DuoMaxwellxx wrote:
ok an an il80 pld I hold hate in t1 against cad just fine, dont lose hate at all. I get to il85 and do t2 now. I cant hold hate one ANYTHING in there, those balls are bouncing around the room like ping pong balls, and even during the end when AD enraged I lost hate and couldnt get it back at all, no matter how much flashing or enmity comboing I did it never turned and looked my way once. surely keeping hate on cad is MUCH harder.more work than t2 sooo what the heck was I doing wrong? (and yes shield oath was up)
We had this discussion before when you were struggling with hate in lower level dungeons as you were leveling up. I wanna say it's your rotation aren't up to par, do you have the capability to record video and upload it so we can see whats going on to help you more? How are you opening up each pull? Are you using other abilities to help you regain hate once you lost it, provoke, shield lob? Are you using other abilities that are off the GCD (spirits within... efc) and not part of your combo rotation? Are you running out of dps range during move's that are going off instead of side stepping it and staying on the boss? What is you acc at? If its lower than 470ish than that's going to be your problem. If your missing hit's then you will be losing hate due to not finishing off your combo's for more enmity, consider using food that will increase that.
If you take left hand turn all the way in T2 to AD's then it's going to be the last node in the trio where hate may ping pong around. When AD's goes into enrage method no matter what you do you will lose hate, all our tanks (myself included) then switched into sword oaths and dps'ed away. You can stay in shield oath if you like to take less dmg but you will not keep hate once he enrages.
Quor wrote:
Could be that you're up against some ilvl 95 or 100 weapons. If you don't have gear close to ilvl 90 then you'll feel it. I'm sitting at 88 right now, and I have yet to lose hate to anyone on anything, with the exception of WHM's who don't watch hate on Titan.
I'd start filling in your weakest pieces with Hero's/Noct/AF2 asap to bring up your ilvl. Str isn't as good as weapon damage, but it's the next best thing. Also make sure you have Zenith Relic. Do that first, above all other things if you haven't already.
I have MT T4 @71 for my pld against back then against full i90's and had no trouble what so ever in keeping hate, I'm able to keep hate my pld in newer content and coil even with DPS going nutz during the encounters with a higher gear and weapon. My pld had just the regular relic back then and now has the ex wep and shield (ilvl 73 now, saving myth for BRD books), slowly getting it geared up from coil.