I got home from work last night just in time for one OOB run before I called it a night. I dont know if its me, or the "Patch" or the groups I get for OOB but wow. Last nights group sucked.
INC RANT!
First of all, Ive never really hd a good gorup for OOB, and for whatever reason, Ive had problems either holding agro or just dieing a lot in the stupid zone. So we start off with 5, and compelte the zone with 5. It took us 1.5 hours to finsih the zone.
Tank (me on Phalong, 70 SK Tank Spec'ed for STA, and Agro)
Healer (Defiler, 70.)
DPS (Monk, 70)
DPS (Assassin, 69)
DPS (Warlock, 66)
Needless to say, the assassin pulled agro on every single pull. I noticed that his "Agro Trasnfer" was at 22%. My level 48 Assassin has 23%. This assassin of course has Adept 3 to Master DPs abilities, but nothing for keeping agro on the tank. Also didnt know how to use basic deagro abilities.
The monk pulled agro id say 1/10 pulls. And thats normaly for me, monks just pull agro. He always FD'ed and Id be back in action.
The Warlock pulled agro 1/5 pulls and would of course die. He was AEing like crazy. He also didnt wait for a rez, he woudl revive, get lost, and die. He was 10% from naked when we finished.
After the first named, and the assassin going off on me for keeping agro, I pointed out that if he focused on agro manager, and maybe upgrading his agro transfer he claimed that I was in offensive stance. The others jumped on the band wagon. The rest of the way through the zone when the assassin pulled agro, i let him die.
I spent 22 Gold on repairs from last night and didnt get any loot. I also only got about 20% AA xp. such is life.
Im looking forward to getting my Assassin up so I dont have to worry about agro management. I can just excape if need be.
I also had a nice MM Cats group the other night. It went to crap when some of the members had to bail. I quickly found replacements because it was onyl DPS. However, one of them had a difficult time getting to us. We evaced to the ZI, and he kept falling off the ledge. /sigh.
Offensive stance, Im at about 52% Mitigation Self Buffed. 56% Mitigation Desensive. Its the same with a shield or without. I tank with a shield for the ability to bash and gain extra hate though.