To all the "tanks" with no Carnelian Tank Gems:

[PAPI SHREK]

There's a special place in hell for folks like you. Y'all lucky there is no gear inspection in this game.

[Keanucleaves]

I am a tank and I used them gems as soon as I could, I would not tank with out.

[Kaytus]

lol

[Maya-Neko]

There's definitely a place for Bruisers/Off-Tanks/Whatever (especially in pvp), but they definitely should tell their groups, that they're DD rather than tank.

[KeyChan]

I use carnelians. I put them on my armor. I have onyx on my weapon since I'm suppose to hit the enemies first to grab aggro. - actually said to me during a raid

[Kashra Fall]

Originally posted by KeyChan:

I use carnelians. I put them on my armor. I have onyx on my weapon since I'm suppose to hit the enemies first to grab aggro. - actually said to me during a raid

Wrong, you're suppose to use your threat skills to pull, not your hit. Your hit doesn't generate enough threat to overpower some of the healers/DPS, where as your defiant stance, shield bash, reap, berserk, spear kick etc, all do. Bare in mind these only work with the carnellians in the weapons.

[Maya-Neko]

Originally posted by KeyChan:

I use carnelians. I put them on my armor. I have onyx on my weapon since I'm suppose to hit the enemies first to grab aggro. - actually said to me during a raid

That's even worse than not using them at all as a tank.

Carnelian in weapons will multiply the thread generated by your weapon, as well as allowing the provoke abilities to provoke enemies. That makes it easier to keep them around you, while other people can damage enemies without being attacked.

When you put it into armor, it will reduce the threat generation. You as a tank already has low aggro generation as you're doing relatively low damage to enemies, so reducing it even more will most likely cause the enemies to attack other people in your team and as you've no carnelian in your weapon it will pretty much be impossible to get the aggro against you in such a scenario. Pretty much the opposite of what a tank should actually do.

[Insignia]

Originally posted by KeyChan:

I use carnelians. I put them on my armor. I have onyx on my weapon since I'm suppose to hit the enemies first to grab aggro. - actually said to me during a raid

Quick, delete this post and change your setup... We will pretend this never existed.

[[STG] Dante]

they're so cheap to, i sell them for like 2g for T2, and 20g for T3. They have no excuse.

[PAPI SHREK]

Originally posted by KeyChan:

I use carnelians. I put them on my armor. I have onyx on my weapon since I'm suppose to hit the enemies first to grab aggro. - actually said to me during a raid

Bro. Read the tooltips on your ability with taunt more carefully.

[lukeeez85]

To all the DPS that dont put Carnelian gems in their armors...There's a special place in hell for folks like you.

[Matty101]

Originally posted by wallstreetsimp:

Originally posted by KeyChan:

I use carnelians. I put them on my armor. I have onyx on my weapon since I'm suppose to hit the enemies first to grab aggro. - actually said to me during a raid

Bro. Read the tooltips on your ability with taunt more carefully.

Actually i think the tooltips the problem it's easy to misread it.
Needs to specify like:
In weapon: generate threat
In armour: reduce threat

atm it's something like generate threat or reduce threat.

I know 2 tanks(who are very smart people irl) both did the exact same thing as well and had to tell them to assume all offensive type abilities go into weapons and all defensive in armour.

[retsam1]

Originally posted by wallstreetsimp:

There's a special place in hell for folks like you. Y'all lucky there is no gear inspection in this game.

While having high weapons with the carnelians slotted can help with some of the threat, its quite often not enough. Even defensive stance sword and board with carnelian can not keep threat off some others in a party.

Basically, the game's mechanics aren't fine tuned to work 100% properly in this regard.

That said, dungeons arent wow style ones. Most parties can handle things with a decent healer and other combos.

[PAPI SHREK]

Originally posted by Matty101:

Originally posted by wallstreetsimp:

Bro. Read the tooltips on your ability with taunt more carefully.

Actually i think the tooltips the problem it's easy to misread it.
Needs to specify like:
In weapon: generate threat
In armour: reduce threat

atm it's something like generate threat or reduce threat.

I know 2 tanks(who are very smart people irl) both did the exact same thing as well and had to tell them to assume all offensive type abilities go into weapons and all defensive in armour.

Bruh, it directly says to place a Carnelian Gem in your Weapon to activate taunt mechanic.
Like how more basic could they make it, at that point, these folks need to just focus in school.

[Blank]

I run full onyx gems except for my sword, which obviously has a carnelian gem. That and I try to get the 'hatred' perk on all of my gear so I can aggro much better for the team. The only real complaint I have about tanking is the wonky enemies and slipping on through them.

[Bastila Shan]

Sometimes it doesn’t even matter if you got a higher lvl player he will attract more taunt than you even if you have 200% taunt gem