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Honestly, it's a combination of both points. Yes, DD style has change significantly, to the point that melees don't hold back at all now, and don't learn when they should know to hold back. However, the other major issue is that enmity generation has not scaled well post 75. DDs are capable of dealing more and more damage, and that leads to more and more hate, and while the damage -> enmity ratio has decreased as the average level of target increased (target level determines how much enmity your hits generate), it's a matter of decreasing returns, in that the higher the monster's level, the less the decrease in enmity from the previous level. At 75, we were converting damage to enmity at a rate of 1:1.25~1.45ish, depending on the target (that covers a range of levels 80~95), the decrease for monsters at level 99 is significantly smaller (I don't have any concrete charts, but based on kanikan's tables, it's fairly easy to figure it to around 1:1.1~1.2ish). On top of that, enmity loss (ie: how much enmity you lose when you get hit) doesn't scale with level, but with max HP, and while the average HP has increased somewhat, it hasn't changed significantly. Additionally, it has a similar relation of diminishing returns. Basically, tanks are still losing enmity at the same rate as they did at 75, but the increase in melee damage has totally outstripped the decrease in enmity generated based on level, so DDs are simply generating significantly more enmity now, to the point that it's incredibly easy for them to cap hate.

I end up tanking 99% of the time I'm in a group event on PUP. Even in Voidwatch.

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