RS Instigate

[Drazzzen]

Ok...So...
The other night we're PUGging DH and my tank is about to drop.
There's no way he'll survive the next cleave. So I instigate Ragetide from the other side of the room. And yup he comes running. Tank quickly gets topped off and we're able to continue...Unfortunately our PUG is only about 7 strong at this point and would have taken a lot more than a quick 3 second distraction to win this fight...BUT...I noticed he did not attack any of the party while he was coming for me.

SO... My question is.... conceivable could maybe 3 RS Instigate him around the pool....(not only avoiding the sea caps) but allowing the party to heal up; even one RS with Memory Capture and enough distance keep him occupied?

I know this is supposed to be the easiest Sliver/Raid Instance...but I'm just now making the transition into Raiid Gear and can only get in on PUGs or the occasional pick up from a guild who might be short one or two.

I'm just curious if anyone tried this tactic. I know it saved the Tank and all of a sudden Mumble was alive with..."wait...did you just...Wow...Saved the Raid...Awesome....Wipe"

It felt good because it worked as intended and even if I had died, it would have been worth it for the sake of the team (if we had finished him off).

I wonder how this technique would work in specific LOS areas. Heck maybe I'll just jump off the cliff next time and see what happens. Flash back mid fall

[Haldern]

SO... My question is.... conceivable could maybe 3 RS Instigate him around the pool....(not only avoiding the sea caps) but allowing the party to heal up

Last time I checked taunts (i.e. Instigate) have dimishing returns, meaning that the boss in question would go immune to taunts if you do more than a few in a short duration. If I remember correctly, it's two in a 15 second time period or something like that at least.

Used to piss me off to no end when Warriors had tons of taunts that didn't share a CD and **** ones would pop taunts to start.

1. Warrior charges > AoE taunts
2. "WTF Mr. Warrior, I am meant to be tanking number 3 and 4 as you can't take all the damage. How am I meant to do that if you have AoE taunted".
3. Second AoE taunt after 8 seconds or whatever.
4. Warrior loses aggro, 3 and 4 are in the middle of the raid pwning people and I can't taunt them off because they're taunt immune.

This was when Warriors did more AoE aggro ofc.

[Sweatybetty]

plus he cleaves like crazy, theres also other adds to tank, and you need to stay spread out for the debuff thingy he does....

if you drag the add around eating the little crabs, the boss doesnt do as much damage and dies faster. you need better tank gear, and/or better or more healers. its not a dps race, so just assign more heals

[Ianto Jones]

Sounds like a really good way to get your whole party cleaved. I approve.

Also there's diminishing returns on taunts, at the third he'd probably go immune and the whole plan goes to ****.

[Paikis]

He cleaves. You got lucky. Your idea wont work.