Aggro swaps in NY raids

NY raids always had a pathological problem with aggro swaps being too volatile. Sometimes, no matter how hard the tank who provokes spams his power abilities & such, we still have occurrences of the other tank getting accidentally the aggro back from seemingly just 1 or 2 basics, or dot procs, or anything just as ridiculous. The issue will become more apparent after this rebalance patch, because the other tank will actually have to keep hitting the boss in order to proc Efficiency to reduce their cooldown of the elite, so it’s ready in time for their next tanking rotation.

Here’s my suggestion: upon using a provoke, during the provoke’s duration, increase the tank’s aggro generation by X% so that the tank can actually generate a lot more aggro in that short timespan. This is how the provokes have been implemented in WoW, with success.

Wiping in NY raids from accidental aggro swaps is everything but fun.

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