Taunt in RTTC - Willpower?

Hey All,

Well, I'm playing with a more squishy toon (mine is a DB/WP Scrapper) and I understand that RTTC can take taunt SO's and such.

Are they wasted slots if I use them that way? I really need to get stuff off the other toon and if she tosses an AoE that hits NPC's too far away she gets clobbered.

Any ideas on what I can do?

RTTC is probably the only taunt auras that is potentially worth slotting for taunt. Unlike the taunt auras in other sets it has a very short duration so it really needs some assistance if you want to hold aggro with it. You might also want to look at taking Confront or Provoke if you want to be able to hold aggro consistently.

Take Confront
If she's hitting things from more than 8 feet away from you, rttc won't help

I like Confront better. It only hits 1, but it's autohit, lasts three times longer and reduces range.

Then again, I pick Confront on characters without aggro aura. Provoke might make sense on a WP, provided you have the pool open... That's a big "if" though. I'd hate to skip Maneuvers, Tough/Weave, Cj or Hasten.

As for Taunt enhancements in RttC, eh. Turning a 1.25s taunt into a 1.5s taunt won't change things much, the aura ticks every second anyway doesn't it?

Edit: oh... Good point, Sarrate.

Perhaps, but I've allways found that the best way to taunt something is to stab it in the face, repeatedly if needed.

While this is true, it doesn't keep the 'stabby-taunt'-ee's buddies glued to you, like a Tanker's taunt would.

Be Well!
Fireheart

If you wanna tank better take the AoE taunt in the pool whatever the name is. I could strip aggro from a surrounded WP tanker with SNAP SHOT from Archery because he didn't have taunt.

According to Dechs...


The last case to cover is Rise to the Challenge from Willpower, which is another unique beast like Ice Armor, except in a very bad way. Every other taunt aura has a magnitude of four, this one has a magnitude of three. The real problem is the duration of 1.25 seconds, less than one tenth the duration of the other auras! Keep in mind that duration remaining is part of the threat formula, so this directly affects Willpower's ability to gain and keep aggro.

The saving grace here is that Rise to the Challenge, unlike all other taunt auras, can stack with itself, but not without enhancement. Once you throw some taunt enhancement in here, it can stack up to a magnitude six taunt effect with over a two second duration. The extra magnitude helps to make up for the lack of duration, but you will have to lean more heavily on Gauntlet/Fury and the power Taunt.

But, seriously, if you are trying to hold aggro and tank you'd have an easier time of it as a Tanker or Brute, and with just about any mitigation set other than WP which is not ideal for pure tanking.

This isn't fool proof, but if you run in and open with your AoE (Typhoon is the best option for this as it is 360 deg attack)... your teamate will get less agro then if you start with ST attacks. If they attack something with 0 damage done to them, they're going to draw agro. But if instead their targets have been damaged, it usually takes more then just 1 hit from range to draw it off any melee toon (distance from the target does matter when determining agro)... I actually thing that using this method carefully along with a taunt aura should be enough unless the other toon is using PBAoEs instead of ranged ones.

They just need to fix the taunt aura in Willpower to match all the other taunt auras in the game.

You know, for a while I've decided that the lower duration in RttC isn't as big a deal as everyone makes it out to be. In one of Castle's old posts about taunt mechanics:

I think the moral of the story is to reroll as a Brute.

Which tends to be the moral of a lot of stories these days.