Trook wrote:
Drulak wrote:TBH i cannot believe that anyone could prove that it is better to have lower avoidance. even if it makes you hold aggro better , surely the main thing about tank is to take as little as damage as possible. OK before the wisecracks , if other group members are getting hit , you are taking less damage. But forget how our broken HTL works . the basic premise is do everything you can to get hit as few times as possible and also take as little damge from the hits that do land.
It is just madness to have to lower avoidance , in order to increase aggro. It would be like a boxer letting his opponent hit him as much as possible , but hoping his sterdy neck shrugs off the blows so he doesn't get knocked out.
First off, Group members getting hit is not the way it should be. We as guardians need to do what we can to PREVENT that.. Granted we cannot control ones DPS out put or lack of restraint when fighting and pulling aggro but you make it sound like it is "ok" for a group member gets hit as it "Helps" the tank take less damage.
And If said Tank was an avoidance type tank then what you say may be true but Guards are primarily a mitigation tank with CA's tha tproc hate when we GET HIT!
Now, the way I see it, we as "Mitigation" Tanks, take the damage the target is dishing out so the rest of the group can kill it.. we "Mitigate" the damage taken with each hit.. and as an extra added plus, we have the HTL series of CA's that proc hate when we GET HIT so we can do our job better WRT keeping the targets attention on us.
The fact that higher avoidance directly affects the proc rate of the HTL series of CA's is flawed.. It's that smiple.. And I agree it is just "Madness" to have lower avoidance to increase aggro but thats the way it is at the moment for us Guards anyway..
If the HTL proc went off when the Target Missed then alot of guards would have higher avoidnace (I would for sure).. Until this gets fixed, I for one will do whatever I can to not increase my innate avoidance.
HEHE trook , i was stating that about group members getting hit before i got a wisecrack from someone else saying that.
I stated "the main thing about tank is to take as little as damage as possible" and i expected a troll to come back and say if others are getting hit then the tank is taking as little damage as possible. So i pre-empted that by stating "OK before the wisecracks , if other group members are getting hit , you are taking less damage. But "
The point was after the BUT not before , that was to try and stop people being clever 