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Right now I can easily pull aggro from a tank that is below raiding tank level. So I am effectively damage capped by his threat generation level. Using non-aggro poison is a pure DPS gain from that point.
It all depends on your TPS vs tank TPS.
Aggro is about skill, not gear. You don't generate more threat because you have more armor. It actually hurts your tanking to be overgeared. If your tank sucks that bad, then you've got other things to worry about.
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Sorry to add another question to the thread, but if threat management is an issue, would spamming feint every so often not help the tank to maintain top aggro?
Feint is garbage. It's a piddly 1k threat, which I generate in about two seconds
with salvation on. If your tank is so bad you have to feint so he can keep aggro, yell at him for being bad and drop group.
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At least to me, this is how I would manage threat, even though it cost energy, that is what it is for. Is this not very efficient in the end?
It's incredibly inefficient. My Sinister Strikes average out to be right around 1000 damage, so every feint is a loss of 500 damage. Hitting that every 10 seconds is a loss of 50 DPS, which is a very large chunk. If I'm in a pug and my tank is that bad, I just drop the group. I have better things to do than carry a group through easy content because the tank is worthless.
Funny story, though. I was doing heroic Mech last week and I ran into the worst tank in the world. In order to not pull aggro, I just turned auto attack on, feinted every 10 seconds and did nothing else. Doing that generated about 80% of the same threat he was doing. I stayed in the group out of sheer morbid curiosity. We managed to make it to the first boss (don't know how), and something funny happened. I forgot about the charges, as I normally stay down below and just dodge bombs to avoid getting blown up by idiots. This time I was by the tank, and ended up getting the damage buff. I instantly ripped aggro with a 3k white crit. I went to hit Vanish, and realized I was out of flash powder. I was AR/Prep at the time, so I just Evasion tanked him with AR up, ripping him a new *******. Tanked him down to 5% when the tank got the opposite charge and just stood by me like a dumbass, killing us both. The rest of the group finished him off without us.