Behavioral Modificatinator Stereopticon and its present state.

[Iseabeil]

This isnt about wether it was overpowered before, what changes should have been made etc. There are plenty of threads about that already. What Im curious about is the specifics of what it does now. Most deagro spells have several parameters applied to them, the amount of threat/threat positions decreased, wether its single, encounter or area of effect, sometimes duration and so on. Behavioral Modificatinator Stereopticon states: 'Applies Behavioral Modificatinator Stereopticon when activated. Sometimes a good knock in the head can make 'em forget you're even there!' along with the recast time of 2 minutes, and the update note info that it cant fail and add more hate. I guess hoping for amount of threat decrease information would be too optimistic, but Im curious if anyone been able to reach any conclusions on the other parameters of it. The part speaking of them in the info seems to alude to not single target, but I wouldnt want to take flavour text as gospel. It would be boring to have all things spelled out, but this is a bit vague for my taste right now. Itd be nice to know if its worth having in the bags as a non tanking class, or if its gonna share the fate of the tinkered swarmpets, ie recipes you might do once for fun and then throw away.

[Antryg Mistrose]

Sorry I can't help you out (at least for a few more days until I get a char to 350 tinkering).  I'm also curious, specifically: <ul><li>Is it really like Phase (illusionist spell), in that it reduces hate to the current target, or is it a personal deaggro for the tinkerer only? (In which case it is nothing like Phase) </li><li>Is it ALL hate?  (ie if you are the only one who has engaged the mob is it a Fakedeath/MemoryWipe equivalent).</li></ul>It WAS the single best tinkerer item.  It would be nice if it still had SOME use.  A personal deaggro if thats all it is now is completely pointless for my 2 tinker chars - troubador and shadowknight.  One never pulls aggro, the other never wants a deaggro.

[Iseabeil]

Im not sure why they keep calling it phase, as a lvl 70 illusionist <i>with</i> phase, the only likeness its had was that they both managed agro. Phase removes the person on top of hate list, amneisa and this tinkered item wiped hate fully. The new version wont do much for tanks, unless they are offtanking and not meant to pull agro, wich is rare situation for the normal tank. I cant see that much use for bards, or the other scouts either, as bards generally dun pull, and the others have a lot of hate managment tools. My guess is this will mainly be a mage/somewhat priest item from now on.

[HBP]

<p>As a priest tinkerer, I'll probably find use with it as a backup deagro (when my main one is down).  I tend to agree that the item's main function should have stayed the same but put a longer recast timer on it.  The way it was before they nerfed it was rather overpowered (being able to spam it over and over), but putting the 2min timer on it but still leaving it with the same function would have worked fine, IMO.  </p>