Curiosity is an essential step to becoming a great DMSer! You will have to know how aggro (=
aggravation) fundamentally works before you can progress to tanking. Most of your understanding of aggro will come from experience. However, you need to go over the basics. While used as a term to describe the crew member tanking, aggro is technically defined as the attention of monsters in a room. A dps (=
damage per second) player can accrue aggro on any monster fairly easily. If the tank dies, enemy attention will move to another player or players according to how much aggro they have developed.
variables to aggro accumulation▦▦
damage healed ▦▦
R2 (=
Rage 2)
Wish on multiple injuries heals more damage than R4
Bandage on one member. Healing will cause aggro for all monsters in a room.
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damage dealt ▦▦
Your overall damage to a monster builds aggro on that specific enemy.
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debuffs ▦▦
Certain rings at high rages cause debuff effects on enemies.
Some examples include
QuickSand,
Adrenaline,
Hornet's Nest, and
HotFoot.
Any monsters with the given debuff will gain aggro towards the debuffer.
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first sight ▦▦
All monsters are set at 0 aggro before a room is entered.
The first crew member to be noticed gains the room's
preliminary aggro.
Wolves begin gaining aggro at first sight.
You will be able to witness the principles of aggravation development in action throughout your DMS career. However long that may be! If curiosity is the first step to tanking, leveling rings is the second. While it is entirely possible to tank at an extremely low CL, it isn't a practical routine. The majority of DMSers post-bloodstone are at a CL of 11.4-12.0. To retain aggro, you will want a
tanking set of CL 11.3-12.0. A tanking set could include a wild variety of rings. See the next spoiler for more details. If you need a place to begin leveling, the rings listed below are a decent goal to kick off your tanking experience. Incidentally, many of them are also good rings to upgrade for a dps player.
Power-ups are a great investment, as well as
Fortunes Favor and (if you're particularly well-endowed)
SweetHeart.
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Comment update since my Profile edits aren't cooperating!
[1/9/2015]
Out of a combination of frustration and sheer laziness, I will not be changing the happenings section of my profile. No matter how irrelevant it is without zOMG!
To be totally fair...
It has been incomplete nearly two years anyways. <3 Thanks for the great runs, team!
and colder..
and colder for me.
Is that picture on your profile you? You're really cute o:
I haven't really been able to get a straight/accurate/specific/exact answer out of anyone on the subject so far, and my vital need to know has been killing me.
I just started DMSing myself and fully intend to tank as soon as I've leveled up my rings, so I hope to catch you around zOMG sometime~
lol. i forgot who you were until i looked at your profile agian
iw as like
what
did my ex gf change her name again scream
but i was like oh. it's you.
the one with the snazzy zomg tips rofl
dat love for zomg. rofl
thumbs up. whee