know your aggro! a guide for DPS.

[Shori]

Itd be good for DPS to understand their role. I'm a tank and I get annoyed when i do a range attack to pull the mob but a lancer or whoever then goes and fetches his own. I squeezed in some traits from gladiator into my maruader to try and get the most aggro I can and use area attacks to get stray mobs off any healers but all of that still depends on DPS following the lead.

[V1V1]

Do these bars show differently if you are the tank as opposed to the healer? as a healer i only see the green yellow red like posted. I remember it differently when I tanked in beta 3

i dont tank but my guess is the tank would want to keep them as red a possible= aggro if they were to go yellow that would mean hes losing aggro

[CrisGer]

As a Tank it is hard to keep your eyes on everything esp when fighting a tough boss but those Agro bars do help get an idea of what is up. When there are 15 of them, it gets a bit hairy and Flash does not always work first time. We will just keep doing our best.

[V1V1]

bump........

[Darkrotor]

i dont tank but my guess is the tank would want to keep them as red a possible= aggro if they were to go yellow that would mean hes losing aggro

What I was refering to and I may be wrong is that when I tanked you could see the colors but there was also either an "A" 1, 2 or 3 next to each party member showing their position on the aggro list. I havent tanked yet since release so I dont know if it changed.

[Dreey]

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Those colors just tell me how awesome of a job I'm doing LOL.

Yeeees, bring your hate on me , hit me, hiiiiiit meeee.
That tank's not a threat to you, I am, attack me,
I'm the most dangerous Person here ( muahahaaahaaaa).



I joke ^_^

[Khalus]

....Maybe if all the tanks didn't suck at their jobs.

Maybe if DPS would learn how to assist the tanks!

Don't attack mobs the tank isn't currently tanking, because many of times the mages are sleeping/mezzing them too make it a might be easier, especially with 3-4+ mobs. Also every mob in dungeons have letters after their names from A~Z which usually goes through 3 sets before completing the dungeon, anyroad, surely everyone knows the alphabet, so follow it! As a tank I follow the letters in order, thus if you do the same you'll be assisting the tank, the healer can focus on keeping only me alive, mobs die faster and everything goes smoothly!

Seriously how difficult is that to understand, am looking at you DPS~!?!?!?

[ketzall]

.... archers and blm are most powerful dps i ve seen, but some just get cocky about how much dmg they can do...this is annoying, dont wanna go into details, but they lack logic, and uh carbys can tank , if u see them get hate as a tank dont fight to get it back take advantage to gain some tp ..... see ya in the dungeons ..

[V1V1]

bump....

[Bloodwillow]

....Maybe if all the tanks didn't suck at their jobs.

Yeah cause I mean we all start this new game with all the mechanics and shit perfect. Idiot. All players need to watch their aggro. If you are a dps and throw your heavy damage in the first few secs of a fight you more than likely will die.

I'm finding this game handles aggro and mob links different than what I am used to. Thanks for the post OP. helps a lot.