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mewbrey
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Have posted this in a few other places but it got very little notice. I found out how to resolve the threat issue, when zoning into the dungeon take off all of your gear including chain under clothing and jewelry. Make sure you have sooth equipped when doing this if you plan on using sooth, you do not need to change any buttons on your hot bar, just make sure all your gear is taken off.
Then put all the gear back on again, now your healing threat should act properly, you will see a huge decrease in threat, compare to what you are use to anyhow. I do not know why this works, but it has worked for me now in over 23 dungeons I no longer pull threat for every target, and GWF can even peal mobs off me now.
You should only need to do this in the first dungeon you zone into for the entire play session, however if you log off, when you log back in you will need to do this again this includes if you crash out at any point.
I hope this helps people resolve their threat issue, and it will breath a breath of fresh air into the class it is a very different game when you do not have to tank 30+ adds in a dungeon, you may still pull a fair bit of threat from mobs that are not being attended to from tanks but once they throw a mark on it, and smack it once or twice it will soon be pealed off.
Enjoy, and please keep this thread alive, in the hope that a Dev will see this and be able to figure out the issue behind it all.
Then put all the gear back on again, now your healing threat should act properly, you will see a huge decrease in threat, compare to what you are use to anyhow. I do not know why this works, but it has worked for me now in over 23 dungeons I no longer pull threat for every target, and GWF can even peal mobs off me now.
You should only need to do this in the first dungeon you zone into for the entire play session, however if you log off, when you log back in you will need to do this again this includes if you crash out at any point.
I hope this helps people resolve their threat issue, and it will breath a breath of fresh air into the class it is a very different game when you do not have to tank 30+ adds in a dungeon, you may still pull a fair bit of threat from mobs that are not being attended to from tanks but once they throw a mark on it, and smack it once or twice it will soon be pealed off.
Enjoy, and please keep this thread alive, in the hope that a Dev will see this and be able to figure out the issue behind it all.
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Bandaid
but thanks
When you first enter a dungeon for the first time after logging on example:
Log into Neverwinter
Queue for dungeon
Enter dungeon
Take all gear off
Put all gear on
No longer a tank!
Hope that explains it a little better!
Yes thx very much.
Devs know about it ? Did You contact them?
I'm hoping they see this post, but I will also make an in game bug report, I really hope it helps them get to the bottom of this so the wider audience of clerics can enjoy their class that much more!
Awesome info - thanks!
I had posted it in the bug area, but it got very little attention and faded down the post list. At least in the cleric area more people will see it is my hope
Threat is still crazy for a cleric, and even more so in tier 2 epics. But at the same time the only challenging mechanic the game seems to use, is to throw dozens over dozens of adds at the party. So it is obvious that everyone has to work hard to manage it.
I do hope it is a workaround and not an exploit. As I'm getting a little bored of always having the same choice: getting swarmed and torn apart by adds whenever I'm actually trying to do some significant healing, or let others die and then wipe anyways.
Third option: OP is having a good laugh.
"Mod 6. Oh my f****** god. It gutted the game pure and simple. And what wasn't gutted was messed up by the poorly thought out new level cap and equip. The game never recovered from that atrocity".
..............not this one then.............
Thanks again.
Afraid it does not make you immune to bad tanks hehe.
I'll be trying that this weekend when I queue for the Mad Dragon.
Grace, Tiefling Devoted Cleric
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. Then leave the rest to Batman."
You may still get some adds if no one else is hitting them within 8 seconds.
Good to know. I've not done that one yet.
Grace, Tiefling Devoted Cleric
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. Then leave the rest to Batman."
No makes it work. You still have to keep it on.
Bump.
This needs to stay on top. Did a couple skirmishes (Orc Attack) after unequip/re-equip on login and the difference was pretty noticeable.
- Fixed a bug with cleric threat being unintentionally reduced after removing gear.
Makes me very happy to see that it is helping people, I also hope it helps the developers pinpoint the issue if they know that we can work around it this way then perhaps they can reverse engineer the issue to solve it.
I am almost 100% sure that by using this fix, it puts the threat how it is intended to be, you still pull agro often from mobs not being attended to by other players it just acts much more as you would expect threat to work in a mmo setting.
If I believed this an exploit I would have not posted this on here to try and help other clerics and would have just bug reported it.
Always tanking everything.
Anw, with a good tank, you don't need this strat.