Fury AgroFollow

First, just to get that out of the way, are the SK's abilities upgraded to app3+?

Is the fury casting bristlebelt/nettleshield on the tank after the mob is pulled or before? The damageshield and buffs should always be cast before the pull or later in the fight, never at the beginning of fight.

If the fury is casting regrowth on the tank before the pull, tell him to wait for tank to come back before casting regrowth.

Is the fury using effloresce, bloom, sylvan touch, winds of renewal, sylvan wind regularly during fights? If so, something is wrong. Most of the time, regrowth is sufficient and generates much less hate since it heals over time.

Is the tank taking too much damage? Does he have up to date gear?

Make sure the fury always has willowskin and wild spirit up to buff up the group's defense. Those spells need to be upgraded and also recasting them after each ding/miniding helps(can gain a few points in stats after a miniding) even if they last for a few hours.

The fury should always be in lion form. The benefits are too good to pass up and it boosts the defense, which is good when healer takes aggro.

Here's a typical fight:
Buff the group before fight(group buffs, individual buffs, damage shield)
Tank goes to pull and comes back with mob.
Fury casts regrowth on tank if he has lost health.
Fury casts feral intimidation/weakness on mob.
Fury casts DoTs on mob.
Fury melees and keep eye on tank's health.
When regrowth wears off, recast regrowth.
If tank health's get to half or below, cast bloom.
When DoT's and/or debuffs fade, recast.

If tank has decent equipment, abilities and knows his job, I would not get hit.


If you're hunting mobs that are much higher than your group and your tank just gets hit too hard, even with good armor, add another healer to your group. A healer duo works VERY well(preferably different classes). I've grouped with templars and mystics before and the groups were awesome.

Around your level would be a good time to consider having 2 healers in your guild groups at all time. Have a cleric as main healer and the fury just takes care of all buffs/debuffs/DoTs and cast regrowth on main tank to help the cleric. That way, the healers won't take aggro and they will also have enough power after each fight to chain kill mobs.

Of course, the fastest way for a Fury to lose aggro is to cast subterfuge (level 19) or confounding brambles (27, when he reaches it). I've found those spells instantly turn the mobs away from me no matter what kind of over healing, buffing, or nuking I've been doing that I shouldn't be doing.

I have recently started using Ram's growth and even *gasp* Sylvan Wind for group heals INSTEAD of primarily using single target HoTs when I'm in a group as primary healer, and ya know? I don't have trouble with aggro as a rule. So why is this such a 'no no'? I only use bloom/effloresce as needed to spot heal a target in group.. and I routinely use Weakness and feral intimidation to debuff mobs.

I find that in my own experience, the group heals over time are way more effective overall and in fact draw LESS aggro for me than single target heals or heals over time. (the ppl in my 'regular' group have high dps and generally consist of at least 3 or more tank class ppl) Plus, I also throw in the occasional nuke to finish off a mob, complete an HO, or melee to throw in free damage to keep up my slash/crush skill, at the same time functioning as primary healer for the group.

As long as I'm not causing problems w/ stealing aggro, I don't understand the problem? So many ppl seem to be averse to the Fury doing certain things in group bc they anticipate problems...I won't say I NEVER pull aggro, but when I do it's rare and generally resolved in a short period of time.

What gives? Is it a timing issue that people are having problems with on this or am I just with ppl who are experts at holding aggro?