by Abazzagorath » Sat Dec 29, 2007 7:49 am
They don't give us AE aggro because they have decided that AE aggro is a major class advantage for shadowknights. We have a better chance of getting a warrior style AE taunt (something with a longish recast) than we do getting Sk style chain castable ae aggro. And honestly, they're right. If paladins had ae aggro, what possible reason would any raid have for using an SK at all? Pulling? They barely do more dps than us against live mobs, even burning everything, because for knights the vast majority of our dps comes from regular melee. They can't group cure, group heal, single target heal others, and their self heal is extremely weak in any content that matters (i.e. non-trivial). They basically get, feign, ae aggro, stat taps, and "evil persona" as what defines them as a class. Not much there relative to what paladins get.
Its just unfortunate that SOE has made kiting many adds such an integral part of raid scripts in recent years that if you don't need a paladin curing/healing, you're better off with an SK in a raid force. But that could change at any time, maybe not likely, but definitely possible.