New tank changes and its affect on AA's

[dpsman]

<p>I have heard rumors that tanks will lose auto attck in defensive stance. If this is true will the Crusader aa trample be revamped or become useless while tanking?</p>

[Vulkan_NTooki]

<p>This is only a rumor I'm sure..</p>

[Aven Elonis]

<p>Auto-Attack is at .5 for me in Def Mode (means either I do 1/2 of the auto attacks I normally do or I do 1/2 the damage for my all regular count of autoattacks, I think it is the later). I assume it to be the same for other tanks.</p>

[Antryg Mistrose]

<p><cite>Aven Elonis wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Auto-Attack is at .5 for me in Def Mode (means either I do 1/2 of the auto attacks I normally do or I do 1/2 the damage for my all regular count of autoattacks, I think it is the later). I assume it to be the same for other tanks.</p></blockquote><p>I don't think it is 1/2 autoattack - weapon stats shows a much smaller fraction as does actual whacking mobs - more like 25%</p><p>I think it moves us down the attack table towards priests a bit (differnet classes have different attack modifiers and it sounds like that is what it is adjusting fractionally)</p>

[Elanjar]

<p>If you read it, the spell says reduces damage multiplier by 0.5. But on test the auto attack dps is only about 30-40% less. Factoring in hit rates I'd say all that it does is take us from x3 to x2.5 or somethin similar.</p>