by Brohg » Tue Jul 03, 2007 8:16 pm
Silent Casting doesn't reduce the agro associated with dots.
I don't have this problem. Look in your log files for "Soandso looks very angry." and "Soandso looks furious." and "Soandso is struck by a vortex attack". If you don't see all of those alternating for the whole battle, then your deaths are the tank's fault, not yours. Those are the messages associated with Scowl, Bazu Bellow, and Vortex Blade, the three heavy +agro warrior combat abilities.
Another culprit can be gear. Your gear doesn't affect your agro much at all, but gear does affect the warrior's agro. Appropriate weaponry (all ours use Arcekor + 2.0/2.5, Swiftcleave and BBB are still fine), augments (EB main, EB+A3 in offhand epic), and modifiers (meaning +100cfx) make a lot of difference to them.
With tanking, I can have a pet, melee (with TA, not epic, most of the time) with Panther on, chaining Sting while running 5 dots and not pull agro unless he dies. I've done this for up to 8 minutes. With that kind of load on, though, only a very talented warrior and a little luck will be able to save me from being the next dead if the main tank goes down. That's around 1300 dps, btw, if a couple rogues keep Guide of Toxicity on the whole time.