RDM and Diversion/AoE

[OcieKo]

lemme ask a "bad RDM" question.

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 basically shrinks how much damage the mob thinks your doing. Say currently you hit mob for 100dmg you gain 100 enmity, with diversion this would be less, so 100dmg 80 enmity or w/e the value is.
Lucid Dreaming makes the mob think your a total scrub. Drops your current enmity by a huge chunk,say you curently have 10k enmity, hit LD you have 5k enmity
Diversion is better used BEFORE your do a ton of damage, Lucid Dreaming is better AFTER you do a ton of damage.

Dont turn my math into cannon, its just easy to see numbers to get an idea of function.

Also some tanks just suck, ended up tanking/OT Menagerie on SAM while using diversion on CD. Dying kindof helped... For a sec.

[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.

[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.