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.
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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
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