Incoming Adjustment for Priest Class.

[-Aonein-]

<DIV>Priest class's are having the agro generated by Reactive / Ward's fixed soon so the agro generated will go to them instead of the Tank or who ever is healed / warded. I thought id post this as a head's up to you Berserker's out there that think you might have it too easy in the agro department :</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><A href="http://eqiiforums.station.sony.com/eq2/board/message?board.id=spellart&message.id=28528#M28528" target=_blank>http://eqiiforums.station.sony.com/eq2/board/message?board.id=spellart&message.id=28528#M28528</A></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>And here is something for a hell of a laugh, i almost cryed myself to death laughing at this :</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><A href="http://eqiiforums.station.sony.com/eq2/board/message?board.id=spellart&message.id=29640#M29640" target=_blank>http://eqiiforums.station.sony.com/eq2/board/message?board.id=spellart&message.id=29640#M29640</A></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>All in all though, if you can hold agro of a chain nuking wizard in his present form today, then you / we wont have no problem's.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Taemek Frozenberg 40th Berserker<BR>16th Outfitter<BR>Blood and Ice<BR>Everfrost Server<BR><BR>Enlightened Aonein Amillion ( retired )<BR>70th Stone Fist of The Celestial Fist<BR>Five Rings on Luclin Server</DIV>

[cr0wangel]

<DIV>Thank you for the info, I am not sure what to think about this update. Healers will get more aggro I guess? Hmm...</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I noticed that reactives and wards usually prevent me to go berserk. I mean, if Focus Rage is maintened and I have a reactive / ward casted on me, I usually don't go berserk even if I am taking damage. Is it a bug or it was made like this? Sometimes for easy mobs, I ask the healer to not use any reactives or wards because I want to go berserk and those spells seem to prevent going berserk.</DIV>

[Swordmage]

<DIV>From what I have read, Clerics and Shaman will generate almost as much hate as Druids currently do and Druid hate will be scaled back a bit so all 3 will be equal.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>So, if you can tank for a druid, you are all set.</DIV>

[Scarax]

This has been a long time coming honestly. My girlfriend plays a Fury and she always has to think before casting a Regrowth or Bloom on me. Shaman's and Cleric's had it WAY too easy. They could just sit back and cast and read a book in the background. I'm obviously being a little facetious here so all you Shaman's and Cleric's don't flame me. I will tell you this though. It is absolutely beyond time this happened. Furies have gotten a pretty bum deal as a whole and this should even things out somewhat between the healing classes.

[Zenmu]

<DIV>I'm a bit worried about this personally...</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Under normal circumstances (basic xp group) doing 2 single ^s, or ^^'s or groups of 4 or fewer mobs, i have absolutely no problem holding agro off of druids.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>But in events like the boat ride's, especially EL... i hate having a druid(s) as the main healer. I have to spam group buffs everytime their up, plus single and AE taunts to hold agro on swarms of mobs, or groups of 6 or more. Throwing in a ^ ^ like the EL boat ride just makes things more complicated...</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>It took me 3 trys to do EL, the first and last i was MT, and it wasn't until the third time that i figured out to skip on doing damage and just spam AE's and group buffs to keep mobs off of the healer.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>This was at level 27-28, with all taunts at adept 1.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>It might of just been a level thing, but i occasionally have similar issues when dealing with add's without a mezer. With non druids, i can hit single taunt, ae taunt, and taunting blow once (all adept 1) on an add, and hold that agro fairly easy  (throwing in a few group buffs mid fight with the non-add just to make sure) with any healer, other than a druid. With a druid, i'll occasionally have to switch back and re-taunt it, or if the fight's going real bad and the druids spamming heals, i'll have to use rescue to peel it off.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>More than two ^ ^ mobs in the camp, without a mezer, and a druid as main healer usually means evac unless their green or all blue. With any other healer or combination of healers other than druid, i usually loose agro on an add, and that agro usually is on a healer. What's killing me on add's isn't the ammount of mitigation i'm doing, or the ammount of mana a druids spending on me per-say... it's the ammount of agro they generate, and the ammount of mana they spend keeping themselves alive when they pull that agro off me, while i try to take it back.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I'm just hoping this is because of my level (29), and the fact that i'm routinely fighting mobs 2-3 levels above me, but still using my early to mid 20's taunts... I see a new single taunt and the training group taunt on the horizon... hopefully this will negate my current issues, and the future ones with other priest classes.</DIV>

[Solanara]

<DIV><quote>I noticed that reactives and wards usually prevent me to go berserk. </quote></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>This is strange.  I am an inquisitor and my husband is a berserker.  Reactive heals have never stopped him from going berserk.  However, when I was a mystic, the wards did prevent him from zerking because it prevents damage.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>As for the change in agro, I'm not worried about it.  It's pretty routine for the dps in our groups to "forgot" to assist and mana-dump on the wrong mob (warlock hit 180dps.  lol.) and agro still wasn't ping-ponging.  We've also been with druids who chain-HoT and it's not a problem.</DIV>