Comments on: Threat Management

By: concolor

concolor — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:53:35 +0000

Not sure if this has been mentioned, and it may be known to all hunters already, but in any long fights where I’m not trapping, I FD whenever it’s up, which keeps my threat low enough that I don’t need Salvation AND I don’t need to back off on DPS nearly as much.

By: Jake

Jake — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 08:00:35 +0000

my personally favorite is “l2threat”
especially since i dont mind pissing a few people off, as long as it maximizes my dps!

By: Justin

Justin — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 02:59:54 +0000

In response to Eleanor,
From one SP to another you can actually keep dpsing until your at 120%(because of the dots) at that point you should just let all your dots run out and either MF spam or fade and wait a bit then start again. I’ve been reading some of the changes, improvements and new talents Blizzard is adding to Priests in WotLK and apparently they’re giving Shadowform it’s own Salv, it’ll provide a 30% threat reduction along with the other 25% we already get from that T2 talent. Though Fade is useless because it’s only temporary, if you pretty much do nothing during the time you’re faded, that should be plenty of time for the tank to get quite a lead on the threat meter.

By: Jake

Jake — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:57:32 +0000

ALSO.. heroic strike makes up more than half of my dps (75 percent in some cases) because it triggers windfury. so u want me to do 25 percent dps? i like topping the dps charts not sitting on the bottom so.. /pass on the slam thing :]

By: Jake

Jake — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:53:36 +0000

yeah haha i realize that, im a hyjal geared dps warrior. not some noob thats pulling aggro in wailing caverns. btw slam is horrible because it has a long cast time and messed with my GCD. BT, WW, GCD, BT, GCD, GCD, WW, BT. slam cast screws up the entire process :]

most of the time my tanks have threat covered tho so my comment was ultimately sarcasm

By: Lithanial

Lithanial — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:49:57 +0000

Blessing of salvation is a dps warriors best friends. Also bloodthirst only generates a high amount of threat if in defensive stance with tactical mastery active. Further your one of the few classes that gets a dps boost along with threat reduction with your improved berserker stance.

If your using heroic strike as a dps warrior then i suggest you get some practice in with slam, it wont eat up your rage generation and wont cause extra threat but with good timing will do you wonders.

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:33:31 +0000

how unfortunate that i play a dps warrior and all my good skills cause a high amount of threat. also.. no feign death for me..

By: Eleanor

Eleanor — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:40:10 +0000

Threat mecanics is hard to manage for some classes tho.

My main is a shadow priest and I have omen and subtelty to cape. She is sitting at 1100 spell damage and if I don’t have paladin salv or tranquil air even after waiting for 5 sunders (which I usually have to do) within a few mins of my spell rotation I will be at 90% of the tanks threat. So I pop my fade watch my threat go down for the duration and then hey presto right back up again.

I don’t know if anyone might be able to help me but it’s always fun to lose dps becuase you would pull aggro.

fix us pls blizz I beg give me some threat reduction.

By: John

John — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:19:55 +0000

This is already fairly well know through out the WoW Community but I want to add this.

Some bosses in raids such as Void Reaver the boss does a “knockback” ability which reduces the tanks threat greatly and the boss attacks the second highest person on threat. This how ever deos not effect ranged DPS only mele. If A Mele DPS is higher on the Threat list than the OT’s then the Boss will target them and 1 shot them. The ranged DPS can be second on the DPS charts and not worry as long as they are 16 ydrs away when the knock back occurs.

By: John

John — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:51:49 +0000

Talents that reduce threat arent a waste but i think id take higher damage over reducing threat…unless i am in cloth