(09-08-2016, 10:53 PM)Charity322 Wrote:(09-08-2016, 12:37 PM)Kage Wrote: Yes, damage affects your hate/aggro generation. Having low gear will affect that, definitely.
Even when gear is synced down?
Yeah. Because even synced down it's either as good as the best gear you could have at that level... or better. I forget which. So you're dealing with effectively "optimally" geared folks throwing out big numbers that you have to deal with in your likely hodgepodge set of leveling gear. Though, hopefully, if folks know you're a new tank they should try and keep it in their pants until you have solid aggro.
Emphasis on should. Since some folks like to explode right out of the gate regardless of situation. Even in an Alexander Midas 1 that I got into on Mentor roulette... we had a new-to-the-fight tank who couldn't even get the boss into the corner because two of the DPS decided going whole hog from the get go was the best plan. Even after it got them killed in every attempt they did it.
Needless to say, the instance was ultimately vote-abandoned and I got to enjoy waiting in the Mentor queue again.