Aggro LOL

I was reading Bethryn's What's Wrong With Aggro and was pretty embarassed to realize that I had never put any thought into how stupid the aggro mechanic really is. I mean. Seriously retarded. I mean you are supposedly fighting these intelligent, powerful motherfuckers and all they do is basically autoattack your warrior and occasionally cleave. All PvE bosses are basically just bad warriors on bad cleave teams.

While training warriors nonstop is sometimes effective, PvE really needs to learn to target swap, CC, and land some interrupts.

It seems to me that creating AIs that act like PvPers isn't terribly difficult. WoW is pretty straightforward. I'm pretty sure you can craft an AI that can pillar hump and press Lifebloom. Why don't mobs use their environments to their advantage at all? I think a PvE redesign from a PvP perspective would be pretty cool. Start with 2s. Try to create bots that emulate players. Work up to fives. Focus on movement, positioning, and targetting. Actually deciding how to spend your globals is pretty simple.

It might be hard to translate into 25man content, but maybe not.

The points made about threat meters I couldn't agree more with: stupidest shit ever. Your job is to push fireball which is already a pretty boring job. Because of aggro mechanics, you have a mod that tells you when to stop pushing fireball. You obey the mod -- you get purples. PvE is awesome. (Okay, the truth is PvE 'skill' has almost nothing to do with how well you play your class, but other factors, whatever)

I don't PvE at all but I perhaps would if it was less downs. ^^ Or if I could use the purples to own people and then shittalk them on IRC. LEARN TO TANK GLAIVES BAD PRIEST.