Are they EVER going to actually fix Provoke?

[James Howlette]

Just now...

About two and a half years since the beta release of DOS2, about a year and a half since the official release, and more than six months since the definitive edition...

I used the basic level 1 warfare skill Provoke which is meant to "Taunt the enemies around you. Provoke and tease them so that they want to attack you."

A skill that has not only been in DOS2 since it's initial beta, but also existed in a functional state in the first game in the series...

It set the "Taunted" status effect on several enemies...

Who all proceeded to walk straight past my tanky melee character and pummel my friend's ranger to death.

This is one of my favorite games of all time, but please for the love of god, just fix the damn taunt already!

[danbjp]

It's a pretty useless skill. Charming enemies works great though. Provoke used to be blocked by phys armour, and they changed that - so they won't change it now.
Use charm arrows or grenades. Charm is blocked by magic armour.
Provoke is useless.
GL

[Bullett00th]

I suppose not, and it's even more broken than you can imagine.

Been playing arena with 2 friends for a while now, a round 3 of us vs AI with 3 characters.
One of the enemy characters uses taunt on me.
It WORKS for him, as in I lose all control of my character and he moves towards the enemy who taunted him. I'm thinking this isn't too bad, I still to attack him.
And my taunted character proceeds to HEAL the enemy o_O

I don't know what is so wrong there, why it hasn't been addressed and if it ever will be, but so far it's the only real major issue mechanics-wise that I encountered in this game.
Tank builds are useless therefore, the AI prefers to go for less sturdy DD characters regardless of taunt.

[danbjp]

If it works in multiplayer, then use it, but its a waste of a slot on SP