I noticed that the tooltip for Tanks no longer shows the bonus threat generated during the three second taunt debuff. Is this bonus still applied, or was it removed?
I believe it’s still active as adds I taunt then attack maintain threat more easily.
Could be wrong of course.
My understanding is if you already have aggro taunt does nothing to increase it, when you taunt a mob you don’t have aggro on you go to the highest threat on the meters and even if you lose threat there’s a taunt debuff on the add, once it goes away if your not max threat (there some math to throw in such as you won’t lose threat as a tank unless somebody generates 110% threat) you will then lose aggro.
No idea of this makes sense but it’s my current understanding.
It was removed. Taunt puts you at the top of the aggro chart and forces the enemy to attack you for a few seconds, but it does not give you bonus aggro regen, so if a dps usurps your position at the top of the aggro meter, the mob will attack them when its taunt debuff runs out.
I believe it was just a tooltip change. See here (unaware of subsequent changes): https://www.wowhead.com/news=287430/taunt-on-the-patch-8-1-ptr