Petition: An Enmity Stat

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I'm actually not having hate trouble. Any that I've had are (legitimately, lol) due to lag, or due to my own screwup.

But I don't see an enmity stat *anywhere* in the game. It seems to be that it should be attached to something.

As our gear improves, the margin between how much damage I do and how much damage a lancer does will widen vastly. As our gear improves, the more potent heals will become, and the more enmity the healers will generate.

I have played Marauder yet, but Flash's enmity is probably fixed (hate mods like Shield Oath being the only exception), which means that in time, Flash won't be "enough" to maintain while switching targets and maintaining solid hate as needed.

In Marauder's case, Overpower wakes things up, which causes healers to have to heal more, creating more enmity, while the damage of overpower isn't going to scale like the damaging attacks it's competing against.

So give us an enmity stat, or tie it to something, but only applicable while on the job (STR, VIT, even maybe piety--again, only applicable while on PLD/GLA/WAR/MRd).

I realize that enmity stances like Shield Oath give them a knob to turn, but I'm also familiar with these companies, even SE specifically, and putting off changes, while they're considered.

The attempt of this post is to get them to start considering now =D.

At my post limit so--

Also, Flash's enmity is based on weapon damage, strength, determination, and damage buffs/debuffs. From the limited testing I've done, its enmity calculation is the exact same as Overpower, just without the damage component or chance to crit(it actually might be able to crit, i'm not 100% sure).

Thanks Rum, I don't have any friends as into numbers as I am so it's difficult for me to test things with accuracy.

No, this is pointless and if you're having trouble holding aggro you're doing something wrong.

Read more than just the topic title please.

I'm not having hate problems, merely that this might change as the game progresses because most MMOs forget to keep the tanks in balance with the other sources of enmity.