Mostly directed at Pixel, but of course others are welcome to offer input.

Forgive me if you think this is a little off topic, but it is a thread about teh basics of pld.

I'm sure you've noticed that if one tank engages a mob, another tank, engaging at seemingly any time later, can catch up tot hat first tank without using provoke. There was a thread a while ago that got like, nearly no attention, talking about the apparent disparity between hate earned by different plds using the same abilities. At the time, I didn't really take it very seriously, as it seemed bizzare and illogical. He seemed to think it was random/based on race, I think it has to do with relative hate positions betwen the two tanks.

I think a very clear example of this is in Twintania. One tank picks her up, the otehr goes off to adds, when that tank comes back, usualy about 1-3 minutes (depending on yoru group) has passed. Despite this huge lead, the second tank can chase down the first tank's hate (usually by the time of the first conflag). It seems hate gains normalize the closer second place gets to first place. I think maybe its based on like, a percentage of main tanks threat?

I've seen this in other fights, but it just seems so strange. I wonder what the math controlling it is, why it happens, if its intentional.... if there is a way to use this system to leapfrog hate gneration between two tanks to generate more total hate than one tank could.

TL, DR: Hate generation seems to be increased for the tank that does not have the most hate. The amount of the increase seems to be larger the greater the disparity between the tank with the most threat and the one with less.

Questions: Why? Intentional? Do dps / healers receive a similar hate generation buff?