50% figure it doesn't seem that high from the little bit I've paid attention to it. I miss 1.0 Chameleon though which was a straight dump all aggro skill.

[Morzy]

You're a DPS class. You're job is not just to "kill kill kill ASAP", it's also to CONTROL your DPS.

[Codek]

There is a fine line between an intelligent tank that holds back the group, and a bad tank that holds back the group.

If you find a decently geared tank that is correctly dishing out threat, and (while using quelling strikes) you still consistently pull off them, then it could use a buff. Excluding the region where item level syncing does not come into play (a fresh 50 tank vs i100 dps) I don't believe this is actually an issue. And the exclusion should actually be addressed with syncing level 50 dungeons to alleviate that difference rather then buffing an ability that effects all content.

Quelling shot is fine, the issue exists but it needs a less reckless solution to the problem. It's not interesting game play when dps have an ability that will literally make threat management a joke.

[Nana_Balthazar]

The problem is vertical progression...
... again.

Since the only purpose of equipments in this game is to become individually more powerful, it creates this kind of situation where fresh 50 may feel like a burden to high ilevel players.
Instead, equipments should precisely be the tool to avoid this ; to allow new players and veterans to play together by choosing wisely their equipments.

Stuff with enmity+/- bonus would allow powerful DD to play normally (instead of stopping playing, as absurdly suggested above).
Weapons inflicting debuff as additional effect (decreasing enemy's defense or attack)
Or equipments with bonus to ability, like "Increase Quelling Strikes duration".

All these equipments may be slightly weaker than the current equipments, in term of raw power (strength+, vitality+, etc.), but, having bonus that are profitable to the whole party, it would diminish the disparities between players of different ilevel.

[Schaeffa]

Something does need to be done to lessen the ilevel gap in the level 50 dungeons. I just ran AK and the WAR with Defiance had only 200–300 HP more than the BLM. Honestly, I love being paired with new people since you sort of feel that accomplishment with them when they manage to down a boss for the first time, but it makes healing super odd when I DoT something in Cleric Stance and steal the hate from the tank.
I would personally like to see an ilevel sync for Duty Finder dungeons. Would probably help with that first boss in Pharos, too, since if you DPS the boss too quick, the adds come too fast.

[RegnumMagik]

This isn't mostly directed to people that can't hold aggro because they're bad (because that's easily fixable). There's newer tanks that is actually doing the best of their ability and still lose aggro (because they're undergeared).

You're a DPS class. You're job is not just to "kill kill kill ASAP", it's also to CONTROL your DPS.

There's nothing that's saying DPS should be killing things ASAP. But it's boring to hold back in every mob pulls, and even bosses for the entire dungeon duration.
Do note there's a huge gap from the entry requirement of all 4 man dungeons and our current highest item level. (i55 vs i111)

Quelling strikes itself needs no "buff" like increased duration. Its recast needs to be shortened.

I like that idea, I'll add it to OP.

[Gilraen]

There's nothing that's saying DPS should be killing things ASAP. But it's boring to hold back in every mob pulls, and even bosses for the entire dungeon duration.
Do note there's a huge gap from the entry requirement of all 4 man dungeons and our current highest item level. (i55 vs i111)

So what if it's boring? That's what patience is for, if you aren't patient enough to slow down and smell the corpses then maybe you shouldn't be doing low or high level Roulettes. You could alleviate the boredom by, I don't know, giving pointers to the new people on what to expect in future dungeons, or how to improve their enmity management, or what gear they should upgrade to. You know, be a helpful person. This is an MMO, not a single player RPG.