Lord_PSIon

I weep for my lvl 50 Inv Tanker who is basically just a bank now.

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But hey, I know my Dominator can hold AV aggro by just blinking...at least until she's dropped one shot later.
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It really is quite pitiful that my Dominator can pretty much aggro steal from any other villain AT, but that is whole nother thread.

I remember the day when I first witnessed "herding". It was my new friend playing an ice tank. He herded gobs and gobs of baddies (before the aggro cap) and brought them back to our spines scrapper who almost instantly dropped all of them.

I remember the first time I used Energy Transfer after a herding experience in the warehouse into a tight corner. I had them stacked and crawling all over me. Hit that ET button and WHAMO I'm faceplanted in the floor. That was SO cool. I suppose I could still do this but herding is not so popular with teams these days, and of course not as fruitful.

Funny, I was taking for an 8 person team on a Moonfire TF this past weekend and caught myself saying, "Man I love punchvoke...err gauntlet".

I've found that the trick is to re-learn how to tank. This isn't the good ol' days when you could just spam taunt and provoke and have everyone's attention arround you. We could just stand still in those days and attack one target at a time. Tanking is a bit more interactive now. I find myself throwing taunt around to different aggro sets while running around attacking various targets to get their attention as well. You can see once you hit a baddie their attention does turn on you; it helps give your engaged team-mate a little breathing room.

So my advice is learn how to tank effectively (or at least what I consider effective) and you will find that gauntlet does work...to some degree.

Who knew Cuppa was such a number cruncher? And we thought she only crunched chocolate covered espresso beans!

Everyone shall now sleep...