Blademaster agro skills

gideon9623
gideon9623 Posts: 7
edited October 2009 in General Discussion
I have a question.... Are there any blademaster aggro skills besides Stream strike?
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  • Sirrobert - Dreamweaver
    Sirrobert - Dreamweaver Posts: 3,395 Arc User
    edited October 2009
    nope, only barb has real aggro moves

    (there is the genie skils alpha male)
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  • Michael_Dark - Lost City
    Michael_Dark - Lost City Posts: 9,091 Arc User
    edited October 2009
    Stream Strike sucks up chi and doesn't hold or steal aggro at all.

    As was said, your only real choice is the genie skill Alpha Male.
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  • King_Solomon - Heavens Tear
    King_Solomon - Heavens Tear Posts: 1,341 Arc User
    edited October 2009
    to my experience it's just a buggy useless skill.
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  • PsychoChickn - Dreamweaver
    PsychoChickn - Dreamweaver Posts: 107 Arc User
    edited October 2009
    I think the answer to the question depends on what kind of agro you need.

    If you only need a temporary agro, Drake Bash works well. If a mob breaks away from the barb and runs at a squishy, Drake Bash will usually stop it dead in its tracks. Most of the time, it then switches agro to me. That is better than just watching it run by and then trying to kill it before it kills the squishy.
    Stream Strike can work for tanking when there is no barb in party. However, you need at least 60 seconds of being the only one doing anything to the boss to build agro. You also should have those teas from the apothecary skill to give you instant 50 chi, and the instant spark powder. Otherwise, you may run out of chi and not be able to do your agro skill---that can lead to party wipe. On a normal mob, you really need to hit it twice with stream strike before anyone else does anything to keep the Uber spell casters and archers from pulling agro before it dies.
    Alpha male is a temporary agro. I only see 2 reasons to use it. 1] When mobs break away FROM MY BARB and I do not have enough chi left to do the barb AOE agro skill 2]I want to agro and run at the same time. If the wizards and archers persist on attacking something other than my target, they will pull that mob away from me very quickly again anyway. The agro does not seem as persistant as the barb agro skill, but it does seem to always grab every mob.
    Your AOE skills can take agro on VIRGIN mobs. If you are the only one to harm the mob, or stun it, then you should be the one they attack. As long as no one else attacks your AOE mob, it should keep chewing on you. If you grab agro on 3 or 4 mobs at once, and every squishy member of your party attacks a differant mob, then they will all have there very own agro mob attacking them in very short order. If they at least co-ordinate to all attack the same mob, then they will only pull one at a time away from you and should be able to kill it before it kills one of them.
    And no, you have no skill at all that will pull agro on a mob that has already decided to attack someone else as well as a barb can. However, both you and the barb can grab agro on a lot of mobs if you see a cavalry charge of mobs rushing at your squishys, provided no one has harmed them yet. If you persist in doing a lot of AOE stun and the AOE damage to protect your party, then you really should put every possible point into vitality to help you survive the experience.
  • Kniraven - Lost City
    Kniraven - Lost City Posts: 2,620 Arc User
    edited October 2009
    Sream Strike slowly builds aggro just fine. Also, stuns build aggro.
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  • Alexeno - Sanctuary
    Alexeno - Sanctuary Posts: 1,006 Arc User
    edited October 2009
    on my old bm, the only thing that could steal aggro from me when i was spamming stream strike was a barb, or DD's that were at least 3-5 levels higher than me and who spammed skills

    also, any skill that adds secondary effects, especially DoTs, will increase your aggro more than a normal skill that only does damage (with a few exceptions)
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  • Accelerated - Sanctuary
    Accelerated - Sanctuary Posts: 1,048 Arc User
    edited October 2009
    Aggro weapons are good, too.
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  • Alexeno - Sanctuary
    Alexeno - Sanctuary Posts: 1,006 Arc User
    edited October 2009
    Accelerated - Sanctuary wrote: »
    Aggro weapons are good, too.

    aggro weapons O_o?
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  • Olba - Sanctuary
    Olba - Sanctuary Posts: 1,776 Arc User
    edited October 2009
    Alexeno - Sanctuary wrote: »
    on my old bm, the only thing that could steal aggro from me when i was spamming stream strike was a barb, or DD's that were at least 3-5 levels higher than me and who spammed skills

    An archer that spams skills in PvE is pretty much a failarcher.
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  • Alexeno - Sanctuary
    Alexeno - Sanctuary Posts: 1,006 Arc User
    edited October 2009
    Olba - Sanctuary wrote: »
    An archer that spams skills in PvE is pretty much a failarcher.

    +1 QFT

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  • Accelerated - Sanctuary
    Accelerated - Sanctuary Posts: 1,048 Arc User
    edited October 2009
    Alexeno - Sanctuary wrote: »
    aggro weapons O_o?

    Yeah, weapons with, Provoke: Much easier to incite the hatred of the enemy towards oneself, on it as a proc.
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  • Alexeno - Sanctuary
    Alexeno - Sanctuary Posts: 1,006 Arc User
    edited October 2009
    Accelerated - Sanctuary wrote: »
    Yeah, weapons with, Provoke: Much easier to incite the hatred of the enemy towards oneself, on it as a proc.

    b:nosebleed do want (if i ever re-roll my BM that is)
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  • MajorHarm - Sanctuary
    MajorHarm - Sanctuary Posts: 24 Arc User
    edited October 2009
    i found that that stun move couses aggro (when i used it it just pissed mobs off {sorry for the language})

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