Intimidate Useless

[Sanadil]

By default, damage is a 1:1 ratio to threat.

So my example above in blue showing my small buffer to be 198, is really just 198 points of damage. That's 1 swing from a barb, and 1 spell from a sorc, to pull the aggro back off you. Not sure how viable that's going to be, even with a S&B tank swinging away. You will eventually lose aggro before the next intim is up to the person that pulled it from you to begin with.

I'll quote myself so no searching is needed

So let me see if I have this right. First, an unknown is how threat modifiers really work. What I mean by that is we don't know what makes a +1 to the threat modifier. My assumption would be X amount of damage is equal to Y amount of threat modifier. Without knowing that, its tough to say exactly how long you will hold the monster after a successful intimidate.

In the OP video, my + was 66 on the die roll. That's after size modifications are taken into effect. So my small buffer would be (with a shield on) 2 * 66 = 132. Any extra melee threat % I'm wearing at the time, will increase that number by that percentage. So, if I have 50% extra threat on at the time of the intim, I'd get an extra 66 on top of that 132 for a total of 198 for my buffer.

Will 198 be enough of a buffer, without me doing any damage, to keep aggression over say a barbarian doing average 300-400 damage a swing for 15 seconds? Only time will tell unless we know exactly how much DPS = 1 Threat modification.

PS - This does mean I'm shelving my intimtank, and or re-rolling him to a hate tank, either way, he can't do what he was designed to anymore. You can say goodbye to all S&B Intim Tanks with that ratio, everyone pull out your THF weapons on raid bosses.