Goad does not reset agro. It just puts you to the top of the mobs hate. However with all the max dpsing going on now and toons geared up the wahzoo being at the top of the mobs hate list doesnt mean youll will stay there long. This is why nowadays if you dont follow goad up with more hate generation it seems to not work.
Goad was made pre super nuke fights. With the current fight mechanics and players dps ability goad is in danger of becoming "broke" for lack of a better way to put it. Simple fix would be for funcom to add more of a threshold to goad so that it puts you at top of hate and then some.
Just my opinion.
24 people in raid do various stuff,threat threshold kind of different in many raid bosses(my belief) ,TIME-INTERVALS boss check aggro list(very important and again varies my belief),latency issues and you can safely say raid situation is not safe ground to make assumption for goad.
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As far as I understand, Goad puts you on the aggro level (or maybe the same + 1) than the current aggro holder. Apart from that, nothing happens, esp. no reset. Else, it would be a complete aggro wipe and damage dealers would often draw aggro immediately after using Goad - doesn't happen, though. The aggro positions besides yours and the current aggro holder are untouched.
Usage:
Goad + Irritate = Aggro (most of the time).
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the onyx tests we did show conclusively it doesnt reset agro, merely gives and added hate edge to user of goad, if prior agro holder keeps hitting he gets it back easily.
but this is not in anyway a good simulation of what happens in raids, with people dps'ing from start and multiple tanks fighting for agro.
too many times on my necro passing over 1800 dps witnessed a random goad and grabed agro by doing chill pb detonation+instant icestrike.
too many times i saw in pug raids random nab uses goad and maintank doesnt do burst agro and some dps class who did high burst in the seconds following goad and he pulled agro.
so many times in diferent bosses someone uses a goad i just do brust agro and get agro back from someone else's goad.
simply you cant replicate this i seen so many times in raids and some 6man's by testing this in onyx as you saw 4 guards doing just white hits on the mobs and they just die.
you simply cant just goad, you need to goad+burst hate else someone else will have agro.
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That's because you don't manage your aggro. When tanks are switching aggro, DPS must restrain their damage dealing.
Originally Posted by Angellis
using goad randomly is an issue sometimes, but when i play with decent tanks or better players then me i never need to use it, agro swapping is fluid and happens when agro holder gets half health by burst agro without ever resorting to goad/fe, and that is how tanks should tank no nab shadows rotating tanking for them or shouting for dps to hold back.
goad is an emergency tool not something to be spammed everytime its off cooldown.
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