Force Taunts are broken

[bear_on_the_job]

Since the hotfix yesterday, all my force taunt abilities no longer work. They will apply their damage and effects (like the pull on sergeant's order), but will not taunt. This also applies to pets. My primal companion when in defensive stance will not force taunt when it pounces. Normally, the pounce is supposed to apply a 3 second force taunt, and that's how I start most encounters, with the pet pouncing. Now, every encounter, the pet pounces, does damage...and the mob runs right past it straight to me, without me doing any damage. Every time.

Tanking is a headache now as there's no way to snap aggro back if someone pulls it from you. You just hope they tone down their DPS while you smash keys to burst as much as you can. Ironically, I play a VK main soul, and with the Discharge lunacy recently...life is hard.

[Fami]

No threat issues for me as a P/VK. I never relied all that much on the PC, especially not with Quality Cure, Insatiable Hunger and Blood from a Stone. Force Taunts never worked for me if I wasn't close enough to the most threatening tank, so there's nothing new about it.

[bear_on_the_job]

No threat issues for me as a P/VK. I never relied all that much on the PC, especially not with Quality Cure, Insatiable Hunger and Blood from a Stone. Force Taunts never worked for me if I wasn't close enough to the most threatening tank, so there's nothing new about it.

I don't understand what you're saying...Force taunts are supposed to force the target to attack you for 3 seconds, as long as they haven't already been forced recently. I'm main tank in the instance. No one else is force taunting. I usually engage a group of mobs by using my force taunt to pull. As I move to engage after force taunting, the mob runs by me and attacks a teammate...wtf? No one attacked before me.

Another situation - middle of a boss fight, one of the DPS pulls aggro from me. I haven't used a force taunt since the beginning of the fight, over 30 seconds ago. I try to force taunt, boss doesn't budge. Boss chases DPS around area, mayhem ensues.

Regardless of the situation or positioning, force taunts are supposed to do one thing - force the target to attack you. Currently they do not, under any circumstance. /bugged

[Fami]

The tooltip could be misleading, which is always has, at least to an extent. I experienced none of the problems you report of, but maybe it's just me.

[joeoc]

I have definitly noticed the taunt at least from the pet not working at all.Same thing ill switch to defensive stance and pounce but, mob will come charging right at me even with the debuff on the mob saying "taunted".

[Cappello]

Noticed the same issue with the BM pet, seems to have started with the last patch. After an hour+ of testing solo and grouped we noticed the following:

Protective Comp. + pounce will 'reverse taunt' the mob to the player, not the pet.

In groups, pulling linked mobs while Shared Bonds/Alacrity and/or Enraged Companion will cause aggro to the BM. We can only assume the same for solo but this is very hard to pin down with so many outside factors. Group example as follows:

No other aoe buffs or pulses running. Pet on passive. Paladin pulls single target from a pack (shield toss only, no other attacks at this point). That mob attacks the paladin, all other mobs run past the paladin directly to the BM (far behind the paladin). All other group members ignored as well.

Tested multiple times with various combos of the bonds/companion buffs to arrive at the above.

Bug report filed but perhaps this helps to shed a little light on BM pet problems.

[pechkin]

lol i allways thought mobs focus me instead of tank because trion made them somehow smart so they not only focus on tank.

[MadMainer]

Tanked several instances after patch yesterday and had no issues with taunt abilities (single target or AOE).

Specify which taunts you are using and what rank.

[Achenar]

I agree that the pounce does not appear to be working. Haven't tanked since the patch so I can't comment as to the other forces.

[Fami]

By the looks of it I think it has to do with the BM more than anything else. This is what I gather from this thread so far.

[bear_on_the_job]

Tanked several instances after patch yesterday and had no issues with taunt abilities (single target or AOE).

Specify which taunts you are using and what rank.

Had issues with BM pet as stated in OP. Also had issues with Warlord Sergeant's Order and VK spark. Many times in CC and AP, I would be the only one using force taunts (only warrior in group) and when I used a force taunt in the middle of combat, the mob would ignore me.

I've also noticed the BM issue with mobs running straight to the BM. This was happening before the 1.01 patch. I was actually in FC around lvl 33 a few weeks ago...the group finished off a pack of mobs, and I needed to go afk for a sec while they moved on. They were at least 50m away, when they engaged the next group. Tank pulled the first mob, and the other 3 mobs with it ran past the entire group, and straight to me 50m away.

[Kujako]

Had issues with Spark as well.

[darkchicken]

well i notice they work but not really great (reaver). I do that to pull of a mob of my healer and the mob keep hitting her like 2-3 times and after this come to me but halfway (the taunt is already out) he return to her. Sometime it work perfectly, sometime the mob do nothing, 80% of the time it does as described