June 22, 2008 at 7:33 am I have hear rumor that if your pet only uses growl it can hold aggro better. Is this true?
• Znodis said,June 22, 2008 at 9:03 am There’s some bugginess going on with growl right now where some abilities randomly prevent growl from casting, so it’s hard to say if what you’re hearing about is really just a ‘fix’ for that. Growl generates much more threat than any other pet ability. If you have a focus dump ability on auto cast, there’s a good chance that when growl’s cooldown is done there isn’t any focus immediately available to cast it, so it has to wait for a crit or the next tic. Longer time between growls means less agro. The delay between the end of the cooldown and the cast can greatly affect threat generation, but the question is “Is it worth it to leave focus dumps on?” Yes, generally. Those abilities also generate threat from damage which will make up for any delay. Unless you’re running into the bug, in which case it would be better to turn them off until Bliz fixes it.
