Divine Shadow Tanking

[Iaga]

Other than solid fog clickies, what are divines using to draw shadow aggro reliably?

I''ve done this a few times with just BB - but - the odd shadow will make it's save and sneak through causing headaches.

Pixma

[mute_mayhem]

I mainly used BB and for the odd one that saved I'd throw a couple holy smites on nythirios to try to get its aggro.

[Iaga]

I really hate leaving anything to chance. With blade barrier there's always the possibility of a shadow making it's save, rolling up the steps, catching a glancing blow and causing havoc.

If you're gonna wipe, that's where.

But if i'm looking at a sure fire way to draw aggro, i think my only option will be to carry along some solid fog clickies.

Obscuring mist doesn't draw aggro does it?

[giggiddy]

Obscuring mist will draw aggro. It will only get their attention so if someone in the party so much as farts on the shadow that will divert it's aggro.

[Habreno]

Yeah. Back when I wanted to run this on Elite after U14 and it was fixed, I ran in Unyielding Sentinel and the one wipe we did have was when I had to quickly grab aggro because the original kiter died and someone had to step up. I threw a BB but even on a 40 DC one of them saved and that wiped the party. Next run we did I threw two BB's and that worked, but I must say that was hell on my spell points and my hit points. Even at about a thousand HP and an aura ticking off near 80 I still had problems with self healing. Only after I crafted a triple-absorbsion GS did I do it without much worries, and then I still had to make sure to get every shadow.


If I were to have a divine tank shadows on Elite, I'd recommend at least 800 HP and very good self healing, along with, at a bare minimum, a triple-absorbsion item. UMDing Fire Shield scrolls would work wonders coupled with an absorbsion item, and other things which increase resistance to cold are also recommended.
As a note, with 60 cold resistance and nothing else, in an Elite run, I was taking hits of about 200 cold damage from them.

Obscuring Mist would work. I'd toss a BB down too to get some hard aggro on you, though.

[Iaga]

Staying alive isn't an issue. In EA i have ~750 HP and use a rotation of capstone heal, protection from elements spam and the ED HOT. No UMD for fire shield, no greensteel item on this build - and it's not needed, even on elite [although i will probably twist in energy sheath from draconic when i get enough points].

It's keeping everyone else alive that's the problem - to do that i have to keep the shadows off the party.

I was hoping divines had something innate that i could use - but - in the end it'll be a combo of solid fog clickies for guaranteed aggro/reflex save debuff and BB.

Bit of a hassle, but it's far from the end of the world.

[SirValentine]

Other than solid fog clickies, what are divines using to draw shadow aggro reliably?

I''ve done this a few times with just BB - but - the odd shadow will make it's save and sneak through causing headaches.

Heh, funny you should mention Solid Fog and BB.

I don't use either one by itself, as I use both together. Haven't had a problem with it, though it's been a few months and a few TRs since I've been on a divine.