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Originally Posted by ellestil
Taz's example is correct. I think some of you are thinking that the "buffs" that come from a rescue means that they can be used over and over to negate incoming damage on a party member. This is not the case.
A rescue draws huge amounts of hate to the tank that uses it. In most cases if a paladin used a rescue on the MT it would pull off aggro, and if he didn't, the pali would use his other rescue or lay on hands to heal the warrior himself. Once the rescue draws hate, the paladin will hold it unless the warrior draws it back with his own rescue.
A paladin (or warrior) cannot use rescue on himself and gain it's benefits. For example, one paladin rescue adds a large amount of hate to the paladin while at the same time healing his rescue target. The paladin cannot cast rescue on himself, healing himself in this way however.
Also, in order to rescue someone, you have to have both offensive and defensive targets correctly targeted and within range. So, if two mobs attack and your targeting Mob A, if Mob B peels and attacks the healer, even if you have the healer designated as your defensive target, if you keep your offensive target on Mob A, rescue won't go off. You have to make sure your healer is conned AND mob B is conned, then be close to both of them in order to rescue the healer.
As you can imagine this makes for some hectic battles as a tank with multimobs. "Rescue Bouncing" as Taz calls it could be used to help spread the damage of a hard hitting mob, but even in this scenario, it would not be a game breaking exploit. It only buys some time, either way the healers mana would get used to keep them up.
Ellestil
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Two things wrong with this post.
First off, Rescues aren't like the Taunts from other games that are straight "Top of the Aggro List" types of abilities. Often times they last a range of seconds (3-6) or a number of hits (2). So when you rescue someone, you are forcing any enemies targeting your ally to target you and it has no effect on hate levels apart from any damage dealt or healing agro (unless otherwise stated).
You can rescue an MT, take a few hits, and the aggro will bounce back to the MT when the durration of the rescue is over.
Secondly, you need not target the mobs that are targeting an ally you rescue for the rescue to work. I have rescued one person and hit 3 or more mobs with 300% weapon damage and pulled aggro from all for an ammount of time. The only restraints are that you are within range of your ally to use the rescue and within range and facing the mobs that are attacking that person (which is point blank in terms of dealing weapon damage).
Entwine, on the other hand, doesn't require you to be within range of the mob...only your ally.
01-24-2007, 06:44 PM
