Quote Originally Posted by Eli85 View Post
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Do you have any idea how hard it can be to hold aggro as a tank when DPS decides to ignore diversion?
I'll give you a good (and unfortunately common) example: A PLD in Shield Oath is about to pull with Shield Lob. This is already a bad situation, as PLD never want to pull in Shield Oath with Shield Lob, but Sword Oath and Holy Spirit... anyway... there is you - this typical pre-casting Veraero RDM - without diversion. Do you know how much enmity a Shiled Oath-Shield Lob generates?
About 1930 potency! Yeah, awesome, no problem, right? WRONG!
A tank's main stat on SAME iLvl is about 80-85% of DPS job (On iLvl 400 ~2650 STR to ~3250 INT/DEX/STR/MND). So our generated enmity potency is reduced to about 1550. If this PLD is unlucky and his Shield Lob doesn't hit with a crit, but this particular RDM gets 2 Crit-DH on both Veraero and Verthunder... that's already over 1240 potency. Now add another oGCD or 2 from this RDM, and guess what the boss does? It will target the RDM, most likely catching the PLD by surprise, unable to react to the sudden switch of the boss. Also, do you know what can happen in the first few seconds of a boss fight? A tank buster! Have fun eating it, and you know what? It's not the PLD's fault, they did all they could to maintain aggro in those few seconds! It's your fault for being lazy to use diversion before you pre-cast Veraero. Which btw costs you NOTHING.
This situation occurs more often when the tank has lower iLvl than the DPS. Even worse when they decide to get into a (leveling) dungeon undergeared.