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This came over guidchat the other day.

Someone was telling us that the warrior in their group very nearly died because they continued attacking through enrage. Someone in the group commented that they must have forgotten to turn off attack and the warrior would have none of it. He maintained it was his job to keep aggro and he would "plough thru" enrage and it was up to the healer to keep him up.

This struck me as a very odd attitude. I've always been taught to turn of attack and just use taunt or spells to retain aggro during enrage.

As I understand it Enrage is a situation where the mob has 100% riposte on frontal attacks. If I'm right then continuing to attack does little or no damage (except procs I guess).

Is there a case for "ploughing through"?

this is a very silly attitude.

As Patrician said by the time a mob rages it should be pretty much glued to the tank. If your behind it keep whackin away though.

LOL! Was it on Brell? Was it a raid in Kael? If so, then all i can say i'm sorry i let myself be talked into invited the Newb SK to join the raid.

A warrior that continues to attack through enrage has a death wish, and doesn't understand aggro either.

On enrage, yes, a mob ripostes 100% of frontal attacks, so especially if the warrior is using a 2 one handed weapons, eating enrage will whittle his health down so fast most healers can't keep up, without doing any damage to the mob. I'm not even sure procs would hit at this point, because you're not hitting the mob with the weapob.

I could be wrong, but I have NEVER seen a mob change targets on enrage. Even if it is possible to change aggro while the mob is enraged, there are many tricks to keeping aggro that don't involve attack: The provoke line of disciplines, taunt, disarm, and beg are all good ways of holding aggro. And of course, if the mob DOES change it's target, then the tank should start attacking again, regardless of whether he's eating rage or not.